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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (93523)	1/14/2005 2:43:26 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I didn't realize Atlanta was that international--that is really interesting. All those flags at your son's school sounds like a really cool way to teach tolerance and understanding of other cultures. But I am not sure exactly how you transfer the gist of what you wrote to the issue of the Muslims in Europe. Their society is extremely conservative, and women remain mostly covered up and in the home, for example. Does the larger society need to protect Muslim girls and women from beatings from their husbands in the same way that they would if the women belonged to the dominant culture? Should the state insist that Muslim girls go to school as long as other girls are required to? What should the state do about the problem of clitordectomies in the Muslim community? I guess all these questions are really about how a community that is so different from the dominant one, in ways that hurt women and girls particularly, be allowed to function? Under what rules and regulation? Should they be governed by different laws? This would seem necessary in Europe if they take Muslim cultural rules seriously. They are so different from the tolerant, feminist social rules in place.