Saudi women are doing fine except for the oppression of white imperialist feminists

Praise Saudi human rights. UN Watch.org, November 5:

(Of 96 nations that spoke at the UN Human Rights Council, 75 praised Saudi Arabia) when its human rights record was reviewed today, as a part of a mandatory review that every country undergoes every five years at the UN Human Rights Council (including:) Venezuela … “for empowering women” … Pakistan … (for empowering) women and (promoting) gender equality … (the) State of Palestine … Yemen … Bahrain … Malaysia (for) “advancing women’s rights” … China … (and) The Philippines (for combating) “human trafficking and to ­enhance the protection and promotion of the rights of migrant workers”.

Praise women’s rights in Saudi Arabia? Sky News, November 3:

Two young sisters whose bodies were found on the banks of the Hudson River bound together with tape are believed to have jumped in rather than return to Saudi Arabia … Sources … told investigators that the women “would rather inflict harm on themselves” than return to Saudi Arabia.

Praise migrant rights? Alahna ­Kindred, The Express, October 31:

Seventeen women have been arrested after going to a Halloween party in … Saudi Arabia. Saudi intelligence officers raided the compound and detained the Filipina workers … Five men … were arrested and could face charges of organised witchcraft … or morality …

Saudi women repressed? Shima Shahbazi, Deakin University conference, November 2 to 4, 2016:

Decolonising the Feminist Narratives of Victimhood … This paper … discusses the ways in which transnational feminist scholars … are still working towards “plurilogue feminisms” to ­critique the white imperialist feminism of the West, which has represented Middle Eastern women as repressed victims.

Blame Western civilisation. Sascha O’Sullivan, The Australian, October 30:

Ms Shima Shahbazi from … Sydney University said: “The idea of (Western civilisation) involves violence on so many levels … (The) Ramsay Centre (for Western Civilisation) is structurally violent.”

Anti-Semitism this, anti-Semitism that. Benjamin Kentish, The Independent, November 4:

A … (UK) Labour Party branch has ­refused to pass a motion condemning the anti-Semitic attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh … on the grounds that there was too much focus on “anti-Semitism this, anti-Semitism that”. It suggested the text … should not specifically refer to anti-Semitism … Previous motions on Islamophobia … (did not meet the same objections) … (The mover of the ­motion said): “Are you seriously going to vote down a motion condemning the Pittsburgh killings? … Is this for real?” “Yes, I am,” replied comrade (councillor Steve) Nelson … Another Labour branch amended a proposed motion on the Pittsburgh attack to remove a pledge to oppose anti-Semitism.

Lest we forget? Jennifer Smith, Daily Mail, November 6:

(Comedian Pete Davidson, appearing on top-rating late-night skit comedy show Saturday Night Live, mocked) Navy SEAL and GOP candidate Dan Crenshaw for losing an eye in the Afghanistan war … Davidson joked that viewers “may be surprised to hear that Crenshaw is a congressional candidate from Texas and not a hitman in a porno movie” while a photograph of him wearing an eye-patch flashed on the screen. He then laughed, saying: “I’m sorry. I know he lost his eye in the war or whatever.”