Ni Putes Ni Soumises Organizes an Educational Workshop in Paris

I had the pleasure of attending an educational workshop in Paris, one of the many organized and led by Ni Putes Ni Soumises (Neither Whores Nor Submissives) (NPNS), along with Mariam Toure, one of the leaders of Ni Putes Ni Soumises.

This workshop was an introduction to Ni Putes Ni Soumises and a discussion of individualism versus communitarianism in both the US and France for a group of mostly American exchange students.

It was fascinating.  We have this notion in the US that we hold individual rights above all, above group rights.

But, is that really the case?  Not when the right of religious liberty trumps all, which it seems to do nowadays.  Not when communities of obscurantists and cultural relativists may ply their right to religious freedom as a weapon, a weapon against the US Constitution.  They use it to immunize themselves, so that they may indoctrinate their children and treat their women as sex slaves and subjugate and abuse the most vulnerable members of their communities.  What choice, what rights do the women and children in fundamentalist Christian communities possess?

None.  I know, because I grew up in one.

This is why I want to import some of the values of NPNS into the US.  We need some la laicite (the French brand of strict secularism) stateside.

Here are just a couple of pictures of the event.  Enjoy: