THE RELIGIOUS RITE

Men in societies where women are persecuted can live without fear of being castrated or enslaved, simply because they are men. But the women have no choice but to flee, to be killed or to live out their lives in slavery or degradation. While other brave people who speak out against evils in their governments deserve to be helped, the most needy are those who have no choice: the women.

Karen J. Kane

Diamond Bar

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Not only is female genital mutilation not mandated by Islam, but it is ruled out as a possible optional rite. This repugnant practice runs counter to many Islamic beliefs.

To argue that attenuating a woman’s sexual sensation will reduce her chances of being promiscuous misses the Koran’s point that individuals are responsible before God for their own actions. Insisting upon virginity for women but not men also is in opposition to the Koran. In Islam, sex within the context of marriage is seen as something that husband and wife enjoy reciprocally.

Aida Morad

Los Angeles

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Multiculturalists telling us xenophobic, ethnocentric whites that no one set of values, is more enlightened than any other. Now those who have gone out of their way to destroy our cultural underpinnings demand that we give asylum to millions who have been victimized by the same traditions we’ve been told are so fabulous and enlightened.

I’ve often heard that, as an Evil White Person, I have no right to question the morality or actions of other cultures. If so, no one can tell me must now pay for the consequences of such actions. Third World apologists can’t have it both ways.

Judith Lucas

Los Angeles