civilisationReview

My response to the issue of women's rights in the middle east and elsewhere...in dialogue form. Nizam: I think its all about men dominating women in our society & justifying it. They want to tell us that Western women or any other are cheap & easy because they wear less. Ed: Well, i'm definitely against treating women as 2nd class. What women should do there is demand equal rights. But by making their protests, demeanour, and expressions similar to western women, they are just playing into the hands of those who want to demonise feminism as a whole by terming it a westernised enterprise. As for western women being portrayed as 'cheap and easy', that's not far from the truth, comparatively speaking. Wearing less is a sign of focus on sexuality as opposed to anything else. The west is pretty much primitive in this and other respects. We will fail to see this if we cast aside our own standards and just view the western standard as the standard for all things....

Well, what is said in the above statement is not untrue. But what is not said is that the Tsunami from the seas that flood the shores of the w.Europeans is caused by a boulder tossed by them.  In a sense, this agitation by these so-called 'terrorists' is actually a call for 'accountability', or a result of the absence of it.  Basically, if a government wants to involve itself in the socio-political-cultural climate of a region, determine the composition of its local authority, impose sanctions and life-threatening embargoes, the populace needs to be represented in the associated parliament that government hails from, and the borders of that nation-state must also be opened to those fleeing the evils of that state or the viciousness of the sanctions of the meddling state.  The peoples of the meddling state cannot be relied upon to exert humanitarian and effective pressures on their governments because they are more forgiving of their governments when they do greater evil...