probably the same thing condi rice discussed recently in damsacus.

She should have behaved like she was on ‘Spring Break’ right ‘dudes?

Arial Sharon is known all over the world as “The Butcher of Sabra and Shatila”.
The victims have now become the victimizers.
Who has the Apache heli’s, who has the tanks, the gunships, the weapons, the nukes?
What is a refugee and what is the definition of that term?
You believe in democracy so blindly that you don’t see that democracy has to ensure certain conditions for it’s people to live in security and peace. Same for our country the US.

That is not

Read previous posts above #268, 297, 305.

Once again, many of you know nothing about our history, our culture nor our how our faiths (Islam, Christianity & Judaism) are practiced in the East. You want to view everything through a myopic lens and a filter of only what YOU consider acceptable.

The world is a bigger place YOU ARE NOT ALWAYS RIGHT, PROGRESSIVE AND THE GOOD GUYS AND WE ARE NOT ALWAYS WRONG, BACKWARDS AND THE BAD GUYS.

Taking steps to understand different faiths and cultures in order to intelligently qualify what is faith and what is tradition/culture is integral in today’s world.

Your point above is well taken and understood. However, there certainly seems to be a great majority of people on this thread that had/have not clue one about hijab, Muslim women’s rights, the reality of being a woman in a Muslim country as opposed to the few sensationalized stories the Western media pick up on, and Islam in general.

It’s annoying that no matter what I say to shed light on facts that are broader in the sense of everyday life in most countries – no one wants to even entertain the possibility.

Looking for your reply.

C.

Wrong. You enjoy your freedoms because of people like me… Liberal, progressive thinkers like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Thomas Paine who wrote the US Constitution and created a nation that was never supposed to have a standing army. It is people like you who have destroyed what was once the greatest exercise in the theory of Democracy…

Comment by unbelievable — April 4, 2007 @ 3:39 pm

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Farid_N._Ghadry

It’s leader, Faird N. Ghadry models himself after Ahmad Chalabi. (Just what the world needs now is another Ahmad Chalabi.) Note that other than a profile of Ghadry on its website, the RPS “leadership” page is blank:

http://www.reformsyria.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=47

Its offices are conveniently located at 1700 Pennsylvania Ave. The “statement” posted by Jeff is nothing more than a propaganda piece probably sent over from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. or maybe AIPAC.

As a Muslim, I fully understand respect of our religion by visiting US officials and I applaud that respect. Had Speaker Pelosi worn the Hijab inside a Mosque, this would have indicated respect but for Pelosi to wear it on the streets of Damascus all the while she is sitting with the self-imposed Baschar al-Assad who has come to symbolize oppression and one of the reasons why women are forced to wear the Hijab as they turn to religion to express their freedom is a statement of submittal not only to oppression but also to lack of women’s rights in the Middle East. Pelosi just reversed the work of the Syrian civil society and those who aspire for women’s freedom in the Muslim countries many years back with her visual statement. Her lack of experience of the Middle East is showing.

Assad could not have been happier because Syrian women, seeing a US official confirming what their husbands, the Imams in the Mosques tell them, and the society at large imposes on them through peer pressure will see in her wearing a Hijab as a confirmation of the societal pressures they are constantly under. No one will ever know how many women took the Hijab on after seeing Pelosi wearing it. The damage Speaker Pelosi is causing with her visit to Syria will be felt for many years to come

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/03/world/main2641393.shtml

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/04/02/PH2007040200595.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/04/ap/world/main2648933.shtml

http://www.examiner.com/Topic-Saudi_Arabia.html

She wore a headscarf visiting a market, walking down the streets.

That’s the difference and thats a problem

Unlike you, Nancy Pelosi always looks great. But seriously, since you claim to be a practicing Catholic, you really shouldn’t be so surprised by women wearing headscarves at religious sites.

Has Pelosi Gone Bonkers?