[VeritatisSplendor]

so, do you trust her because she is now slamming Islam? I read Women and Madness in my women's studies days - not much meat to it as I recall, madness as metaphor.

I've heard of sexual abuse within Muslim families - there was the case of those half-American children who couldn't leave Saudi Arabia, and a brother and sister were both raped by an older half-brother, and in Pakistan young Afghan girl slaves are sodomized to preserve their resale value as virgins (Boston Phoenix article, was here on NR).

I'm just not sure I believe that it is as universal as Chesler claims, and I don't trust someone who deals with metaphor as reality. People can change in 20 years, maybe she did.

Mrs VS

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I'm just not sure I believe that it is as universal as Chesler claims

Pay attention to the posters here on FR who have lived in Arab/Muslim countries (as I have).

They will all tell you that what she writes of is true.