Word: oppressed
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...headscarf and drink alcohol," she says. In the spring of this year she finally admitted to herself that she was no longer a Muslim, and she started speaking out. But she quickly found herself caught in a cultural divide. "As a liberal society, the Dutch are against the oppression of the individual," she says. "But when it comes to ethnic minorities, multiculturalism dictates that we have to respect practices in other cultures that oppress the individual." Last week her book, De Zoontjesfabriek (The Son Factory), which presents her views on women, Islam and integration, was published. Hirsi Ali's adoption...
...think in one sense that Larry Summers is the Ariel Sharon of American higher education.” After all, Summers is Harvard’s first Jewish president, and the metaphor seems to hint at Jewish collusion and conspiracy, a lurid pact by powerful Jews to oppress minorities...
...consider Islamic and has succeeded economically where the Arabs of pre-Israel Palestine did not. Muslim hatred of the West and the U.S. is much more complicated. Muslim monarchies and dictatorships encourage anger against the U.S. because it provides an escape valve for the rage of the populations they oppress, which otherwise might rightfully be directed at them. JACKIE RECKSEIT Delray Beach...
...Furthermore, quoting from the Koran without context does readers a disservice. It is akin to quoting this verse from the Bible: "Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man" (I Corinthians 11: 9) and concluding that Christianity is a sexist religion seeking to oppress women. Is this fair? No. Islam should be accorded the same courtesy. HESHAM A. HASSABALLA Villa Park...
Instead of claiming (as most feminists do) that “the patriarchy” or the IMF or whatever oppressed women, Rubins is claiming that feminists oppress women. But her fundamental question—Who is oppressing women?—is a feminist one, and her analysis is as well. I think she should at least acknowledge her debt, if nothing else...