It's a wonder she still knows how to breathe.

This is the same scumbag trick used by Nick Kristof in the NYT when he goes on one of his prostitution in the Third World jags. "Only the fundies care about sexual exploitation of women," Kristof simpers, "Where are the feminists?"

Lies, all lies.

it's amazing how often we see that if a reporter isn't spoonfed information by a "source," he or she is totally unable to track it down him or herself.

20 years ago, that made sense, in that the barriers to research were much higher. today, i'm more careful about fact issues when i post a comment on the internets than many well-paid journalists are when they are going to be immortalized in ink.

The faux indignation about honor killings is a D.C. staple. Because Saudi Arabia is a key nation in keeping America afloat in oil and debt, that it happens to be the veritable center and heart of the honor killing ethos just goes unremarked. So, the press will infinitely repeat any inane and stupid remark that the Iranian president makes, and will never pay any attention whatsoever to the standard everyday insanity that rules in Saudi Arabia - until a story like the recent one, in which a woman who was gang raped was sentenced to 900 lashes, comes out. The utter and complete hypocrisy of the D.C. press corps and the sycophantic moralists like Yoffe (writing for Slate, the White Supremicists magazine of choice!) is beyond disgusting.

Kind of sums up everything that's wrong with Slate. Kinsleyism (which was always overrated) degenerated into Saletanism. Even Kausism.

I've been working on "honor" killings for years. I've requested support from many human rights and women's NGOs over the years, but not one has stepped up. They give "honor" killings lip service but, substantively, I haven't been able to see what they are doing to address the problem.

And I am not on the far right. . .I'm just a person who believes in universal human rights and has put my own money where my beliefs are.

Ellen R. Sheeley, Author
"Reclaiming Honor in Jordan"

In Yoffe's defense, this may be a generational thing.

When the first wave of academic multiculturalist theory began to impact feminism in the 80s, feminists at that time retreated from positions that criticized the treatment of women in other cultures. The primary example of this is female genital mutilation. For a while, most of academic feminism was unwilling to criticize this practice, some went so far as to argue in its favor.

This ran counter to the preceding feminists, like Steinam, who had been arguing against FGM for years.

It's really only been since the mid-to-late nineties that academic feminism has partly/mostly reversed course and is again willing to criticize other cultures for their mistreatment of women, Islamic cultures included.

But for those of us who have been feminists for several decades, especially those of us who came of age in the Steinam era, the multicultaralist-dominant period which avoided or took a soft-line on women's rights in non-Western cultures looms large. It was a very frustrating period for me, for example, and if I weren't paying attention, I'd not know that the tide has turned.

Is Yoffe middle-aged like me? I don't know. And this is a weak defense in any case, as she has the responsibility to be fully informed if she's going to write on the topic. Even so, I sometimes wonder if younger people aren't aware that there was a time when much of leftism turned a blind-eye to Islam's treatment of women.

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Thank you very much