If you haven’t already, do yourself a favour and watch the France 24 clip on Muslim misogyny Rita Panahi posted on her Herald Sun blog. And, if you can, resist the temptation to put your fist through the screen.

Hard to say what’s worse? Is it the rank, unmanly rudeness? Is it the violation of basic human rights, in the nation that practically invented the idea? Or is the wholesale rolling back of women’s equality? You can decide that for yourself. As for me, what’s really sickening about that video is the misogyny – the pure, undisguised hatred for women that burns in those men’s eyes.

The presenter (to her credit) makes a point of acknowledging the Islamic roots of this practice of segregation. Granted, whatever you want to say about Islam’s views on gender, it doesn’t mandate the seething disgust those men clearly feel for the women in their community. Yet the one clearly follows from the other, doesn’t it?

We see this in every segregationist society, whether it’s segregated by gender or race or religion or class. Laws and social mores virtually never demand the dominant group to hate those they oppress. In fact, there’s usually a culture of paternalistic, condescending benevolence. (‘What would the blacks do if we didn’t give them food and shelter? They’d never make it on their own!’ cried the slave-owner.) But there’s no mistaking the malice that really underlies such societies. Little wonder that, when American Southerners could no longer ‘condescend’ to owning blacks, they refused to associate with them at all. They didn’t believe their own lies about benevolence and ‘the white man’s burden’.

And now the same is true of Islamic communities in the West. Without a legal system defining women as the property of their fathers and husbands, those fathers and husbands want nothing to do with them. So women are bullied, threatened, and intimidated when they dare to exercise their newly-minted right to appear in public unescorted.

Ms Panahi – who, don’t get me wrong, is a national treasure – uses her post to take aim at Western feminists who ‘rail against burkini bans, sexist air conditioning and gendered toys’ but not, you know, the oppression of women. Fair point. But it’s not as though this would all change if only we could get the feminists to take off their identity-politics blinders. Because, frankly, what are we going to do about it? Are we going to send a Million White Woman March through Sevran? Do you think these menfolk would suddenly care what a woman thinks because she has pale skin? Or are we going to raise a task force of Assimilation Police to patrol Muslim ghettos and ensure everyone’s abiding by Western memes?

Of course, this wouldn’t be a problem if those ghettos didn’t exist. It’s only in these enclaves that ‘old-world’ norms persist. But what can we do about it now that they’re there? Is the government going to forcibly relocate Muslims to other parts of France, so that woman-haters will feel socially pressured to treat their wives and daughters with dignity by their ethnically French neighbours?

Truthfully, I don’t think there’s really anything we can do. If French Muslim women ever achieve true equality, they’ll probably have to re-enact the agonising centuries it took for Western women to do the same. They’ll have to organise their own demonstrations, offer up their own martyrs, and devote their own lifetimes to earning the right to have a beer in a public café.

Shame on those of you who brought this fate down on us. Shame on those self-satisfied multicultists who’ve turned huge swaths of the West – once the first and last bastion of women’s equality – into an exact replica of sundry Middle Eastern theocracies. Shame on those who, in the name of progress, tore down the shelter and built a harem. These women’s misery is entirely your fault.

Conservatives will step in and help these women enjoy the rights they’re entitled to as citizens of a civilised, Western nation. That’s always been our promise to all who come here: equality under the law if they respect our culture. You’ve taken that precious gift and turned it into something possibly worse than what they left behind. They escaped sexism only to discover misogyny. They fled legal oppression and found existential hatred. And you’re to blame. Now go away at once, and never darken the doorsteps of Sevran or Rotherham or Melbourne again.