Carolien de Kovel

This is just a few minutes of my speech to 1,000 women concerned about America’s future. To the global feminist movement, Women’s March organizers, and organizations celebrating the suffragettes: I am deeply concerned about the growing threat of Islamism to women’s rights, not only in Iran and Afghanistan, but across the West. Tomorrow, I travel to Spain and Poland with a delegation of courageous women from Iran and Afghanistan, some blinded under Islamic States. My dream is to bring these women to a nationwide university campus tour in America and Europe . Let the students in the West hear directly from women who carry the scars of religious extremism on their bodies. I am calling on American and European universities, women’s organizations, and philanthropists: Help them tell their stories. They don’t need your pity. They need your platform. Women’s rights have no borders. Neither should our sisterhood.