Middle East newspaper cuttings
Dan Brett | 30.10.2001 11:31
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
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