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To: JohnM who wrote (28939)	9/21/2006 12:03:01 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 541233

Thank you -- a good read. Sex and the rights and freedom of the sexes are a confounding issue for Muslim integration into western society. I have seen this for myself in my own work where I made simple cultural mistakes in receiving Muslim guests.

To: JohnM who wrote (28939)	9/21/2006 9:23:47 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541233

While these essays do a lot to illuminate the issues and options, both the foxes and the hedgehogs write as if there is a Master Control Cockpit for all western policies toward Muslims, foreign and domestic. They look for the right checklist of switch-pulling and button-pushing that can right the wrongs and the potential pitfalls they see in the Islam-West relationship. That's the big difference I always found between those on the sidelines and those who make and carry out policy day to day (and between practitioners and 99% of posters on SI). There are no neat packages and solutions in the policy world, not 99% of the time. There are messy, complicated processes that produce compromise results, delivered unevenly at different points in time. In fact, the main reason I decided not to become a foreign affairs academic was that I didn't want to sit up in the bleachers and write commentaries after a game. Those scribes serve a purpose, but most of what they prescribe just goes off in the ether for posterity. Rarely do they impact the scoreboard - they wouldn't know how.