An Open Letter to Elsa The Lioness
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Bob Grant
1982 NBHS Graduate - Honorably Discharged from USMC after serving from 7/82-6/86 - Journeyman Telecommunications Technichian.A labor activist--with a lengthy history of successful civil litigation, (6-0), against the various "Ma Bell" offshoots. Licenced charter boat Capt. actively studying Radical Islam for over 20 years.
I am an unapologetic critic of Islam & feel reform within that religion is key to ultimate victory.
By Bob Grant
Published on 12/28/2007
Perhaps Benazir Bhutto's violent death will mean the dawn of a new era in the discussion about how we view Islam... Maybe this woman's death will be the catalyst for meaningful debate on the vast cultural differences between the West & Islam... More specifically I'm wondering if the lioness' of the 1960's, those militant feminists who were all so willing to wage a guerilla war against "the man", will at long last wish to be heard on this subject...
The dawn of a new era in the discussion about how we view Islam
Perhaps Benazir Bhutto's violent death will mean the dawn of a new era in the discussion about how we view Islam... Maybe this womens death will be the catalyst for meaningful debate on the vast cultural differences between the West & Islam... More specifically I'm wondering if the lioness' of the 1960's, those militant feminists who were all so willing to wage a guerilla war against "the man", will at long last wish to be heard on this subject...
Despite the fact that so many of them now hold positions of power in Academia & Government; the angry, predominately white, militant women from Students for a Democratic Society & The Weather Underground movement, who were such driving forces behind bombed buildings, dead policeman, murdered judges & kidnapped government officials, have all grown suspiciously quiet in the face of Islamic chauvinism... Hell... One of the lioness' is even running for President, but rare indeed is the modern lioness, the "Elsa" who is willing to openly denounce the culture of systemic sexism that is so fundamental to Islam, a culture where piousness demands a woman be no more than a mans property from birth until the day she dies...
Elsa I hope you understand how little credit I, as a Western Man, now have for your position that you are fighting for the rights of women... For when you don the Hijab in Syria, ignore the role of religion in an honor killing, or down-play the violence & misogyny so prevalent in Islamic society; all the while impugning your Judea-Christianity heritage, you tell every one that in truth, you care not for your very own sisters...
Elsa, Ms. Bhutto's death will have been in vain, unless you and the rest of the fair weather feminists pick up her torch... Oriana Fallaci tried, she was vilified by her peers for it... Like wise Phyllis Chesler...
Unfortunately for the roughly 750 million women living under the oppressive yolk of Islam, I'm betting you and your kind don't have the courage to do so... After all, it's infinitely safer for you to trump up allegations of sexism in Western Man, than it is to call into question the abhorrent practices of those men who so devoutly worship Islam...
Despite the fact that so many of them now hold positions of power in Academia & Government; the angry, predominately white, militant women from Students for a Democratic Society & The Weather Underground movement, who were such driving forces behind bombed buildings, dead policeman, murdered judges & kidnapped government officials, have all grown suspiciously quiet in the face of Islamic chauvinism... Hell... One of the lioness' is even running for President, but rare indeed is the modern lioness, the "Elsa" who is willing to openly denounce the culture of systemic sexism that is so fundamental to Islam, a culture where piousness demands a woman be no more than a mans property from birth until the day she dies...
Elsa I hope you understand how little credit I, as a Western Man, now have for your position that you are fighting for the rights of women... For when you don the Hijab in Syria, ignore the role of religion in an honor killing, or down-play the violence & misogyny so prevalent in Islamic society; all the while impugning your Judea-Christianity heritage, you tell every one that in truth, you care not for your very own sisters...
Elsa, Ms. Bhutto's death will have been in vain, unless you and the rest of the fair weather feminists pick up her torch... Oriana Fallaci tried, she was vilified by her peers for it... Like wise Phyllis Chesler...
Unfortunately for the roughly 750 million women living under the oppressive yolk of Islam, I'm betting you and your kind don't have the courage to do so... After all, it's infinitely safer for you to trump up allegations of sexism in Western Man, than it is to call into question the abhorrent practices of those men who so devoutly worship Islam...