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Wednesday, June 6, 2007 12:00 AM

A peek behind the veil (again)

But this isn't your typical narrative about a Western woman in a Muslim land.
Tracy Clark-Flory

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  • Thursday, June 7, 2007 05:27 PM

    rayner, as much as i appreciate the spirit of your post....

    you got a few things backwards.

    The arab world was not made so defensive by westerners gunning for their oil that they enslaved the arab women. The arab nomadic culture had already enslaved the women. Long before they ever knew they had oil underneath the sands, or met westerners, they had enslaved their women under the abaya and in the harem. Maybe it is the heat, the lack of natural resources, but it wasn't the westerners. They had it down pat before we showed up.

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