Phyllis Chesler has made a career of calling out U.S. feminists in their failure to stand up for women in the Middle East and other places where oppression of women is real and serious and all too often fatal. Chesler deserves a great deal of credit for this lonely crusade.

But I confess I was about to skip her latest: "As ISIS Brutalizes Women, a Pathetic Feminist Silence." ISIS is brutalizing men, women, children and vestiges of ancient civilizations. It seemed almost beside the point almost to single out women when there is no category left un-brutalized, and so hideously brutalized at that. Then I read Chesler's oped, and I urge you to read it, too.

Feminism of the NOW sort has become something of a leisure gig for women who want to kvetch about perceived slights in a land of opportunities and yet are able to close their eyes to the suffering of women in the Middle East and Africa, where the real war on women is being waged with relentless brutality.

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