There was an article in yesterday's Times written by David Aaronovitch entitled 'Woman-hating isn't just brutal, it's dangerous: The misogyny that leads to stonings and 'honour' killings also leads to poverty and, ultimately to terrorism'.
Whilst an unlikely convert to feminism, what he writes chimes with what I have thought for some considerable time. You would think that given the extent of female oppression and abuse, that there would have been an uprising, groups of feminist terrorists, freedom fighters. Maybe it is just a question of time before women in the Middle East revolt and start to organise themselves much in the way of other terrorist organisations before them, but here, the extent of the oppression is so severe and the anti-women views so deeply held, that any such thing can only result in a blood bath. Revolutions are sometimes the only way to overthrow a deeply oppressive and dysfunctional system, and that has implications not only for the part of the world that generates it, but worldwide.
Whilst an unlikely convert to feminism, what he writes chimes with what I have thought for some considerable time. You would think that given the extent of female oppression and abuse, that there would have been an uprising, groups of feminist terrorists, freedom fighters. Maybe it is just a question of time before women in the Middle East revolt and start to organise themselves much in the way of other terrorist organisations before them, but here, the extent of the oppression is so severe and the anti-women views so deeply held, that any such thing can only result in a blood bath. Revolutions are sometimes the only way to overthrow a deeply oppressive and dysfunctional system, and that has implications not only for the part of the world that generates it, but worldwide.
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