Tuesday, September 20, 2005

CAIR's Photoshop excursion

This is fairly outrageous. Women appearing in a photograph at CAIR's (Council on American Islamic Relations) website were not submissive enough to satisfy CAIR. The women had fake headscarfs painted on after the fact. Jihad Watch has the photos and analysis.

I'd bet dollars to donuts that CAIR retouched the photo in response to angry Muslim men expressing their anger at seeing a woman who wasn't properly oppressed.

Every time I see a Muslim woman wearing a headscarf or hiding fearfully in the full-length beekeeper outfit, I want to shout at them: You're in America now! You're free! Take it off and live like a free woman. You're not chattel any longer. Your owner-husband can't stop you now. It's even legal for you to shoot and kill your husband if he lays a hand on you.

Why does Islam, or various Muslim cultures around the world, want to stifle women with these clothes? Fear is the only reason that comes to mind. They're afraid of the women.