Feminism’s Blind Spot: The Abuse of Women by Non-White Men, Particularly Muslims
Yes, it is common for victims of sexual violence to be punished for speaking out, whether or not they live in Muslim-majority countries. But the ferocity of the response to Nusrat's disclosure went well beyond what we see in the West. She was set upon by a group of people and doused with kerosene and set alight. She did not survive long enough to describe what happened. She was 19. This provokes discomfort among Western feminists who are so eager to prove that they are not racist that they are prepared to ignore all manner of abuses perpetrated against Muslim women by Muslim men.
There is a shocking double standard:
forms of oppression that Western women would never accept for themselves are
excused when they are imposed on women in the Muslim world.
Nusrat Jahan Rafi paid the ultimate price for refusing to bow down to this oppression. If only the Western feminists who refuse to stand up for women like Nusrat had an ounce of her bravery.