5 Feet of Fury

Mona Eltahawy’s ‘Juan Williams Moment’: Muslim now an ‘Islamaphobe’ for criticizing sharia

Robert Spencer explains:

Mona Eltahawy’s piece in the May/June issue of Foreign Policy criticized a series of practices that are justified in Islamic law, including child marriage, wife-beating, and female genital mutilation.

Counter-jihadist activists and writers have been calling attention to these human rights abuses for years, but Eltahawy’s piece was singular in that she is a Muslim journalist.