The Radical Feminists of the Anbar Tribes. One of the most hypocritical aspects of Western colonialism in the Middle East (past and present) is that it ostensibly speaks about gender equality and modernity and civil society, and yet it consistently relies on tribal and clannish elders who represent the most reactionary and most patriarchal elements of society. But the tribal elders of Anbar are the exceptions: they are known as radical feminists who require tribal members to read Judith Butler's Gender Trouble.