Thursday, August 6, 2009

Musings on a Hot Summer Night in Manhattan












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Musings on a Hot Summer Night in Manhattan




by Phyllis Chesler

Pajamas Media

August 5, 2009



http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/598/musings-on-a-hot-summer-night-in-manhattan












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Excerpt:

Yesterday in Khartoum, a world away, the Sudanese police beat the women who peacefully came to support Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein; they beat her lawyer too. Like their fellow Islamist thugs in Teheran, they blocked the cameramen so you cannot see their dirty work.


Yes, as one of my readers pointed out: The judge delayed Hussein's trial possibly in the hope that someone would kill her, (she's been threatened) and that no trial, no public flogging would be necessary.


There are no Marines coming over the next hill on this one.


There certainly are no Western feminists anywhere on the horizon.


Otherwise, the feminists all live (and die) in the Muslim world right now and their heroism is dazzling, mind-boggling.


The Western multi-culturalists say that they are "helping" all they can by refusing to discriminate against Islam and Islamism, by accepting the veil in our midst, and by "de-constructing" it in the classroom. They say: The West has prostitution, Islam veils its women–get used to it.



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