What about the Women? – The Politicization of the Assault on Lara Logan - Debate link

What about the Women? – The Politicization of the Assault on Lara Logan

For years now, women have been the center of the so-called ‘debate on Islam’... The burial of women in politicized and imperialist discourses built around their bodies and veils, sidelines the rights and agency of the women themselves.
Keywords: debate, women's rights, islam, muslim, egypt, revolution, lara logan, rape, sexual assault

	Submitted by Cinders over a year ago

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Cinders said:

Relevant Debate Topics/Resolutions:

"[The assault on Lara Logan would have] never happened to her or any other mainstream media reporter when Mubarak was allowed to treat his country of savages in the only way they can be controlled." - Debbie Schlussel
Is, as Schlussel suggests, the revolution a sign of the growing power of radical Islam, and could this attack have occurred if Mubarak was still in power?

"The burial of women in politicized and imperialist discourses built around their bodies and veils, sidelines what actually matters (and should matter) - the rights and agency of the women themselves."
Does the insistence by Westerners over what they think Muslim women want/need miss the point of empowering the women for which they claim to speak?

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