08 February 2013

Are female converts to Islam part of a new wave of feminism?

.... Whatever we may think of these converts, their decision to become Muslim may be a powerful indictment of some women’s lives in the west. That’s the impression they all left me, especially Jessica who would repeatedly ask whether feminism had delivered on its promise. So amidst all the everyday sexism and cultural creepiness hounding British women, is Islam somehow squaring their circle?

[A COMMENT] Ridiculous. These idiotic women seem to assert that everyone is promiscuous and immoral, with exception of the devotees of this bizarre Arabian religious sect. They reveal their own ignorance that they cannot imagine people being moral and principled without having a deity to threaten eternal damnation for not conforming to the dictats of its frothing apologists. Then they dress like Arabs from the Middle Ages, conforming with the cultural traditions of those desert tribes, but they insist it's "religious". [independent.co.uk] Read more