Scroggins joins the team of Ian Buruma, Nicholas Kristof and Timothy Garton-Ash in trashing Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the most courageous defender of women’s rights of our time. The men suggested Ali was too beautiful to be smart (they couldn’t call her a dumb blonde but they used the equivalent). They wrote their tirades against her with their Thesaurus open in front of them (as Scroggins seems to have done too) so as to find the most pejorative adjectives available to express their wrath and consternation that a black Somalian woman who suffered genital mutilation, death threats and Islamic abuse had the audacity to actually SPEAK OUT against those who oppressed and mutilated her.
The nerve of that woman!!!
What gives her the right to speak with authority on these issues? So ask middle brow Kristof and Buruma, and now Scroggins, the Lady High Executioner, for a refreshing change (aren’t women more credible nowadays when they attack other women? Ad feminem insults are now the latest fashion, SO much more credible than men’s…you can’t accuse them of sexism.
Attention must be paid if it is a woman speaking. If readers are reluctant to recognize the superior intellect, analysis and conclusions of white male elders, public intellectuals of reputation and long standing, now there is a feminine alternative one can trust for objectivity.
What ego, what hubris! says this woman. But if you think it is just male chauvinism at work, why then, you can be assured of the validity of their attacks by consulting a woman! Doesn’t that make you feel more comfortable?
Putting Aafia Siddiqui on the same footing as Ali is like putting Nelson Mandela on the same footing as Heinrich Himmler….the former a champion of freedom, the latter a champion of genocide. Scroggins will rake in the dollars as so many other cerebrally and morally challenged writers. But history will relegate her to the same dust pile as writers like Jacqueline Susann and Dan Brown. Her agent of course will rake in the dollars.
PS: Not content with slander, Scroggins then states baldly that those concerned with women’s rights are hypocrites
who only use the issue to bash Islam. This is another way of dismissing the validity of women’s oppression under Islam.
This is what feminism has come to: denying any and all threats to women in the Muslim world. In this twisted way of thinking, Muslim women deserve LESS protection that women in the rest of the world. I wonder how they would feel about this double standard.
