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Feh! Is that what you think Muslim women think?

Here's what I think they think every night:

"Ugh...here comes old hogbreath with two weeks sweat stuck to his body and a beard full of bacteria. He's gonna hop on and off, and I'll be pregnant with my tenth brat. God, I wish I were Catherine Zeta-Jones! Or maybe just a lady lawyer".

LOL. Maybe some think that. But I often think of a woman I met in the Sudan, Leyla. She is about my age, with three very attractive daughters in their late teens and early 20's. She is a member of the upper classes, with a doctorate, and a large home. She runs a Sudanese women's NGO.

When she learned that I had six children, she got teary. She said that when she was of childbearing age, she listened to the people (mostly Westerners) who said that modern women had small families. She now regrets it.