By Shireen Qudosi
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
A Frankenstein’s monster of identity politics, the
Women’s March on Washington heaved through the streets of DC one day after the
inauguration in a fit of depraved hypocrisy.
That hypocrisy shadows activist and National Co-Chair of
the Women’s March Linda Sarsour. In the past Sarsour has railed against women
spotlighting misogyny in the Muslim world. She openly advocates for including
sharia law in the United States. Yet sharia law would dwarf her march’s half a
million turnout to 250,000, because under sharia a woman’s testimony is worth
half that of a man’s.
Sharia law would also punish the female protestors for
vulgarity in publicly displaying “pussy caps” and other brazen symbols of
womanhood. It would also allow men to beat their wives and daughters for
participating in the protest. Although she thinks a President Trump will turn
back the clock by 300 years, Sarsour forgets that Islam never left the Middle
Ages in its primeval view of women.
Venerated by leftists, Sarsour now rides the great beast
of modern feminism much like the “god-King” Xerxes in “300.” This weekend she
and other heads of the Soros-connected movement protested against a
democratically elected president. This is a Palestinian woman protesting about
the democratic process in the freest country in the world.
Sarsour is also handsomely funded by New York taxpayers
and supported by other elevated women in a nation that gives equal space to
women’s voices. These rights do not exist in Islamic theocracies, where we find
the real war against women—something
Sarsour seems to deny—and where the democratic process is a fantasy.
Yet Sarsour, much like many in the Women’s March,
continues to see a legitimate presidential election through the filter of the
third world. A day after the election, she tweeted: “We can disagree &
still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and
denial of humanity and right to exist.”
Meanwhile the Women’s March shamelessly oppressed
pro-life groups by banning them from participating in the march, stating the
march’s platform is expressly pro-choice and caters to only “a specific type of
diversity.” The “basic equality for all people” Sarsour speaks of stops at the
threshold of conservative values. It doesn’t apply to women who believe in the
indiscriminate right to dignity of all people.
Feminism Literally
Isn’t for Everyone
It is pro-life women who champion the greatest
humanitarian issue: the right for all human life to exist. The Women’s March
rages against building a wall along the border and expunging Muslims through an
imaginary registry. Yet these women do not recognize the dignity of human life
behind the wall of a uterus and radically defend their right to expunge that
life when it’s convenient for them.
The Women’s March mission statement advocates standing in
solidarity to protect families, but it’s the right to life that is the first
step in safeguarding the family. Protecting our children doesn’t begin when
they’re on the street; it begins when they’re in the womb.
The right to life is also sacred in Islam, which has very
strict conditions for abortion. Yet Sarsour, who has carved a platform out of
her Muslim identity, has debased that identity by openly defending the
pro-choice movement, saying, “If you want to come to the march you are coming
with the understanding that you respect a woman’s right to choose.” So which is
it: is she pro-choice and not Muslim, or is she pro-life and no longer a
leftist activist?
In a Vice HBO segment, Sarsour talked about the march’s
target demographic: “I’m not focusing on the people who threw my community
under the bus, and threw undocumented people under the bus, and threw women
under the bus, and threw our planet under the bus. Those are not the people I’m
trying to convince.” The problem is that it’s feminism that’s actually getting thrown under the bus by activists
like Sarsour and movements like the Women’s March.
Modern Feminism Is
an Abomination
Feminism isn’t the arrogant and militant assertion of
dominance that the modern women’s movement has become. For men, the movement
made little sense. There was no central message and no actual policy it
objected to. For feminists like myself, who have witnessed and lived through
oppressive tribal culture and theological interpretations, the movement was
nothing more than a large-scale hands-on-the-hip moment in demonstrations that
embraced the vulgarity that seems to offend them.
Many non-participating feminists feel frustrated with the
rising number “feminazis” in a culture of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and
absurd multiculturalism. Real feminism honors women as creative and nourishing
force, including respecting women who choose to fully embrace womanhood through
motherhood. It recognizes the feminine as part of a greater duality that makes
equal space for the masculine, and in that it honors men.
The sacred feminine—the earliest and most authentic
feminism that is ancient and deeply spiritual—also knows how to channel anger
for transformation, something modern feminists are completely out of touch
with. In its rawest form, feminism is a defiant, unapologetic self-possession
of our womanhood. Being self-possessed women also means we move out of the
crippling checkboxes of identity politics, which is the disability that
deserves being mocked.
The Women’s March had a high number of disabled
participants, but a disability can also be characterized by how you think. An
entire group of women, particularly women of color, have adopted the disability
of self-victimization, even going so far as to ask “white-women” participating
in the march to observe and make space for women of color. In other words, move
to the back of the bus. The longer this march had room to grow and organize,
the more divisive and overbearing it became.
As a result, modern feminism as represented in the
Women’s March on Washington surges with hatred and subjugation of anything or
anyone that deviates from its groupthink. Modern feminism has become a cult
that punishes women, that dehumanizes and parcels the gift of creative power
under clinical terms like “reproductive health.” It’s a pseudo-religion that
raises pitchforks against the faintest hints of sexism while ignoring real
human issues like Yazidi sex slaves, Saudi Arabia’s guardianship system, and
the epidemic of migrant rapes in Europe.
From the same cloth of a modern women’s movement, you
have women who champion themselves as advocates of women’s rights but are
comfortable with calls for rape of female public figures including the first
lady, who has been subjected to slut-shaming by leftists who believe that
anyone who doesn’t subscribe to their political ideology is fair game.
Yet what’s “whorish” isn’t how you express the gift of
innate feminine sexuality. A whore is someone who cannot protect the sanctity of
her mind. She’s someone who takes on any idea because it’s fashionable or gives
the illusion of power — like a baseless Women’s March.
The spotlight continues to shine brightest on the people
who craft a calculated career out of activism. In a liberal landscape, it’s
fashionable to be a leftist activist winning the title of “Champion of Change”
under Obama’s White House, while as an Islamist Sarsour empowers herself
through openly peddling the same dehumanizing hate against Jews she accuses
Trump of against herself. This is not feminism. This is opportunism and the
stealthy hand of Islamism through proxy alliances like a Women’s March.
The Future of
Feminism Is More Controversy
The truth is, society failed feminism long before
President Trump arrived on the scene. The problem isn’t Trump’s words, and the
solution isn’t to tar and feather the man who has broken a seal into one of the
most agonizing conversations women still need to have. The solution starts with
understanding that we don’t tackle something the first time around.
The Civil War didn’t end slavery. The suffragette
movement didn’t secure women’s rights. These movements come in waves, and
require the intelligence to act as futurists—to be forward-thinking, push
beyond the platforms of previous eras, and say no to the mental “comfort food”
of identity politics.
That is what makes America great. America isn’t
exceptional because of one pinnacle moment in history; it’s exceptional because
it harnesses a powerful formula of ideas and innovation that keeps shaping the
problem until we get it right. What makes America great is our ability to push
forward when faced with the toughest conversations; but to have those
conversations we need the right dose of chaos.
That’s where President Trump comes in. He inspires
controversy. As a Muslim reformer, I value controversy as a purging fire that
forces a civilization to evolve. President Trump has opened up a Pandora’s Box
on deep cultural rifts undermining America’s place in the future. From
immigration, to racial grievances, to American values, to radical Islam as a
philosophical problem, to media as the fourth political branch, to dense
political corruption, and now, finally, to feminism, through controversy Trump
has unearthed seven seals that have kept America from reaching its full power
and potential on a global stage. It doesn’t matter if this has been
intentional. What matters is that it’s happening.
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