For the First Time, the National Organization for Women Considers Sharia Law by Phyllis Chesler Breitbart July 1, 2014 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1333/for-the-first-time-the-national-organization-for Print Send RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. I just realized that, with one or two exceptions, none of my left-liberal feminist compatriots of nearly fifty years have said a word to me about Hamas's kidnapping-murder of three Israeli teenagers. Not a word in the 18 days they were missing. Silence since their bodies were found. No one has sent me an email, or made a whispered phone call, something—anything—something private, that would not get them in trouble with the Democratic Party or the mainstream media. I no longer expect them to take public stands that would put them at any reputational risk. This silence was not a surprise after a career observing American feminists' relationship to the Middle East. Very few American feminists, for example, have supported my work on honor based crimes, including honor killing, a form of human sacrifice and femicide, a phenomenon which I increasingly refer to as "horror" killings. Of course, Muslim and ex-Muslim feminists and dissidents, North American and European prosecutors, detectives, and conservative intellectuals rely upon this work. But not feminists. Not yet. So what are some American feminists doing right now? This past weekend, the National Organization for Women (NOW) held a Strategy Summit in New Mexico. Please understand: I am more than sympathetic to many items on the women's rights agenda ranging from reproductive freedom to equal pay to the criminalization of violence against women. Actually, I go further. I am also opposed to surrogacy, pornography, and prostitution; these issues are hotly contested among feminists today. I am also in favor of all the motherhood and parenting issues that usually get short shrift in these precincts. » CONTINUE READING Related Topics:  Gender, Psychology & Law, Islamic Gender & Religious Apartheid

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