Anthony Daniel’s essay – “London Falling: Signs of Weakness in Britain’s War on Terror” – in the new issue of National Review is a fantastic analysis of a society afraid to confront a foe. Here is his take on UK feminists going gutless when it comes to Muslim men’s treatment of their daughters:

The extremist would know perfectly well that many Muslim fathers repeatedly flout the law of the land by refusing to send their daughters to school, but also that they flout it with impunity, because the educational authorities are unwilling or afraid to confront them on the issue. And they would likewise know that the fiercest Amazons of the feminist movement, who work themselves into a fury over invisible glass ceilings and the use of male impersonal pronouns, maintain the most timid of silences when it comes to the matter of forced marriages of Muslim girls contracted under threat of death, a phenomenon that is known to exist throughout Europe among people of Pakistani, Somalian, and Moroccan descent.
The less charitable interpretation of this silence is that today’s feminists, being a species of the liberal genus, defend themselves against the unpleasantness of cognitive dissonance – caused by the holding of two contradictory facts or hypotheses in the mind at the same time – by simply ignoring the phenomenon that would cause such dissonance. If they acknowledged the seriousness of the oppression that many Muslim women experience in their own country, they would have to abandon either their feminism or their multiculturalism; and since both are important for their self-image as brave and fearless opponents of what they believe to be the status quo, they simply refuse to look.
The more charitable interpretation is that they were and are afraid; and fear, while certainly not glorious, is at least a normal and understandable motive. No one, after all, has the right to demand heroism of another person. And, as the murder of Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam demonstrated, at least some male Muslims are serious in their determination to preserve their sex’s privileges. The feminists intuited the dangers of tackling such people, and have kept mum.

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