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Interview with Nawal El Saadawi

The white mane around the girl's beautiful face 77enne without a trace of makeup, Nawal El Saadawi smiles often. With his smile and his radical ideas have always challenge everything and everybody. Born in an Egyptian village, was one of the first women doctor in his country, then sexologist, feminist, writer, dissident activist against female genital mutilation, has suffered as a child, imprisoned by Sadat for his ideas, death threats from fundamentalists. And in the meantime, three husbands and two children. In May will be back in Egypt after an exile in the United States following a trial for apostasy, who now has won. In 2005 she challenged Egyptian President Mubarak, but his application was granted: "In Egypt there is a very oppressive regime, Mubarak, Sadat's worse, there is no true democracy, the opposition is a sham, the media is controlled, and all this with the backing of the U.S. and Europe, unfortunately. Egypt is an American colony, where all forms of fundamentalism are raised. There is much talk of what Islamic, but there is also a Christian. And the responsibility is American. As in other parts of the world the U.S. in the past have favored the anti-fundamentalism in function. "

Islam and democracy compatible?

-No religion is compatible with democracy because religions are inherently authoritarian. But now he talks a lot because they are used in politics.

She always fights for the emancipation of women. But in Europe many girls "liberated", including university, children of immigrants claim the right to wear the veil against the advice of their own mothers.

These girls feel

-West hostility and choose the veil as a defense mechanism of identity, but it is a false identity. The veil has nothing to do with Islam: they put the Jews, Christian and Muslim, but it requires no holy book, is just a tool of oppression of patriarchy in which we live today. Serves to hide the brains of women whose men are very afraid.

should ban it?

-No, the way to overcome these problems is social justice, ensuring that European and foreign women and men equal rights.

I know that she criticizes the alleged emancipation of Western women.

-make-up, the obsession with the body is the veil of post-modern Western women. Their freedom is freedom to be sexual objects. A freedom without consciousness among the students of my courses in the U.S., more than a third had an abortion when she was a teenager. This is not freedom. In the U.S., do not ask me why I resort to plastic surgery, but my identity is not given by my body, but from my brain, from what I do and I write.

How do you see the future?

-In the world there is so much injustice, wealth is in the hands of 2% of the world. But the market turmoil of recent days marks a turning point that led the U.S. to take action even "socialist" to save the economy, is a sign of a collapse of a system.

(Paola Rizzi Metro)