Having implemented Sharia law, Theocratic Iran is one of the most repressive regimes in the world when it comes to women’s rights, and a wide variety of activities are prohibited to women simply because they are women.
Now that widespread protests have broken out In Iran over the rejection of the Islamic Republic and greater rights for women, you might think that feminists organizations would be in the forefront of those clamoring for greater women’s rights.
You would be wrong. They are, as usual, nattering on about the standard array of far-left causes having nothing to do with women’s rights.
To drill down even further, I thought I would check the Twitter feeds of several prominent feminists. They too are silent on Iran:
Number of @JessicaValenti tweets about women fighting in the streets for equal rights in #IranProtests: Zero. https://t.co/EkSFJL3vxq
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) January 1, 2018
Number of @bellhooks tweets about women fighting for equal rights in #IranProtests: Zero. https://t.co/5rCaD63TP0
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) January 1, 2018
Number of @elliesmeal tweets about women fighting for equal rights in #IranProtests: Zero. https://t.co/xj4ZX0HDCM
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) January 1, 2018
Number of @GloriaSteinem tweets about women fighting for equal rights in #IranProtests: Zero. https://t.co/exo0XTpDzp
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) January 1, 2018
Number of @AmandaMarcotte tweets about women fighting for equal rights in #IranProtests: 1 retweet…about @realDonaldTrump's reaction to Iran. https://t.co/NwbwXJj7r1
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) January 1, 2018
Once again, the unwillingness to speak out on Islam’s demonstrable treatment of women as second-class citizens has left American feminists with nothing to say about the most important woman’s rights struggle of the day. (That, and the Democratic Party’s insistence on defending Obama’s disasterous (and unconstitutional) Iran deal.)
Feminism is only about “women’s rights” when they align with a far-left agenda.
Tags: Amanda Marcotte, feminism, feminists, Foreign Policy, Gloria Steinem, Iran, Jessica Valenti, Jihad