Why I oppose "Inter-Sectional Feminism"

Feminism, like many movements, is not a universal movement.  There are various types of feminism.  One version of feminism that is gaining power is a feminist movement that I, and everyone with a sense of morality should oppose, and that is "inter-sectional feminism"  This form of feminism is not focused on universal sisterhood and the spreading of sexual equality around the globe. This is a species of feminism that, in accordance with the relatively new academic concept of "inter-sectionality," which accepts a hierarchy whereby some "victim groups" are higher up on the grievance ladder than others.  It means that "inter-sectional" feminists must be culturally sensitive and culturally relative, recognizing and privileging culturally predicated values other than sexual equality. They must be feminists who understand that while no expression of contempt for the purported tyranny of Western males can be too loud, overstated or vulgar, they must, in their encounters with less feminist-minded cultures, temper their devotion to female equality out of respect for those cultures' different priorities.

This brand of feminism has ingrained itself into Western Society. During the Women's March, one of the organizers, Linda Sarsour, a champion of Sharia Law became an overnight feminist heroine.  What is Sarsour promoting? Under Sharia Law a woman is expected to be subservient and obedient to men, her testimony in court is worth half that of a man because she is "deficient in intelligence," a daughter should be given an inheritance only half that of a son. A man is not only permitted -- but encouraged -- to beat his wife if she is insufficiently obedient. A man may take "non-Muslim wives” but a woman may not wed outside the faith. A man may have up to four wives, but a woman can have only one husband, a man can divorce his wife simply by uttering a few words, but a woman, if she wants a divorce, must subject herself to a drawn-out process at the end of which a group of men will rule on the matter, a man is entitled to have sex with his wife against her wishes and, under certain circumstances, other women as well, and that is just the beginning.

Sometimes, when one points out these rules, people will point to the Old Testament of the Bible and say "Well the Bible ways such-and-such."  The point isn't that these things are written in Islamic scripture, but that people still live by them.  Moreover, women like Linda Sarsour that champion these oppressive policies that are profoundly "anti-feminist" are being applauded the women who have allowed themselves to be blinded by "cultural relativism" and have been deceived into following the "inter-sectional feminism" that is destroying women's rights.  

One such example of the danger of "inter-sectional feminism" involved a young Iraqi woman in Sweden.  When she was four, she moved to Sweden from Iraq with her parents.  After she became a Swedish citizen, her parents took her back to Iraq at age 13 and forced her to marry her 23-year-old cousin, who continually raped her and beat her.  When she returned alone to Sweden, she gave birth to twins, and cared for them until they were taken from her against her will and brought to Iraq to live with their father.  Though Alicia and her children had Swedish citizenship, her husband did not.  Nevertheless, in Jan. of 2018, the Stockholm Municipal Court granted full custody of the children to Alicia's abusive husband on the grounds that the children had lived longer with him.  This is despite the fact that his abusive nature was exposed in the courtroom and that his wife and children were Swedish citizens, but he was not.  

A second example of "inter-sectional feminism is shown by Dr. Unni Wikan, a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo.  In response to the growing rape epidemic of Norwegian women by migrants, she did not suggest punishment for the rapists or challenging Islamic cultural & theological teachings that encourage it, but instead said that all women should veil themselves and adapt to the “multi-cultural society” they now live in.  The tragic reality is that inter-sectional feminism is not promoting the rights of women, it is slowly, but surely, destroying their basic rights.  In truth, inter-sectional feminism is "submission to tyranny."  

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