McFreedom

This is one of the big issues I want to discuss on my blog. Katie Allison Granju complains that the Saudis don't treat their women much better than the Taliban did, and yet, they can visit the US without complaint. Can we imagine for even half a second that if, the women in Saudi Arabia were instead men given different treatment because of their race what the global outcry would be? Yet somehow it's OK because it's women. Why are there no activist groups trying to organize boycotts of all the Islamic regimes that are guilty of sexual apartheid? Why is opressing women because of their gender any different that opressing men because of their race?

I've tried to find a charity or organization that is speaking out intelligently on these issues. The best I've been able to come up with is groups like Women Living Under Muslim Laws. Which sounds interesting, until you hit their Calls For Action, in which they apparently give equal weight to Sudan sentancing a women to death by stoning for adultry and the US allegedly failing to crack down on bigamy in Utah. I've heard Utah called a lot of things in my time, but Muslim ain't one of them. Interestingly, when I found their site last October, there was a prominant call for action to protest the US bombing in Afghanistan (!!) because some of the bombs might, you know, accidently hit some women who were living under Muslim laws. They've since pulled it, since it became obvious to even idiots that the Taliban was a greater danger than the US.

What I'm looking for is a charitable organization that issued a press release thanking the US for doing more for women's rights in Afghanistan than any twenty UN blue ribbon commissions or thirty appeasing charities. But that doesn't seem to be forthcoming.