.... For at the root of the weird twists in liberal opinion I have been arguing against lies physical fear: the fear of provoking accusation of racial or religious prejudice; the fear of provoking trouble; the fear of provoking violent retribution. Generally, people do not own up to cowardice. They prefer to dress up it up in fine clothes and call it "respect for difference" or "a celebration of diversity".
.... They smugly declare that ‘we haven't got the right to impose our values on another culture' and think themselves liberal when they do it." I accept that this may seem an odd thing to wish for, but what the world needs now is an uncompromisingly militant feminist movement. [Standpoint] Read more
A Veil of Silence Over Murder .... The immediate spur to Pamela Bone's article had been the piercing silence from Western feminists on the subject of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's condemnation of how women were being treated in Islamic culture. In asking her question, Pamela Bone already knew why the Western feminists were saying so little.
They were saying little not just about Islam, but about Hinduism or any other culture which, when the behaviour of its more extreme groups towards women attracts criticism, bridles as if it is being attacked as a whole. [Standpoint] Read more
