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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (251369)4/26/2002 4:43:35 PM
From: Scumbria   of 769670
 
Consider (a recent) situation in the Arab world: the unveiled girls who were caught recently in a fire at their school in Saudi Arabia. Because the girls were not dressed in proper hijab, male rescuers did not go in to rescue them. Their fragile masculinity--the same fragile masculinity that has led Muslim clerics for generations to opportunistically misinterpret the Koran's teachings on women--also prevented them from saving innocent lives.

Likewise, the same insecure and thwarted masculinity that compels so many Muslim extremists to oppress women also may be what compels them to commit acts of terror such as the string of senseless suicide bombings that Palestinians, both men and now a few women, have committed in Israel. We have heard many reports in the past seven months of high unemployment in the Arab world coupled with huge population of people under 25.... Should we be surprised when this results in violence? Take crowds of young men, give them nothing to do, no hope for the future, someone to blame for their misfortunes and no outlet for their masculine instincts, and you have a breeding ground for terrorism.... fundamentalist Islam has gone to misogynistic extremes--a bad sign for the state of Islamist masculinity

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