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Middle East newspaper cuttings

Dan Brett | 30.10.2001 11:31

Selection of broadsheet articles from the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding (CAABU)

The Spectator:
 http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-10-27&id=1227The

The Abuse of women - British tolerance of Muslim culture should not include condoning the savage treatment of young girls - By Theodore Dalrymple

Implies that all Muslims" force young girls into marriages they don't want, to deprive them of the schooling and careers that they do want, to regard them as prostitutes if they leave their abusive husbands, and to punish, even to kill, those who cross cultural and religious boundaries." "the subsequent fate of so many Muslim daughters is far from enviable. "

"the number of cases known to me is by no means small, and each of them knows of many others whose cases have been just as bad or worse. "


Telegraph
Leader: The Bahawalpur massacre. Draws massive conclusions from the massacre such as: "Islam is generally seen in the West as having been more tolerant of other religions than Christianity in the past. Alas, this seems less true today."
 http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?ac=006416199931508&rtmo=Vrff8wsK&atmo=rrrrrrNq&pg=/01/10/29/dl01.html

The Times

1) Leading article - Pogrom in Pakistan
 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,56-2001373471,00.html


2) No future in bin Laden revolution by WILLIAM REES-MOGG "Jews do not have to agree with Ariel Sharon to rally to the defence of Israel; Muslims do not have to sympathise with Osama bin Laden to rally to Afghanistan" "Osama bin Laden is not a serious revolutionary; he is a poseur, a silly but lethal boy"

 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,248-2001373483,00.html

The Guardian

1) Peace by precision by Gary Younge. Excellent article about the potential for a peace movement  http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,582444,00.html

2) Politicians do it. Terrorists do it. Let's all exaggerate by Peter Preston
Another excellent
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,582452,00.html

The Independent
1) Mark Seddon: A message President Bush should heed, from small-town New Jersey
Very revealing article about a small town near New York and their students thoughts about the war  http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=101928

2) Bruce Anderson: We must hold our nerve, for it will be a very long war  http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/bruce_anderson/story.jsp?story=101932

3) Leader: Blair's moral absolutes do not apply in Afghanistan
 http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=101926

Financial Times

Islam's geopolitics as a morality tale by Jeffrey Sachs Historical discussion about how the Islamic world is different to the West due to Geopolitics and not 'morality' or 'superiority' "By misreading the decline of Islam as a morality story rather than one of demography and geopolitics, they [the West] fuel misunderstanding, condescension and bigotry." "Solutions to the current crisis must start by re-thinking the boundaries of Islam and Christianity as open borders rather than military divides, and by the US and Europe regarding the Islamic world as more than the oil in the Persian Gulf and central Asia to be manipulated for economic gain."
 http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT35F8U6DTC&live=true

Dan Brett
- e-mail: dan@danielbrett.co.uk
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