Duke Prof: Feminist 'Soft' Jihad a Force for Peace

Duke Prof: Feminist ‘Soft’ Jihad a Force for Peace

Ellen McLarney

Whitewashing jihad has long been a cottage industry in academe, where professors twist logic and ignore evidence to insist that peace will blossom if only wishful thinking prevails. Writing for Campus Watch, Andrew Harrod reports on a recent lecture by Duke prof Ellen McClarney that perfectly illustrates this fantasy world in which jihad brings peace rather than war. His piece appears today at FrontPage Magazine:

Ellen McLarney, who teaches Asian and Middle Eastern studies at Duke, would have you believe that a “pacifist struggle for civil jihad” led by Islamic feminists offers a benign “alternative kind of jihad” to that practiced by Islamist terrorists worldwide.

She peddled her thesis to about twenty listeners (mostly graduate students) in a February 8 George Washington University lecture, reprising discussion of her recent book, Soft Force: Women in Egypt’s Islamic Awakening. McLarney’s lecture omitted the totalitarian jihadist ideology underlying what she described as a “protracted struggle with non-democratic regimes over matters of human rights.”

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Winfield Myers

Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.