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What’s happening in Iran is the biggest women’s rights protest ever in the Islamic world. Yet the response from some of the leading feminists in the United States, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib, has been strikingly muted. Each one has made what can be characterized at best as a tepid, pro forma response, one that contrasts sharply with their statements and actions during the Trump administration. It looks as if each one of these women regards Donald Trump as a far greater threat to women than the Islamic Republic of Iran is.
AOC tweeted on September 23: “Solidarity with the courageous women and allies in Iran protesting for their freedom. Mahsa Amini was senselessly murdered by the same patriarchal and autocratic forces repressing women the world over. The right to choose belongs to us all, from hijabs to reproductive care.” She also retweeted a tweet from Yassmin Abdel-Magid, a hijab-wearing Muslim writer in Australia: “To be (hijabi) or not be (hijabi) is the business of no state or man. Solidarity with women resisting patriarchal control, the world over.” Tlaib, meanwhile, retweeted AOC’s statement, and Omar retweeted Abdel-Magid’s. That’s it in terms of the public reactions of this trio to the uprising for women’s rights in Iran.
Neither AOC nor Abdel-Magid was going to come close to saying something about Islamic law, although that’s exactly what the protests in Iran are all about: women there don’t want to live under Islamic law anymore. But both are far too committed to the fictional concept of “Islamophobia,” and so they both made it all about patriarchy. That’s a much safer target for them, as patriarchy exists all over, not just in Iran, and not just among Muslims. So the very publicly practicing Muslims Omar and Tlaib could retweet their statements without fearing that they would be accused of criticizing Islam.
AOC also went farther, equating the mullahs of Tehran with the pro-lifers in the United States. They’re “the same patriarchal and autocratic forces repressing women the world over,” daring to interfere with “the right to choose” in the fields of both “hijabs” and “reproductive care.” It’s a spectacular feat of illogic to equate a regime that is mowing down its own people in the streets with a Supreme Court decision that allows the individual states to determine whether to legalize or outlaw abortion, but that sort of incendiary rhetoric is how AOC keeps her rabid Left base ginned up with the requisite outrage that will drive these drug-addled slackers to the polls and to take other “social action.”
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PMK says
Islamic law and Islam are inseparable. I couldn’t care less what the squad has to say about this issue. Maybe if Omar takes off her turban in a Muslim country, I might listen to her, but what she says in the USA on this issue is irrelevant. I remain skeptical of these ‘women’s rights’ protests in Iran. If they don’t want to be ruled by Islamic law then they would have to renounce Islam. How many are willing to go that far? Seeing is believing..
Raja says
PMK,
The devil has blinded them. Logically you are right. If anyone renounces Islamic law islam stands rejected. That would invite the “wrath” of islam i.e. death to apostates.
islam is replete with superstitions and other bizarre belief systems clubbed into one. If they had an iota of brain or the honesty to question their thuggish faith they would have been freed (from islam) indeed.
Keith O says
AOC is putting on full display her ignorance when she quotes that slime ball, Yassmin Abdel-Magid.
This is the individual who “fled” Australia to England after she posted disparaging comments on ANZAC day and then felt “victimised” when the backlash reached the halls of parliament.
This immigrants hatred of her adopted country is on par with the oxygen thieves in the squad.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Just b’cos Masah Amini believed in going around w/o a chador/hijab doesn’t imply that she agreed w/ things like unrestricted abortions, the right to wear burqas in Western countries and so on. Her views on these are unknown, and probably unknowable since she is dead. AOC is making a big assumption by stating that what Amini stood for was all those rights – from attire choices to abortion
Walter Sieruk says
Would else should any informed person expect for the Squad expect some kind of condoning the abusive cruel and murderous evils of that tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran.
Furthermore, one of the reasons that this cruel vicious Islamic regime of Iran that this “mullah regime” tortured and murdered that helpless defenseless young woman ,Mahsa Anini because Iran is based on Sharia law and Sharia is full of ruthless oppressive brutal cruel malicious deadly misogyny.
Sharia denies basic human rights is viciously harsh on all people, especially girls and women.
Furthermore, it should be made known that the actual origin of Sharia is revealed in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995. The point is this what an outright liar Rasis is, for he said that he is “a defender of human rights.” For that future history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” .page 150.
There is the above and other references imply that such pagan teachings were incorporated into the religion that Muhammad manufactured and then started. Thus this further reveals that a lot of ancient paganism is part of the whole religion of Islam.
In other words, ancient paganism makes up much of Islam and it’s is a hoax. Therefore the Islamic “republic” of Iran is based in Islam and Sharia has its entire foundation build on a hoax.