You're In The Agora
Welcome to the Net's best new source for commentary on current events, culture, faith, science and much more.
Faith
Confessing Evangelical Evangelical Outpost He Lives Mere Comments Mirror of Justice Religion Clause Three Hierarchies Science Dispatches from the Culture Wars In the Pipeline New Scientist Tierney Lab Liberty A Constrained Vision Asymmetrical Information Becker-Posner Blog Hit & Run Instapundit Positive Liberty The Agitator Volokh Conspiracy Economics Café Hayek EconLog Environmental Economics Freakonomics Free Exchange Greg Mankiw J. Bradfor DeLong Marginal Revolution The Right Andrew Sullivan Best of the Web Eunomia Hugh Hewitt Michelle Malkin Power Line The American Scene The Corner The Left After the Future Ezra Klein Matthew Yglesias Political Animal Talking Points Memo Errata Daniel Drezner Democracy in America Dilbert Blog Lilek's Bleat Overcoming Bias The Sartorialist Hoosiers Daily Contentions Indiana Barrister Masson's Blog Matthew Stevenson |
|
« A Request for Feedback | Main | The Shadow Internet » December 30, 2004The Hejab as DisguiseWashington Post describes why young Iraqi women are wearing the traditional Muslim head scarf, the hejab. They feel threatened by the insurgents, who are said to kill women who go about unveiled. These days, even Christians--who make up as much as a tenth of Baghdad's population--say they have to put on the scarf. Hearteningly, some of the women the Post talks with say they fear the insurgents want to turn Iraq into the Taliban's Afghanistan--this is heartening because the women do not want that, and because everyone knows what that will entail. But it is also heartrending, because they know what these homegrown fundamentalists want, and they are giving it to them. I can't blame them for that, but stories like these keep accumulating. Posted by Paul Musgrave at December 30, 2004 12:32 PM Comments |
|
---- ADVERTISEMENTS ----
|