Three feminists are arrested for pasting naked images of Mohammed on city centre walls in Toulouse

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[–]BEB 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Thank you! I was just wondering because I've seen at least three non-French GC feminist twitter accounts bring up free speech, the beheading in France and /or drawings of Mohammed and I couldn't figure out the connection.

[–]tea4two 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You act baffled and yet you have the answer in your post: free speech.

Look at all the feminists silenced online, don't you think they need free speech too? We need to speak up for everyone's right to speak freely, for everyone's right to parody anything they want, for everyone's right to offend anyone they want. You can't only defend free speech when it comes to your pet cause, every erosion to free speech -on any topic- ultimately hurts us all.

And, yes, there is also a total overlap between people who will kill because of an image of Mohammed, and people who want to strip women of their rights.

[–]BEB 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I don't even know where to start to answer you, but here goes:

One of my points would be that there are different strains of Islam, as there are of Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.

In some, or in some Muslim-minority countries - women are doctors, lawyers, politicians, etc. It is quite unfair to judge all Muslims based on the religion's extremes.

Second point: many religions oppress women. The Buddhists of Tibet ostracize widows. The Hindus forced widows to burn on the funeral pyres of their husbands. In some Jewish sects women also have to cover their hair, their arms and wear long skirts. In Buddhist Thailand, girls are sold into sexual slavery.

Where are the feminist protests? Why are we focused on Islam, when other religions do similarly horrible things to women?

So all these GC feminists are outraged that an innocent man was beheaded because of a drawing of the Islamic prophet Mohammed. So am I.

But the US and its war allies, which often include the UK and France, have been on a daily Muslim killing spree since... I am having a hard time remembering when it started, but let's start with Iraq War I - so for almost 30 years, on and off, the US has been killing Muslims and, at the very least a million Muslims, have died with tens of millions more maimed and displaced ...where is the outrage?

Why are so many GC feminists LIVID about one murder, when around the world religions are killing and sexually exploiting women, and our very own countries are murdering Muslim women with aplomb, using our tax dollars?

And if you want to talk free speech in France, and specifically at Charlie Hebdo - it is quite the hypocritical media outlet:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan/charlie-hebdo-free-speech_b_6462584.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANxcQc6PlyFuIKW2h8HoCevp3iwnndof_59Tbu24kf7o4I82IRZ76pCx5cmDCRGdmwvxCh82O3cBrh_zCpnto2m33p9Avic-hL53DFj46ObvwKCsXB_WCGi13Bhog75_u0WjtydsmcHZFBHuYmvPFg7BHfJIIyVYNnW_JbP1twYx

And if you want to talk free speech in the US, well, we are supposed to have a First Amendment right to free speech, but...:

https://theintercept.com/2019/01/05/u-s-senates-first-bill-in-midst-of-shutdown-is-a-bipartisan-defense-of-the-israeli-government-from-boycotts/

I actually know a lot about this topic. It was part of my job for years. It bothers me that, for whatever reason, GC feminists seem to be getting sucked into the Neo-Conservative, endless "War on Terror AKA War on Islamic Countries" vortex, which will have no good outcomes for any good person, but will be absolutely devastating for tens of millions of women.