{"id":1675555,"date":"2022-10-06T09:23:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T13:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1675555"},"modified":"2022-10-06T09:23:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T13:23:53","slug":"the-squad-has-little-to-say-as-women-in-iraq-are-shot-down-while-fighting-for-their-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-squad-has-little-to-say-as-women-in-iraq-are-shot-down-while-fighting-for-their-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"The Squad Has Little to Say As Women in Iraq Are Shot Down While Fighting for Their Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-squad-has-little-to-say-as-women-in-iraq-are-shot-down-while-fighting-for-their-rights%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1675555&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>What\u2019s happening in Iran is the biggest women\u2019s rights protest ever in the Islamic world. Yet the response from some of the leading feminists in the United States, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib, has been strikingly muted. Each one has made what can be characterized at best as a tepid, <em>pro forma<\/em> response, one that contrasts sharply with their statements and actions during the Trump administration. It looks as if each one of these women regards Donald Trump as a far greater threat to women than the Islamic Republic of Iran is.<\/p>\n<p>AOC <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1573321144320622592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> on September 23: \u201cSolidarity with the courageous women and allies in Iran protesting for their freedom. Mahsa Amini was senselessly murdered by the same patriarchal and autocratic forces repressing women the world over. The right to choose belongs to us all, from hijabs to reproductive care.\u201d She also retweeted a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yassmin_a\/status\/1572481721643433984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a> from Yassmin Abdel-Magid, a hijab-wearing Muslim writer in Australia: \u201cTo be (hijabi) or not be (hijabi) is the business of no state or man. Solidarity with women resisting patriarchal control, the world over.\u201d Tlaib, meanwhile, retweeted AOC\u2019s statement, and Omar retweeted Abdel-Magid\u2019s. That\u2019s it in terms of the public reactions of this trio to the uprising for women\u2019s rights in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Neither AOC nor Abdel-Magid was going to come close to saying something about Islamic law, although that\u2019s exactly what the protests in Iran are all about: women there don\u2019t want to live under Islamic law anymore. But both are far too committed to the fictional concept of \u201cIslamophobia,\u201d and so they both made it all about patriarchy. That\u2019s a much safer target for them, as patriarchy exists all over, not just in Iran, and not just among Muslims. So the very publicly practicing Muslims Omar and Tlaib could retweet their statements without fearing that they would be accused of criticizing Islam.<\/p>\n<p>AOC also went farther, equating the mullahs of Tehran with the pro-lifers in the United States. They\u2019re \u201cthe same patriarchal and autocratic forces repressing women the world over,\u201d daring to interfere with \u201cthe right to choose\u201d in the fields of both \u201chijabs\u201d and \u201creproductive care.\u201d It\u2019s a spectacular feat of illogic to equate a regime that is mowing down its own people in the streets with a Supreme Court decision that allows the individual states to determine whether to legalize or outlaw abortion, but that sort of incendiary rhetoric is how AOC keeps her rabid Left base ginned up with the requisite outrage that will drive these drug-addled slackers to the polls and to take other \u201csocial action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet AOC\u2019s comparison, as you would expect, falls apart upon a moment\u2019s thought. Pro-lifers, or at least the Supreme Court Justices who voted to overturn <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, are just like the Supreme Leader and his cohorts in the Islamic Republic. They\u2019re both \u201cpatriarchal and autocratic forces,\u201d you see. But from what ideological wellsprings does Iran\u2019s patriarchal autocracy spring? AOC doesn\u2019t dare get close to that question, for it is one of her most cherished dogmas that Islam is a religion of peace that has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism and Muslims are victims of \u201cIslamophobia\u201d who must accordingly be given special consideration and accommodation. And allowing restrictions on access to abortion in some localities is, as far as AOC is concerned, equivalent to shooting women to death for daring to uncover their heads? The mind reels.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who in October 2020 took umbrage at then-President Trump referring to her as AOC in one of his debates with Old Joe Biden. \u201cI wonder,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-trump-disrespect-women-aoc-debate-1541592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> at the time, \u201cif Republicans understand how much they advertise their disrespect of women in debates when they consistently call women members of Congress by nicknames or first names while using titles &#038; last names when referring to men of = stature. Women notice. It conveys a lot. AOC is a name given to me by [the] community &#038; the people. Y\u2019all can call me AOC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So the \u201ccommunity &#038; the people,\u201d i.e., Leftists, can call her AOC, but if Republicans do so, they \u201cadvertise their disrespect of women.\u201d AOC didn\u2019t even say that the mullahs were displaying any \u201cdisrespect of women.\u201d You may recall Tlaib, meanwhile, back in 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/video-rashida-tlaib-being-dragged-out-of-2016-trump-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">screaming and yelling<\/a> at a Trump rally, until she had to be escorted out. Has she ever gotten so enraged and emotional at the mullahs? Not publicly and likely not privately, either. For her part, Ilhan Omar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ocICiYz2Z8A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> that Trump\u2019s criticism of her was an attack on all women. Has she said that the murder of Mahsa Amini was an attack on all women? No.<\/p>\n<p>Do Omar, Tlaib, and AOC just want the Iran protests to go away because Iran\u2019s repressive and bloodthirsty regime interferes with their \u201cIslamophobia\u201d narrative? Sure looks like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s happening in Iran is the biggest women\u2019s rights protest ever in the Islamic world. 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