Today's politician's wives are no longer playing the part of victim to their husband's charades. They are providing themselves with security and protecting their own futures.
How can European Muslims really integrate when European laws such as this Swiss minaret law and the ban of the burqa in France make it so difficult for them to even pretend to be equal citizens?
There is so much symbolism couched in the attack on Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi. The one word, which keeps coming to my head is basta, Italian for "enough."
In a post 9/11 world, the burqa has perhaps become the most prominent representation of the subjugation of Muslim women. It has become an increasingly powerful political tool.