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Het feminisme zwijgt in alle talen wanneer geconfronteerd met
islamitische onderdrukking van vrouwen, zoals daar is
vrouwenbesnijdenis, steniging van overspelige vrouwen, vrouwen in
Saudi Arabie die niet mogen autorijden, niet naar school mogen, enz:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138637
Professor of Women's Studies Slams Islamic Gender Apartheid
by Fern Sidman, INN NY Correspondent
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On Thursday, July 15th, Dr. Phyllis Chesler delivered an address at
the Aspen Counterpoint Summer Symposium. Aspen Counterpoint is an
independent project founded by three residents of the Aspen Valley:
Alan Altman, M.D., Elaine Sandler, and Judith King. The all day
conference was entitled “Conflict and Conscience”. Dr. Chesler could
not personally attend the conference in Colorado, but she participated
in a live teleconference that was recorded in a Manhattan studio.
Phyllis Chesler, feminist icon and an observant Jew, is currently an
express blogger with Pajamas Media and is an Professor Emerita of
Psychology and Women's Studies at City University of New York and is
the best selling author of “Women and Madness” (1972), "The New Anti-
Semitism“ (2003) and ”The Death of Feminism: What’s Next in the
Struggle for Women’s Freedom" (2005)
Focusing on the issues of Islamic gender and religious apartheid, the
incessant demonization of Israel and the West and the pervasive multi-
cultural relativist phenomenon of the Western academy and the feminist
and progressive movement, Dr. Chesler was introduced by Elaine
Sandler. Referring to Dr. Chesler as "a major commentator on today's
issues“, Ms. Sandler lauded her seminal scholarly exegesis on ”honor
killings" of Muslim women that appeared in both the 2009 and 2010
issues of The Middle East Quarterly.
Concerning the deafening silence of the Western feminist movement in
the face of Islamic barbarism, Dr. Chesler said, "Unlike my former
feminist colleagues, I am not a multi-cultural relativist who refuses
to take a stand against such brutal misogynistic Islamic practices as
female genital mutilation, stoning and immolation of women, beatings,
forced marriages, child marriages and polygamy."
She noted that as a result of her maverick positions on these issues,
Dr. Chesler has been labeled a dissident in the feminist enclaves she
once inhabited and has been subjected to acrimony and ad hominem
attacks by her feminist peers.
"While I still consider myself a radical feminist, I am shunned by my
feminist colleagues“ she ruefully observed, adding that, ”I am on
longer invited to speak at their conferences of functions and when I
do speak I require bodyguards and my work is no longer reviewed in the
mainstream media."
Dr. Chesler attributes the reluctance to condemn Islamic atrocities
against women among those in the Western feminist movement to being
caught in the quagmire of political anachronisms. "They are terrified
at the thought of being called a racist or being thought of as
'politically incorrect' and as such many of them are merely
conformists. They still stand in staunch opposition to the Vietnam War
and speak out against imperialism and colonialism. Issues that are no
longer relevant," she said.
Rather than confronting the stark and frightening realization of the
burgeoning growth of radical Islam and the existential dangers that it
represents to Western civilization, Dr. Chesler says that her former
colleagues project their bellicosity on Israel and the West. "My
'comrades', if you will, have become Stalinized and Palestinianized.
They demonize Israel as a Nazi-like, apartheid state and hurl
invectives against Israel for doing everything that the Palestinians
and the Muslim world are doing to women, homosexuals and anyone who
practices a religious faith other than Islam."
Dr. Chesler recollected that her fervent feminism was forged decades
ago when she married a Westernized Muslim man that she met as an
undergraduate student at Bard College in upstate New York. "I was only
20 and married my first love. He took me a grand adventure to European
cities and then we arrived in his birthplace of Kabul, Afghanistan
where we stayed with his family. Upon arrival my passport was
immediately confiscated and I was forced to live in a "posh, European-
type purdah existence."
Her narrative includes a plethora of overt examples of oppression of
women including ghastly memories of women who could not leave the
house without a male guard. She also spoke of women who had to wait
until men were served first and those living dank lives under the
mandated hijab. Women and children were routinely persecuted and no
health care was available to them, she said, including access to an OB/
GYN. After experiencing the increasing abusiveness of her ostensibly
Westernized Muslim husband and his devoutly Muslim family, Dr. Chesler
recalls that she tried to escape several times but to no avail. A
bout of hepatitis would lead her to finally depart from her Afghan
captivity to make her way back to the United States.
"In the sphere of Islamism where they claim a political position and
not a religious position, boys and men are considered guardians of
female chastity and women are perceived as shameful sex objects and
breeders. Homosexuality and pedophilia among males is a ubiquitous
presence in the Muslim world and always has been,” she declared.
Speaking of the “wilding sprees” perpetrated by men against women in
such Islamic countries as Egypt, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and
Pakistan, Dr. Chesler said that just about any woman in the Muslim
world could be targeted for an honor killing by their men folk
including their own husbands, brothers and fathers. She also addressed
the collaboration of Islamic women in the persecution of their own
gender. She recounted examples of mother-in-laws tormenting their
daughter-in-laws as they had been barbarically tormented as young
brides and the actions taken by these older women to lead the younger
women to their death at the hands of the male hegemony.
"If your head scarf slips off, if you bring non-Muslim friends home,
if you wear makeup, if you learn to drive a car, if you marry a non-
Muslim, if you choose your own spouse without family approval, you can
become a primary target for an honor killing", she said. The list
includes women who have been raped, those who commit adultery or those
who are considered insubordinates by their families. These have also
met their end at the hands of male relatives who believe the family
honor has been shamed by the actions of these women.
Honor killings are not limited to Islamic countries in the Middle East
says Dr. Chesler as she spoke about the alarming rise in such gruesome
murders in Europe and North America. "The average age that a young
girl will be honor murdered is only 17 and the average age of a woman
who will be honor murdered is 36," she said. Having meticulously
studied over 230 honor killings with the inclusion of detailed
statistics about the perpetrators, their locations and ages, Dr.
Chesler concludes that most of these women experience draconian
tortures and are gang raped by their male executors prior to being
stabbed to death and then burned. "54 percent of these women were
tortured before being murdered and 83 percent of girls under the age
of 18 in Europe were viciously tortured before being put to death" she
reported.
Before taking questions from the audience, Dr. Chesler concluded her
presentation by saying, "Gender apartheid cannot be justified under
any circumstance. The police and the media must accept their own
refusal to deal with this“ adding that this issue is ”the greatest
battle of the 21st century."
The Aspen counterpoint conference also featured other speakers such as
Bostonian Charles Jacobs, the founder of Americans for Peace and
Tolerance. Mr. Jacobs addressed the issues of human rights and slavery
in the Sudan and the use of “lawfare” to manipulate our democratic
institutions and basic freedoms of speech.
R. James Woolsey, director of the CIA and Under Secretary of the Navy
during the Clinton administration spoke of the power of petro dollars
in permitting human rights abuses and reasons of national security for
the campaign to move away from fossil fuels. The afternoon session
included presentations by former US Ambassador to the United Nations
John Bolton, Jerusalem Post deputy managing editor and syndicated
columnist Caroline Glick and journalist and documentary filmmaker,
Khaled Abu Toameh who is an Arab Citizen of Israel, the West Bank and
Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and New York News and World
Report.
Tja, het is nu eenmaal hun cultuur…..
En joden bashen is belangrijker dan vrouwenrechten.
