Salman Rushdie tells us in his Op-Ed essay in the New York Times(Friday, Nov 2, 2001), that "highly motivated organizations of Muslimmen"-whom he labels "Islamists"-have been "engaged over thelast 30 years or so in growing radical political movements" all over theIslamic world, movements that have produced the terrorists who not onlydestroyed the symbols of the freedom-loving West and killed 6000 innocent peoplein the process on 9/11, but who have been systematically destroying the verysocieties of which they are a part, with much of their savage venom focused onthe female citizenry. In a parenthetical aside, Mr. Rushdie sighs, "(oh,for the voices of Muslim women to be heard!)"