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Honor killings are an example of a practice that is commonly associated with Islam but actually has broader roots. It is based in medieval tribal culture, in which a family's authority, and ultimately its survival, was tightly linked to its honor. Arab Christians have been known to carry out honor killings. However, Muslim perpetrators often claim their crimes are justified by harsh Islamic penalties, including death for adultery. And so religious and cultural customs become confused...
...thereby preserve chastity. FGM is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and in Egypt, with scattered cases in Asia and other parts of the Middle East. The World Health Organization estimates that up to 140 million girls and women have undergone the procedure. Some Muslims believe it is mandated by Islam, but the practice predates Muhammad and is also common among some Christian communities...
Turkey is an exception to many rules. Women in Turkey are the most liberated in the Muslim world, though Malaysia and Indonesia come close, having hosted relatively progressive cultures before Islam came to Southeast Asia in the 9th century. In Turkish professional life women enjoy a level of importance that is impressive not only by the standards of other Islamic countries but also by European lights. Turkey's liberalism is a legacy of the republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, an aggressive secularist who gave women rights unprecedented in the Muslim world (even if he found it hard to accept...
...LISA BEYER has been editing our foreign coverage in recent weeks. In the current issue she writes about the women of Islam. It's a subject she knows well, having been based in the Middle East from 1991 to 2000. Talk to her on Tuesday...
...Qaeda and its various factions never had the ability to start a revolution in their own countries--a people's revolution like the ones in France, Poland, Russia and the U.S. These cowards live in caves for a reason. They are afraid to face society and Islam openly with their complaints. An open society is easy to destroy but harder to build, maintain and govern. These terrorists are so intolerant of others, they themselves are dictators. GERRI CROFTS Whitehouse Station...