{"id":1649,"date":"2013-01-04T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/01\/i-am-not-a-hostage.html"},"modified":"2013-01-04T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T17:22:00","slug":"i-am-not-a-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/01\/i-am-not-a-hostage.html","title":{"rendered":"I Am Not A Hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px;padding: 0px 0px 15px\">Joumana Haddad wrote a provocative piece for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/now.mmedia.me\/LibraryPages\/AboutUs.aspx\" style=\"color: #509ac9\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NOW News<\/a>\u00a0last week titled<em><a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.mmedia.me\/lb\/en\/commentaryanalysis\/islamic_feminism_stockholm_syndrome\" style=\"color: #509ac9\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cIslamic Feminism: Stockholm Syndrome\u201d<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in which she claims that any woman who claims to be a feminist and religious (Muslim, Jewish, or Christian specifically) is identifying with her captor, her hijacker, her tyrannical overlord.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px;padding: 0px 0px 15px\">To be clear, this is not a new claim.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px;padding: 0px 0px 15px\">It is also a claim that radically simplifies the problem and dramatically underestimates women and men working for justice.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px;padding: 0px 0px 15px\">I spent a good amount of my graduate career immersed in the writing and work of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/07\/education\/07daly.html?_r=0\" style=\"color: #509ac9\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mary Daly<\/a>, second wave radical feminist philosopher, and wrote\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Two-Reformers-Martin-Political-Theologians\/dp\/1597528269\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1357147170&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=two+reformers\" style=\"color: #509ac9\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">my second book<\/a>\u00a0partly about her political and theological work.\u00a0 So, I get deep sustained criticism of monotheistic religion.\u00a0 I respect it enormously.\u00a0 I understand beyond measure the legitimacy of feminist criticism of patriarchal religion.\u00a0 To some extent, in fact, I agree with it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px;padding: 0px 0px 15px\">But when Daly and Haddad and others simply throw their hands up in disgust and declare a religion essentially and permanently incompatible with feminism, they miss the point.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px;padding: 0px 0px 15px\">Read the rest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/carynriswold\/2013\/01\/i-am-not-a-hostage\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joumana Haddad wrote a provocative piece for\u00a0NOW News\u00a0last week titled\u201cIslamic Feminism: Stockholm Syndrome\u201d\u00a0in which she claims that any woman who claims to be a feminist and religious (Muslim, Jewish, or Christian specifically) is identifying with her captor, her hijacker, her tyrannical overlord. 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