Tolerance=Racism: Newspeak vs TruthSpeak about FGM

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
September 29, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/624/tolerance-racism-newspeak-vs-truthspeak-about-fgm

Excerpt:

It is one thing to rail against human rights violations on foreign soil. It is quite another to countenance such violations in one's own Western backyard.

As we know, Europe has allowed immigrant practices to flourish under the rubric of "tolerance" and "multi-cultural sensitivity." In my view, such "tolerance" is actually racist, not anti-racist as it presumes itself to be; inhumane and cruel, certainly not compassionate.

At the G8 conference about Violence Against Women in Rome, which I attended earlier this month, a stellar panel on female genital mutilation took place.

Dr. Elham Manea, a Yemeni-Swiss, challenged the western culturally relativist view which leads to "tolerance" for what are, after all, crimes against women and against humanity. And, she said, what they really represent is "human rights for westerners only," and not for anyone else. "Women and girls are the first to suffer from such 'tolerance.'"

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