How Come?

How come the across the country from campuses to corporate america and in the hearts of most Americans did we oppose South African apartheid...and yet there is no equivalent attention or concern with the way women are treated in Islamic societies from Iran to Saudi Arabia to Pakistan to Somolia and the former Taliban regime? Where are the feminist organizations who do work opposing honor killings, genital mutilation, and so forth? Are they out there, but just unable to get their message out? How is this not the great liberal cause of our generation? How can liberals allow neoconservatives to be the only group with a plan - use American military might - to end these practices. Why aren't there other organized efforts to bring these injustices to an end so that people can have a choice of tactics would work better?

And why is there greater attention paid to Ayaan Hirsi Ali? She is to Muslim women what Nelsen Mandela was for South Africans and what Martin Luther King was for African Americans. And I bet not one of hundred americans know who she is.