Reader Response
January, 2002
Public ExecutionsThe artwork you use to illustrate "Public Executions" (The Playboy Forum, October) shows a veiled woman with a red dot on her forehead, holding a man's decapitated head. I assume this woman is supposed to represent the Afghan woman described in the text. But Hindu women, not Muslim women, wear bindis. Your editors need to take a religious studies course.Raj SharmaNew York, New YorkWe stand corrected. You weren't the only reader to notice the bindi. After September 11,...
