Feminism As We Know It

by Katie

The Silence

Today I read an article by Michael Youssef titled Where have all the feminists gone?. Michael articulated my exact question: why are feminists silent on the Islamic oppression of women? As I watched the outrageous video linked in his article I wondered, “Where are the feminists?” Have they been silenced by fear, or do they choose which “injustices” to fight? Who is speaking out for the rights of women in Islamic families and communities? Who is marching in the streets? Where are the feminists?

Where have all the feminists gone?
By Michael Youssef

I remember back in the late ’60s or early ’70s, Germaine Greer and many of her feminist cohorts used to appear on Australian television and “pile on” Christianity as an oppressor of women.

Coming fresh out of the Middle East into the West and knowing how Christian women are lovingly treated in comparison to their Muslim counterparts, I wanted to scream at the television:

Do these people understand that Jesus is the only true liberator of women?

Have they ever read the Bible?

Do they really know what it means to truly oppress women?

Are they so clueless they don’t understand that Western civilization came into being because of the light of Christianity?

But fast forward just a few decades later. Today you see Islamic ideology, with its emphasis on beating women into submission to men, openly and boldly broadcast through the media. Proclaiming that a woman is only equal to half of a man, Sharia courts are spreading (like Kudzu in July here in the South) in England, Europe, and the United States.

And yet, I have not heard Hillary Clinton or any of her feminist foot soldiers say a mumbling word against Islam’s open warfare against women’s rights.

Before I make some of you angry and before you protest and say, “You are intolerant,” I want you to watch this video file. Watch and read the subtitles of this television interview with an Islamic authority figure. He explains the “etiquette” a husband is to use when beating his wife. Without giving away anything, after watching it, ask yourself:

Where have all the feminists gone?

Is the feminist movement dead?

Or, are those lashing tongues reserved only for use against loving Christians? And by the same token, are they terrified and silenced by Islamic power and money?

If you have an answer, please let me know.

The Preference

Though feminists seemingly fight for equality, I have yet to hear one fight for the rights of girls in the womb. To a feminist, a grown woman has the right to have an abortion. Yet, a little girl in the womb has none; she is denied the right to life – she is denied the right to choose life.

Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, once said:

“We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”

And

“Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.”

These are horrifying statements, revealing Sanger’s racist and eugenic ideology. Yet, many feminists will say she is a hero, a woman whom to look to as role model and inspiration. Upon receiving the Margaret Sanger Award presented by Planned Parenthood in March of 2009, Hillary Clinton said, “I admire Margaret Sanger enormously,”

If Clinton is an advocate of equality and women’s rights, why is she accepting awards named after a racist eugenicist, presented by an organization that provides abortions and covers up statutory rape? (See LiveAction.org for the inside scoop on undercover investigations of Planned Parenthood facilities)

Question: If feminists care about women why do they support abortion? Researchers in Iran have published results of a new study showing women who have had abortions face 193% increased risk of breast cancer. There is also great emotional, mental and physical damage caused to a mother who has undergone abortion. Is abortion really protecting women?

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The Difference

The feminism we know today is regretfully not at all about equality. If that were not so, feminists would be outraged by the violent oppression of women in Islamic communities and the needless killing of developing females in the womb.

Throughout history women have used their communication skills to change lives and make a difference. Women have a God-given ability to bring life into this world in many ways. We can turn our culture of death around if we look beyond ourselves and speak life, speak truth, and love in word and deed – love lets live.