The Enemy At Home (41 page)

15. Thomas Frank,
What’s the Matter With Kansas?
Metropolitan Books, New York, 2004, p. 133.

16. Frank Rich, “The Greatest Dirty Joke Ever Told,”
New York Times,
March 13, 2005; see also Frank Rich, “The Year of Living Indecently,”
New York Times,
February 6, 2005.

17. Henry Louis Gates, “2 Live Crew Decoded,”
New York Times,
June 19, 1990, p. A-23.

18. Miriam Horn, “The Mistress Cycle,”
New York Times,
September 20, 2005. Martha Nussbaum, “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism,”
Boston Review,
1994.

19. Bill Dedman, “TV Movie Led to Prostitute’s Disclosures,”
Washington Post,
August 27, 1989.

20. Pam Belluck, “To Avoid Divorce, Move to Massachusetts,”
New York Times,
November 14, 2004.

21. Bill Carter, “Many Who Voted for Values Still Like Their Television Sin,”
New York Times,
November 22, 2004.

22. Sean Mitchell, “With the Secrets Revealed, ‘Housewives’ Turns to New Mysteries,”
New York Times,
September 24, 2005, p. A-15. Caryn James, “Partners Who Cheat but Tell the Truth,”
New York Times,
December 8, 2004.

23. Calvin Tomkins, “Unzipped,”
The New Yorker,
November 22, 2004.

24. Wendy Kaminer, foreword to Nadine Strossen,
Defending Pornography,
New York University Press, N.Y., 2000, p. xi. “Porn Again,”
American Prospect,
July 1, 2002.

25. Jack Newfield, “An Interview with Frank Rich,”
Tikkun,
May-June 1999.

26. Catharine MacKinnon, “Not a Moral Issue,” in Drucilla Cornell, ed.,
Feminism and Pornography,
Oxford University Press, N.Y., 2000, pp. 169, 171.

27. Elizabeth Wilson,
Bohemians,
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2000, p. 9.

28. Charles Taylor,
The Ethics of Authenticity,
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1991, p. 27.

29. Press Release, “ACLU Applauds Federal Government’s Decision to Suspend Public Funding of Religion,” August 22, 2005, aclu.org. Wendy Shalit,
A Return to Modesty,
Touchstone Books, New York, 2000, p. 189.

30. See, e.g., “Human Sexuality: What Children Should Know and When They Should Know It,” plannedparenthood.org.

SIX

1. “Torture and Truth,” interview of Mark Danner by Dave Gilson,
Mother Jones,
December 7, 2004. Anthony Lewis, “The Road to Abu Ghraib,”
American Prospect,
October 1, 2004. Seymour Hersh, “The Gray Zone,”
The New Yorker,
May 24, 2004.

2. Schlesinger cited by Mark Danner, “Abu Ghraib: The Hidden Story,”
New York Review of Books,
October 7, 2004. Bernard Goldberg,
100 People Who Are Screwing Up America,
HarperCollins, New York, 2005, p. 5. Remark by Limbaugh on his May 6, 2002 radio program. Tammy Bruce, “Why Abu Ghraib Matters,” May 24, 2004, frontpagemagazine.com.

3. Kate Zernike, “Behind Failed Abu Ghraib Plea, a Tale of Breakups and Betrayal,”
New York Times,
May 10, 2005. James Polk, “Testimony: Abu Ghraib Photos Just for Fun,” August 4, 2002, cnn.com.

4. Anouar Abdel Malek, “After Abu Ghraib,”
Al-Ahram,
June 3–June 9, 2004.

5. Interview with Osama Bin Laden, Al Jazeera television, December 1998, reprinted in Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin, eds.,
Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East,
Oxford University Press, N.Y., 2002, p. 156. “Iranian Leader Khamenei: Iran’s Enemies Want to Destroy It with Miniskirts,” memri.org, January 6, 2005, Clip No. 468. Al-Abyan cited by memri.org, Special Report No. 10, September 26, 2002.

6. Sayyid Qutb,
Milestones,
Mother Mosque Foundation, Cedar Rapids, 2000, pp. 28–29, 97.

7. Tariq Ramadan,
Western Muslims and the Future of Islam,
Oxford University Press, N.Y., 2004, p. 142.

8. Seyyed Hossein Nasr,
The Heart of Islam,
HarperSanFrancisco, 2004, pp. 289–90. Seyyed Hossein Nasr,
Islam,
HarperSanFrancisco, 2003, p. 30.

9. Nicholas Kristof, “In India, One Woman’s Stand Says Enough,”
New York Times,
January 15, 2006. Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris,
Rising Tide,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, p. 9. Ellen Willis, “Bringing the Holy War Home,”
Nation,
December 17, 2001.

10. As the chair of President Clinton’s Interagency Council on Women, Hillary Clinton sought to redefine the term “sex trafficking” to outlaw only involuntary prostitution. The council sought to have consensual prostitution listed as a right with the same protections as other occupations. See Catherine Edwards, “Hillary Supports Sex Trafficking,” the Gale Group, February 14, 2000.

11. Human Rights Watch, “Crime or Custom? Violence Against Women in Pakistan,” October 1, 1999.

12. Inglehart and Norris,
Rising Tide,
pp. 42, 62. See also Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris, “The True Clash of Civilizations,”
Foreign Policy,
March-April 2003.

13. Khalid Baig, “Beijing Plus 5,” January 20, 2006, albalagh.net.

14. Cited by memri.org, Inquiry and Analysis Series No. 88, March 6, 2002.

15. Steven Weisman, “Saudi Women Depart from the Script,”
New York Times,
September 28, 2005. Glenn Kessler, “Hughes Raises Driving Ban with Saudis,”
Washington Post,
September 28, 2005.

16. Nasr,
Islam,
pp. 68, 102.

17. Strictly speaking, we are discussing polygyny, which is the term for one man taking multiple wives. Polygamy covers both polygyny and polyandry, which is the term for one woman taking multiple husbands. Polyandry is very rare historically and is not permitted in Islam.

18. “The Islamic Revolution: From the Shah to the Spice Girls,” interview of Masoumeh Ebtekar by Nathan Gardels,
New Perspectives Quarterly,
spring 1998, p. 38. Elaine Sciolino,
Persian Mirrors,
Simon & Schuster, New York, 2000, pp. 111–12. Turabi cited in
Le Figaro,
April 15, 1995.

19. Camelia Fard, “Unveiled Threats,”
Village Voice,
March 28–April 3, 2001; see also Elaine Sciolino, “Love Finds a Way in Iran: Temporary Marriage,”
New York Times,
October 4, 2000.

20. “Honor Killing From an Islamic Perspective,” June 17, islamonline.net.

21. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations, adopted by General Assembly Resolution 217 (A) on December 10, 1948.

22. Cited by Carrie Wickham, “The Problem with Coercive Democratization,”
Muslim World Journal of Human Rights,
2004.

23. Stephanie Coontz, “The New Fragility of Marriage, for Better or Worse,”
Chronicle Review,
May 6, 2005.

24. Barbara Dafoe Whitehead,
The Divorce Culture,
Vintage, New York, 1996, p. 67.

25. Kenji Yoshino, “The Pressure to Cover,”
New York Times Magazine,
January 15, 2006, p. 37.

26. Gertrude Himmelfarb,
One Nation, Two Cultures,
Alfred Knopf, New York, 1999, p. 10. See Elizabeth Wilson,
Bohemians,
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2000, p. 105.

27. Margaret Mead,
Coming of Age in Samoa,
William Morrow, New York, 1961, pp. 83, 104–8.

28. See, e.g., Derek Freeman,
Margaret Mead and Samoa,
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1983. Freeman calls Mead’s work “the worst case of self-deception in the history of the behavioral sciences.” A. O. Scott, “Where Many Were in Darkness, He Shone a Light,”
New York Times,
November 12, 2004.

29. Betty Friedan,
The Feminine Mystique,
W. W. Norton, New York, 2001, pp. 282, 305, 337. Germaine Greer,
The Female Eunuch,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2001, pp. 366–67.

30. In a new introduction to her old classic, Greer stresses “the right to chastity, the right to defer physical intimacy until there is irrefutable evidence of commitment.” Ibid., p. 10.

31. Judith Wallerstein, Julia Lewis, and Sandra Blakeslee,
The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce,
Hyperion, New York, 2000, p. xxxi.

32. Andrew Sullivan, ed.,
Same Sex Marriage Pro and Con,
Vintage, New York, 1997, p. xxii.

33. Tracy Jan, “Parents Rip School over Gay Storybook,”
Boston Globe,
April 20, 2006.

34. Walzer, Editor’s Page,
Dissent,
fall 2004, p. 3. Jonathan Rauch, “Family’s Value,”
The New Republic,
May 30, 2005, p. 15. “Statement of Senator Edward Kennedy on the Federal Marriage Amendment,” July 13, 2004, Committee for a Democratic Majority.

SEVEN

1. “Mutual Incomprehension, Mutual Outrage,”
Economist,
February 11, 2006, p. 24.

2. Rajoub cited by David Remnick, “The Democracy Game,”
The New Yorker,
February 27, 2006, p. 58. “Malaysia Warns of Islam, West Chasm,” February 10, 2006, aljazeera.net.

3. Hamid Algar,
Roots of the Islamic Revolution in Iran,
IPI Press, Oneonta, N.Y., 2001, p. 140.

4. Ayatollah Khomeini,
Islam and Revolution,
Mizan Press, Berkeley, 1981, p. 75.

5. “Bin Laden’s Statement: The Sword Fell,”
New York Times,
October 8, 2001, p. B-7. Al-Rahman cited by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon,
The Age of Sacred Terror,
Random House, New York, 2003, pp. 17, 37.

6. Comment by William Styron in Steve MacDonogh, ed.,
The Rushdie Letters,
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1993, p. 65. Gore cited by David Remnick, “The Wilderness Campaign,”
The New Yorker,
September 13, 2004. Richard Dawkins, statement to the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Madison, Wisconsin, September 22, 2001. Madeleine Albright,
The Mighty and the Almighty,
HarperCollins, New York, 2006, p. 142. Jim Wallis,
God’s Politics,
HarperSanFrancisco, 2005, pp. 67–68.

7. Broadcast by Osama bin Laden, Al Jazeera television, October 7, 2001, reprinted in Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin,
Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East,
Oxford University Press, N.Y., 2002, p. 250.

8. Comments by Sheikh Muhammad Tantawi after his meeting with the head of the Anglican Church of Scotland, cited by memri.org, Inquiry and Analysis Series No. 130, April 8, 2003. Comments by Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, cited by memri.org, Special Dispatch Series No. 858, February 4, 2005, and Special Dispatch Series No. 1017, November 3, 2005.

9. Michael Slackman, “Iranian Letter: Using Religion to Lecture Bush,”
New York Times,
May 10, 2006, p. A-1. Sayyid Qutb,
Social Justice in Islam,
Islamic Publications International, Oneonta, N.Y., 2000, pp. 24, 273. Khurshid Ahmad, “The Nature of the Islamic Resurgence,” in John Esposito, ed.,
Voices of Resurgent Islam,
Oxford University Press, N.Y., 1983, p. 228.

10. Sermon by Sheikh Muhammad al-Qaysi, Abd Al-Qadir Mosque, Baghdad, March 28, 2003, memri.org, Special Report No. 13.

11. Rick Santorum,
It Takes a Family,
ISI Books, Wilmington, Delaware, 2005, p. 102. John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge,
The Right Nation,
Penguin, New York, 2004.

12. World Values Survey, “Strength of Religiosity Scale,” 1981–2001, cited by Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris,
Rising Tide,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, p. 54. T. R. Reid,
The United States of Europe,
Penguin, New York, 2004, p. 215. Jason Horowitz, “Europe, Seeking Political Unity, Stumbles over Issue of Religion,”
New York Times,
November 7, 2004.

13. Susan Jacoby,
Freethinkers,
Metropolitan Books, New York, 2004, p. 7.

14. Seyyed Hossein Nasr,
Islam,
HarperSanFrancisco, 2003, p. 179. Tariq Ramadan,
Western Muslims and the Future of Islam,
Oxford University Press, N.Y., 2004, p. 4.

15. Muhammad Qutb, introduction to Sayyid Qutb,
In the Shade of the Koran,
Islamic Book Service, New Delhi, 2001, p. xii.

16. Osama bin Laden, “Depose the Tyrants,” in Bruce Lawrence, ed.,
Messages to the World,
Verso, New York, p. 259.

17. Sayyid Qutb,
Milestones,
Mother Mosque Foundation, Cedar Rapids, 2000, p. 36.

18. Khomeini,
Islam and Revolution,
pp. 63, 79.

19. Bernard Lewis,
From Babel to Dragomans,
Oxford University Press, N.Y., 2004, p. 306.

20. Salman Rushdie,
Imaginary Homelands,
Viking, New York, 1991, p. 402.

21. Albert Hourani,
A History of the Arab Peoples,
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1991, p. 47.

22. Somini Sengupta, “Afghan Candidates Play Down Taliban Past,”
International Herald Tribune,
September 17–18, 2005, p. 2.

23. Afshin Molavi,
Persian Pilgrimages,
W. W. Norton, New York, 2002, pp. 177–80.

24. Ramadan,
Western Muslims and the Future of Islam,
p. 146.

25. “Views of a Changing World,” Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C., June 2003.

26. Khalid Baig, “UN Makes Big Strides in Campaign to Abrogate Sharia,” January 20, 2006, albalagh.net. Bin Laden, “Depose the Tyrants,” in Lawrence, ed.,
Messages to the World,
pp. 214, 253.

27. See, e.g., Lewis,
From Babel to Dragomans,
p. 51.

28. Inglehart and Norris,
Rising Tide,
p. 49.

29. Salman Rushdie, “A War That Presents Us All with a Crisis of Faith,”
Guardian,
November 3, 2001. Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo,
The Future of Religion,
Columbia University Press, New York, 2005, p. 72. Editorial, “Election Results in Iraq,”
New York Times,
January 21, 2006, p. A-28.

30. Stanley Greenberg,
The Two Americas,
Thomas Dunne Books, New York, 2005, pp. 100, 129.

31. Robert Bellah et al.,
Habits of the Heart,
Perennial Library, New York, 1986, p. 221. Hillary Clinton,
It Takes a Village,
Touchstone Books, New York, 1996, p. 177. Press conference with Vice President Al Gore, December 22, 1997.
Planned Parenthood v. Casey,
505 U.S. 833 (1992).