Posted on 10/02/2022 10:02:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
What’s happening in Iran is the biggest women’s rights protest ever in the Islamic world. Yet the response from some of the leading feminists in the United States, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib, has been strikingly muted. Each one has made what can be characterized at best as a tepid, pro forma response, one that contrasts sharply with their statements and actions during the Trump administration. It looks as if each one of these women regards Donald Trump as a far greater threat to women than the Islamic Republic of Iran is.
AOC tweeted on September 23: “Solidarity with the courageous women and allies in Iran protesting for their freedom. Mahsa Amini was senselessly murdered by the same patriarchal and autocratic forces repressing women the world over. The right to choose belongs to us all, from hijabs to reproductive care.”
She also retweeted a tweet from Yassmin Abdel-Magid, a hijab-wearing Muslim writer in Australia: “To be (hijabi) or not be (hijabi) is the business of no state or man. Solidarity with women resisting patriarchal control, the world over.” Tlaib, meanwhile, retweeted AOC’s statement, and Omar retweeted Abdel-Magid’s. That’s it in terms of the public reactions of this trio to the uprising for women’s rights in Iran.
Neither AOC nor Abdel-Magid was going to come close to saying something about Islamic law, although that’s exactly what the protests in Iran are all about: women there don’t want to live under Islamic law anymore. But both are far too committed to the fictional concept of “Islamophobia,” and so they both made it all about patriarchy. That’s a much safer target for them, as patriarchy exists all over, not just in Iran, and not just among Muslims.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Of course not. Speak out against the mullahs specifically and islam in general? No way!
Not quite AOC.
A fact-finding mission is in order.
Iranian women should be glad they’re not in the worst place on earth, which is America. Ask Brittney Griner. /s
The Squad’s got theirs. Their ‘sisters’ are on their own.
Speaks VOLUMES, doesn’t it? *SPIT*
I think the squad needs to hurry their asses over there and do a sit in. Heck, I’ll even chip in for tickets.
One has to wonder what is it about muslim men & female hair! They just can’t control their rabid sexual urges on the streets of Tehran? B.S. on modesty crap!
The fraud squad!!!!!!
These people make me sick.
The libtard squad belong to the Sharia Club and support death beatings with sticks
They want a jihad
Who doesn’t know this by now?
No. The American left is in debt to state sponsors of terrorism, such as iran, and so they are never going to get them mad at us.
Why would they care this is EXACTLY what they want for us!!!
That’s because the Left is run by the sprit of antichrist, the same spirit that runs Iran’s Islamocrazies. Two peas in the same pod.
Some people did something…
Hypocrites, all of them! People who supported them should be ashamed.
Come in pants suits, sans hijab, and sans bras. Show them how it’s done. Don’t you want to be a profile in courage? So shake that thang!
PBS might even do a special. 😱
They better use spy cameras, and pretend to cheer on the Republican Guard or Islamofascists with Sticks, or whatever, when they do what they do. Then run like hell to the airport and do the production end of it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.