Was Muhammad Really a Feminist?
The twisted world of leftist crusaders.
December 9, 2016
Jack Kerwick
Muhammad was a feminist.
Believe it or not, not too long ago the Huffington Post published a column that made this patently laughable claim.
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With the greatest of ease we could cite from the ample supply of Quranic passages and hadiths, to say nothing of Muhammad’s own personal life and the history and culture that it inspired, to expose Garrison’s scandalously absurd claim for what it is.
Of course, Garrison is hardly unique among those of his ideological heir in affirming values that are radically incompatible with one another. Self-contradictions pervade the leftist consciousness.
On the one hand, leftists claim, as the writers at the Huffington Post claim, to value “gender equality” or “women’s rights.” Yet, on the other hand, they also decry “Islamophobia,” which they identify with any and every criticism of Islam, especially the objection that Islam is oppressive of women.
Leftists assert, on the one hand, to favor LGBT “rights.” On the other hand, they demand of those of us who convict Islam of homicidal violations of such rights that we stop “demonizing” Islam.
Those on the left are obsessed with combatting “racism”—but only when whites are alleged to be the perpetrators. However, when it comes to the enormous magnitude of black hostility toward non-blacks, they either remain silent or explain it away as an understandable, even justifiable, response to white racism or “white privilege.”
The left calls for “justice” for the environment while, like Hillary Clinton, crusading for the liberty of mothers to arrange for the deaths of their unborn and partially born children.
Leftists Social Justice crusaders wax indignant over a “rape culture”—but only when that rape culture is straight out of a Lifetime film, i.e. only when the perpetrators are affluent middle-class white males. When it comes to the astronomical rate of, say, black rape and domestic violence, or the rape crisis brought to European women courtesy of Islamic refugees fleeing North Africa and the Middle East, our self-avowed “feminists” say nothing.
We could continue endlessly in this same repetitive vein. While these patterns of thoughts reveal a glaring thoughtlessness, they may reflect more the leftist’s unwillingness to think rather than her inability to do so. In a future article, I will offer explanations as to how and why it is that otherwise ostensibly intelligent people routinely spout such self-evident foolishness.
Was Muhammad Really a Feminist?
The twisted world of leftist crusaders.
December 9, 2016
Jack Kerwick
Muhammad was a feminist.
Believe it or not, not too long ago the Huffington Post published a column that made this patently laughable claim.
...
With the greatest of ease we could cite from the ample supply of Quranic passages and hadiths, to say nothing of Muhammad’s own personal life and the history and culture that it inspired, to expose Garrison’s scandalously absurd claim for what it is.
Of course, Garrison is hardly unique among those of his ideological heir in affirming values that are radically incompatible with one another. Self-contradictions pervade the leftist consciousness.
On the one hand, leftists claim, as the writers at the Huffington Post claim, to value “gender equality” or “women’s rights.” Yet, on the other hand, they also decry “Islamophobia,” which they identify with any and every criticism of Islam, especially the objection that Islam is oppressive of women.
Leftists assert, on the one hand, to favor LGBT “rights.” On the other hand, they demand of those of us who convict Islam of homicidal violations of such rights that we stop “demonizing” Islam.
Those on the left are obsessed with combatting “racism”—but only when whites are alleged to be the perpetrators. However, when it comes to the enormous magnitude of black hostility toward non-blacks, they either remain silent or explain it away as an understandable, even justifiable, response to white racism or “white privilege.”
The left calls for “justice” for the environment while, like Hillary Clinton, crusading for the liberty of mothers to arrange for the deaths of their unborn and partially born children.
Leftists Social Justice crusaders wax indignant over a “rape culture”—but only when that rape culture is straight out of a Lifetime film, i.e. only when the perpetrators are affluent middle-class white males. When it comes to the astronomical rate of, say, black rape and domestic violence, or the rape crisis brought to European women courtesy of Islamic refugees fleeing North Africa and the Middle East, our self-avowed “feminists” say nothing.
We could continue endlessly in this same repetitive vein. While these patterns of thoughts reveal a glaring thoughtlessness, they may reflect more the leftist’s unwillingness to think rather than her inability to do so. In a future article, I will offer explanations as to how and why it is that otherwise ostensibly intelligent people routinely spout such self-evident foolishness.
Was Muhammad Really a Feminist?