Modern Day Feminism is
a Fig Leaf for an Anti-Islamic Crusade
A
picture is worth a thousand words is the age-old proverb; an image can
certainly convey many ideas instantly. However, a deceptive image tells a
bigger story, it spawns lies and disseminates hate on a larger magnitude. It is
the hate-filled Islamophobic fascists that have been busy tarnishing the
Muslims as a whole, by cherry picking certain actions, hiding behind certain political
terms, and operating behind the ubiquitous mass media.
Like most Muslims, I have become
accustomed to seeing numerous anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim images appearing on
social media networks, and the internet, such images would get censored if it
were aimed at any other community. One would be hard pushed to find similar material
appearing from Muslims; at most you see posters from victims and angry mobs on
the streets demonstrating in response to an American-Israeli led atrocity or
another video insulting Islam published in the name of free speech.
The above image depicting a woman
with an acid-burnt face along with an adjacent image of burnt pages of the
Quran, implying the two are somehow connected, and the caption boldly suggests the
two are alternatives. It alleges those who are busy protesting against burning
of the Quran are the same people who implicitly endorse burning a woman’s face
with acid, because they do not display the same reaction. What about those who
are not protesting against the burning of the Quran, are they all exonerated?
Numerous
crimes takes place in all societies, thus, similar arguments can be construed
against the very people who produced the above image. For example, there was no
mass protests inside the US, the semi-naked Ukrainian based feminist group
(Femen) were nowhere to be seen, when the 53-year-old man, Ariel Castro, was
arrested and convicted for imprisoning three women in his home for a decade, and
subjecting them to rapes, beatings that resulted in inducing 5 miscarriages in
one woman; one of the neighbours saw one woman being paraded nude like a dog on
a leash on her four limbs in the garden. Are we to conclude the majority of
Americans approve of this, and that it is a norm within their society because
of the absence of protests?
For sure, if Ariel Castro carried
even a tenuous link to Islam, say he had
a Muslim sounding name, Fox News, Robert Spencer, Pam Geller, Douglas Murray,
Melanie Phillips and the rest of the far right bigots would have been out with
their knives, painting it as a Muslim problem.
In fact, this sort of crime is
not an isolated example, rape is rife within the US, and it is one of the
leading countries in the world [2] along with India, South Africa, Sweden and
other western countries. The US Justice department estimates 300,000 women a
year are raped, actual reported cases are around 100,000 per year [2]. How
ironic for the US to claim to be the saviour of ‘women’s rights’ abroad, whilst
they cannot protect their security at home. They brag about their troops being
sent to save Muslim women in Afghanistan and Iraq, yet, rape inside the US
forces is epidemic [1]. As The Guardian reported
in 2011 [1], women soldiers in Iraq faced a higher likelihood of
being sexually assaulted by a colleague than they did of dying by enemy fire.
Where are feminist voices now? They have been mute in comparison to the noise
they make about Muslim women and their veils, when they have never had
authorization to save Muslim women! Of course, rape occurs in all societies
like many crimes, but to claim it is somehow a Muslim problem, and moreover for
the US and other far right groups to point fingers is going beyond the limits
of hypocrisy and denial of the facts.
For the same reason, driven by
political point scoring much has been made of honour killings that take place
within many societies, and unfortunately includes Muslims, this is largely
fuelled by illiteracy and indigenous tribal culture, and Islamic teachings do
not remotely condone these actions. However, domestic violence against women is
just as pervasive in the enlightened west, if not more, than Muslim nations
suffering from illiteracy and poverty. The violence may be induced by culture
or by pimps and drug pushers; the end result is the same. Likewise young girls
can be groomed and raped by street groomers or in children’s homes and
convents, so why be so selective.
Like terrorism, women’s rights
and feminism are used as propaganda tools. Feminist groups make an issue of a
piece of cloth worn to cover the head, whilst turn a blind eye to the heinous crimes
on their door steps. The most bizarre is the semi-nude women from Ukraine
taking up the cause of the Muslim women, as if they have mandate from them! If
women’s rights were really a serious issue for them, as opposed to some cheap
publicity and funds gained from Zionist and far right sources, they would have
started at home by tackling the issue of trafficking of girls from Eastern
Europe. Modern day feminism is primarily
focused on targeting Islamic values and teachings, hence the disproportionate and
skewed focus.
Yamin Zakaria (yamin@radicalviews.org)
Published on 26th August 2013
London, UK
1)
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/dec/09/rape-us-military,
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-us-military-s-rape-culture-by-naomi-wolf
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-us-military-s-rape-culture-by-naomi-wolf
2)
http://www.statisticbrain.com/rape-statistics/
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/quick-click/which-country-has-the-highest-reported-incidents-rape-data
http://www.indiatribune.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10195:rape-statistics-around-the-world-&catid=107:coverpage&Itemid=471
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/quick-click/which-country-has-the-highest-reported-incidents-rape-data
http://www.indiatribune.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10195:rape-statistics-around-the-world-&catid=107:coverpage&Itemid=471
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