Here's something I haven't seen proposed anywhere. But since I'm "just a blogger" and I can't get the thought of my head, why not?

Read on. If you dare.

Many in the U.S., on both the left and right, say our enemy is Islamic Fundamentalism. One of the hallmarks of that movement (besides violent anti-Israel rhetoric) is the systematic subjugation of women.

Wherever Sha'ria (Islamic Law) is imposed, women lose their humanity. They are killed if they're raped, killed if they so much as meet with a man unchaparoned. They are ritually abused in a horror called "female circumcision" which removes their clitoris, often without anethesia.

Under Sha'ria women are treated worse than dogs. A dog who licks a stranger's hand may get a treat. An Arab woman who even looks the wrong way at a stranger will be killed by her family. (Any devout Muslim woman who wants to argue with me that slavery is freedom, please don't waste your time.)

When the Bush Administration wanted to find support for its Iraq adventure early this year the President claimed this was a war for womens' rights. He even used an Iraqi woman as a prop at his State of the Union address. (She now wants out.)

Well, it seems to me we have the wrong Muslim refugees in the West. So here's my modest proposal:

• Define Sha'ria Islam as a crime against women. Any cleric, any individual, who tries to impose it in the West, or advocates for it, can go somewhere it's practiced. Out, the lot of you.
• Any woman with a reasonable fear of persecution (any secular woman willing to admit it) can come on in.

Even I can see the holes in this. Islamicists around the world will see this as a war against men, as the Great Satan looking to steal their women.

But that's the problem, isn't it? Women are not property. They do not belong to men. They do not belong to a religion, or their families, or their nations. They are all their own individuals, every one of them, and have a basic human right to make their own choices, about who they will see, about what they will learn, about what they will wear, and about their bodies.

That's something I'm perfectly willing to fight for, even to die for, the liberation of half of humanity from the violence of the other half.

But I don't expect this Administration to make the present conflict a war for choice.