Given Western feminists’ abject failure to confront Sharia-based misogyny, and the Western Left’s increasingly open antisemitism, they’ll likely have no problem with this at all.
“Palestinian women honored for role in terror – on national Palestinian Women’s Day,” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, November 4, 2021:
Speaking on occasion of national Palestinian Women’s Day last week, PA Minister of Women’s Affairs Amal Hamad highlighted “female Martyrs” and a mass murderer as proof that there is gender equality in Palestinian society.
Going back to the Arab Riots of 1929, the female minister first highlighted the fact that “the women were partners in the battle of resolve and defiance, and nine female Martyrs died.” Then Minister Hamad singled out mass murderer Dalal Mughrabi who led the killing of 37 Israeli civilians, among them 12 children, in 1978. As a third example, the minister mentioned the fact that “there are also female prisoners in the occupation’s prisons.” These examples served the minister as proof of gender equality in Palestinian society and that men and women are “going hand in hand”:
PA Minister of Women’s Affairs Amal Hamad: “The first women’s committee was on Oct. 26, 1929, in the shadow of the Al-Buraq Rebellion. The mighty rebellion (i.e., Hebron Massacre, 1929) in which great Martyrs died… The mighty rebellion in which the women were partners in the battle of resolve and defiance, and nine female Martyrs died… We don’t think that there is a difference [between the genders] in Palestinian society. Especially in the battle of the national struggle we emphasize going hand in hand. The proof of this is what I said… There were nine female Martyrs. We speak about Dalal Mughrabi and the Martyrs of the [Fatah] Central Committee. There is a long list and there are also female prisoners in the occupation’s prisons. Therefore, we are going hand in hand [with the men].”
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, Oct. 26, 2021]
Hamad also stressed Palestinian women’s “participation in defending the land with all forms and means” – a term used by PA leaders to include using all types of violence, including deadly terror against Israeli civilians such as stabbings and shootings, as well as throwing rocks and Molotov Cocktails.:
Minister Hamad: “The celebrations of this national day will take place this year on the land of the village of Beita, and to be precise Jabal Sbeih (i.e., mountain in the West Bank where the Jewish outpost of Evyatar is located), in order to emphasize the popular resistance and the women’s participation in defending the land with all forms and means…”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 26, 2021]
The minister’s focus on terrorists and women’s equality in”the national struggle” is not surprising. Palestinian Media Watch has documented that terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi by the PA has been turned into one of the most revered role models for women.
Similar to the minister’s emphasis, other prominent women of the PA focused on Palestinian women’s equal status within the context of “the struggle.” Among the roles Palestinian women have taken upon themselves and excelled in, PA Governor Laila Ghannam chose to stress their activities as terrorists attacking Israel: “self-sacrificing fighters, fighters, expelled, wounded, prisoners, and Martyrs”:
Ghannam: “The Palestinian women… have always been the spearhead alongside the men in defending our national rights: liberation and the right to self-determination. Therefore, the women have engraved the significance of this day with blood in defense of the Palestinian right… They have been self-sacrificing fighters, fighters, expelled, wounded, prisoners, and Martyrs.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 26, 2021]
It is intriguing – and worrisome – that both women above, who themselves have climbed to the top of the PA career ladder, becoming governors and ministers, chose to highlight Palestinian women’s equal status as terrorists, and hardly mentioned any female achievements in any other field – not as lawyers, performers, engineers, artists, educators, or any other worthy professions….
Dhimmi says
At least in this way it could be. But this shows how delusional the western liberals are. However, the greatest form of jihad among muslim women is their high number of births, and they state it
Dhimmi says
The number of children is their most dangerous form of jihad
Dhimmi says
The victory comes from the womb of the woman as Arafat once stated
Wellington says
Count on Islam to distort everything. It even includes the way deluded Mo followers pray, i.e., with their butts in the air and which looks ridiculous.
Mount Zion says
When it comes to evil and killing infidels there have been women who were no different than men , however to use that as a proof of gender equality is just insane if you consider the fact that in certain muslim countries women can’t even go shopping without a male guardian or that their testimony in a court of law is half worth that of a man .
CogitoErgoSum says
When a female Muslim “martyr” goes to Muslim Paradise is her reward equal to that of a male Muslim “martyr?” Are there male versions of the houri with large and translucent …. adornments to give to the women … or do the women “martyrs” just get 72 raisins that can be eaten over and over … again and again …. and again and which taste just as good the millionth time as the first? Wow, what woman wouldn’t commit murder/suicide for happiness such as that?
Westman says
Yes, it is ridiculous.
I’m betting most Muslims who look carefully at the “holy works” and historical deeds of Islam have serious doubts yet find themselves mortally locked in the culture with no means of escape. With Islam, one risks family, wealth, and life to leave.
Derek says
Next they should enlist gays and lesbians as human bombs. In any case Islam should Perhaps prohibit any other profession for the LGBT community.
Johnny B says
In a million years, I don’t think you could make this stuff up. For some reason, I even suspect that the left think this is all fair and reasonable somehow and that it fits right in with their own twisted ideas about virtue, good and bad, right and wrong and so on.
Kepha says
The Left also thought Mao Zedong a great champion of women’s liberation for his saying “women hold up half the sky.” Yet Mao was notorious for changing women more often than he changed his underwear.