This is a great interview that points to why feminists are silent about the treatment of women under sharia law. It’s Jamie Glazov with Daphne Patai, a professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

She is the author and editor of twelve books, among them her 1994 critique of women’s studies programs, written with Noretta Koertge, which was reissued in a new and expanded edition in 2003 as Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women’s Studies. Patai is on the Board of Directors of FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) and has long been a vocal critic of campus speech codes and harassment policies, as well as of the increasing politicization of academic life in recent decades. Her latest book, entitled What Price Utopia? Essays on Ideological Policing, Feminism, and Academic Affairs, will be published in March 2008.

Quite a resume.

When Gibbons was jailed and they were calling for her execution in the streets - American feminists were completely absent from the discussion. On the Said girls’ honor killing, not a pep. Aqsa Parvez, crickets chirping. And so it goes. As Daphne says here:

You can be as brave and outspoken as these women are, your life can be threatened by religious zealots, and yet feminists in the West will be hesitant to defend you, because you’re criticizing a group they’ve decided is off limits!

Yes, their heroes are sacrosanct, and they include murderers like Tookie Williams, and cop killers like Mumia.