As democracy leads to sharia, women’s equality leads to suppression of women

At his wife’s pushy insistence, President Bush made women’s equality a top priority in the democratization of Iraq. I hope Mrs. Bush is really, really happy about the fact that in the sharia-dominated Iraq created under her husband’s democratization policy, women will be far less free than they were under the secular despotism of Saddam Hussein. Now that this disaster has occurred, will Mrs. Bush will be able to grasp, even remotely, the reason it has occurred? Which is, if you want women to have equal rights in a Muslim country, you must suppress Islam, not democratize it.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 16, 2005 10:04 AM | Send