On 21 Sep 2002 at 13:50, rhinoceros wrote:
>
> [rhinoceros]
> An interesting article, although I also found it amusing in a twisted
> way. I have posted it in the "Serious Business" section of the BBS
> here:
>
> http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=7;action=display;threadid
> =26683
>
>
>
> Feminism as imperialism
>
> George Bush is not the first empire-builder to wage war in the name of
> women
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,796213,00.html
>
> Katharine Viner
> Saturday September 21, 2002
> The Guardian
>
> "Respect for women... can triumph in the Middle East and beyond!"
> trilled the leader of the free world to the UN last week. "The
> repression of women [is] everywhere and always wrong!" he told the New
> York Times, warming to his theme that the west should attack Iraq for
> the sake of its women. Just as he bombed Afghanistan to liberate the
> women from their burkas (or, as he would have it, to free the "women
> of cover"), and sent out his wife Laura to tell how Afghans are
> tortured for wearing nail varnish, so now Bush has taken on the
> previously-unknown cause of Iraqi women - actually, look at the
> quotes, it's women everywhere! - to justify another war. Where next?
> China because of its anti-girl one-child policy? India because of
> widow-burning outrages? Britain because of its criminally low rape
> conviction rate?
>
> At home, Bush is no feminist. On his very first day in the Oval
> office, he cut off funding to any international family-planning
> organisations which offer abortion services or counselling (likely to
> cost the lives of thousands of women and children); this year he
> renamed January 22 - the anniversary of Roe vs Wade which permitted
> abortion on demand - as National Sanctity of Human Life Day and
> compared abortion to terrorism: "On September 11, we saw clearly that
> evil exists in this world, and that it does not value life... Now we
> are engaged in a fight against evil and tyranny to preserve and
> protect life."
>
> <snip>
>
The need for feminist reform throughout the Islamic world is dire and
real, and does not hinge upon Dubya's sincerity or hypocrisy in raising
the issue.
I have posted some articles from Islamic women and others on the
thread to more fully inform to the issue.
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