Islam and Women

Judy Bachrach with a brilliant piece http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/2009%20-%20Summer/full-Bachrach.html describing life for women under Islam, as well as how foreign women are treated in Muslim countries. None of this comes as a surprise to me, however, Bachrach pulls together the entire phenomena of Islam's treatment of women as cattle. In fact this article should be required reading for women, especially any Western woman silly enough to be currently considering marriage to a Muslim and living in his country. Scary stuff.

I spent a brief few months in the middle east long ago and saw life in a Muslim country first hand. Most impressive were the facial tattoos on Bedouin women--outward signs of ownership by their goat molesting husbands. I don't have time at the moment to go further into this--we'll save it for a future post.