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...month the brother spotted Shaima walking in the sprawling outdoor market in east Baghdad. He lunged at his sister with a knife, but she fled toward a policeman standing nearby. Shaima's brother explained to the officer that he was carrying out the family's desire to "cleanse" the shame over Shaima's profession. "Any other policeman would have turned me over to him," says Shaima. "For some reason, he shielded me." Her eyes darting around the cafe, Shaima says she does not expect to be so lucky the next time. "My brother's still out there--hunting...
...East where the tradition is tolerated, such as Egypt and Morocco, honor killings are largely treated as private family matters in Iraq. In conservative tribal communities, women who lose their virginity before marriage or who have an extramarital affair are sometimes murdered by family members seeking to avoid the shame and social isolation that the clan is subject to if one of its female members has sex outside marriage. Under Saddam's laws, which are still in place, men convicted of honor killings can receive up to three years in jail. But because the crime is rarely reported...
...which is close to finishing a $1 billion renovation. And a giant furniture showroom is being built downtown. Mayor Goodman hopes that in the future people will think of Vegas for gambling, sex and furniture. It's conceivable that in a few decades, Vegas will have completely shed its shame and kitsch, that it will be a multidimensional one-industry town like Los Angeles, only more urban and with better food. Already the young and old come to Vegas without irony, and its faux architecture and grand showmanship are thought of around the globe as simply American. If New Vegas...
Culpability or Shame...
...hometown, Najaf, in one of the holiest Shi'ite mosques. I have no doubt that U.S. forces could have made Fallujah a ghost town and leveled the mosque in Najaf with al-Sadr in it, but then what would Klein have said? Rodney Schulling Chisinau, Moldova Culpability or Shame? You wrote about how Bush administration officials looked into reshaping America's stance on torture [June 21]. Torture is torture. Period. Honor is honor. Period. There are no shades of gray. If the U.S. wishes to hold itself up as the light of freedom and civil rights, it must maintain moral...