A vital point made in this reading was that feminism in it’s roots is not inclusive of all women. In it’s development, feminism was concerned with white women’s suffrage. Only relatively recently has there been a surge in concern for WOC and queer women.
The most enjoyable part of this reading for me was the descriptions of different activist’s views of Islamic Feminism. There was a range in arguments going from “Islam and Feminism being complimentary to each other” and “feminism flattening out important differences between women.” Each argument was equally formulated and made a lot of sense and ultimately contextualized the colonial attitudes and conversations surrounding Islam to this day.
Violence is justified by the white savior complex. And it is incredibly interesting/ironic when you consider that the European missionaries believed they were liberating Muslim women, when down the line there was a a rise of Islam in the seventies that mourned the loss of “an indigenous self” lost to colonial violence and resulted in an “incorporated vision of women’s roles that insisted on the return to a purer domestic life.”
