Radical feminists – who literally flash-mobbed an anti-female Islamic conference by running on stage topless to protest the event – have a message for Americans: Don't be a boob and vote for Hillary just because she's a woman.
The advice from the radical feminist group Femen comes just one week after its members stormed the stage of the conference just outside Paris.
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"I don't advise women to vote for a woman candidate just because she's a woman," said spokeswoman Inna Shevchenko during a Sunday interview with Aaron Klein Investigative Radio. "I advise everybody to vote for [the candidate with] ideas that are useful for women, that are in the name of women's rights. ... For me what matters is that their ideas, which this person will represent and will fight for, will be the ideas in the name of human rights."
Shevchenko said she was "not surprised" many liberal media outlets called Femen an anti-Islam group.
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"This is again not the first time we entered the debates. We, in fact, sparked the debates. We provoked the debates. This is a mission of our movement: to spot the problems, to put the light on something that is ignored or hidden on purpose. ... Whenever you try to discuss religion – to analyze, to criticize, to point the evil parts of it ... you will be immediately be called Islamophobe, Christianpobe, and all sorts of 'phobe.'"
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The Femen spokeswoman then said part of the reason individuals and groups are labeled Islamophobic due to the cultural "illness" of political correctness.
"I call it sort of an illness of society today that people prefer to not speak about the problems. Nobody likes to speak of the problems. People like to ignore them or to try and find an explanation to those problems. And religion is one of them," Shevchenko said.
Listen to the interview with Femen spokeswoman Inna Shevchenko:
"We know that whenever we start the debates there will always be many voices against us. But we know that this is why it is so necessary to start those debates. I was talking about this illness society has, and the illness I call it 'unnecessary political correctness.' And particularly in the questions of religion there is this high level of unnecessary political correctness, where people do not want to say the problem, do not want to analyze because, you know, of self-censorship and being scared of being called Islamophobes or, again, being scared of touching feelings of religious people."
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Last Saturday, two Femen protesters, ages 25 and 31, were arrested after baring their breasts at an Islamic conference near Paris discussing the role of women in society.
Two fundamentalist preachers were responding to a question about “whether wives should be beaten or not,” according to Shevchenko, when the Femen activists ripped off their Arab-style dresses and jumped topless onto the stage.
One of the protesters had the slogan “No one subjugates me” written on her naked torso, while the second Femen activist bore the words, “I am my own prophet.”
Video footage broadcast on the Internet shows one Muslim man kicking one of the women in an attempt to get her off the stage.
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Shevchenko says some of the men shouted “dirty whores” and “kill them.”