Evocative Article by Naomi Wolf

Ms. Wolf ostensibly responds to right wing critiques of her recent article trying to denaturalize the occurrence of human rights abuses in the Middle East.

I wrote that many women activists in Muslim countries tend to emphasize issues such as honor killings, legal inequality, and lack of access to education, and that they express frustration that the obsession among Westerners with Muslim women's clothing can come at the expense of these concerns. I also pointed out that many Muslim feminists defend their dress in terms of nationalism, anti-imperialism, or as a matter of faith.
This provoked a small firestorm of distortion in the West: "Wolf Wants to Institutionalize the Burka," etc. It was depressing to see a simple appeal for Westerners to listen to Muslim women deliberately distorted into a representation of all Muslim women as meek, will-less beings in need of rescue.

What Do Muslim Women Want?

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/what-do-muslim-women-want_b_309979.html