One of the strongest disagreements I have with the liberal left is that if you criticize Islam, you are either racist (even though Islam is not a race!) or some other very bad type of person. Who fucking cares. How Islamists treat women is fucking inexcusable. Fuck Islam. Fuck cultural relativism. And fuck all ya’ll who think any differently. I don’t care.

First we stop pretending. Call out the hate for what it is. Resist cultural relativism and know that even in countries undergoing revolutions and uprisings, women will remain the cheapest bargaining chips. You — the outside world — will be told that it’s our "culture" and "religion" to do X, Y, or Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

No, no, misogyny isn’t specific to Islam. Of course not. But I’ve lived in an Islamic country. I’ve seen it for myself. And trust me, other than if you are in some cult here, the worst of what Christians do to women is usually better than the best treatment a woman gets in an Islamic country.

I don’t care about nuance, Yes, I know about the history of colonialism in Arab countries and how this reinforced and promoted misogyny, the “patriarchal bargain.” Yes, I know about Wahhabism and its history.

And you can take your nuance and shove it right up your ass.

The fact is millions and millions of women are treated every day like animals. No, there’s not much we can do about it. No. But pretending that this culture is equally valid or that we should respect it in any way is absolute insanity.

I won’t have any part of it, ever.