What the Islamic ascendancy means for women and all of us

A reader wrote to me in August 2005:

Dear Lawrence, I LOVE your analytic, to-the-heart-of-the-matter writing. I check your website almost every day (to maintain my sanity), knowing that there is a powerful voice out there speaking the truth in the wilderness of the PC mediocrity choking this country. I’m sending this piece to lots of people I know who don’t read your website. This piece should make the self-destructiveness of our open border chaos clear even to IQs of 110—that is, the ones running State Dept, Congress, the Intel Agencies, etc.

As a woman, I think about the polygamy that is “Allah’s word” for perpetuity and shudder at the fact that the Muslims are already here and coming in greater numbers, shattering centuries of Christian males’ respect and protection for women by institutions, such as monogamy and equal treatment under law. It’s bad enough our government ignored the home-grown Mormon polygamists in Utah for the past 100 years. It may sound as though I’m being too “female-centric,” but women are the “canaries in the mines” of culture—the litmus test of dignity. If women are mistreated in a culture, I’ll bet that the whole culture is unbreathable, even to males in that culture.

Thanks to the reader for this forceful and compelling statement about the danger and the significance of the Islamic treatment of women.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 21, 2006 07:10 PM | Send