Feminists are deafeningly silent about "honorcide"

Linda Ahmed, quoted in second paragraph below is one of the founders of Muslims Against Sharia. She is also co-chair of the new campaign Stop Honorcide, launched on Mother's Day 2008 on behalf of victims of honor killings. Her comments come in the midst of an interview with Front Page Magazine. The specific portion quoted below is in response to a question about Western feminist women and their silence about honor killings of Muslim women in the West (and East).

Interviewer: "Western feminists, you would think, care about women. But as Dr. Phyllis Chesler has written in her powerful book, The Death of Feminism, feminists have abandoned women who suffer under Islamic gender apartheid. And so Western feminists are unsurprisingly deafeningly silent about honorcide. The Left’s position on this issue is simply shameless. What are your thoughts on it? What do you see as the explanation of this gross betrayal?"

"I think originally the feminist movement was about advancement of women to achieve equality with men. But over time, it became just another political movement that only cares about the agenda set up by those at the helm. I don't think the feminist movement abandoned Muslim women. I think the feminist movement abandoned women in general. I think the feminist movement is dead. Women who call themselves feminists these days should come up with a new name to describe themselves."

For the whole interview (click here)