[Brian_Baldwin]

Excellent post, again another example of dedicated research and mark-up of pertinent points by FR participants . . . "seeing beyond the burqa" you might say. And speaking of burqas, do the Freepers know the statistics of how many women in Afghanistan (or for that matter in Pakistan, or whateverstan) are killed each year just trying to cross a street in those countries? In many of them, women are not allowed to drive, so they walk around in a burqa, can't see left or right, they try to cross the street, and they drive like banjees in some of those places, and whammo, the guy has to go out and buy himself another wife.