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In reply to the discussion: I do not need... Eurocentric feminists to dictate to me what I wear or shouldn't wear. [View all]BainsBane
(53,031 posts)Culture. And Islam is not a monolith. In Tunisia, for example, women have had rights to abortion since the 1960s. US women killed at 4x than are Algerian women. In some places, women have even been able to carve out spaces of resistance within Sharia law, transporting guns under their burqas as part of a revolutionary opposition, taking advantage of the fact the military will not search them. My point is a huge swath of the globe is not a monolith. Declaring war on Islam makes enemies of the women some say they wish to help.
I'm afraid what is happening in this thread is the all too familiar assumption of American superiority. We've been imbued with Islamophobia for decades now as part of an effort to justify endless war in the region.