“They will grow up in a cultural cocoon watching TV and movies from overseas, and vacations—if they have them—will be spent in their parents’ country of origin. They will go to the local mosque. When their parents decide it is time, they will be pushed into an arranged marriage, often with a distant cousin sourced from their country of origin, using a marriage certificate to enable the cousin to immigrate. Marrying outside their ethnic or religious community is proscribed. This cultural isolation creates what has been called in one UK report a “first generation in every generation.”41”
― Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
― Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
“Western feminists have effectively relegated their Muslim sisters to the past. They are sleepwalking as their own rights begin to be eroded.”
― Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
― Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
“This is what rolling back women’s rights looks like. It is a brochure produced by the Swedish government’s National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) for newcomers in 2018 with the title “Information for You Who Are Married to a Child.”12”
― Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
― Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
“The extreme, yet perhaps inevitable, expression of all these beliefs and behaviors—polygamy, religiously sanctioned bigotry, unchecked sexual harassment, a lack of sex education, repressed sexual urges, and the honor/shame dichotomy—is taharrush gamea, “the rape game” in Arabic. Gang rape is considered a particularly reprehensible crime in the West, but in the Arab world, where speaking about sexual violence elicits more suffering than support, the rape game takes place openly.”
― Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
― Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
“The Communist regimes in the Soviet Union and China also promised women equality as part of their revolutions but delivered a reality that fell far short.”
― Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
― Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
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