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Somalia/UAE - Ruth Shanor, an octogenarian American friend of mine who observes the world from her little home in Cowpens, South Carolina, and reads my Postglobal pieces, wrote to me after learning about the release of the Baker-Hamilton report on Iraq:
Somalia/UAE - Muslim women can only envy their Western sisters rising to the highest political leadership: Angela Merkel, Tarja Halonen, Hillary Clinton, and Segolene Royal. Turn to the Muslim world and the media will surprise you with daily reports of honor killings, hudood laws, female genital mutilation, social segregation, and political discrimination against women.
Somalia/UAE - Looking at the situation of the Middle East from Palestine and Lebanon to Iraq, and further afield to Sudan's Darfur, Somalia and Afghanistan, the only wisdom that rushes to my memory is the classic children's nursery rhyme:
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