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...that falls short of Betty Friedan, there is more ground to cover. Asked about the controversial Koranic sura 4:34--with its sanction of spousal punishment, including beating, for "insubordination"--Kareem, who is chairman of the Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, is bemused. "It's amazing how many men know this quote from the Koran--if they know nothing else in it," he says. Most already understand the "beatings" as light taps. Further study, he maintains, would reveal that husband may punish wife for religious infractions only and that holy writ calls for "mutual consultation between husband and wife...
...there is no need to bring the war to Iraq—or any other country for that matter. The Bush administration’s approach to this war is fundamentally flawed: it presumes that the way to destroy a terrorist network is to steamroll an entire country and punish thousands of people who hate the terrorists as much as we do. We should not delude ourselves into believing that the battlefield success in Afghanistan vindicates the administration’s view. Sure, a conventional military campaign can get rid of a nasty government, but it will not wipe...
...context of continuing the U.S. campaign against terrorism, his point of attack was Iraq's weapons programs rather than any links to the September 11 strikes, which have thus far proved elusive. President Bush sought to make the link by warning, in the context of his vow to punish states that support terrorism, that "if they develop weapons of mass destruction that will be used to terrorize nations, they will be held accountable." He demanded that Baghdad allow the resumption of UN arms inspections that ended late in 1998, when the U.S. and Britain launched four days of air strikes...
...Bush measures bend the law? Of course they do. But law is designed to punish past crimes. Unfortunately, we are at war. And in wartime, the imperative is to prevent the enemy from perpetrating future crimes...
...Rumsfeld may have been inviting bin Laden to make a run for it, knowing well that the escape hatches were slamming shut. American patrol planes watched the borders. Pakistan warned its tribal chieftains that it would punish anyone who gave sanctuary to bin Laden. Pakistani officials and American ground troops tightened their surveillance of refugees flowing out of Afghanistan. On Saturday, Pakistani guards at the Chaman border detained three Arab women and their two children trying to cross into Pakistan. The three women, from Yemen, claimed that their Arab husbands had been killed in the U.S. bombing as they fled...