Muslim Women Are Heroes And Collaborators As Much As Victims

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
July 10, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/315/muslim-women-heroes-collaborators-victims

Excerpt:

Cultural differences exist, they are real and they matter. As a lifetime critic of injustice, I understand that it exists everywhere but as someone who has also once lived in the Islamic Third world and studied it thereafter, I understand that, as my dear friend Ibn Warraq says, the West is worth defending; our values and virtues, our laws and customs are different from and in many ways more evolved than the (absence) of laws and abusive customs that characterize totalitarian, fascist, tyrannical, and fundamentalist regimes.

Just today, here is a small sampling of news about the recent and ongoing fate of women in the Islamic world.

•Two women shot dead in Quetta.
Abdul Qayuum killed both his sister-in-law and her mother. The object of his desire had been married to his brother who had been killed in Afghanistan. Her mother repeatedly refused his offer–and so he killed them both.

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