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December 3, 2007

The Outrageous Case of the `Qatif Girl'

by Frida Ghitis, Miami Herald, USA - Repressive societies affect all who live in them, but when it comes to oppressive interpretations of Islam, the principal victims are women. (And, not incidentally, the people who make the interpretation are men.)

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