''Arab Spring'' Islamic misogyny Middle East

LIBERAL JOURNALS TURNING AGAINST THE ARAB SPRING…..?

 

OH MY.

Foreign Policy magazine is leftwing, pro-MB organization, so it’s very telling indeed that they are openly criticizing the supposed “Arab Spring”. An op-ed in the Wash Post by David Ignatius, a known pro-Saudi, pro-MB type, is also beginning to turn on the Arab Spring and MB. And the lead article in Wash Post sowed doubt about how Tunisia is turning out. Clearly the WH has decided that bad things may happen this summer, and they are trying to get ahead of the carnage.

Why Do They Hate Us?

The real war on women is in the Middle East.

In “Distant View of a Minaret,” the late and much-neglected Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat begins her short story with a woman so unmoved by sex with her husband that as he focuses solely on his pleasure, she notices a spider web she must sweep off the ceiling and has time to ruminate on her husband’s repeated refusal to prolong intercourse until she too climaxes, “as though purposely to deprive her.” Just as her husband denies her an orgasm, the call to prayer interrupts his, and the man leaves.

After washing up, she loses herself in prayer — so much more satisfying that she can’t wait until the next prayer — and looks out onto the street from her balcony. She interrupts her reverie to make coffee dutifully for her husband to drink after his nap. Taking it to their bedroom to pour it in front of him as he prefers, she notices he is dead. She instructs their son to go and get a doctor. “She returned to the living room and poured out the coffee for herself. She was surprised at how calm she was,” Rifaat writes.

In a crisp three-and-a-half pages, Rifaat lays out a trifecta of sex, death, and religion, a bulldozer that crushes denial and defensiveness to get at the pulsating heart of misogyny in the Middle East. There is no sugarcoating it. They don’t hate us because of our freedoms, as the tired, post-9/11 American cliché had it. We have no freedoms because they hate us, as this Arab woman so powerfully says.

Yes: They hate us. It must be said.

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One Response

  1. The women of islam are the only ones who can change their situation. It will be tough and brutal because islam hates females. Everyone has to face it.j

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