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Title: Right Wing Enraged: Laura Bush Is A ‘Butt-Kisser’ For Wearing Headscarf In Mideast
Source: Think Progress
URL Source: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/26/laura-bush-scarf-ii
Published: Oct 26, 2007
Author: Think Progress
Post Date: 2007-10-26 15:47:19 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 668
Comments: 18

When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wore a headscarf while visiting the Umayyad mosque in Damascus in April, the right wing pounced on her, attacking her as “subservient” and calling the act “disgust[ing].” Ironically, the right wing failed to note that First Lady Laura Bush had also worn a headscarf while previously visiting the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

During a tour of the Middle East this week, Laura Bush again donned a traditional hijab given to her as a gift by a Saudi Arabian doctor. Subsequently, several progressive bloggers questioned whether similar “opprobium” would follow from the right wing this time. Now we have our answer.

The conservative blogosphere has released its seething intolerance, collectively rising up to denounce Laura Bush as “Ms. Pander Clause” for wearing the head cover:

“I find the image from Saudi Arabia so disturbing. … That she would oblige her hosts by wearing a shmata on her head is a tacit endorsement of Islam’s subjugation of women.” — Weekly Standard

Bad craziness in Saudi Arabia … [W]e get this, from one of the most misogynistic societies on the planet: a photo of Laura Bush wearing an abaya and a veil. — Little Green Footballs

This is Sheikha Laura, yesterday, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia … Laura Bush [is] butt-kissing Saudi King Abdullah.” — Debbie Schlussel

Showing tolerance and respect for other cultures is interpreted as “butt-kissing” by far right conservatives.

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#4. To: Brian S (#0)

Yes, the reich wing hate fanatics get enraged by even the most pro forma common courtesy shown to Muslims or to Muslim sensibilities by anyone in government.

You have to keep in mind that the hate mongers on the reich wing think Bush is too soft on the Muslims. Pundits like Schlussel and Malkin represent the hardest of the hard core of reich wing chicken hawk cowards- about 30 percent of the entire reich wing or 5 or 10 percent of the population.

This core group thinks the US should, at a minimum be at total war with all of "Islam"- and they fantasize about nuking every major Muslim city on Earth. These people literally have a Nazi like hate of Muslims. When you don't recognize the humanity of a group of people- and the hard core reich wing uses terms like "insects" and "bugs" to describe Muslims- you certainly don't respect their tradtions or show even common courtesy to them. Anything short of calling "islam" a dirt religion is "appeasment" to this core group.

They go insane every year when Bush sends out "happy Ramadam" cards to Middle East leaders. That drives them nuts.

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#6. To: Burkeman1 (#4)

In the movie Five Fingers, set in wartime Turkey, it's the Nazi Col. Richter who finds "childish" the idea of taking off one's shoes in a mosque.

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These are the same people who give money to the "Heros of Haditha defense fund". I think the only think that would upset them is if the troops rape Muslim women before killing them- because it would be "mixing" with them. They are literally that evil. Schlussel made up a story about a Muslim "doctor's plot" that literally sounded like it was written by Goebbels and all one had to do was replace "Muslim" with "jew" and it would have been a hit in Nazi Germany movie theater news reels.

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