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It’s a hard life being a feminist icon of the Left, what with the need to chart a safe course between the Scylla of demands for universal equality and the Charybdis of identity politics. The first, you’d imagine, should inspire ardent denunciations of a creed that has misogyny woven into its very fabric.
Ah, but that could get the likes of Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Susan Carland offside and might jeopardise invitations to writers festivals and the like!
So best to remain silent, which appears to be the sainted Anne Summers’ policy, given that any search of her hallowed works turns up very few references to the Islamic oppression of women — and when the topic does arise, well Ms Summers isn’t above a little demographic tickling. Consider her interview with genitally mutilated Somalia woman Nimco Ali, who parades about London dressed as a vagina, in which Summers asserts that Egypt is not a Muslim country. Yes, really.
Anne Summers: How do you account for the fact that the some of these certain countries in Africa … I mean, it’s not just Muslim countries, look at Egypt for example, where there’s a very high percent, 91% of all women in Egypt have been subjected to FGM and not all of those are Muslim.
Were Australia’s most celebrated feminist ever obliged to pick a side, Zeg imagines it would go something like what readers will find by following the link below….
