Friday, October 4, 2013

A Modern Cassandra Speaks



A Modern Cassandra Speaks
From unique perspective, Phyllis Chesler warns of radical Islam's threat

by Joanne Palmer
The Jewish Standard
October 4, 2013
It is hard to be Cassandra, but if you are blessed (or cursed, or perhaps blessed and cursed) with her gift, which actually was not for prophesy but for the sort of clear vision that defies filters and foresees tragedies, then you just can't help yourself.
You say what you see, even as you foresee the consequences.
Phyllis Chesler, a radical feminist, scholar, and author whose understanding of the role of gender in society underpinned some of the social upheaval of the 1970s, had an extremely unusual window into the Islamic world, and her need to warn the West of the danger it faces has made her a pariah in the world that once acclaimed her.
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