The Unveiled Reader sends this
The Unveiled Reader sends this ABCNews.com link about the veiling of Muslim women.
Reading it, I was reminded of a scene at a press conference where the Foreign Minister of the Taliban--unaccompanied on his trip to the U.S.--faced the press corps around the time that his fellows were blowing up Buddhas. At one point, a woman in the crowd of reporters leapt to her feet and began screaming--and I do mean screaming--at the hapless Minister, producing a full burqa from beneath her coat, unfolding it and waving it about. She was a total spectacle. I wondered at the time what the Afghani must have been thinking: "Why are you showing this to me? I see them every day. You are a very strange woman." I thought she made a complete and incoherent fool of herself.
The point is made by the article: How important is what a woman wears when the woman hasn't eaten in days? First things first, please!
It is the Western problem: we are so steeped in abstract theory that we ignore the real problems of humanity in the muck.
