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...happening again. In Iran, educated women who fail some sort of veil test are being imprisoned by their oppressors. Saudi women under their body sheets long to show themselves and share the world equally with men. Exiles who fled such practices to seek refuge in Europe now find the evil is following them. As a female lawyer from Saudi Arabia once said to me: "The Koran does not ask us to bury ourselves. We must be modest. These fools who are taking niqab will one day suffocate like I did, but they will not be allowed to leave the coffin...
...reporter Chris Hansen, who grills and humiliates them before handing them over to cops. "Predator" is ratings gold, a jaw-dropping combination of public service and blood sport that lets viewers indulge their voyeurism righteously--like the Colosseum, if the lions were allowed to eat only the really, really evil Christians...
...visit to Punjab University reveals what that means in practice. About 2,400 of the university's 24,000 students belong to I.J.T. Members are expected to live morally and to abide by the Koran's injunction to spread good and suppress evil. For many, that involves adopting an austere lifestyle. Members meet for regular study sessions and must attend all-night prayer meetings at least once a month. Outside the classroom, complete segregation of the genders is strictly observed. When asked, many members are critical of the U.S. and its policies toward the Muslim world; although the group...
...true. The Core office has stolen the soul of liberal arts from Harvard. It’s true that it can be a bureaucracy marked by arrogance in its personnel and inflexibility in its policy. It’s all true. The Core is, in a word, evil. Still, this need not be cause for despair and lamentation. Sure, they’re annoying. But have you noticed that they’re all the way over there on Dunster Street? Have you noticed, as I have in the few times I’ve been over there, that...
...bonfire. Pink balloons were released during the next football game, with ?I love you guys? painted on the field. Most memorably, the family asked America to respond to this random act of violence with random acts of kindness. Not an eye for an eye, but random good for random evil...