Friday, March 11, 2005
Iranian Equates Iranian Revolutionaries with Pro-Lifers
After a long history, we get this:
Do we really want to go here? Do you really want to equate pro-lifers, who honestly believe abortion is murder, and Muslims who repress women?
And do we want to equate burkas with abortions? There may be a slight difference.
After a long history, we get this:
Why visit this history now? Because 26 years later, as women, Iranian and American, we stand again at the threshold of March 8, 1979. At nearly middle age, having spent two equal parts of my life in Iran and the United States, I see the rising tide of religiosity in my adopted homeland bearing faint hints of the one I left behind. Back then, Millett seemed to represent only Millett. In hindsight she begins to represent a common plight.
Her presence was a foreshadowing of how the lives of two sets of women, American and Iranian, would be entwined one day.
The spread of religious sentiments in both countries has affected women in similar ways.
Choice hangs in the balance: the right to choose a dress code or to bear a child. What oceans do to separate Iranian from American women, the looming threat to choice erases.
Do we really want to go here? Do you really want to equate pro-lifers, who honestly believe abortion is murder, and Muslims who repress women?
And do we want to equate burkas with abortions? There may be a slight difference.
