OK?I’ll admit it: I was a ’60′s feminist. These days, the term for the belief system we gals espoused so passionately in those days is “Equity Feminism”, minted by Christina Hoff Sommers in her book Who Stole Feminism. That is, we fought ? sometimes quite fiercely I might add – for civil and legal equality, and particularly for laws to advance our rights to earn as much as a man for doing the exact same job. That sounds reasonable to all of us today, I know, but these laudable goals bear no resemblance to what we see espoused in the feminist movement today which most of us see as unreasonable. In fact, outright flaky.

It’s dismaying to me that this movement went so disastrously off course, now that we need “equity feminist” thinking more than ever. One may wonder why supporting feminism’s original thinking matters at this time, with women earning at parity levels and achieving all sorts of amazing feats both inside and outside the home, beginning in their earliest school years too, and continuiing through college. But in light of the opposite to that – gender apartheid that we see in so many Muslim nations and which is growing at alarming rates throughout the world – it might be time for those of us who care about our vote, our wages, our economy, our families’ safety and so forth to stand up and be counted in this war against radical Islam. Individual freedoms and rights for American women and their families are threatened now as they haven’t been in decades.

The threat comes from the specter of the global domination goals of theocratic totalitarianism, as represented by radical Islamist terrorists and the rise of terrorist-sponsoring nation states such as Iran, Syria and Palestine.  While it may seem far away to some, the threat may be closer than we realize.

In terms of outright catastrophic attacks that could cripple America’s economy, and thus the comfortable and pleasant lives of most American families, the Lugar Survey on Proliferation Threats and Responses estimates the threat of a “combined risk of a weapons of mass destruction (“WMD”) attack over the next five years is as high as 50%. Over ten years, this risk expands to as much as 70%.” The report was completed in 2005. While this horror will certainly cripple our economy, it will also make it very difficult for women to enjoy their hard won civil and legal freedoms if they or members of their families are injured or killed in a WMD attack. 

America’s families are further threatened by infiltration. Muslim groups are now petitioning U.S. courts to allow the establishment of Muslim enclaves in the United States that will live under shar-ia law, the most hostile law in the world insofar as women’s rights are concerned. Prince Al-Walid bin Talal ? the infamous Saudi sheik to whom Mayor Giuliani returned a $10 million check due to the sheik’s offensive remarks about America’s role in 9/11 – has purchased a significant share of, among many other U.S. corporations, NewsCorp which owns Fox News; he has already publicly reported his influence over the newspaper headlines of NewsCorp’s global media empire. Mosques that preach anti-American hate and condone gender apartheid are growing in the United States at alarming rates, funded by the Wahhabists of Saudi Arabia in an amount estimated to be $70 billion. Also alarming is the rate at which Islamist recruits are being converted in U.S. prisons among an already-alienated minority population. Muslim schools are being built across heartland America, funded by groups under indictment for terrorist ties, and whose professors espouse the most fundamental of 7th century Islamist beliefs. Outspoken critics are tyrannized with death threats and lawsuits funded by billions of petrodollars. And much, much more.

All radical Islamists, and many Muslims who claim not to be radical, envision the United States one day to be a Muslim nation. These two groups differ only in their tactics: violence or infiltration. Their oft-stated goal is indeed global domination and they are determined to achieve it.

With this in mind, the subject of national security takes on a new meaning to the women of America and their families. If American women, who are the majority of the electorate (by 10 million voters in the last presidential election, up 43% from the 7 million advantage they enjoyed in ’00), do not unite to fight this war against radical Islam, their own individual rights could be trampled in a short period of time in a way that is unimaginable to most of us. The key to uniting in this common cause is knowledge of the threat. Knowledge is indeed power, and I suggest that every able-bodied American woman go forth to find that information?now.

 

The original article can be found at http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/

 

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