Feminism

A Washington Post editorial discusses the disturbing silence from feminists on the left regarding the plight of women in certain quarters of the Muslim world. It seems that the circumspect followers of political correctness find themselves whipsawed. Dogmatic adherence to "tolerance" toward the bizarre cultural norms of other countries prohibits criticism even when those norms are clearly discriminatory.

Saudi propaganda, plus our own timidity about foreign customs, has blinded us to the fact that the systematic, wholesale Saudi oppression of women isn't dictated by religion at all but rather by the culture of the Saudi ruling class.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/17/AR2007121701598.html