The Enemy at Home
A woman speaks and makes it quite plain that "The Enemy at Home" - is women - if you are some kind of fundamentalist that is ...
What threatens patriarchal Muslim communities are not the excesses of Western societies but its very norms. Individualism and the relatively equal position of women manifest themselves in the opportunities females have to pursue education and economic independence.Indeed - which is why fundamentalists all over the world repress their women - and I am not just talking about Islam here ...
There is no way that Muslim women, in great numbers, can be granted similar opportunities without it eventually shaking their societies at their very foundations. Whatever else the Taliban is obtuse about, they understand perfectly the concept of the slippery slope — allow a girl child to be educated at all, and you never know where she will end up — perhaps like me, with only tangential ties to some of the core values of the conservative Islamic community I was raised in.
The problem with fundamentalists everywhere - is that they are fundamentalists. They can only look at reality through their fundamentalist tunnel vision - everything else is obscured and fuzzy around the edges ...
They believe that their "book" (whatever it may be) is the fundamental unchanging word of G-d - never to be questioned and never to be changed - no matter how much pain and suffering their interpretation causes ...
All I can say is that it is a good job that Fanny Cradock never wrote a book - because then women really would be "The Enemy at Home" ...
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