But it is no coincidence that women who must submit to Sharia law find
themselves in a very bad place, wherever those women and those places
happen to be. This includes France, where only last year a court in
Lille upheld the right of a Muslim man to hold fast to his faith and
annul his marriage when he discovered his bride was not a virgin. And
it includes Germany, where in Berlin in 2005 there were eight murders
of young women of Turkish origin, executed by members of their own
families. And Australia, where, after a group of unveiled Muslim women
were raped, the succinct Mufti Taj al-Din al-Hilali explained away the
crime as an attack on “uncovered meat.” And it includes the United...

But it is no coincidence that women who must submit to Sharia law find
themselves in a very bad place, wherever those women and those places
happen to be. This includes France, where only last year a court in
Lille upheld the right of a Muslim man to hold fast to his faith and
annul his marriage when he discovered his bride was not a virgin. And
it includes Germany, where in Berlin in 2005 there were eight murders
of young women of Turkish origin, executed by members of their own
families. And Australia, where, after a group of unveiled Muslim women
were raped, the succinct Mufti Taj al-Din al-Hilali explained away the
crime as an attack on “uncovered meat.” And it includes the United
Kingdom, where Scotland Yard has probed 109 suspicious deaths of women,
also likely slaughtered by relatives. Islam is an easy rider: it
travels everywhere and often brings with it a lot of baggage.