Phyllis Chesler - An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir (2013)

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The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.

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This is the story of a young and naive Jewish American woman who meant to rebel against tradition—but who found herself trapped in the past, stuck in the Middle Ages, without a passport back.

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As I noted previously, the burqa is not religiously mandated. In the past many Muslim countries either banned the burqa or allowed women and their families to choose how women would dress.

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From a human rights point of view the burqa demoralizes both the wearer and all women who see her: hobbled, hidden, invisible, unable or forbidden to join the social conversation.

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Afghans excel at fighting Afghans. This is what Afghans do, even when they are not being invaded by foreign powers. They fight each other, tribe against tribe, brother against brother, half-brother against half-brother, cousin against cousin, uncle against nephew, father against son.

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Jews have always yearned for Jerusalem, from which they'd been exiled many times, but they also yearned for each and every one of the countries where they had been persecuted and where their ancestors once lived and are still buried.

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