the only thing press attention will bring here is more repression against the women. A crack down - thats what always happens in such situations. But, that's *exactly* what you wanted, isn't it, Ms Floyd-Clark ?

If you want to help, find a charity of your choice and send money. But by pressing hot buttons in the press and raising a stink, you are just contributing to the malady.

If there's one thing I hate it's American puritanism masked as progressive.

I spent few days in Athens this spring, and the same thing is playing out there.

The sex trade is flourishing thanks to Iraqi refugee women. Central Athens was unseemly with the drug/sex trades--quite uncharacteristically so.

In no way am I besmirching their morality relative to Greeks or anyone else, but only as a means of survival/desperation.

Anyone there for the European cup notice that same?

That's right - Chris... it's better for these women to suffer in silence. There might be a crack down but at the same time, there might be more services, more protection under the refugee laws, and more programs developed to give these women a chance to support their families in dignity. And isn't that what we should be pushing for?

"16-year-old Hiba, once a devout schoolgirl, modest in her dress and serious about her studies, who, at her mother's direction, now dances at a Syrian nightclub known for prostitution."

Hmmmm. I wonder if she'd rather be dead like her brother and the other men in her village who were killled, not allowed to leave?

Surely scores of successful feminist writers can pool money globally and hire girls like Hiba to do important things...like learning to hate guys.

I'm pretty sure that going from modest devout school girl to stripper (or worse) for leering foreigners will teach her to hate men without any help from the wretched feminists.