Why Bin Laden Really Turned to Terrorism

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
October 13, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/631/why-bin-laden-turned-to-terrorism

Excerpt:

According to the United States Treasury, al-Qaeda now has less money than the opium-enriched Taliban does. But saying so might be dangerous—it might "shame" al-Qaedian fanatics into having to prove us wrong. After all, there are still plenty of oil-enriched Arabs ready to fund both groups.

On the other hand, the women sure are growing restless in the Lands of the Burqa. For example, two female Kuwaiti Members of Parliament, Rola Dashti and Aseel Al-Awadhi, are defying the country's powerful Islamist movement by refusing to wear hijab, or the headscarf, in Parliament

"You can't force a woman going to the mall to wear a hijab and you can't force a woman going to work to wear the hijab," the MP, Rola Dashti, said. "This is not Iran or Saudi Arabia."

MP Dashti insists that Kuwait's constitution grants "freedom of choice and equality between the sexes and does not incorporate sharia." Nevertheless, a private citizen has filed a lawsuit against the American-educated Dr. Dashti and Professor al-Awadhi for not wearing hijab. The matter will be heard later this month.

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