17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Sean, Women's place in Islam is just fine. The problem is that _Arabs_ like to define their ages-old cultural suppression of woman as Islamic. Which it is not. YOu in England are dealing with an unrepresentative sample of the Islamic world. May I suggest a few weeks of traveling through Java and Mindanao, to see another side of the coin. The crusaders liked to define their thuggery and thievery in the Balkans and middle East as being driven by Christian imperatives. Should we say that the Crusader's *actions* were a good definition of "christian principles"? Alan Horowitz alanh@norfolk.infi.net