Maureen Dowd decries Islam's misogyny

Oh wait... my bad... she's talking about Catholicism... again:

Nuns were second-class citizens then and -- 40 years after feminism utterly changed America -- they still are. The matter of women as priests is closed, a forbidden topic.

In 2004, the cardinal who would become Pope Benedict XVI wrote a Vatican document urging women to be submissive partners, resisting any adversarial roles with men and cultivating "feminine values" like "listening, welcoming, humility, faithfulness, praise and waiting."

Nuns need to be even more sepia-toned for the über-conservative pope, who was christened "God's Rottweiler" for his enforcement of orthodoxy. Once a conscripted member of the Hitler Youth, Benedict pardoned a schismatic bishop who claimed that there was no Nazi gas chamber. He also argued on a trip to Africa that distributing condoms could make the AIDS crisis worse.

The Vatican is now conducting two inquisitions into the "quality of life" of American nuns, a dwindling group with an average age of about 70, hoping to herd them back into their old-fashioned habits and convents and curb any speck of modernity or independence.

Has Ms. Dowd ever covered Islam's treatment of women?

Anyone?

Crossposted(*).

Comments

[jewishodysseus.blogspot.com]

"Has Ms. Dowd ever covered Islam's treatment of women?"

As the late great Jeane Kirkpatrick used to say: "To ask that question is to answer it."

First the Anna Quindlan, then the MoDo...Where does the NYT net these harpies?

[Mommynator]

Ms. Dowdy apparently hasn't read anything the Anchoress posts about all the men and women taking up new vocations. Voluntarily. Joyfully, even.

I don't recall the catholic church mutilating women's genitals, but encouraging them to embrace the miracle of life and love. Of course, that's been distorted by all sorts of selfish people who think children are a burden rather than a blessing.

I don't recall any muslim women allowed to go into various populations to do good works like feeding the poor and ministering to the sick, either.

Instead, muslim women are treated worse than animals, locked up, threatened and living in fear.

Doesn't seem to be like the nuns I've met and some of whom I've worked with.

[Jvette]

Modo, safely swiping at the Lamb rather than the Dragon.

[Mommynator]

Nicely put.

[EM]

She's so predictable and so predictably wrong.

[btilly]

NOW are cowards and Islam will beat their butts quran 4:34, cut out their kids vaginas and they will blame catholics