Women’s rights activists Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Asra Nomani have accused four female Democratic senators of ignoring them during a committee hearing last week, complaining the lawmakers did not ask them a single question. “This wasn’t a case of benign neglect,” Ali and Nomani wrote, in a New York Times op-ed published Thursday. Hirsi Ali and Nomani are outspoken critics of attitudes and policies that marginalize women in Islamic societies. While the Democratic senators directed their questions to other witnesses, only two of the eight Republican senators -- Johnson and Daines -- attended the hearing and participated in questioning. But Nomani told Fox News that she and Hirsi Ali understood the “human circumstances” for their absence, but were disappointed by the approach of the Democratic senators who did attend.

Source: Fox News June 23, 2017 20:46 UTC