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...today's generation, medium and content are on equal footing. Should I decide to join Twitter, my first tweet would be this: "Nothing can replace face-to-face communication." Sherwin Diaz Castillo, Manila...
...clutch of Western countries have put curbs on burqas and niqabs, the full-face veils that leave only a slit for the eyes. The Irish have banned the burqa from classrooms, and in June, the Michigan Supreme Court gave judges the power to direct how witnesses dress for court, after a Muslim woman refused to take off her niqab while testifying. The French, however, have gone beyond practical arguments, saying that face veils don't just gum up processes in courts, surgeries and schools, but are an affront to the republic itself and its traditions of secularism. In 2004, France...
...fretted one general in the 1840s, "because they conceal their women from our gaze." In her brilliant 2007 book The Politics of the Veil, historian Joan Wallach Scott writes that banning the veil has been "a way of insisting on the timeless superiority of French 'civilization' in the face of a changing world...
Which sounds fine, and what you would expect from a former constitutional law professor. But by talking only of women's dress (with a nod to their right to education) Obama ignored the many challenges Muslim women face, such as polygamy, early marriage, honor killings or the legalized sexism of family laws across the Muslim world. Little wonder that in the blogopshere, he managed to unite feminists and conservatives in fury at his reduction of Muslim women to nothing more than what they wear on their heads. "Why this emphasis on the hijab," blogged Amal Amireh, a Palestinian feminist...
...government headed by someone like Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi or Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti. But don't count Berlusconi out yet. Perennial challengers like parliament Speaker Gianfranco Fini on the right and former Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema on the left, have largely lost credibility in the face of their opponent's political savvy. Italian politics is beginning to look like a season of Celebrity Survivor. And not only is Berlusconi the reigning champion of this reality show, he is also its executive producer...