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'Nother fine one by Tunku.

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"If we allow them to cover their heads," says a retired psychotherapist -- a woman who would not look out of place in Manhattan -- "one day we will all have to cover ours."

This is the phrase that struck me. The Turks seem to have the right idea: don't tolerate intolerance, whereas we Americans go blindly tolerating everything until intolerance becomes soup du jour the way the intolerance of political correctness has become. Just ask the Boy Scouts of America. Just ask the Young Republicans on college campuses.

[secretagent]

The Quran says: "…marry such women as seem good to you, two and three and four; but if you fear that you will not do justice [between them], then [marry] only one…." Where, Ms. Melly's lawyer asks, is the enforcement of the requirement of "doing justice," the good bit of this particular Quranic rule?

The enforcement lies with the husband alone, apparently.

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"Not all stereotypes are inaccurate"

Good Golly, how did this heresy get by the editor/censor?

[Congressman Billybob]

Excellent and thoughtful article. It makes the sidebar point that the message viewers get from TV programs is not always the one the producers of that message intended.

Remember the commercial that Walter Mondale ran against Ronald Reagan which showed a Titan missile launch? Right after the blast doors flung open and the missile rose on a pillar of flame, the shot changed to the blue ball of Earth in space.

The idea was to paint Reagan as a man who might start a thermonuclear war -- the same charge that LBJ made against Goldwater with the girl-in-field followed by nuclear-detonation commercial (pulled after it was run once).

But consider the message that Joe Six-Pack would get from the Mondale commercial. Was it that Reagan was dangerous? I think not. I Joe's reaction to the Mondale commercial, which was run repeatedly, was, "Look at that baby fly. Is this a great nation, or what?"

Sometimes TV producers are just too slick for their own good -- just like politicians.

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If we allow them to cover their heads," says a retired psychotherapist -- a woman who would not look out of place in Manhattan -- "one day we will all have to cover ours."

Reminds me of something I read the other day on Glenn Reynold's Instapundit:

...Salah's response to some critical comments is this: "We are fighting for self-determination. That means that we wish to live according to our own societal values, not your Western ones. You are a cultural imperialist. I appreciate your concern for our struggle, but WE will decide for ourselves." That reminds me of this quote, from some French Communist or other (this is from memory): "When you are in power, you give me freedom because that is according to your principles. When I am in power, I will take away your freedom, because that is according to my principles."