And a lady in a mini skirt engenders rape?
This isn't the case of a "sweet young thing" walking innocently down the street, unaware of the effect the sight of her clean young limbs has on the raincoat-clad winos.
We have taken sides, blatantly so, in the Middle East conflict for years, when there was no good reason for us to do so. None. Our interests have never been served there, merely the interests of a small but influentially wealthy lobbying group in Washington.
I don't think BTW that this is the primary reason that we were attacked--I think that our leadership in the Gulf War (which had nothing to do with Israel but, ironically enough, with protecting one Arab state from the predations of another).
But it IS one big reason that we are hated in the Arab world, and I can't for the life of me figure out what we have gotten out of it.
Would you let your daughter dress that way, and see her off, unaccompanied, into the roughest part of town?