Campus Watch in the Media

Sharia and Women — Two Very Different Perspectives [on Dalia Mogahed]

by Andrew McCarthy
National Review Online
October 26, 2009

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=N2JjODViMDY3MjIzMTQyNDM3ODFiNTYxNGUyZmI4MmI=

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/8583

One Obama advisor who has not gotten much attention to date is Dalia Mogahed, appointed earlier this year to serve on something called the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Mogahed, who claims Muslims in America have spent the last eight years "enduring religious racism," recently made a very disturbing joint appearance on British TV's "Islam Channel" with an official from Hizb un Tahrir — the Sunni fundamentalist group that wants to impose sharia law as the foundation for establishing a global caliphate. (See here and here.) The theme of the program was that sharia doesn't really oppress women — in fact, it's far better for them than Western notions of liberty. (Cinnamon Stillwell has details at the Middle East Forum, here.)

A very different perspective is offered by the Syrian-born American psychiatrist Wafa Sultan in a bracing new book called A God Who Hates, about the bleak life of women in Islamic societies. Andrew Bostom reviews the book at the American Thinker.

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