mehreenkasana said: What’s her name?
Missy Cummings. She defended drones by saying they have less collateral damage (which is a phrase that should be banned, btw) and that, most importantly, it leads to fewer deaths of “our guys.”
mehreenkasana said: I fucking hate Foust.
QFT.
In case you are not sure why Mona Eltahawy has been regularly subject to criticism, here is a good introductory article. Most of the articles I found via sharquaouia’s tumblr.
- Al Jazeera’s Roundup of praise and criticism
- Samia Errazzouki, “Dear Mona Eltahawy, You Do Not Represent “Us”
- Mehreen Kasana (Quote from her Tumblr)
- The Frustrated Arab, “Us and Them: On Helpless Women and Orientalist Imagery”
- Foreign Policy, “Debating the War on Women” - Includes responses from Leila Ahmed, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Hanin Ghaddar, Naheed Mustafa, and Sondos Asem
- Tahrir Spirit, “I don’t really think they hate us”
- Dima Kathib, “Love, Not Hatred, Dear Mona”
- Omid Safi, “The hypocrisy of the “Why They Hate Us” rhetoric of Muslim Native Informants”
- Mona Kareem, “‘Why Do They Hate Us?’ A Blogger’s Response”
- Ayesha Kazmi, “Oh Mona!”
- Tahrir and Beyond, “Mona: Why do you hate us?”
- Tom Dale, Open Democracy, “Hatred and misogyny in the Middle East, a response to Mona el Tahawy”
- The Atlantic, “The Real Roots of Sexism in the Middle East (It’s Not Islam, Race, or ‘Hate’)”
- Global Voices Online, “Do Arab Men Hate Women? Mona Eltahawy Faces Firestorm”
- Jadaliyya, “Let’s Talk About Sex”
- Egypt Initiative for Personal Rights, “Get an Arab Woman to Say it For You”
- AltMuslimah, “Everybody ‘Hates’ Mona”
- Colonial Feminism, “Dear Mona Eltahawy”
- LoonWatch, “Why Do They Hate Us? They Don’t”
If you know of any more articles to contribute to this list please send me a message (You can send links through fanmail)