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The Insanity of Western Women Defending Their Oppressors

JL;DR SUMMARY Karen Hunt critiques Western women's support of Islamic regimes, arguing that in doing so, they inadvertently back systems that oppress women, such as through the enforcement of the hijab. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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FeminismWomen's RightsAyaan Hirsi AliOppressionHijabSharia LawMedia ManipulationIslamic RegimesWestern WomenMona Eltahawy

Places mentioned

Luxor, Egypt
"The disconnect these young women have from reality is especially meaningful to me, since I lived for three years in Luxor, Egypt and experienced Sharia law and saw how women are abused because of it."
Dearborn, Michigan, United States
"At an International Al-Quds Day rally in Dearborn, Michigan, held on April 5th of this year, activist Tarek Bazzi called for the crowd to pour all of your chants and all of your shouts upon the head of America as the crowd shouted, Death to America!"
Tehran, Iran
"What about Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish-Iranian woman whose arrest in Tehran for opposing mandatory hijab and subsequent death in police custody sparked a wave of protests throughout Iran?"
Berkeley, California, United States
"Nothing shows the utter arrogance and ignorance of these supposedly educated young people than what happened in Berkeley, California a few months ago."
Kermanshah, Iran
"It is not an Iranian revolution, or even a Kurdish revolution, said Rozhin, 25 years old from the Kurdish city of Kermanshah."
Aleppo, Syria
"About 5,000 people mainly women and children were killed. After the Syrian war began in 2011, Berlin-based photographer Sonja Hamad saw many images of Kurdish female fighters but felt they did not do the women justice."

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