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[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Eh. A bit ironic to write an article saying Affleck shut down a conversation when it's Affleck's blow up that creates the opportunity for the publication of the article, no?

I'm a bit sick of conversations saying we should have the conversation rather than actually having it. I've got a friend who is an Islamic feminist scholar. Yes, she gets fundy death threats. She may be among their most feared enemy in many ways, much like they hated Mahfouz and those like him who wrote engagingly about the interactions among faiths. She also gets shat on pretty regularly and virulently by Western feminists, though, whose reaction to the idea of Islamic feminism tends to run somewhere between dismissal and Maheresque derision. The Maher's of the world aren't very useful to the discussion because they've already made their mind up.

If you're interested in following more regular conversations about women in the Muslim world, on twitter I maintain a list called "WoMENA" that follows women writers and journalists in MENA. The gang at FP Interrupted, a group of women journalists and foreign policy experts, also does a weekly summary of their articles and publications every Friday. The discussion in those places about things like rape and sexual assault during the Egyptian demonstrations tends to be a lot more substantive and less full of pithy little bits of prejudice.

Yeah, she doesn't say anything about Islam, only about Affleck.