WoW

The "War on Women (WoW)." It's an interesting concept when applied to modern western nations and the USA in particular. If you are to believe the president and his party, the opposition party is at war with 50 percent of it's own membership and another 50 percent of the majority party's membership. If you're to believe the meme, women don't get equal pay for equal work, a patriarchal society controls virtually everything they do, and according modern feminists, women are oppressed in things both big and small -- sometimes very small. Nothing has changed since the 1920s, women aren't CEOs doctors, lawyers, engineers, plumbers, professors, programmers, prosecutors, senators, policewoman, teachers, congresswoman, judges, electricians, soldiers, flag officers, mayors, governors ... Nah, nothing has changed. After all, it's a "war."

There is horrific oppression of women in the world, but it doesn't generally result from small girls wearing pink dresses and textbooks spelling "woman" with an "a" rather than a "y." The real oppression, generally ignored by feminists on the left, is often attributable to Islamists and their harsh treatment of women.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

GRILAGAN, Pakistan—Eight months ago, 11-year-old Amna was married off to a man three times her age to settle a crime her uncle had committed.

The uncle had raped another girl in the village, according to tribal elders. Following tribal custom prevalent in highly conservative parts of Pakistan, the elders gave Amna and her 17-year-old cousin, Zulhaj, to that girl's family. Nobody asked their opinion.

Such "compensation marriages" are technically illegal under Pakistani law. But in a country with fraying central authority, the formal judicial system with its slow, corrupt course is often abandoned in favor of traditional tribal justice.

Now that's something to get upset about. That suggests a culture that is conducting a true WoW.

On the same day, we learn from USA Today:

On April 15, more than 300 teenage schoolgirls were abducted from the Chibok Government Girls Secondary School in northeast Nigeria. At least 53 girls are known to have escaped.

Who did it?

Boko Haram — which means "western education is a sin" — is an Islamic militant group in Nigeria. The group's leader, Abubakar Shekau, is taking responsibility for the mass abduction, according to a video obtained by Agence France-Presse.

Oh, and we also learn that Boko Haram intends to sell the girls into sexual slavery to Islamic buyers in adjoining countries. Another hard-core WoW.

Why isn't there more criticism of these practices from Democrat politicians, more condemnation from American feminists, picketing at the Pakistani and Nigerian embassies, and direct criticism of WoW practices (e.g., Burkas, female genital mutilation, women as chattel, lack of availability of education, to name just a few) that are widely practiced in many Muslim countries.

Why isn't Barack Obama, who obviously is concerned about WoW, not castigating those Muslim countries that support WoW practices? Where is the principled condemnation? Where is the outrage that seems to be present when he discusses his political opponents "WoW," but seems to evaporate when looking beyond our borders.

Oh well, no worries. If we can just get a few woman to become CEOs doctors, lawyers, engineers, plumbers, professors, programmers, prosecutors, senators, policewoman, teachers, congresswoman, judges, electricians, soldiers, flag officers, mayors, governors ... the war will be won. Oh wait, that's already happened, hasn't it?