Fantasy Christian oppression vs. very real Muslim oppression: which do you think the Left is more upset about? That’s right.
“Laura Perrins: Islamism poses the real threat to the sisterhood,” by Laura Perrins, The Conservative Woman, April 29, 2017 (thanks to Inexion):
The novel, The Handmaid’s Tale by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, has been scaring the bejesus out of women since 1985. I am not going to give you the full summary – you know it. The US becomes a big evil Christian theocracy and after widespread infertility hits, only the few fertile women that are left must become Handmaids to the better families, bearing them children.
Fornication is punished by death, women cannot work and have to be covered and suffer from all round horror at the hands of the patriarchy (and evil conservative women).
The book is everything that feminists want women to believe is ‘just around the corner’.
What a load of horse manure. Thankfully, the only thing that came into being since 1985 is that we pay for everything electronically. If memory serves me right in the dystopian book the Government transfers unilaterally all the wealth held by women to the bank accounts held by their nearest male relative, something that was easy to do given the lack of cash.
But that does not stop numerous TV adaptations of The Handmaid’s Tale, the latest being this.
The book and adaptations generate many think pieces, warning us that we are just a Trump presidency away from such a theocracy even though Trump is the least socially conservative Republican president ever and the Christian Right was split on his election.
But sure, why should we let the facts get in the way of a good propaganda campaign, especially against Christians? And this book has been the most effective form of propaganda to keep women scared into submission and voting Democrat ever, I do believe….
But as this piece demonstrates, the liberals are too terrified to examine where the real threat to women’s rights comes from.
Tell, me again which extremist ideology executes gay men by throwing them off buildings?
What theocracy demands women must be covered and refuses to let them drive? What girls are at high risk of female genital mutilation? Are they the Mormons and Roman Catholics or hardline Lutherans?
No. The real threat to women’s rights comes from Islamism. But you will be waiting a long time before you read a feminist dystopian novel about the threats to American women from such a theocracy. If you did it would be immediately slammed as Islamophobic.
gravenimage says
“Liberals are too terrified to examine where the real threat to women’s rights comes from”
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All too often true.
Where women are *really* being forced to cover, used as sex slaves, and killed if suspected of fornication is in Dar-al-Islam–not by Christians.
Georg says
A bit off-topic, but mulling this article led to the thought:
If liberals genuinely believed in the principles they claim to, *and* cared for the welfare of Muslims to the degree they claim to, they’d be in a rush to deliver Muslim from Islam. Is this logic not sound?
Kasnar says
In another forum, I mentioned how this reiteration of the Handmaid’s Tale as a tv series might foreshadow what Sharia Law might look like for women if such could even conceivably happen in the West. A respondent to my comment suggested that I didn’t understand Sharia Law. ( Truthfully I don’t know much if anything but what I heard about it). She suggested Sharia Law is a lot like the Ten Commandments but for Islam. That is something I’ll have to investigate before I accept that.
boakai ngombu says
i understand that there are over 6,000 strictures to be observed when following SHARIA. nearly all aspects of life are covered an infraction may leave one with guilt but that is not damning; no adherent to SHARIA is pure. the allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) might show favor and might not.
not at all like 10 Commandments YHWH gave Moses, which if followed completely, would make one righteous however no one except Jesus fulfilled the LAW. for His sake, guilt for sin is forgiven by God and faith to believe that is also given … freely
K. says
If one single book or movie can instill real fear, however irrational, into large parts of the population, maybe there is hope that eventually something is published that can instill a healthy rejection of Islam? Even if the means are somewhat around the bend. We may need to find rational ways to employ human irrationality.
garegin says
The TV is absolutely disgusting when it comes to strawmanning Christians. By wafching Law and Order you’d think Christians want rapists off the hook with a slap on the wrist.
JawsV says
It’s not “Islamism” (whatever that is) it’s ISLAM.
Dacritic says
It’s not “Islamism”. It’s just plain, old Islam.
UNCLE VLADDI says
People ask: “How can liberals, all for ‘diverse’ gay rights, or any woman, let alone ardent feminists, support Islam?”
Feminists and liberals in general are hypocrites.
Being perverse is their way to show how unique they are.
That’s why they pretend the best solution is to become part of the problem.
Governments encourage a dumbed-down population because their motto is always: “There’s No Money In Solutions!”
And people only send their children to college to compete in the marketplace; getting accredited is an expensive requirement for success, so they know in advance that all they’re really doing is paying other people who say they are smart, to say their kids are smart, too!
Worse, the “Publish or Die” mentality means that ‘researchers’ and ‘intellectuals’ have to LIE all the time, in order to continue extorting money from the suckers who fund their institutions of higher learning! That’s their “Progress!”
They have to lie by making up new, false words and false definitions to describe the very same, ages old things.
So it seems to sane folk that these left-wing idiots live in some bizarro world where up is down, and in is out.
But that’s really the only way they assume they’d be able to get to look different, unique, and cutting-edge! To preen and stand out in their gangs! As Dawkins noted, people want to stand out in order to promote their genes over others.
And unfortunately, just like with all other false-idol human ‘institutions,’ there’s only so many symptoms of “Do Not Attack First!” cause-and-effect scientific truths and logical facts one can address with “laws” of physics, and philosophy, only so many right answers, before one must veer off into exploiting the almost infinite number of sorta almost right,(but really wrong) answers, in order to keep up the pretense that the educators are actually doing something responsible to earn their pay and to continue to enjoy the right to govern others – the very same point in which, after whence reached, all human social organizations decline into criminality and their empires fall into ruin.
At best, educators are exactly like their delusively clueless students – in fact, in many if not most cases, they ARE still really only perpetual students: those who were too timid to try (or tried once and gave up after failing) to make it in the “outside” world of competitive business and free markets, so they decided to return to the nest (if they ever left) and from paid teaching assistants simply promoted them selves to full, tenured professorships and remained glued thereafter to their safely lucrative academic chairs.
Remember the old adage? “Those who can’t do, teach” (others endless excuses to re-name their failures, too)!
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Nathan says
I read this book in the late 1990’s in Melbourne, Australia for school. At the time our teacher told us that Atwood had written it as a comment on the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Sam says
Truth is simple: both liberals and muslims are brainwashed to hate América.
They are both enemies of freedom and must be dealt with accordingly. NOW!