January 19th 2009
Hillary And The Women-Haters Of Islam
H
illary Clinton spoke yesterday at a luncheon hosted by Emily’s List, the powerful political action group dedicated to getting pro-abortion women elected to public office. Here’s a typical gushing feminist write-up of the event:
Yet thanks to to Ellen Malcolm (perhaps the political world’s most cheerful ball-buster), a roster of 2008′s biggest lady winners and a rousing speech by Hillary Clinton herself, the luncheon turned out to be a feel-good celebration. And even without much mention of the failed presidential march of the still-senator from New York, the event was yet another in a string of recent moments in which we got to see the new Hillary Rodham Clinton: Toughened, burnished and somehow fortified by her loss, she is taking on the role not only of secretary of state, but of a reanimated, reborn, rollicking feminist superhero.
Oh. Kay. The piece didn’t actually quote that much of Hillary’s speech, but what it did quote was very interesting, coming out of the mouth of Obama’s incoming secretary (can we say “secretary?”) of state:
When women are vulnerable to economic, political and social marginalization, the potential for advancing democracy, prosperity and security is also vulnerable. … I believe it is essential in renewing America’s leadership around the world, that we renew America’s leadership on behalf of women and girls.”
I couldn’t agree more. The horrible repression, the clitorectomies, the sex trade, the forced illiteracy. the “honor” killings … there is no room in our world any more for this sort of cruelty to half the human population – the sensitive, beautiful and richly, subtly powerful half.
Unfortunately, when Clinton starts trying to enforce this thinking on the world, she will come up against the Saudis, the Taliban, the Somalis and various other misogynistic Islamic factions who are quite content to use everything from Imam’s harangues to acid in the face to keep their women back. And when that happens, Clinton will be feeding the jihad machine.
I’ll go along with her. Promoting freedom for Islam’s women may make the jihadists all the more crazy, but slamming 7th Century Islam with 21st century rights for females will win us friends with about half the population of Islam. It’s not a bad strategy, but I’m not sure if Clinton sees it as a strategy against jihad and not just the right feminist thing to do. Without the right vision going in, the right results can’t be expected to come out.
There’s one other side to this that has to be said. As long as societies repress their women, we will be far superior to them economically and militarily. American business has the benefit of women’s brains and power, and our military has been able to assimilate females without becoming feminized in the least.
Were Islam to decide it was time to dump the Koran and fully assimilate women (I know, I know), Muslim countries around the world would begin to have improved economies, and maybe even better governments. That would make them more formidable foes, but the societies would be so tranformed in the process, they might not want to fight as much.
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