Of course men find a nubile young woman in flattering clothes sexy. Women like looking at buff male gymnasts too. It is natural.

Feminists do not flatter women by claiming they are such vulnerable hot-house plants that they have not exercised power in families, in society and in influencing (and controlling!) men. Ask any politician whose vote they worry about on 'decency' or 'moral' issues - it is the women voters who would limit behaviour more than men ever would. Likewise women carry the rump of votes that send young men to war. In the case of the Vietnam War and Iraq, women proved they will equal or outvote men to support war.

Ask other Muslim women who would be the first to chastise them for any ‘immodesty’ in the way they dress their children. The answer is the Muslim mum next door (unless she is a Turkish Muslim who are more liberated, of course).

Shakira's hypothesis is outrageously silly. Her article is about gender feminism, but that is a long shot given her brother’s conditioning. From her own account, her brother’s ‘toxicity’ had little to do with gender and much more to do with culture and psychological conditioning. it is much more likely any person (ie not necessarily male or female) would exhibit psychological damage and odd behaviour after a lifetime of being brainwashed in the home and at school.

It is not just boys who are affected by toxic conditioning in the home and Muslim mothers are as complicit in this (conditioning) as the dads. Doubtless a Muslim sister or mother could be just as likely to try to persuade/control Shakira as her brother allegedly did. So it is not being male or status that is at fault, it is something more simple and sinister – the relentless conditioning throughout childhood by mum and dad to distrust and hate people of non-Islamic background.

So to use Shakira’s words, both Muslim boys and girls can 'turn toxic' and some obviously do, but this has nothing to do with status or gender.