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Imagine

Dec 23rd, 2013 6:10 pm | By

And one other thing. The way Laurie Penny keeps talking about “Muslim feminists” while ignoring the existence of ex-Muslims and non-Muslims, as if no ex/non-Muslim could possibly have anything relevant to say about women’s rights and religion, or standing to say it – as if only Muslims are allowed to say anything critical of Islam, and as if all non-Muslim critics of Islam are simply racists in disguise -

- the way Laurie Penny keeps doing that -

Well imagine carrying on that way if the subject were the Vatican v women.

Imagine Laurie Penny denouncing all non-Catholic critics of the Catholic church as racists and imperialists, and then ruefully agreeing that she should have talked to some Catholic feminists. … Read the rest

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