Then there is feminist 'research'.. :(

Suse,

Straw man ?

" .... a liar looking for any reason to vilify all Muslims for the crimes of a few."

Says who that all Muslims are being vilified ? Parts of Muslim culture and ideology, yes. Attitudes of Muslims - as justified by their book - to women, yes. Mass gropings by Muslim mobs, yes.

But 'all' ? Not women, for a start, and that's half, the half that work like dogs to support the rest. Muslims from non-dominant sects, no. As far as I know, Indonesian Muslims, no.

Put that together and that's a great majority of Muslims who are blameless of fingerings and gropings and ripping off of the undergarments of your sisters, Suse. So who do you support in those 'minority' of cases ?

Call it like it is: a mob of mainly Muslims, mainly from north Africa, used their mass numbers (and their superior body size) to terrorise hundreds of women in Cologne on New Year's Eve. Do you agree or not ? Any more excuses ? Those poor blokes are misunderstood ? Lonely ? Isolated and homesick ? Unaccustomed to women having freedoms ? Pick your preference.

Joe

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Feminist research indeed . . . an oxymoron minus the 'oxy' . . .

Good article. The points on (3rd wave) feminism refusing to be critical of anything non-Western is well known in conservative circles.

The point Kolakowski makes is an important one. The left, because they are so dominant in intellectual circles and are so embedded in critiquing their own culture (Western culture), often to the point of nihilism, that it's become almost impossible the defend Western culture. Any defense of traditions or customs is branded racist, jingoistic, bogan or redneck. The left won't voluntarily relinquish their power in academic circles easily either. Their anti-Western critiques are a religion - they sit on metaphysical tenets and are defend with extreme fervor. The only solution, that I can see, is to withdraw the funding from those publicly funded institutions where this stuff originates and then disseminated.

Ah, the language of trivialisation. Why are feminists supposed to have conundrums, while everyone else has moral dillemmas? Why are feminists 'vexed', when everyone else is outraged?

Yes, many feminists are loathe to criticise the seemingly Muslim perpetrators of these crimes out of fear of being labelled racist or islamaphobic. But so do many non-feminists - in fact, the entire Western mainstream.

While this article goes to great lengths to point out the Left's (and feminism's) moral dilemmas about the Koln attacks (and much of it I agree with), nowhere does the writer show any awareness of the mainly Right-wing moral dilemma of the West's endless wars on Muslim countries.

The West is facing all kinds of serious culture shocks as a result of blowback from these wars, as refugees flood to the West in their millions. And it's going to get a whole lot worse.

This is one moral dilemma in which the Right is well and truly asleep at the wheel.

Killarney "The West is facing all kinds of serious culture shocks as a result of blowback from these wars, as refugees flood to the West in their millions. And it's going to get a whole lot worse.
This is one moral dilemma in which the Right is well and truly asleep at the wheel."

A lot of the right-wing movements gaining popularity at the moment have an anti-globalist agenda. They are, mostly, ethnic identity movements, who are against intervening in the wars in the Middle East. I suspect you're referring to the neo-conservatives from the Bush administration, and its followers, who began 'The project for the new American century'.