Honour Killings Abound – Feminists Silent

As I have been saying for a while, here and here, feminism seems to be shirking it’s responsibility. Here is a new column from Robert Fulford @ the National Post that says it all again.

Surely honour killing is the ultimate male oppression, being uniquely permanent and committed by close relatives in the name of an abstraction. It’s among many anti-woman atrocities in the Arab world that should enrage feminists of the West and rouse them to urgent action — mass rallies, pickets, boycotts, furious public debates and anything else they would do for, say, California grape pickers who have no right to health care. But no action of this kind ever materializes, which amounts to a grave abdication of responsibility. Feminism, after all, embodies the principle that women deserve the same rights and dignity as men. In the original discussions nobody said “except for Muslims.”

A major reason for this failure is that feminism has generally made common cause with the left, and the left has in most cases decided it favours the Arabic cause. The Arabs have virtue on their side because they are not Americans.