>From a letter from two Muslim women in yesterday's Toronto Star
>defending the Ontario government's decision to allow the setting up
>of shari'a based arbitration panels:
>
>"Beating or hurting one's wife is not permitted in Islam; only a
>slight tap that doesn't cause any pain with a _miswack_ (toothpick)
>is allowed; anything further is reprehensible."
As Alexander Cockburn once said in a very different context, I love liberals when they try to think constructively.
Doug