At Harvard, Students’ Muslim Traditions Are a Topic of Debate

At Harvard, Students’ Muslim Traditions Are a Topic of Debate
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
Published: March 21, 2008
The New York Times
The controversy focused on whether the call to prayer should ring out across Harvard Yard and whether the university should grant women separate gym hours.

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Amis, Islam and Women

“I don’t think that we can accommodate cultures and ideologies that make life very difficult for half the human race: women.” Martin Amis

From:

Essay
Amis and Islam
By RACHEL DONADIO
The New York Times
Published: March 9, 2008
Martin Amis’s angry, off-the-cuff comments about Islam set off an old-fashioned literary donnybrook in Britain.

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