Muslim Women Blast Femen Proteststs for Them; Call Topless Protests Women's Liberation Rubbish

The Ukrainian-based women's protest group Femen drew the anger of some Muslim women of their "International Topless Jihad Day," which was held on April 4 in several European capitals -- such as Berlin, Paris, and Kiev -- in order to support the rights of Muslim women, the Global Post website reports today (April 7, 2013).

"We Muslim women and those who stand with us, need to show Femen and their supporters, that their actions are counterproductive and we as Muslim women oppose them," wrote the group "Muslim Women Against Femen."

Thirteen members of the Muslim group -- which claims that Femen is Islamophobic and imperialist -- wrote about their objections to the Ukrainian group. Their statement says, in part: "We are proud Muslimahs, and we're sick of your colonial, racist rubbish disguised as 'women's liberation!'"

Inna Shevchenko -- Femen's leader -- responded to the anti-Femen group with a statement of her own. She wrote, in part: "You know, through all history of humanity, all slaves deny that they are slaves being scared to fight for freedom."