Barbara O’Brien has scoured the ‘Net to cover ScarfGate.
It’s interesting that there are photos of both Laura Bush and Condoleezza Rice in hajibs, while Speaker Pelosi is wearing a scarf.
I admit that I’m old enough to remember when the only women who wore hajibs in the US were nuns. I don’t remember anyone harassing them over the practice: it was part of their religion.
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She needs a photo of Dumbya in his little quasi-porkpie-cum-“cowboy” hat with scarf & matching gloves like over at Jesus’ General — THAT is the scarf that the Little Greasy Fuckwads ought to be worried about! And I quote: “Capote’s Last Rodeo.”
HA!
She shows respect for foreign nations, she tries to use DIPLOMACY to keep the planet from exploding, and she’s EEEEEEVILLLLLLL, she’s a TRAAAAAITOR. As I’ve said before, she’s no Barbara Boxer (nor Molly Ivins nor Ann Richards nor Barbara Jordan, etc.), but I’d prolly vote for Nancy for prez waaaayyyy before I’d vote for Hillary. Nancy’s still a little too prissy for my taste, but not nearly as cutthroat as Hil.
She’s a Italian grandmother, she doesn’t yell unless you question her pesto. Every so often when she talks I get the vibe that she’s someone who would rather get even than get mad. So far she gotten most of what she’s wanted. I’m not betting she doesn’t have a temper.
I think she’s frustrating a lot of opponents by ignoring their attacks, not taking them seriously.
Molly, Ann, and Barbara were the three great ladies of Texas. Anyone of them would have made a hell of a President.
If the wingnuts are upset about Nancy’s headscarf, which is no more extreme than what my late mother (a Southern Baptist before the SBC became so extreme) used to wear, they’re bound to be soiling their pants about the paralegal and blogging software wizard near the top of my blogroll, who wears a full-face hijab and even blogs under the name Al-Muhajabah, which I believe means “the veiled one.” Just to make the righties lose their lunches… she’s a Democrat, a supporter at various times of Kucinich and Clark. Americans come in many flavors: the Religious Reich should just get over it.
I have friends from India who are American citizens. When I enter their temples or their homes, I remove my shoes: it is simple respect to observe their customs; they’re not asking me to engage in their religious practices.
If anyone were to insist that Pelosi wear a hijab full-time in her daily life in America, against her will, I’d have a problem with that… but no one is insisting that. If anyone insists she not wear a scarf as a gesture of simple respect in another society, I have a problem with that, too.
Which religious zealots are more offensive? Short answer: all of ’em. Every religion seems to produce some true believers who take it upon themselves to enforce their practices on everyone else. When those believers gain control of a society… here as surely as in another country… they can be dangerous.
I suspect that she took the scarf with her, because my Mother has one that is almost identical and it was sent from California.
I left my shoes outside of Japanese homes and various shrines to multiple religions. I’ve worn a lot of things I wouldn’t normally wear to attend many different events.
Is wearing a suit and tie to a funeral oppression? Is wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day oppression? Is a policy of “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service” oppression?
Some people need to spend some time meeting other people and enjoying other cultures.
Ahhh, but if they spent time meeting other people and experiencing other cultures, then that would just blow their whole xenophobic/slave-mongering way of life all to hell, wouldn’t it.
How ya gonna murder, oppress & enslave “teh brown people” (as Dumbya describes them) when you see them as REAL LIVE HUMAN BEINGS??!??!?!
Tsk, tsk, tsk, that would NEVER work in the Halliburton Plan For A New World Order.
There is more honesty in a Arab street market than corporate board rooms. The Arab merchants are trying to screw you, but they have the integrity to admit it, so everyone is playing by the same rules. Corporations claim they are telling the truth, something no market vendor would ever claim.
You have to demonize people before murdering them becomes “acceptable.”