Deadly Disdain, Deadly Denial About it
The Fate of Muslim Women

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
March 17, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/436/deadly-disdain-deadly-denial

Excerpt:

Sometimes, I despair of ever being able to convey the disdain for women that one may encounter in the Muslim world.

First, many Americans and Europeans simply do not want to believe it; they absolutely refuse to surrender their belief that all people are both "good" and the "same." Some westerners do not think it is politically correct, or even polite to say so–especially if people really are "different." Thus, for both reasons, westerners will deny the extent to which most women are despised, feared, controlled, and punished in the Muslim world. Some westerners also say: "Women are oppressed here as well. It's racist to single out an entire culture and people for the ways in which women are mistreated everywhere."

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