The Enemy of my enemy.

...is not always your friend.

Thats the point Dadmanly has been making for the last few months, and finally we hear from a feminist who has finally seen the light.

Dadmanly writes:

Pamela Bone, writing an Op Ed in The Australian, bewails the silence of feminists in the face of Muslim oppression of women, and warns:

Hate Bush if you want, but please understand that your enemy's enemies are not necessarily your friends.

As I just told Southern California Soldier's Angel Marian:

Keep up the good work and never forget that our life is at stake. If the Left wins, we all lose.

Bone continues:

It seems inconceivable that we could lose this war against terrorism. But if we do, the consequences will be awful. And they will be worse for women, for the women in the generations that will follow us. We have to fight not against Muslims but against Islamic extremism. Don't expect left-wing men to help. They're full of "I'm not scared" bravado. Don't expect all Muslim women to want to be in the fight. There have always been women who oppose rights for women. (Remember the petition, from women, against Australian women getting the vote?) But the least we can do is let the brave Muslim women who are pushing for reforms know they have our support when they want it.

Most of us 1970s feminists are grandmothers now. Lifelong socialist and humanist that I am, if fighting to prevent the possibility that my granddaughters - our granddaughters - will one day be forced to wear a burka makes me right-wing, then right-wing is the label I'll have to wear.

Regardless of her labeling, she is obviously someone who gets it, I hope the rest of the feminists get it and soon.