Excellent article on the eye-opening experiences of a liberal
I haven’t read LaShawn in a few weeks, so I missed this when she posted it last week. It is the story of Phyllis Chesler, a former professor of (what else?) Women’s Studies who married a Muslim and moved to Afghanistan. What she found there challenged her liberal thinking, to say the least.
Long before the rise of the Taleban, I learnt not to romanticise Third World countries or to confuse their hideous tyrants with liberators. I also learnt that sexual and religious apartheid in Muslim countries is indigenous and not the result of Western crimes — and that such “colourful tribal customs” are absolutely, not relatively, evil.
Indeed.
