25 years ago, American feminists would have been outraged--and rightly so--at the plight of women as second class citizens (and often far worse) in the Middle East. But as Michelle Malkin writes, this multimedia presentation by Time magazine, narrated by photographer Kate Brooks, "plays like an apologia for sharia law".

Protein Wisdom's Jeff Goldstein, still apparently under attack from an adjunct instructor gone wild, writes today:

I consider myself a classical liberal (I am about as far from a social conservative as one can be, for instance). so while I’ve written extensively on questions of progressive philosophical assumptions and how they lead to things like, say, free speech zones, I don’t mock liberalism. Just the opposite in fact: I think progressivism is in opposition to classical liberalism — particularly insofar as it promotes group identity over individualism.

Update: More on the feminine mystique, Middle East-style:

A group belonging to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party announced on Monday that it had recruited Palestinian women to launch suicide attacks against Israel.

A woman who identified herself as Um al-Abed told reporters in Gaza City that so far about 100 women had expressed their desire to carry out suicide attacks against Israel. She claimed that she was a spokeswoman for the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah.

The Aksa Martyrs Brigades, she added, recently established a secret military unit for female suicide bombers from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. “We have so far recruited 100 women for the new unit,” Um al-Abed said as she sat next to several masked women who identified themselves as members of Fatah.

“We are expecting more female suicide bombers. The new unit is now preparing to launch attacks against Israel in response to the Israeli aggression and crimes against our people in the Gaza Strip.”