House-searches must be conducted more politely, with respectful understanding of Pushtuns' habit of keeping their womenfolk prisoner and their names secret.

ECONOMIST: Afghanistan

Their womenfolk are shown stirring huge cauldrons of food for the fighters, waving their ladles in the air and shouting their defiance.

ECONOMIST: On the very eve, Baghdadis were still optimistic

Half a century later, on January 7th 1993, the Orthodox Christmas, thousands of Srebrenica's Muslim soldiers swooped on Kravica as its womenfolk roasted suckling pigs.

ECONOMIST: The Yugoslav war

Apparently, the 2007 tenure committee was unconvinced that Massad's work excusing Arab males for murdering their womenfolk for the "crime" of "dishonoring" them was up to Columbia's traditional academic standards.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Terror training grounds

And one of the facts about British-born Caribbean men that most distresses their womenfolk is that, of those in employment, more than half choose not a black partner but a white one.

ECONOMIST: Black Britain