Friday, June 19, 2015

Michelle Obama UK visit: “When I look at young British Muslim women, I see myself”

Pamela Geller / Atlas shrugs

“When I look out at all these young women, I see myself. In so many ways your story is my story.”
In saying this, Michelle Obama is implying that both she and the Muslim girls she is addressing face oppression, discrimination, and disadvantage. She is, in other words, advancing the false Muslims-as-victims narrative that Islamic advocacy groups such as Hamas-CAIR work so hard to cultivate in the U.S. She does not, of course, address the fact that the primary source of the oppression and discrimination that these Muslim girls face and will face in the future is their own families — primarily their fathers and husbands. Michelle Obama could have called upon these girls to reject the Sharia misogyny that devalues...


     

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