[Marxism] Annals of Islamophobia: The Case of Harvard

[Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Few would be writing about this handful of single-sex
gym hours if the request had come from, say,
overweight women or shy women or the club of virgins
recently written about in the New York Times
Magazine.Some co-ed campuses have single-sex
dorms--Cornell has one for women--to say nothing of
sororities, fraternities and single-sex societies like
Harvard's ghastly final clubs. According to the
Chronicle of Higher Education, Orthodox Jewish women
at Queens College of CUNY asked for one hour of
women-only swimming, a request seconded by other
women; now Queens has a weekly pool hour for women and
one for men as well. Wheaton College in Wheaton,
Illinois, St. John's College in Santa Fe, and
Kalamazoo College have all experimented with
women-only gym times or classes. None of this has
aroused a lot of interest from the national opinion
industry. Maybe the women writers are too busy
exercising at Curves, the ubiquitous women-only chain,
while the men writers are off at their Elks lodge.

But this situation is different: it involves Islam
(violent, oppressive, sexist) and Harvard
(multicultural twits). When I put "Harvard Muslim
girls gym" into Google I got 151,000 hits, including
articles from as far away as Japan, and bloodcurdling
references to Sharia and honor killings, horrified
descriptions of women using treadmills in veils and
chadors ("a black, woolen blob, an anachronism of the
first degree"), calls for lawsuits and physical
invasions of Muslim-girl gym time. Martin Luther King
was invoked, as were Title IX, feminism, slippery
slopes, appeasement, Nazis and did I mention Sharia?"


Full: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080428/pollitt




      
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