Status Updates From The Othered Woman: How Whit...

“This mindset is so deeply embedded in the collective consciousness that French women likely do not think twice about the experiences of Muslim women but, when presented with a situation where women are being oppressed in the name of Islam, they’re quick to support their cause as it is seen as a key part of their feminism.”

“The collusion of white feminism with 'counter-terrorism' frameworks harms Muslim women repeatedly - all in the name of security and safety. But security and safety for who? Because Muslim women don't feel secure or safe when we and our families are constantly surveilled and policed.”

“The state can give as much funding as it wants to protect mosques from Islamophobic attacks, but it's unlikely to make a difference when the normalisation and justification of Islamophobia is coming from the very top. At this point, it's sticking a plaster over a gaping wound.”

“Muslim children have been referred to Prevent for meaningless reasons, such as a teacher mistaking an eight-year-old's T-shirt slogan for ISIS propaganda, students wearing Free Palestine badges or reading books related to
'terrorism'.“

“However, according to official figures, 87 per cent of Prevent referrals don't meet the criteria for intervention and aren't adopted as Channel cases. Therefore, the policy isn't preventing 'extremism' or ‘radicalisation' but simply pulling people into a complex and intimidating system because someone had a 'gut feeling' about them.”

“Amnesty International, who are working on the global 'Ban the Scan' campaign, reported that Black people are most at risk of being misidentified by facial recognition software. It's not just the software itself but the police using it as a surveillance tool for communities of colour - for example, the Met Police using it for events likely to be attended by people of colour, like Notting Hill Carnival…”

“White feminism celebrates these 'wins' in terms of women like Theresa May, Priti Patel and Cressida Dick coming to power, whilst also allowing a dangerous environment to be enforced by these very same women and the systems they work in - structures that tend to disproportionately affect Muslims and racialised people.”

“For these women, feminism is not about achieving freedom and justice for Muslims […] Instead, it's about working within the existing structures which allow white women to sit at the top - it's a feminism of compromise rather than liberation.”

“The white saviour mindset of white feminism rarely reaches Muslim women migrants, though. There's so much rhetoric around 'saving' women in other countries, but as soon as those same women come to Western countries to seek refuge, the rhetoric is flipped on its head and it becomes a problem of integration…”

“White feminists & far-right movements usually sit on opposite ends of the political spectrum, but when it comes to Muslim women, both sit in a dangerously similar sphere of thinking. In the European context, this is the thinking that has now filtered all the way to the top & translated into sweeping legislation that surveils & controls the bodies of Muslim women, whilst also justifying violence against Muslims”

“White feminism regularly frames Muslim men as the epitome of misogyny and a danger to the Western way of life, which not only paints all Muslim men with the same brush, but also implies that Muslim women are passive agents who are doing nothing to push back on misogyny in our communities.“

“But the murder of women by white men isn't deemed 'honour-based'. Herein lies the double standard: violence in racialised and Muslim
communities is deserving of the full force of our criminal justice system, while violence by white men is normalised.”

“Exceptionalising Muslim men’s misogyny can also harm Muslim women by silencing their own experiences of misogyny and gender violence. Do Muslim women feel that they can share their experiences of domestic violence, or do they feel that they must stay quiet so as not to cause more harm to their loved ones and community?”

“The Rwanda deportation plan was mostly aimed at young men travelling to the UK, reinforcing the narrative that migrant men are not deserving of aid or support”

“There's a long and violent history of Black and brown men being viewed and stereotyped as predators and monsters, particularly when it comes to their interactions with white women. Men of colour are automatically seen as a threat by white feminism purely based on race and gender, with this view being connected to the concept of white women's 'purity' and 'innocence'.”

I don’t get how she says she’s NOT criticising m*a kh*lifah for doing nasty stuff in a hijab but also calling her out at the same time? Khalifah is an Islamophobe who has caused irreparable harm to Muslim women. She didn’t even apologise she doubled down.

Also there’s no such thing as “ethical p*rnography”, that’s inherently based on the dehumanisation and objectification of women…

“Muslim women are both invisible - their voices completely ignored - and hyper-visible - they have become a symbol of oppression. They are simultaneously scrutinised and ignored, never more so than by white feminists.”

“White feminism doesn't meet women where they are but blames women of colour, incarcerated women and poor women for not achieving ‘feminist wins’, such as a work-life balance or owning property, and doesn't consider the structures that marginalise these groups in the first place - preventing them from achieving similar successes to white women.”