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Friday, May 25, 2012

MSNBC: DON'T EXPOSE MUSLIM ATROCITIES

Harvard professor doesn't want 'fuel' against Islam revealed

MSNBC’s new golden girl was in a pickle: If someone sees a black person committing rape or domestic violence, should he report it if it makes black people look bad?

Or if Muslims see wife-beating, genital mutilation and childhood sexual abuse, should they just keep it to themselves, because saying something gives ammunition to the “Islamophobes”?

The questions appear to be simple. But they posed a challenge for the host of the new “Melissa Harris-Perry” show when guest Mona Eltahawy talked about her Foreign Policy magazine cover story about abuse of women by men in the Muslim world.

Eltahawy speaks from experience: She had her arms broken in a demonstration in Egypt and was tortured and raped in an Egyptian jail cell.

So she seemed surprised to find Harris-Perry questioning her right to draw attention to “traditions” such as involuntary female circumcision, wife-beating and childhood sexual abuse.

“I start with a little bit of trepidation in this conversation,” the host said, “in part because I know some of the critiques of this. The very idea that Western press, those that are not from these nations, who are not Muslim ourselves, who are not part of these traditions can look at your article and say ‘ahhh, look at how horrible those men, or those societies, or that religion is.’

“And that is part of the reason why, for example, we have an under-reporting of rape and domestic violence in African American communities,” Harris-Perry continued. “Because we know the violence enacted on black men by police, so we often don’t call. Right?”

Then the MSNBC host brought in Harvard professor Leila Ahmed, who questioned whether Eltahawy should have written the article at all. Not because it was false, but because it made Muslims look bad.

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2 comments:

lmclain said...

I LOVE the term "tradition" when it's used to describe holding a terrified 11 year old girl down, holding her legs apart while a strange man takes a razor and slices her clitoris off. What a "tradition". Something that I'm sure WOMEN really like adhering to and cannot wait to have their daughters experience. But, if one criticizes such a stone age, barbaric act, you are a bigot. A racist. An islamophobe. Where are all the "womens rights" advocates? We are so afraid of calling ANY muslim act wrong, its pitiful. How did we become so ashamed of our country, our political system, our laws, and our (yeah, I' gonna say it) exceptionalism, that we won't even stand up and call something like this "tradition" a bloody, barbaric, third world torture? Which is exactly what it is, unless you are Hillary Clinton, who thinks we must "respect" these "traditions". Slice something off her and she how fast she changes THAT tune....

Anonymous said...

"Then the MSNBC host brought in Harvard professor Leila Ahmed, who questioned whether Eltahawy should have written the article at all. Not because it was false, but because it made Muslims look bad."

If the shoe fits.....