Agnosticism / Atheism: Manal Abul Hassan: Undignified for Women to March for Woman's Rights

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Manal Abul Hassan: Undignified for Women to March for Woman's Rights Jan 27th 2012, 12:00 According to Manal Abul Hassan, a female leader in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), it is an "affront" to women's "dignity" when women march in defense of their own rights. Since Egyptian women wouldn't voluntarily do that to themselves, then the marches done by women must have been funded and instigated from abroad. It all makes so much sense, right? "The [FJP women] refused to participate in the march because participants were funded and had a particular agenda," said Manal Abul Hassan, the FJP women's secretary. Speaking to the London based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper Saturday, Abul Hassan argued that "When a woman marches to defend her rights, this affronts her dignity." She added that "Does she [female protestor] not have a husband, a brother or a son to defend her?" "This march was a sectarian one, because all the groups of Egyptian society should defend women. She should not defend herself on her own. The man should stand beside the woman because on her own she will not be able to get her rights," said Abul Hassan. Source: Egypt Independent If it's an affront to women's dignity for women to march in defense of their own civil rights, how is it not also an affront to women's dignity for women to hold leadership positions of any sort within a political organization like the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP)? How exactly is Manal Abul Hassan behaving like a "proper" Muslim women? In every misogynistic, patriarchal movement you're bound to find a few women who have agreed to put a positive spin on their own oppression. Indeed, in any oppressive movement you're bound to find a few of the oppressed selling out. In some cases they probably aren't even technically "selling out" -- Manal Abul Hassan, for example, probably does sincerely believe in her own inferiority and the need for all women like her to be treated as second-class citizens. But what do you do about such people? How can you effectively counter their message of "oppress me, oppress me"?

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