Islam and Women’s Rights

If you’ve spent time in a Moslem country you’ve seen the huge gulf between the west and Islam regarding women. It is unimaginable what the world must be like behind veil, a burka, a black gown that heats you like an oven under the Middle East sun. Or to have your...

Female Mutilation: Is it time to boycott Indonesia?

A little girl is pinned to the ground while adults saw off her genitals with a chunk of broken glass. Another newborn girl has her clitoris sliced off at a “Women’s Health Clinic”. The night before her arranged wedding, a fourteen-year-old girl is mutilated with a...

NEAR-DEATH ON THE THIRD RAIL: Home from the War

by Mike Bond Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has never seen war. It can kill you even when you’re far away. When you don’t want to die. I had come back from one of those ghastly, unending Middle East wars, this one in Lebanon. Beirut had been my...