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The fact that many Muslim women seek to dress modestly has been used by conservative politicians and commentators as a big plus about Islam. At a recent public forum, Towards a Cohesive Australia, the federal MP Tony Abbott said combating terrorism meant facing up to the ways Western societies fall short of their professed ideals. He then posed the question: "How can alienated Muslim males be expected to respect women, for instance, when this city's bookstands, billboards and TV shows proclaim that women are sex objects?"

Well, we should expect that they will respect women the same way Muslim women are expected to respect men regardless of the images they are bombarded with.

-Nadia Jamal, SMH 19/10/06