They’re not interested in the work of women like Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi, who says that girls are valued so little in Muslim culture that they’re often killed and disposed of at birth.

“As a child, I saw one of my paternal aunts being submitted to resounding slaps on her face because she had given birth to a third daughter,” Saadawi writes. “The father so hated this child that he used to insult his wife if she used to care for her…The baby had died before she had completed forty days of her life, and I do not know whether she died of neglect, or whether the mother smothered her to death.” Palestinian writer Souad, whom I mentioned in my last column, says that her mother suffocated nine of her own baby daughters.

How could the left possibly defend cultures like these?

Because they hate their own culture. They hate Western civilization and believe Western countries, especially the U.S., are racist, sexist colonialist oppressors. (Or as leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky calls America, “a leading terrorist state.”) They desperately want to believe woman-hating Third World cultures are morally superior to our own.

They’re not. When it comes to the rights of women, the West is vastly superior to Muslim cultures. This fact is undeniable to everyone except those on the radical left.

“United in Hate,” indeed—with people who hate women, that is.