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History shows us that no tradition, no faith, and no culture is immune from moral failure. For centuries, Christians tolerated slavery, child marriage, domestic violence, and incest. Women were told to submit, and their suffering was excused under the guise of “family values.” It took generations of reform, protest, and biblical reinterpretation for conservative Christians to evolve morally — to realize that protecting women and children was not a betrayal of faith but its truest fulfillment.
Slavery itself was once defended by churchmen. But Christians confronted this evil, abolished it in their own nations, and declared human bondage incompatible with moral truth. That is the arc of moral evolution.
And yet today, progressives — once seen as champions of women — are backsliding into moral blindness.
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October 7 and the New Silence on Rape
On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists unleashed an orgy of violence in Israel. Human Rights Watch, the UN, and Israel’s ZAKA rescue service all confirmed women were raped, tortured, and mutilated in systematic sexual attacks. The UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict called it “rape as a weapon of war.”
In a sane world, feminists would have been on the frontlines of outrage. Instead, many progressive voices fell silent. Some even argued that speaking out about these rapes might “fuel Islamophobia.” In effect, the victims were erased — their pain sacrificed on the altar of political convenience. That is not feminism.
That is betrayal.
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Queers for Palestine: A Tragic Paradox
The hypocrisy deepens in the spectacle of “Queers for Palestine.” In Gaza, homosexuality is illegal. A 2023 Human Rights Watch report documented the arrest, torture, and abuse of LGBTQ people by Hamas. Across the Muslim world, more than 10 countries still prescribe the death penalty for same-sex relations.
And yet, in New York and London, Western activists march with banners proclaiming solidarity with movements that openly call for their extermination. It is moral incoherence: demanding safe spaces at home, while aligning with regimes that deny the right to exist.
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Silencing Feminists Who Speak
Meanwhile, old-school feminists — the second-wave radicals who still insist that women’s rights matter — face harassment, death threats, and cancellation. Women such as JK Rowling, Kathleen Stock, and Julie Bindel are branded “TERFs” for refusing to erase sex-based rights.
Progressive feminists, instead of defending their sisters, have become enforcers of silence. Many who dare to question imported misogyny, Sharia norms, or the erasure of women are met with rape threats online. The women who once shouted “silence = violence” now tell their peers to shut up or else.
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Afghanistan: A Crime Against Humanity
Nowhere is regression clearer than Afghanistan. Since the Taliban retook power in 2021, women have been erased from public life:
In 2023, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch declared the Taliban’s treatment of women a “crime against humanity: gender persecution.”
Yet Western progressives remain silent.
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Cousin Marriage and Cultural Relativism
In the United Kingdom, cousin marriage remains disproportionately common in some communities. A 2013 British Medical Journal study found consanguinity rates of up to 55% in some British Pakistani families, with significantly higher risks of congenital disabilities. Children and mothers bear the cost.
Yet UK officials and academics downplay the issue, warning that raising concerns might be “culturally insensitive.” But harm is harm. Protecting children must come before cultural relativism.
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Slavery: Past and Present
Conservatives had to confront their own complicity in slavery and abolish it — a moral stand that reshaped the West. But slavery has not disappeared.
In 2014, the world watched ISIS enslave Yazidi women, selling them in open slave markets. The UN confirmed that women and girls as young as 9 were sold as “wives.” A 2018 CNN investigation exposed modern-day slave auctions in Libya, where migrants were sold for as little as $400. Across parts of the Muslim world, “temporary marriages” are used as fronts for sex trafficking.
Slavery — and the selling of women — continues. Yet progressives, who once cried “never again,” grow silent when it is inconvenient to confront.
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The Cost of Hypocrisy
This hypocrisy has a cost measured in women’s bodies and lives:
Progressives once fought for universal rights. Now, too often, they excuse oppression when it comes cloaked in cultural relativism.
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A Call for Consistency
Conservative Christians once had to confront their own sins. They abolished slavery, ended child marriage in the West, criminalized domestic abuse, and redefined family values to defend women. That moral evolution shows what is possible.
If Christians could evolve, so can Democrats. So can progressives. But it requires moral clarity. It requires courage.
Because rape is never “resistance.” The burqa is not “choice” when enforced. Cousin marriage is not “tradition” when it causes suffering. Slavery, in any form, under any flag, is always evil.
Anything less than naming these truths is not compassion. It is complicity.
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Sources: Amnesty International, Afghanistan: Gender Persecution as Crime Against Humanity (2023) UNESCO, Afghanistan: Denial of Education to Women and Girls (2023) Human Rights Watch, LGBT Rights in Gaza (2023) ILGA World, State-Sponsored Homophobia Report (2023) British Medical Journal, Risk of Congenital Anomalies in Consanguineous Marriages (2013) UN Human Rights Council, ISIS Crimes Against Yazidis (2016) CNN, People for Sale: Libya Slave Trade (2017)
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