EDITORIAL: TRASHING ISLAM
Maggie Gallagher, Yahoo.com, 11/12/02
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/021113/105/2o56v.html
Meanwhile, at about the same time, New York Times reporter Maureen Dowd was
touring Saudi Arabia, mesmerized by what she saw as the internal
contradictions of Islamic repression: "Frederick's of Hollywood-style
lingerie shops abound, even though female sexuality is considered so
threatening that the mere sight of a woman's ankle will cause civilization
to crumble," she ponders...
Fellow New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof was even worse, apparently
spending his precious visa in Saudi Arabia going up to veiled Saudi women
and asking them why they did not show him a little leg...
What is it with these stereotypical puerile Americans -- ignorant,
provincial, obsessed with sexual license as the marker of human liberty?
Elites who claim to want to promote a better understanding of Islam should
start by realizing that democracy and human rights do not require sexual
libertinism. To suggest that in order to modernize, Muslim societies need
to embrace the worst of the trashy commercialism of Western culture is not
true and deeply self-defeating...
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Amadou O. Wane
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CIW Certified Info. Security
Tampa, Florida
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