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Having captured key districts and border posts with Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the Taliban are now hunting for women in these areas. “All imams and mullahs in captured areas should provide the Taliban with a list of girls above 15 and widows under 45 to be married to Taliban fighters,” read a letter issued in the name of the Taliban’s Cultural Commission for Islamic preachers in the region. The Taliban has promised to marry these women to their fighters and take them to Pakistan’s Waziristan. There, these women will be converted to Islam and reintegrated. Is anyone talking about...

PRE 1967 'SIX-DAY WAR': ARABS' WAR BOOTY WOMEN - FANTASY Prior to the '67 war Arab defeat, the hype on Arab street was extatic. The masses fantasized "romantically" about ancient Arab-Islsmic culture of women in war booty. The War of Arab Destruction that Became the "Palestinian Nakba" By: Dr. Yohai Sella | May 21, 2010 Originally published in Middle Eastern Magazine. Every year, on May 15, the Arabs celebrate the events of the "Palestinian Nakba" in memory of the efforts of the Arab states to destroy the Jewish community in Israel - an effort that turned into a military defeat...

SOUTH END -- At a solemn Vespers service Oct. 18 at the chapel of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley blessed five bells from closed Holy Trinity Church that will soon ring once again in the cathedral bell tower.The bells, which will be the first bells installed in the cathedral -- the sound of bells at the cathedral until now have been created by an electronic carillon -- have a storied history.Markings on the bells identify them as having been made by Naylor, Vickers and Co. of Sheffield, England.According to the archdiocese, the bells came to...