A Muslim Woman Speaks Out About Her Right to Choose (Dedication to the Women of Mid-East Music, Part 4: Deeyah of Pakistan)

This is really eye opening. A first hand account of what it is like to be a Muslim woman who is also a successful pop performer. Her name is Deeyah:



I predict that if the N.O.W. can embrace and defend THIS form of "Choice" it will find a whole new life, and an influx of members. Which it apparently, desperately needs.

BTW, Interesting decision in a Michigan court: no masks while testifying.

Oh, and one other thing... in the face of such dangerous and overwhelming oppression in the world .... can we now cut with the faux charges of racism in the U.S.? (Please note, I am not suggesting that there is never real racism in the U.S. There is. But geesh, gimme a break fellas. We are being "racist" in our reporting on Michael Jackson's death?)

SYD

Interesting That They Carry Signs Etched in English

Clearly they think we can help them. (Unless this is a photoshopped image.... and there was no English in the streets of Tehran after all.)

But we can't even make up our minds to help one another.

H/T to Dr. Violet Socks for yet another bang up Feminist blog post! Two days running...

SYD

UPDATE: Apparently Obama is now backing the protesters?? But CBS is suppressing his statement to that effect.HotAir covers it.

Who knows what to believe? (H/T to Anna Belle for the critical analysis.)

News For President Obama: Women in the U.S. Have Proudly Covered Their Hair for Centuries

The problem with the Cairo speech IMO, is that it gives women permission to wear hijab. But it does not really give them permission NOT TO.

Oh, sure, the President says the covering of the hair should be a "choice." But he says nothing about the real reason why it is NOT a "choice" for so many. No mention about violence, honor killings, "intolerant" husbands and brothers. Instead he pretends as if it is an intolerant, secular America that would take away such a "right."


Is Obama even aware that we have a long history of "tolerating" women who cover their hair in this country? Be they nuns or Mennonites. To be frank, nobody I know has problems with the freely chosen covering of hair.

It's not the freely chosen coverage of hair that disturbs the Americans I know.

It's the hair that is covered under threat of violence that gets our panties knotted.