Posts Tagged ‘ Colonial Feminism ’

Western media hearts House Muslims

May 25, 2011

Dr. Mohamed Elmasry wrote in The Canadian Charger: For the last 10 years women in Islam and their status in Muslim countries were two popular topics in Western media. Muslim women, like Irshad Manji and Ayaan Ali, have become media darlings because they wrote books smearing their religion, and called for the “liberation” of Muslim...
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Guest Post: A Yemeniya’s Response to Mona Eltahawy. By Dr.Lamya Almas

April 21, 2011
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As Mona Eltahawy’s scope of representation and expertise continues to expand with each new uprising across much of Asia and Africa, her views continue to be rejected.  The New York-based “revolutionary feminist’s” detractors are not her imaginary group of bearded, misogynistic, religious fanatics she likes to rail against, but rather the same women, feminists, and revolutionaries the American Media...
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Manji Gives Out Racist Tips to Brave Egyptian Women

February 22, 2011
Manji Gives Out Racist Tips to Brave Egyptian Women

While housies* who had supported the Mubarak regime, like ADC and James Zogby, are flocking to jump on the revolutionary bandwagon, Irshad Manji doesn’t appear impressed with the Egyptian people’s toppling of 30 years of US and Israeli-backed dictatorship. For the past two weeks, we’ve been hearing that the “wall of fear” in Egypt...
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Mona Eltahawy slightly improving

July 28, 2010
Mona Eltahawy slightly improving

We’d criticized Mona Eltahawy’s racist, sexist support for the French niqab ban. Ikhras notices improvement in Eltahawy’s discourse during her debate with Tariq Ramadan about the same topic. This time, unlike in her Washington Post article, she didn’t say there was no similarity between women’s faces and minaret stone indicating she probably understands the...
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Colonial Feminism Among House Muslims

July 19, 2010
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Columnist Mona Eltahawy presents troubling arguments in her recent Washington Post article, From liberals and feminists, unsettling silence on rending the Muslim veil (July 17, 2010). First, she argues “Some have tried to present the ban as a matter of Islam vs. the West. It is not. First, Islam is not monolithic. It, like...
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