So much for the idea that I’ve seen many Western feminists promulgate that Islam and Islamic countries with their restrictions on women’s behaviors “protects” women from rape. This is used as some sort of absurd kumbaya bullshit excuse for oppression in another ridiculous version of white liberal guilt, but it’s just not true.
Note that just as rape is underreported in most Western countries, it is also probably very severely underreported – by any measure used – in Islamic countries.
[…] So much for the idea that I’ve seen many Western feminists promulgate that Islam and Islamic count… […]
I call a “straw man challenge”. Provide the link to the “Western feminist” claiming that restrictions on women’s behavior in Islamic countries protects those women from rape. I have not heard any credible feminist say this.
While it’s usually not explicitly stated, here is one that exemplifies the conventional wisdom.
Here is an article that goes down the same path.
As I said, it’s not usually stated as bluntly as I did. But if you read the articles, it is pretty clear.
Lines like this or what I am talking about: “But when I asked a Muslim woman ‘Why do you wear that?’, her answer was obvious and appealing: ‘To please God. To be recognized as a woman who is to be respected and not harassed. So that I can protect myself from the male gaze.'”
I’d say it’s less a case of feminists actively supporting behavior in Islamic countries as being unable or unwilling to criticize such practices effectively when they’re brought into the west.