<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thea article appears at <<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/07/201371483756428989.html">http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/07/201371483756428989.html</a>>.<div><br></div><div><br>On Jul 23, 2013, at 1:19 PM, "C. G. Estabrook" <<a href="mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com">carl@newsfromneptune.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br><b>"Are Arabs sexist? The institutions, perhaps, but not the people</b><br><i>Institutions, and not popular beliefs, cause the political and economic inequalities faced by women in the Arab world."<br></i><br><br>The distinction offered here between "institutions and power relations" on the one hand, and "popular preferences" on the other, is parallel to that proposed between racism - taken to refer to legal and governmental practice - and racial prejudice. <br><br>The former refers to the crimes of public policy - the latter to thought-crimes - and so the former is far easier to eliminate. <br><br>--CGE <br></blockquote><br></div></body></html>