Epstein File Hypocrisy Exposes the Double Standard Against Muslim Women
By Daisy Khan
The double standard in how society treats the exploitation of women has become impossible to ignore. Media, comedians, and politicians fixate on what's wrong with Muslim women's lives, repeating stories about honor killings, forced marriages, and child marriages without a single Muslim woman present to speak for herself. Yet when files about trafficking and exploitation of American girls by powerful men remain buried, the conversation suddenly becomes too complicated, too sensitive, too risky. In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, Dr. Daisy Khan calls out the hypocrisy she's watched play out for decades and demands equal accountability regardless of who holds power.
Muslim Women as Spectacle, American Abuse as Secret
For years, stories about Muslim women have been treated not as lived realities but as spectacle, a way to claim moral superiority over Muslims. These narratives get repeated constantly while the women themselves remain absent from conversations about their own lives. The same people who lecture Muslim women about patriarchy and misogyny have nothing to say about violence against girls happening in their own backyard.
When the Epstein files about trafficking and exploitation of young girls are kept hidden, when survivors beg for the truth to come out, when women everywhere demand accountability, the conversation magically shifts. Suddenly, it's not the right time. The story is too messy, too political. But when the story involves Muslim women, they become a fair game. Their pain becomes public. Their lives become the headline. That double standard is exhausting.
The Unlikely Voice Demanding Accountability
One of the only people calling this out right now is an unlikely figure. Marjorie Taylor Greene has routinely pushed anti-Muslim rhetoric, and Dr. Khan makes clear she'll never ignore that history. But on this specific issue, Greene is doing something worthy of respect. She's demanding that all the Epstein files be released for the victims, women who have been waiting for justice for years. She spoke directly to President Trump about it and made the issue personal.
What did Greene get in return? Political heat and threats. Her private security firm warned her about a hotbed of threats she believes are being stirred up by powerful voices. Greene has even linked her fears to the survivors themselves, saying that as a woman, she takes threats from men very seriously and now has a small understanding of the fear Epstein's victims must feel.
This is heartbreaking and alarming because women all over the world understand this feeling in some way. Your voice is the first one that gets dismissed. You're asked to wait. You're told you're exaggerating. The story is too messy, too political, too risky. Whether you're a Muslim woman speaking out about harm done to your sisters around the globe or an American woman demanding buried files be released so abusers can finally be named, the pattern remains the same.
Violence Has No Nationality or Religion
Dr. Khan delivers a direct message: we cannot champion women's rights in one context and ignore them in another just because the abusers are CEOs in tailored suits who carry enormous influence and have been treated like Teflon. The same society that lectures Muslim women about their culture falls silent when educated American men with money, status, and influence abuse minors and walk away unscathed.
Somehow, their violence is never seen as cultural, but ours always is. Oppression does not have a nationality. Abuse does not have a religion. Misogyny is as much Eastern as it is Western. The whole issue is a human problem, one that thrives whenever power hides behind silence.
Muslim women have spent decades being dissected, judged, and demonized by a society that refuses to examine its own misogyny. They get lectured about their culture while American men who are privileged cheat, exploit, abuse, and walk away. Dr. Khan refuses to accept that double standard any longer.
Accountability Must Follow Wrongdoing
The hope is that these files reveal how this blackmail operation actually functioned and expose everyone involved in sustaining it. Accountability should never fall on a single person while others who enabled or benefited from the abuse remain protected. The women harmed deserve justice. The world needs to see that exploitation, no matter how powerful the men behind it, should never be tolerated.
This stands as a clear message. When wrongdoing occurs, accountability must follow. The only way to hold power to account is to make sure that women, whether they are Muslim, American, survivors, or witnesses, are heard. All women deserve that.
Confronting the Hypocrisy Together
Dr. Khan invites listeners to raise their voices alongside hers. If we're brave enough to confront the hypocrisy, to demand transparency, to question the stories we've been told about who is civilized and who is backward, then maybe we can finally build a world where all women's experiences are valued equally.
The double standard has gone on long enough. Muslim women's pain should not be a public spectacle while American girls' exploitation gets buried. Abuse is abuse regardless of the abuser's nationality, religion, or bank account. Justice delayed is justice denied, and the women waiting for these files deserve the truth.
Demand Equal Justice for All Women
The Epstein files represent more than one case. They expose how power protects abusers while silencing victims. Whether exploitation happens in a village overseas or a mansion in America, accountability must follow. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Use your voice to demand transparency. Refuse to accept double standards that value some women's pain over others. Justice for women cannot be selective.
This is Wise Women with Daisy Khan – because every story matters. Wisdom isn't just heard, it's lived. So let's live it. Until next time, stay wise and stay rooted.
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