Michael Ledeen, with this salient post on the condition of women in the Mideast:

http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2008/08/27/the-women/

I particularly like his comment about the Western attitude in this regard:

There is no clearer sign of the fecklessness of the West, above all the Western Left, than the near-total silence about the oppression of women, especially in our enemies’ countries. The American and European feminists were never about real liberation, anyway; they just wanted to be treated like men. They got it, by and large, so that big balloon is now out of air. There is nothing left for their truly oppressed foreign sisters.

Indeed.