Since I will be on Twitter for a few hours to download my data. I thought I should respond to this "rant".
>30% of women who are killed in the US are killed by their husbands/boyfriends
>that is 75% in Italy! (references on /7, /8, /9)
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>30% of women who are killed in the US are killed by their husbands/boyfriends
>that is 75% in Italy! (references on /7, /8, /9)
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>while only 25% of women are killed by their male family members in Jordan which is the highest in the Islamic world.
Yet, no one argues that Western culture is inherently sexist, misogynistic, and brutal.
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Yet, no one argues that Western culture is inherently sexist, misogynistic, and brutal.
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No special TV shows portray Western culture as backward, barbaric & inherently sexist & anti-woman.
But when it comes to women killed in Muslim countries, each crime is considered "cultural, " "religious," and not blamed on the individual, as is the case...
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But when it comes to women killed in Muslim countries, each crime is considered "cultural, " "religious," and not blamed on the individual, as is the case...
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... when it comes to crimes against women in the West.
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The feminist Andrepal Grewal rightly observes this phenomenon where crimes against women are blamed on the individuals in the West, and culture and society as a whole when the crimes happen in the Muslim world.
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Grewal further says,
"Violence against women (in the West) is blamed on individual criminality rather than cultural factors in the case of white males; for minority groups, it is linked to pathological cultures." (pic 2)
Take the eg of "honour killing".
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"Violence against women (in the West) is blamed on individual criminality rather than cultural factors in the case of white males; for minority groups, it is linked to pathological cultures." (pic 2)
Take the eg of "honour killing".
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The quotations are taken from,
โJ Massad, Islam in Liberalism
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โJ Massad, Islam in Liberalism
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