societies in which sex before marriage is strictly forbidden, in which women outside the family home are not only supposed to be untouchable, but invisible. Access to MTV, the Internet, DVDs and global advertising reinforces the notion that westerners live in a degenerate garden of sinful delights. This makes the millions of young Arab men even harder to bear, and can provoke a mixture of rage and envy. Once in a while, this rage will explode in carefully orchestrated orgies of violence. It is said that Mohammed Atta visited a striptease bar before crashing a plane into the Twin Towers. Perhaps he craved one nibble of the forbidden fruit before his earthly extinction. The fact that it was forbidden, repulsive but also terribly seductive marked his view of women in general. He made it clear in his will that he did not want any women to defile his grave with their
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