The World of Dr. Justice: Drive, She Said

Monday, June 1, 2015

Drive, She Said

This just in -- ISIL, angling for Hillary Clinton’s endorsement, no doubt:

Irak: Daech autorise les femmes à conduire à Mossoul

Rien dans l'islam n'interdit aux femmes de conduire, assure un cadre djihadiste. Une façon de «ringardiser» l'Arabie saoudite voisine, où prendre le volant de son véhicule reste prohibé pour la gent féminine.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2015/06/01/01003-20150601ARTFIG00134-irak-daech-autorise-les-femmes-a-conduire-a-mossoul.php

One reader suspects a less generous motive:

Ils pourront les former pour faire des attentats à la voiture piégée.

(For the full essay to which that is the latest update, click here: )

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2014/09/isils-caliphate-gender-aspect.htm

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David Justice studied French at the Sorbonne, mathematics and physics at Harvard and MIT, and math and linguistics at Berkeley. He is the author of The Semantics of Form in Arabic, in the Mirror of European Languages; and of the fictional works I Don’t Do Divorce Cases (which includes stories originally published in Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine) and Murphy on the Mount. He taught French at Berkeley, and linguistics at the University of Alberta, then worked at Merriam-Webster as Editor of Etymology (where he edited Webster’s Book of Word Histories) and as Editor of Pronunciation. He subsequently was editor-in-chief at Franklin Electronic Publishers. He is currently employed as a language analyst, and consultant for the University of Maryland. He lives with his bride of forty years, overlooking a peaceful lake.