◼ link - Brian Carey/Downtrend
Honor Diaries is a movie that tells the story of nine women’s rights advocates.
Now, when you read the phrase “women’s rights advocates,” you might think it’s the kind of movie that liberals would truly appreciate. Sadly, we haven’t seen any evidence of that just yet.
You see, Honor Diaries is about the way that women are abused in countries dominated by Muslims. Therefore, the truth portrayed in that movie is politically incorrect.
And, therefore, you probably won’t be reading about it on too many left-wing blogs or hearing about it much in the lamestream press.
Leave it to Fox News to do the job that the alleged truth-seekers in the rest of the media won’t do. Megyn Kelly discussed the movie on he program the other night.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was none too happy with that segment. The group actually contacted Megyn Kelly and requested a retraction.
A retraction for what? Talking about a movie that accurately portrays the hardships that women endure in Muslim countries?
◼ ´Honor Diaries´ is about the real war on women, not ´Islamophobia´ - Ashe Schow/Washington Examiner
Despite what organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations say, the film "Honor Diaries" is about the abuses that women face around the world. In an interview with the Washington Examiner, human rights attorney Paula Kweskin, a writer and producer for the film, said it was clear CAIR had not seen the actual film and was trying to silence debate....
Kweskin said the idea for the film actually came during the Arab Spring, when protests broke out in Egypt and Libya.
“Women were really at the front lines of a lot of the protests,” she said. “It was an exciting moment — to see that perhaps some of the issues connected with women’s rights in particular really might change and maybe some actual tangible progress made.”
But of course, that didn't happen. Women in the Middle East are continually treated as property, and in Egypt during the Arab Spring protests, women were regularly victimized for protesting.
...For those who want to see the film for themselves, it will be aired on DirectTV’s Audience Network on Saturday at 4 p.m. EDT. It can also be downloaded on iTunes and the film’s producers encourage interested parties to host a screening in their community.
