Nahed Eltantawy responds to Mona Eltahawy’s article on woman-hating in the Middle East. She hates it. I felt deeply offended and insulted by Mona Eltahawy’s latest article in Foreign Policy, titled Why Do They Hate Us? I follow Eltahawy’s columns quite regularly and I accept many of her arguments, even if I do not …
Tag Archive: God hates women
Apr 24 2012
How did that get there?!
There’s a new group in Tunisia, Equality and Parity, that is protesting the wearing of the niqab. Equality and Parity promised that they will plan manifestations and sit-ins if women’s rights are violated in Tunisia. The group lobbies against denigrating women’s representation in decision-making – whether it be in the political, social, cultural, or economic …
Apr 23 2012
Delusions of choice
And now I’ll spell out exactly why I think the Collective Response is so wrong and bad. The hijab is a statement of female subordination, and it’s also a statement of loyalty or obedience to a ferociously misogynist and coercive religion. Some people are “offended” to be told that. It doesn’t follow that it’s not true. …
Apr 21 2012
The only category
This little spat between the Inquisition and the slightly disobedient (but not disobedient enough) nuns reminds me of something that we generally don’t focus on sharply enough. It’s certainly obvious, yet it kind of fades into the background of the taken-for-granted. The something is: Women are the only category of people who can’t ever be …
Apr 14 2012
Incompatibles
Sooraya Graham is very confused. She wants to be liberal and free and provocative, and she also wants to be reactionary and veiled and submissive. She’s an art student, see. She wears hijab. She took a picture of a friend of hers who wears a niqab and abaya, holding a bra. She wanted to “humanize” …
Apr 08 2012
Charge £400 for her, £200 for him
The wonderfulness of Sharia councils. After fleeing a forced marriage characterised by rape and physical violence, Nasrin applied for an Islamic divorce from a Sharia council; that was almost 10 years ago now. Despite countless emails, letters and telephone calls to the Sharia council as well as joint mediation and reconciliation meetings, the Sharia council …
Apr 08 2012
You are the gardener
Speaking of Mars Hill and Mark Driscoll…That article in the Stranger is interesting. To become a “member” at Mars Hill Church requires more than attending church. Becoming a full-fledged member—a process highly encouraged, and sometimes thunderously demanded, in Pastor Mark Driscoll’s sermons—requires months of classes and a careful study of Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe, …
Mar 29 2012
Stay where you are
Speaking of Islamic Feminism… In Afghanistan, it’s a crime for women to leave home without permission. “Running away” is not an offense found in the Afghan Penal Code. However, women and girls in Afghanistan have long faced punishment from family and local governing bodies for leaving home without permission. In response to challenges to the …
Mar 27 2012
Mothers and daughters
Via a tweet by the great Deeyah – a woman in India is murdered for refusing to “compromise” in her daughter’s rape case. I suppose I should warn you: it makes very ugly upsetting reading. That’s so often the case, but maybe I should give warnings more often. A month-and-a-half after a schoolgirl was reportedly raped …
Mar 16 2012
Bishop to hospitals: let women die, that’s an order
Yes really. This isn’t my usual hyperbole, it’s exactly what the bishop of Phoenix, Thomas Olmsted, tells the president of Catholic Healthcare West in an official letter dated November 22, 2010. I now ask that CHW agree to the following requirements by Friday, December 17, 2010. Only if all of these items are agreed to, …
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