Brotherhood’s attack on women bodes ill
No more illusions. No further evasions. Tolerate not a single additional
apologetic explanation. Admit no further concessions to a false moral
and cultural relativism. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has now fully
exposed itself as what many of us have been trying to explain it is:
paranoid, chauvinistic, reactionary, retrograde, and, above all,
misogynistic.
The Brotherhood has reminded us, in a bizarre rant against
the UN Commission on the Status of Women, that Islamism in practice
invariably prioritizes misogyny (and homophobia). But this is merely the
vanguard of a much broader set of intended and inevitable repressions
against minorities, individuals and, eventually, all opposition.
Islamism doesn't have the intellectual depth of a systematic political
ideology. It has no specific economic theory or program beyond
mercantilism, with some (apparently malleable) suspicions about
interest. It doesn't have an analysis of class or other key social
structures. Its ‘theory’ of the relationship of the individual and
society simply empowers those claiming religious authority and
‘authenticity’. It has no distinctive defense strategy, foreign policy,
developmental program, or anything like that.
Instead, it boils down to a set of extremely reactionary social
attitudes that don't have any real implications for such key issues of
governance.
The
Muslim Brotherhood was formed in the 1920s in order to exploit and
manipulate religious sentiment to seize political power. They seek to
use that power to ‘Islamize’ Egypt and other Arab societies along
ultraconservative lines that purport to be ‘traditional’ but are often
in fact modern innovations or new interpretations of past practices....READ MORE
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