Colonial Feminism, Defined. "A major obstacle to recognizing and fighting abuse, experts said, can be Islam itself. The religion prizes female modesty and fidelity while allowing men to divorce at will and have several wives at once." Can somebody explain to me what "having several wives at once" mean? Is that like ordering 5 wives to go and one diet coke? Where do they get that from? Don't you like the colonial feminist coverage of the Washington Post? Notice she added a disclaimer in passing but with a qualification: "Domestic abuse is hardly unique to Muslim immigrant communities; it is a sad fact of life in families of all backgrounds and origins. Yet, according to social workers, Islamic clerics and women's advocates, women from Muslim-majority cultures face extra pressure to submit to violent husbands and intense social ostracism if they muster the courage to file charges or flee." Does that explain why women in the West don't stay in abusive relationships and marriage? Or is that Islam's fault too? And then you always brace yourself whenever somebody in the West invokes Arab culture or "Muslim culture"--whatever that means: "Another powerful barrier to change can be the grip of Muslim culture, with its gossip among extended families and its tradition of arranged marriages, in which brides often are sent to live with their in-laws." You can't disagree with that. I mean, I have lived half of my life in the US, and never ever heard about gossip in Western society. In fact, in the West, we don't even have gossip magazines or tabloids. That is purely a Muslim phenomenon. You have probably heard of the Islamic National Inquirer, have you not? And then this: "Yet even U.S.-educated women can be browbeaten into enduring abuse for fear of shaming their families". No way. "Even U.S.-educated"? I thought that US education can guarantee you freedom? Am I wrong in that?