[wvns] Why do Muslims hate feminists?

Why do Muslims hate feminists?
Maria Hussain
September 28, 2007
http://mariahussain.wordpress.com/

Feminism is connected to the developments of critical thinking in the
period 1930 - 1980 in France, England, and many other countries
throughout the world. But Western feminism died in the 80s. In the
1980s many women realized if we want to "worship the Goddess," and be
like the Mother Earth we have to celebrate our fertility, we have to
be true to our souls. We didn't want to hurt our bodies with
pharmaceutical chemicals to prevent what was natural from occurring.
We just wanted motherhood to be a happy, emotionally safe learning
experience. We wanted committed partnerships. We wanted to be
surrounded by people who love us, not just fight to survive in the rat
race. We would rather marry a man who would pay all the bills because
we can. Feminists have written that marriage is a form of prostitution
and thus degrading, but not all women agree with that viewpoint.

As a heterosexual woman, I admit to feeling occasionally marginalized
by "progressives" just over this one word, because all these men and
lesbians are telling me what I'm supposed to believe about myself as a
female. I'm totally cool with being a woman. I don't view it as an
oppression. The only thing, is I view the life transaction as a series
of rights AND responsibilities.

The "feminist" label alienates many many women I know. Mainstream
Muslim women are totally offended by feminists. When a German woman I
know told an Iranian woman I know that she chose not to have children
because she had too many emotional issues with her mother, the Iranian
woman was so offended she would never speak to her again or look at
her. "I love my children," she insisted to me. "When they were babies
and they fell asleep in my arms, I just held them and watched them sleep."

Many of the Muslim American women you'll find at the mosque view life
as a competition to see who can have the most children. The ones who
had a bad birth experience will typically avoid having more kids after
that, but in those cases it is out of a sense of emotional trauma, not
because they had planned or wanted to limit their reproduction. [A lot
better education about how to have a safe and enjoyable birth needs to
be made available to more women, including most American women.]

The idea of earning their own income would be something they'd resist,
and would normally do so only if widowed, but even then would rather
rely financially on a brother. Those who are college educated and earn
a separate income still make their husbands pay all the bills. Some
Muslim women stubbornly refuse to learn to drive a car in order to
manipulate their husband into doing all the errands and grocery
shopping. Another way they express their refusal to get a job is by
putting on niqab (the face veil). They view this female chauvenist
lifestyle as a right. In Muslim countries it's the women not the men
pushing the movement to dress like the Virgin Mary (for obvious
reasons). The burqa is their way of saying to men, "You will NOT
disrespect me.

One of the first things the US did after they set up their military
bases in Pakistan was to push the media to publish images of semi-nude
women. When western colonists try to convince Muslim women of their
feminist ideology, the women view it as an imposition, and they
protest against it with signs that say, "My hijab is my honor." There
are tens of thousands of Muslim women in America who feel this way.
There are tens of millions of Christian, Jewish and secular women who
agree with them on at least one point.

When I think of feminists, like most Muslims I have come across, we
think of Zionist collaborators; Irshad Manji, Nonie Darwish, Ayan
Hirsi, and these other neocon novelists who write ridiculous and
uneducated anti-Islam "tell all" books that are so absurd that only a
fool could take it seriously. These intellectual prostitutes are
working for the group of people that includes Robert Spencer, David
Horowitz, Charles Jacobs and all those racist clowns. Ayan Hirsi, an
upper class Somali Muslim got elected into parliamentary office in the
Netherlands by dumping on Muslims. Her willingness to fabricate
entertaining stories for neocon audiences and tell them what they want
to hear got her offered a job by the American Enterprise Institute.

When an Asian woman or an Arab woman or an African woman says she is a
feminist, in the eyes of many many women and men I have known, it
means to them that she has become westernized. Her brain has been
colonized. She has made herself "non-scary" to liberals. She has sex
without marriage. That is what "feminist" means to Muslims
essentially. It's almost an obscenity. Feminism is connected in their
minds with the Oppressor class of Harvard educated ruling families
that control so many countries in the world, embezzling money,
drinking wine with white people, engaging in Freemasonry and planning
their wars on the innocent. That is how they speak of them and how
they think of them.

Western liberals need someone to "explain" Islam to them because they
view Islamic society through an Orientalist lens that assumes that the
Westerners are both intellectually and ethically superior to
Easterners. They hear what they want to hear and show disrespect to
the image that they have projected upon a person like Ahmedinejad.
When he said, "In Iran we don't have homosexuality like you," he was
mocked as having said, "In Iran we don't have homosexuals." Because of
prejudice, Orientalists cannot respect the fact that in other
cultures, open promiscuity, whether homosexual or heterosexual is
simply not tolerated.

I might add that although the public hangings in Iran make westerners
squeamish, especially when they are for sex crimes, what we have to
understand is that Iran is a democracy. Rapists, sodomizers, hookers
and smugglers get hanged because the public demands it. The leadership
is doing what the majority of the population wants. If someone is a
rapist or a murderer it is a financial drain on society to keep him
locked up in prison, feeding and clothing him for the rest of his
life. Execution is how Iranian society chooses to deal with those they
feel are destroying the fabric of their society. It is not the result
of a heartless dictatorship. Not to mention, Iran executes a lot fewer
people than the United States.

I asked the gentle Iranian woman who loved her babies so much about
the execution of Communists in Iran and she said without hesitation,
like this was the mainstream point of view in Iran, "They should be
killed. They are the enemies of God."

I personally don't quite understand it but crowds of people in more
than one Muslim country will typically yell, "Kill him! Die! Die!"
while watching a public hanging. For better or for worse, they vent
their aggression at the criminals of their own society, instead of
venting their aggression at competing ethnic groups or by bombing
other countries like liberal westerners do.

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