Wednesday, December 07, 2005
(10:44 AM) | John Emerson:
Great Moments in Culturally-sensitive Copyediting
From AP:
A little bit of cultural sensitivity is fine, but if we continue to cater to these repressive "traditional Arab values" the way we've been doing, our daughters and granddaughters will ultimately be forced to wear the hijab. Do we really want that?“I was forced to take off my clothes, and he raised my legs up and tied my hands. He continued administering electric shocks and whipping me and telling me to speak,” witness A said of Wadah al-Sheik, an Iraqi intelligence officer.....
Such treatment of a young woman is gravely offensive in traditional Arab culture.
