International
Veiled Sexuality
A woman swathed in black to her ankles, wearing a headscarf or a full chador , walks down a European or North American street, surrounded by other women in halter tops, miniskirts and short shorts. She passes under immense billboards on which other women swoon in sexual ecstasy, cavort in lingerie or simply stretch out languorously, almost fully naked. Could this image be any more iconic of the discomfort the West has with the social mores of Islam, and vice versa?
Another lost war in Afghanistan: What’s going wrong?
You don't have to be born in the West or be a Westerner to hate the Taleban. Most of us in the Middle East and the larger Muslim world have grown sick and tired of their extremist, truly bizarre ways and their absurd interpretation of Islam.
Other International Articles
Another lost war in Afghanistan: What’s going wrong?
Veiled Sexuality
Millions still trapped in Indian floods
McCain's VP pick: Ex-beauty queen and America’s ‘hottest governor’
Putin in fresh attack on US over Georgia
The digital war on poverty
Why Russia came to the rescue of South Ossetia and Abkhazia
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