More on the Stella Creasy conundrum, aka the tension between wanting to appear to have some respect for the rights of women and girls and wanting to pretend that Islam is a benign friendly egalitarian religion and we all ought to embrace it as a friend.
“Why is this fine?” Jenni Russell asked.
Women have their own march and event. Yes: it’s called the back of the bus.
When X kind of people have “their own” public celebration that arrangement tends not to be a privilege but an exclusion. Muslim women have “their own” everything because they are ferociously excluded from public spaces and institutions thanks to the misogynistic suspicion and hatred that is so central to Mohammed’s religion.
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