Monday, June 21, 2004

But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?

The Economist on Islam's attitude to women:
"Aside from giving them the short stick on inheritance, and having their testimony in law considered half as weighty as men's, and letting husbands marry up to four wives, whom they may beat if they are disobedient, the Koran itself is not unkind to women."
Anything else?

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