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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ambiorix on March 31, 2008, 04:32:44 AM
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Hijabs on Western Political Women
For fun, how about collecting those instances when female political leaders, especially leftist ones, don the hijab (Islamic headscarf)?
Oriana Fallaci, interviewing Ayatollah Khomeini in September 1979 in Qum, Iran. The interview lasted six hours and at one point, an indignant Fallaci removed her chador in and threw it at Khomeini
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Oriana Fallaci interviewing Ayatollah Khomeini, before she threw her chador at him.
(http://www.danielpipes.org/pics/new/large/570.jpg)
Princess Diana in hijab in a Pakistan hospital.
Hilary Clinton, when she was still wife of the U.S. president in 1997, traveled to Eritrea and put on a headscarf. Interestingly, her daughter Chelsea, seen in the background, did not.
But on another occasion, Chelsea joined her in wearing a hijab.
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Prince Charles' wife, Camilla Parker Bowles, got into complete Egyptian Muslim garb, including hijab, on a visit to Al-Azhar.
(http://www.danielpipes.org/pics/new/large/564.jpg)
Antje Vollmer, Green Party member and vice-president of the German Bundestag, visiting Riyadh as part of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's delegation in March 2005.(http://www.danielpipes.org/pics/new/large/573.jpg)
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visiting a mosque in Dushanbe, Tajikistan in October 2005, wearing a black cover on her hair
(http://www.danielpipes.org/pics/new/large/569.jpg)
Diane Sawyer of ABC's "Good Morning America" television program interviewed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wearing a hijab in February 2007.
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Diane Sawyer while interviewing Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, donned a headscarf when she visited Damascus in April 2007.
(http://www.danielpipes.org/pics/new/large/565.jpg)
Elsebeth Gerner Nielsen, a former Danish minister of culture (and someone with whom I have argued), wore a hijab near the parliament in April 2007.
(http://www.danielpipes.org/pics/new/large/579.jpg)
In June 2007, three senior Bush administration staffers wore makeshift hijabs as they listened to the president address an audience at Washington's Islamic Center.
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Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Fran Townsend (far left), NSC Senior Director for European Affairs Judy Ansley (left), and Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Hughes (right) listen to President Bush wearing makeshift hijabs.
On a trip to Saudi Arabia in October 2007, George W. Bush's wife Laura wore a particularly severe-looking hijab.
(http://www.danielpipes.org/pics/new/large/567.jpg)
Angelina Jolie the actress also serves as a "Goodwill Ambassador" for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; in the latter capacity, she visited a eathquake-struck village in Pakistan in August 2007(http://www.danielpipes.org/pics/new/large/576.jpg)
Switzerland's Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey wore a full hijab in Tehran in March 2008 as she signed a natural gas deal with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (March 19, 2008)
(http://www.danielpipes.org/pics/new/large/563.jpg)
Mar. 23, 2008 update: A number of readers have responded to this blog by pointing out that the women pictured above are doing nothing different from non-Jewish men donning a kippah (yarmulke, skullcap) in a synagogue. To which, I have two replies:
In about half the pictures above, the women are not in a mosque or other religious place. In their cases, the comparison is irrelevant.
Where they are in a mosque, I reject the comparison of a head covering and a skullcap. Wearing a skullcap is like taking one's shoes off on entering a mosque. But wearing a hijab, especially the full hijab such as Laura Bush wore, is like a non-Jewish male putting on the tallit (prayer shawl). It is not a small symbolic step of respect but rather taking on important aspects of the ritual of a religion not one's own.
(http://www.danielpipes.org/pics/new/large/571.jpg)
A Jewish man praying with a tallit, or prayer shawl, over his head and upper torso.
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Angela Merkel the turk: http://www.lotikxane.com/merkel-misilman.jpg
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(http://www.lotikxane.com/merkel-misilman.jpg)
And five minutes later these feminists are complaining about the Church nuns being discriminated for wearing caps :o :o :o :o :o :o
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It's really bad to see all these signs of submission.
BTW this picture of Merkel is a fake.
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Islam Uber Alles and all dhimis of the world unite! besides wearing of yaramulke is only Jewish tradition not mandatory one, popes and bishops are wering them too. This is clear sign that our politicall class is living under the dominion of iSSlam.
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All those photos are of western women who are in muslim countries so I have no problem with that. Now, I'd like to see muslim women visiting western countries adhere to the cultural standards of the west. Maybe a low cut blouse and a short skirt.
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in as much i hate hijabs...
if it is the law of teh land of Arabia, then it shoudl be followed even if one is visiting that country.
A lot of married religious Jewish married women also cover their natural hair.
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in as much i hate hijabs...
if it is the law of teh land of Arabia, then it shoudl be followed even if one is visiting that country.
A lot of married religious Jewish married women also cover their natural hair.
The muslims think that all earth is "Land of Arabia" They shud observe our customs in our alnds in first place. The maried women in Americas and Europe covered their head before WWII, the observant Jews do this even today and I'm all for more modest dress but not burkas and definatly not for iSSlamic sharia.
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in as much i hate hijabs...
if it is the law of teh land of Arabia, then it shoudl be followed even if one is visiting that country.
A lot of married religious Jewish married women also cover their natural hair.
WHAT??????? Do Jews require Gentile women to cover their head when they enter Israel?
Whats next?? all foreigners must provide a prayer rug and pray 7 times a day?
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in as much i hate hijabs...
if it is the law of teh land of Arabia, then it shoudl be followed even if one is visiting that country.
A lot of married religious Jewish married women also cover their natural hair.
The muslims think that all earth is "Land of Arabia" They shud observe our customs in our alnds in first place. The maried women in Americas and Europe covered their head before WWII, the observant Jews do this even today and I'm all for more modest dress but not burkas and definatly not for iSSlamic sharia.
exactly, they shoudl follow the law of the land that they move to..and whatever customs they want to do, they do it in private and not impose it on others.
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in as much i hate hijabs...
if it is the law of teh land of Arabia, then it shoudl be followed even if one is visiting that country.
A lot of married religious Jewish married women also cover their natural hair.
WHAT??????? Do Jews require Gentile women to cover their head when they enter Israel?
Whats next?? all foreigners must provide a prayer rug and pray 7 times a day?
A married Jewish woman covering her hair is a custom done by certain Jews..therefore, it's understood that whomever wishes to follow that custom to do it..therefore, it's not required for all Jews or Gentile married women to cover their hair.
IN arabia, it's another story. It's the law of their land and if you go there, you have to follow that law...and the same shoudl be done vice versa when they come to our land.they ahve to fllow our law..except they don't and nobody punishes them here for breaking the law.
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I've got an idea. We should dress up as angry Muslims and march in a group demanding some random stuff that the government should do. Repeat this same process day in and day out, until the government is tired of bending over backwards for Muslims.