![]() Abu-Lughod’s article, “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?,” provided many of us with an eloquent and definitive answer to Bush’s claim, rejecting the cynical and condescending notion that it was up to “us” to save “them” from the terrorists. They can listen to music and teach their daughters without fear of punishment” (32). “Because of our recent military gains,” she said in a November 2001 radio broadcast to the nation, “women are no longer imprisoned in their homes. Laura Bush had famously justified the war on terror as “a fight for the rights and dignity of women” in Afghanistan. ![]() ![]() In 2002, when the invasion of Afghanistan was under way and the drums of war beat on insistently, Lila Abu-Lughod published an article that refused the argument that the United States was engaged in a mission to save women from the Taliban. ![]()
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