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by Denis MacEoin • February 27,
2018 at 5:00 am
- Although genuine
feminists have made strides for women's rights in Western
countries, they have helped set back the rights of young Muslim
women to break free from the oppressive codes of an Islam
defined and controlled by Muslim men.
Somali-born
ex-Muslim author Ayaan Hirsi Ali "asks why do we loudly defend a
woman's right to wear the hijab but when it comes to supporting
Muslim girls who refuse to wear it, feminism is strangely
quiet?" (Photo by Elisabetta Villa/Getty Images)
It is one of the ironies of modern politics that the
same word can be susceptible to more than one meaning, creating
confusion for everyone.
One of the reasons for the confusion is that liberal
values are generally shared by moderates on both the left and right
of politics. Not by the far left -- Marxists, Leninists, Trotskyites,
and Stalinists or Britain's Labour Party under the leadership of
Jeremy Corbyn – or by the far right – Germany's Alternativ für
Deutschland, Hungary's Jobbik, Austria's Freiheitliche Partei
Österreichs, or Greece's Golden Dawn.
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