Headnote: Last week I linked to a memoir about women being segregated…
You surely remember, directly or through history, when much of the world was against “apartheid,” the legal rigid separation of Black and White in the state of South Africa.
In theory, in those years, you could have said people with a vested interest should not be allowed to even have an opinion, let alone protest, against apartheid. Since South Africa was colonized by The Netherlands, this would include all the Dutch in Holland, and everyone in their former colony of Indonesia, now the most populous Muslim country in the world. In reality, common sense said everyone should have been allowed to express disagreement—or outrage.
Should Muslims in Indonesia today, a nation without the burka (woman-tent), be allowed to have an opinion on gender apartheid?
Should students safely in North America be allowed to disagree with gender apartheid? Students Atheist, Muslim or Buddhist? Yes! I think the only thing holding students back from disagreeing, besides mental laziness, is their own self-defeating beliefs as to what’s Politically Correct. If you think I’m wrong to say it’s appropriate for them to actively protest gender apartheid, then feel free to enlighten me.
Meanwhile, I sense Hollywood celebrity Bill Maher is contemptuous of idealistic students who don’t dare form an opinion on the matter.
Here’s a video link to his polemic, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRzv0HgatRc
Here’s a link that includes a transcript https://kingchill.com/jude/gender-apartheid
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Sean Crawford
In a major city which had a three-term Muslim mayor
In the Bible Belt
on the Great Plains
October
2025
Thoughts: If you think no man would ever pressure his wife to wear a Burka, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you—And I’ll sell you an internet home federal elections voting machine too, since surely you think a patriarch wouldn’t tell his wife whom to vote for, surely…
Bill Maher mentioned Yasmine Mohammed. Here is a brief Radio New Zealand text about her: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018748173/yasmine-mohammed-escaping-al-queda-husband-and-radical-islam
On comments: I see under Bill’s Youtube there are far more grateful comments from Iran than from Saudi Arabia. I can understand why the Iranians, while proudly Muslim, want to distance themselves from Arabians by thinking of themselves as Persians. (Actually, the brutality of the regime is causing a rise in secret atheists among the young, but still—proudly Muslim)
