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To: Road Walker who wrote (456850)	2/16/2009 3:27:52 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575728

Yet the revolution of which this cleric is a bastion has empowered women. In the end, it was only Ayatollah Khomeini who could tell traditional families they had to educate their daughters. Today, as my colleague Nazila Fathi recently noted, more than 60 percent of university students are women. Laws cannot forever lag the reality of an emancipated mindset. The irony of the Islamic Revolution is that it has created a very secular society within the framework of clerical rule. The shah enacted progressive laws for women unready for them. Now the opposite is true: progressive women face confining jurisprudence. At some point something must give. This is what I have never understood about Iran. It is sowing the seeds of its own undoing.....willingly. But its women are another story. They are reason to see Iran as one of the most hopeful societies in the Middle East rather than one of the most threatening. Its what I see.......when I look at Iran. Ironically, Cohen is a Jewish name.......an American Jew telling it how it really is in Iran. If only we could develop a solid relationship with Iran.....it could be the democratic beacon in the ME that neos wanted Iraq to become. Good article. Thanks.