"The battle between Syrian secular activists and feminists" I thought this needed a more in-depth analysis which should have included a summary of the modern sociology of Syria, and the form of capitalism that has shaped men-women relationships and the outlook of "the feminists movement" within its class background.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51