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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. (Read a story on how a Muslim community is moving on after the shootings at Fort Hood...
...just as the meltdown of Taliban military power has not brought real peace to Afghanistan, neither has the disappearance of its hated religious police brought women freedom overnight. Afghan society is tribal and conservative. Except for a small minority of educated professionals in Kabul, women have long been relegated to a subservient role. In rural areas of northern Afghanistan that are under the control of the Northern Alliance, the burka is still universal, though no law requires it. Even in Kabul, where Western-style skirts were not uncommon before the Taliban, many women say the burka is the least...
...enough left for al-Qaida to run its international terrorist operations. Also, the Taliban now have the "infidels" where they want them - not up in the sky, but on the ground in Afghanistan." Felgenhauer's cheerily predicts that Afghanistan will now break down into a "maze of warlord-led tribal fiefdoms" each financed by the drug trade and looting international aid. He foresees the Americans facing the same basic problem as the Russians experienced in Afghanistan: "that they never knew for sure who was their ally...
...These gatherings change so little year to year because the holidays are a time for reminiscences, not for moving ahead. We save our forward momentum for December 31st. No matter how busy everyone is, there?s always time to review past tribal traumas, including but not limited to the time Aunt Edna mistakenly included a raw egg in her gravy and everyone was vomiting for days. Ancient customs reemerge the moment you walk through your parents' familiar front door. You and your little brother are both grownups now, but you still can't stand the way he refuses to rinse...
...Pentagon. The U.S. hopes that Karzai will help persuade the Pashtun not to side with the Taliban against the Uzbeks, Tajiks and Hazaras. But for that to happen, Washington must rein in the worst excesses of their ethnic foes, once Northern Alliance fighters sweep into the Pashtun tribal lands...