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In reply to the discussion: Topless Tunisian Activist Amina Tyler: 'Femen Are True Feminists But They Have Insulted Muslims' [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)She's talking about Femen's "topless Jihad." She does not, contrary to your dumbfuck lies, say "protesting with bared boobs is insulting to all Muslims everywhere." She says this particular "protest" is insulting.. .and the fact is, it is.
Here's the thing; Amina took these photographs of herself in protest of a specific policy targeting women, that a specific political party is trying to enact, in a specific nation. To express "solidarity," Femen is flashing its collective breasts at mosques in Paris.
What do these mosques have to do with the policy that Amina was protesting? Nothing. By this move - and by the name of their action, "Topless Jihad" - Femen is demonstrating that it is in fact not in solidarity with Amina and her cause, but rather taking Islam and Muslims as a whole as their target. Whether you think that's a good idea or not, point is it doesn't actually mesh with what Amina was doing.
If we assume the best of intentions on Femen's part, this whole thing is still extremely tone-deaf. They say they want ot help Muslim women, maybe they could start by actually listening to Muslim women - including the one they are using as their icon right now.