@ Taz You Live and Learn.

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If you don’t like it, email me with something better. If you can write me a great feminist analysis with a media angle, I’ll publish it.

What does this review add to the previous review? Wasn’t it established that Raaz, in his/her finite wisdom, thinks Ali’s sexual relationship is exploitation and others disagree and consider it exploration.

I guess there is one addition, in Part II, the reviewer dismisses the relationship that Eteraz has with his mother because s/he is not interested in that relationship, s/he is more obsessed with his sex life.

There is absolutely no mention of the women undergoing various tribulations at the hand of Muslim men. How is this a feminist website?

This leads me to believe that you are an apologist for Muslim males. You try to avoid indicting the problem within Muslim community by focusing on the author’s sex life.

If the reviewer was really interested in gender issues, in addition to issue raised in my comments on Part I, the review would have mentioned:

1 – The convert woman that was married to an Egyptian man but who wouldn’t divorce her.

and examined why these things take place.

2 – The woman that wrote to a fatwa service to get a divorce because again her husband wouldn’t divorce her.

and examined what role fatwa services play in Muslim gender relationships.

3 – The woman in Pakistan whose stove was blown up by in-laws.

at least some mention of this epidemic, on an allegedly feminist website, would have been helpful.

4 – The girl in Pakistan that Eteraz wanted to try and find a way to save from her bad arranged marriage but couldn’t do anything about.

This is just seems to be written by an Islamist apologist. It ignores any conversation on hypocrisy occurring under the pretence of Islam or of the issues within the Muslim community:

There is no mention of patriarchy, Saleem, the pious boy, who wants to handcuff women, the hypocritical MSA boys who check out sexy women, the abuse suffered by Muslim boys.

Why bother as long as it is in cloak of Islam, right? I am not sure why I am surprised. After all, this is the website where some individuals believe hypocrisy and lying is the appropriate mode of dealing with issues.

There is no mention of Muslim religious leaders good – Imams who have multiple marriages, imams who abuse children, and imams who flirt with women. Abuse of religious authority anyone?

No mention of the blatant disregard for other groups of Muslims by Sunni Muslims. How about dealing with discrimination in Muslim communities?

Finally, why do you keep calling it “cultural-religious matrix.” What is that anyway? Don’t you mean…Muslim community?

I look forward to the day when Muslim feminists talk about actual social structures instead of one guy’s sex life. How infuriating.

Finally I have two questions:

1 — Is “Raaz” a woman? I think that is pertinent because of the glaring omissions in reading.

2 — Is there going to be a Part III, IV, and V?