Comments on: Intersecting Identities and Feminist Identification

By: Carole Hanisch: The Personal is Political « Nerves Strengthened with Tea

Carole Hanisch: The Personal is Political « Nerves Strengthened with Tea — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:59:23 +0000

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By: MyFriendMsPoet

MyFriendMsPoet — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:09:55 +0000

I believe in the idea of the movement. I think feminism is not really about women being superior of men rather the movement is on gender sensitivity. So, going back to the question if I am a feminist?>>My answer would be yes.

By: The Personal is Political « Mind the Gap

The Personal is Political « Mind the Gap — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:48:56 +0000

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By: bambi

bambi — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:43:29 +0000

Wow, the denial! It’s one thing to think Christianity is prone to fanaticism as all forms of monotheism is but to think that Islam is just another benign monoheism is refusing to see reality. Just fresh from the oven:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/theblasphemousteddybear;_ylt=AqqV8rImyBTZPMdaTzSiNQPq188F

This is but one of the thousands such incidents reported day in day out in the news. Muslims might be benign but Islam never was! Never is. And never will be.

By: siti aminah

siti aminah — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:11:27 +0000

And this is what we are up againts in our country. The so called average Muslims who are opposed to freedom of thought and religion are aplenty in our society.

http://www.menj.org/religion-philosophy/no-more-joy-for-murtads/

By: siti aminah

siti aminah — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:04:14 +0000

And you think our lives as apostates here are easy! We are not even allowed to convert out. That’s not legally possible.

http://religion.info/english/articles/article_110.shtml

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/008191.php

By: siti aminah

siti aminah — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:02:27 +0000

This one might makes you understand better what we are facing in Malaysia and all countries that proclaim Islam as the state religion:

http://www.faithfreedom.org/Testimonials/Ex-Malaysian_Moslem.htm

By: siti aminah

siti aminah — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:22:58 +0000

This is what Vanessa said:

And this is my point. Only fundamentalists practice something to the letter. It is (empirically, as there are practitioners of Islam that are not fundamentalists) not essential to be a fundamentalist to be a Muslim.

So. If most Muslims practice Islam in a non-authoritarian manner, then why is authoritarianism inherent in the practice of Islam, again?

Actually, don’t bother to answer. I have better things to do than waste my time on the internet with crazy-talkers. It just saddens me that neo-con (because, yes, that’s just who you sound like) positions such as this have informed US foreign policy to such a degree.

to littleflower’s assertion:

Most Muslims don’t follow the religion to the letter, they are pragmatic. There are degrees of commitment and religiosity among them, just as in any religion.

Then La Lubu censured littleflower’s response to Vanessa who call those who don’t agree with her CRAZY TALKERS/NEO-CONS (believe me I’m FAR from a conservative, that’s why I speak out) and the next thing we know she calls her a bigot. From the discourse above, it’s obvious littleflower KNOWS for a fact that NOT ALL Muslims are fundamentalists to be fought against! I am sick and tired of apologists twisting our words and selectively edit/read our arguments to make us look bad. No, that actually makes me angry. It’s expected when I discuss this with Muslims as it always happens, but with you here who are supposedly informed liberals? And feminists at that? I think you have a lot to answer for to our women whose sufferings you are so readily trivialised.

By: littleflower

littleflower — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:46:56 +0000

Ah Siti, she won’t let me have my last words either as she said! I told her she should talk to Feminists who left Islam like Homa Darabi, parvin Darabi, Taslima Nasrin, Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and tell them in their face how bigoted they are for fighting against the bigoted mullahs/society that oppressed them. What a joke. I said she and the fascists share the same values of silencing dissenting opinions. I told her that Islam is a bad idea for exactly that reason because there is no room for dissenting opinions. I told her that Europe began to wake up after the PC camp has been telling Islam critics bigots and racists for a long time and cost them a lot of societal problems.

By: siti aminah

siti aminah — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:33:40 +0000

Oh La Lubu, why did you delete my comment? Afraid that because it rings so true, huh? That having come from an oppressive society I won’t let you try to silence us by calling us bigots for exposing the bigots in our religion? That I don’t take for granted freedom of speech/thought the way you do because it’s freely given to you at birth?