I am curious about something....

[Occhidiangela]

I've heard arguments defending the *general* notion of Muslim society, qualified by the need to improve women's rights (and rights generally).[right][snapback]80898[/snapback][/right]

So have I.

I have even made arguments like that myself, in the 90's, about letting Muslim nations evolve toward a more progressive model in their own good time, rather than certain factions try to shrilly force Western sensibilities down their throats on that particular topic. Some Arab societies, as in Iraq under the Baathists, were socially progressive in that sense.

Something about catching flies with honey . . . but it seems that the shrill, in your face attitude of the PC crowd carried into our foreign policy for a while, along with the symbols and images of how to sluttify your society carried by the satellite transmissions.

Occhi