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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
The National Post has an interesting take as their front page story this morning. Where are the world's "Progressive" leaders in this? It is alleged that You have women violating the law by removing their hijabs and exposing their hair in public for the first time in 39 years, demanding change. And silence from alleged progressive leaders such as Trudeau.
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There is actually an explanation for this, although it's somewhat convoluted if you're not a person who subscribes to certain assumptions about power dynamics in society. That mode of thinking is, in my view, horribly confused and if ascendent, enormously dangerous. It is described in some detail in this piece:
http://conatusnews.com/western-centr...-feminism/amp/
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Any conversation about the horror of female genital mutilation is likely to be derailed away from girls in danger right now to a lecture on the pre-Islamic origins of the practice. Any attempts to discuss gender-specific modesty veiling will almost certainly result in a claim that Muslim women are exercising their own choice and are somehow magically free of the paralysing societal pressures claimed to be experienced by western feminists. When a petition to criminalise cat-calling and other gender-based annoying behaviour gets more than 58,000 signatures but a petition to strengthen multi-agency responses to ‘honour’-based violence receives only 406 (and consequently will not be addressed by parliament), people could be excused for thinking western non-Muslim feminists only care about themselves.
This is a misconception. Sort of.
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Well worth reading if you find the silence on this topic confusing. It should be utterly baffling given the principles that they claim to stand for, but if you're paying attention to what passes for moral thought among the people you're asking to speak up, it's not surprising.