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Islamic Gender Apartheid Is Real and It's Here
by Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage Magazine      October 4, 2017
In a political environment where feminism is both ubiquitous and meaningless, whether feminism means a t-shirt or unthinking adherence to leftist doctrine, Phyllis Chesler bears the scars of her activism from her time in Afghanistan to her activism in America. And so it's unsurprising that Dr. Chesler also remains one of the rare few who are working to confront gender apartheid in Islam.

Gender politics in vritually every other religion is a fit topic for discussion in the Western political and academic sphere. But Islamic gender apartheid is praised and celebrated. Numerous pieces describe the hijab and even the burka as forms of feminist empowerment. The torrent of apologetics is driven by extremely well financed Islamist groups, but also by a left that is eager to view non-Westerners as victims and to exempt women in the Muslim world from equality or human rights.

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