By Dr. Alex McFarland for TOWNHALL
Because my grandparents ran a seasonal hotel in Myrtle Beach for three decades, I’ve vacationed there most summers of my life. I’ve seen a lot of change over the years, but recently I noticed something new: Muslim women swimming in the ocean, garbed in full burqa coverings. Of course, Islamic families are as welcome at the beach as anyone. But the dynamics visible between the Islamic couples were striking: The men were there, sunning in normal swimsuits. But the women stood to the side, garbed in black from head to toe in sweltering 100-degree heat, waiting for a flick of a husband’s finger cueing the wife to get him a beverage from the cooler. When the women did get into the ocean, I thought about how heavy it all must be: Swimming in yards of fabric soaked in water. Clearly, a day at the beach for an Islamic man is vastly different from that of an observant (or, a forced-to-be-observant) Muslim woman.
“How can 21st-century, ‘liberated’ feminists be OK with this?” I wondered.
Islam, Marxists and Democrats: suicidal utilitarianism
This election cycle has seen unlikely political unions solidify that have been years in the making. Until just recently, America’s Democratic Party would have had big problems with the human rights abuses of Islam (which include mistreatment of women as part of “canon law”). Even “tax and spend” liberals would have objected to today’s new Marxists’ calls for abolition of a free market economy, private property ownership, law enforcement and the criminalization of wealth accumulation. But Democrats, Muslim activists and Marxists now share at least four common foes. These onerous entities are Donald Trump and Constitutionalism (societally), and Christianity and Israel (spiritually).
