Mr. Arafat, he said, had to stop playing a "double game" of talking peace and permitting violence.
For hefty fees, he orchestrated the kidnapping and torture of reluctant husbands, charging their wives as much as $10,000 for a rabbinical decree permitting violence and $50,000 to hire others to carry out the deed, according to federal charges unsealed on Thursday morning.
"The government needs to understand that sex work isn't inherently violent, but what permits violence to occur is the criminalization of the trade," Sayers says.
"The government also needs to understand that sex work isn't inherently violent, but what permits violence to occur is the criminalization of the trade," she says.
Forgetting man's past atrocities or ignoring those happening, now, today, in too many places around the world, is both callous and short-sighted, because it permits violence to happen again, often, and closer to home.
Many people across Cairo fear that the Egyptian army will go out of its way to avoid policing the streets in the coming days, and especially on election day, Nov. 28, in order to permit violence to take place and thus to make the case that the army must remain in power.
Many fault them for permitting the violence, and the violent assaults by security forces, to continue unabated.
And no longer can we permit racial violence to characterize, distinguish, and summarily humiliate the American persona.
