May 5, 2008
Italy: Silvio Berlusconi is facing a row with the Muslim world over his plans to appoint a member of the far-Right to his cabinet. * When I hear ‘far right’ these days I reach for a vomit bag. These reporting poptarts are so far off the rails that they can’t even tell right from wrong: [...]
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May 5, 2008
By Jody K. Biehl in Berlin/Spiegel Online Namus: Namus is an ethical category, a virtue, in Middle Eastern Muslim patriarchal character. It is a strongly gender-specific category of relations within a family described in terms of honor, attention, respect/respectability, and modesty. The term is often translated as “honor”. “The Whore lived like a German..!” In [...]
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