Comments on: Muslim Women Step Up

By: Boink Blogs

Boink Blogs — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:51:14 +0000

[...] Women Step Up Jeb Koogler put an intriguing blog post on Muslim Women Step UpHere’s a quick excerptInterestingly, [...]

By: Women Beauty Health Center » Muslim Women Step Up

Women Beauty Health Center » Muslim Women Step Up — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:41:40 +0000

[...] women topic by Jeb Koogler for Women Topic [...]

By: Pseudo-Polymath » Blog Archive » Friday Highlights

Pseudo-Polymath » Blog Archive » Friday Highlights — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:58:57 +0000

[...] The Moderate Voice urges us to stay in Iraq for the women. By staying, we keep human contact and like the crusades before, encourage our cultures to mix and if you think our culture has good things to share … then that is good too. [...]

By: domajot

domajot — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:44:35 +0000

It occurs to me that there are parallels in the rise of feminism amomg Islamists and its rise in the USSR, in its early revolutionary days.

Women are given access to more prominent roles when they are needed to promote a political or economic goal.
Rosie the Riveter was made possible by the needs of WWII.

Nowhere is the rise of feminism a straight course of progression, however. Men are always quick to push women back in the kitchen when they are no longer needed.

Interestingly, some conservative women are now turning on feminism and blaming it for all of society’s ills. Another curve in the road.

It’ll be interesting to see how women do in Islam in the future.

By: Rudi

Rudi — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:20:06 +0000

I’m not an Arab apologist, but our own history isn’t all that great. The US democracy is over 300 years old but women only started voting in 1919 and Jim Crow disenfranchised blacks untill the 60’s. Arab nation are only a creation since after WWI. To expect these countries to change over night while we took a couple of centuries is interesting.