Barely recognized by Western feminists, the Iranian women’s movement is the forefront of a valiant struggle for human dignity against a fascist ideology determined to deny Muslim girls & women the rights & freedoms rightly cherished in the West. #LetUsTalk quillette.com/2019/01/20/the…
While Iranian women are braving arrest and violent repression to defy draconian religious dress codes...college campuses have either looked the other way or asked us to admire those women who adhere to Islamist norms in defiance of “Westernization.” #LetUsTalk
...effectively silencing and denigrating the courageous uprising of women denied the most basic freedoms and opportunities, and at a time when American women have never been more free and more able to help less fortunate women in other parts of the world. #LetUsTalk
The defeat of Islamist politics and the global advancement of women’s rights are in no measure guaranteed but are, rather, wholly reliant on those heroic souls—above all free thinking women—with the courage to denounce medieval gender doctrines. #LetUsTalk
In the halls of academe, the struggles of Iranian women are more likely to elicit embarrassment about the Global South’s naive embrace of Enlightenment norms than solidarity with the universality of their cause. #LetUsTalk
In the name of a pious commitment to self-criticism, Western elites prefer to embrace the headscarf rather than risk the arrogance of imperial judgement. #LetUsTalk
But their selectively applied moral relativism only helps to confer a perverse legitimacy on practises like child marriage, domestic violence and marital rape, stoning, and unequal treatment before the law...#LetUsTalk
which are, it is implied, culturally authentic & therefore superior to the hypocrisies of the West’s imperfect egalitarianism. In this way, not only are socio-economic achievements of Western women diminished, but the struggles of women in places like Iran are scorned. #LetUsTalk
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