Although (unlike Maryna) I am not a “Viking descendant Slav” but rather what you can call a “Tatar descendant Slav” – shorter, darker and hairier – and happen to reside among the even “darker” Arabs, I think I can offer some insight into the debate. In particular, I can try to help Eastern Europeans like Maryna who still do not understand why Muslim women are so angry and why they reacted the way they did.
Al Jazeera: FEMEN, Eastern European women and the Muslim sisters
I have been following the raging online battle over the FEMEN "Topless Jihad Day" and hoped that someone would move away from the Western White versus Eastern Muslim debate and talks about Eastern European women. I read Maryna Hrushetska's article on Al Jazeera and was disappointed, as not only the author fails to provide any context to the Eastern European women's experience, but - based on it, I presume she grew up in Ukraine - also fails to understand why the debate has been raging for so long in the first place.
