One would think that upon examining the structure of Islamic gender apartheid, with its "honor" killings, mandatory veiling, forced segregation, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, and rape as punishment, a feminist would experience nothing less than horror and revulsion. But leftist feminists in the West have remained silent about the fate of women behind the Islamic Curtain, and their shameless but unsurprising disposition has been well documented.
Leftist feminists' veneration of a death cult that hates and mutilates women demands a professional level of self-deception, and, as believers feminists have the Left's favorite model of denial-excuse justification readily available.
The first step in dealing with Islam's gender apartheid, therefore, is denial. For decades, leftist feminists have howled with moral indignation about the "inequality" of women in their own society, yet when it comes to Islam's barbaric treatment of women, which has no parallel in the West, their reaction is silence. Author Kay S. Hymowitz comments on this phenomenon:
The weird fact is that, even after the excesses of the Taliban did more to forge an American consensus about women’s rights than thirty years of speeches by Gloria Steinem, feminists refused to touch this subject. They have averted their eyes from the harsh, blatant oppression of millions of women, even while they have continued to stare into the Western patriarchal abyss, indignant over female executives who cannot join an exclusive golf club and college women who do not have their own lacrosse teams.
Leftist feminists need to engage in this denial in order to pay allegiance to the party line of anti-Americanism, as well as to hold onto their self-created victim identity. If they conceded that adversarial regimes brutalize women in ways unlike anything that occurs in the home society they hate, then they would have to reconsider whether they themselves are in fact the victims they have always claimed to be. They would also have to question whether the community they desperately need to belong to—the worldwide community of the victims of capitalism and American imperialism—even exists. These realities are far too painful and threatening for most feminists to consider.
(Jamie Glazov, United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror [Los Angeles: WND Books, 2009], 202-3 [endnotes omitted])
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 