Yes! And put a burqa on the Perv-elect and his next door boyfriend Jon Favreu, now esteemed Director of Speechwriters….

Excellent commentary here. Bravo! The House of Washington is the fashion designer of the fundamentalist garb…We should hang our heads in shame for we have allowed our shadow government to take over….

*Obama would look great in a burqua!

The “House of Washington” is the real fashion designers of these sexist, oppresively fundamentalist prison-costumes! Women there hate them! But thanks to Reagan and Bush policies their decent conservative-liberal leaders were snubbed to usher in Puppet Dictators who, in turn, turned the people into thte hands of the Ayatollahs and the Sadams and the Taliban….No way these women there are ‘happy’ with the fashions WE have imposed on them. You need to go back to your history books in the past few decades.

THANK YOU! Exactly. WEll said. Back in the 60s/70s, the women in these countries were more progressive and Tehran, in Iran, could compete for fashion smarts with the best of Paris and Rome fashions! It’s the American foreign policy and intelligence that promotes puppet dictators to service their chauvinismn and imperialist designs on the back of the poor citizens there, that made Fundamenalism as fashionable as it is now! You can thank Reagan and Bush for this and IMF. The Shah of Iran was supported by the CIA all the way and his ruthless tyrranical “leadership” paved the way for the crazy misogynist Aytollahs! So, you can say, rather cruelly, that the FAshion Designers that brought us these lovely “fundamentalist burqua fashions” were the Washington Boys!
And Obama will the worst offender…

Yes! Bill Maher is a geriatric misogynist pig and I usually find his sexist comments semi-ubly. But I must admit that this tells it like it is and manages to say things that we know are damn right on! The irony is that Billie himself probably devalues and diminishes women, but not in a fundamentalist way! Wish I could see Maher wearing a burqa over his head. He reminds of another misogynist vile sexist “humorist” Al Franken. Ugh!

And I also would not be surprised if some Muslim fundamentalist came after Bill after seeing this…

Interesting.

Let me ask you, did you feel this way about Apartheid? I mean South Africans had their own distinct culture and it was really not our business how they treated blacks.

“Oh please I have lived in a country where there is a very strong Muslim population and some women wear the full Burka, while some dress in part of it. No one is beating them or forcing them to wear this dress, just as the Hindu woman paints her hair line in red. It is there culture and some weather you want to believe it or not do it willingly.”

A strict interpretation of Islam does not allow for tolerance in dress and custom. Aghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and half of Somalia would be some off the cuff examples of countries where women are required to be covered, with our without their own consent. They enjoy lesser status under the law and in their own homes. This has nothing to do with what I believe. It is fact.

None of this has anything to do with the erosion of “American values”, whatever those may be.

Comment by nancy sabet | 2009-01-08 12:44:48
Believe me is not their culture. If you ‘ve been in these countries in 60’s and 70’s , you would’ve not seen women being covered like that. In fact there were many , many women who were very westernized. The Islamic fundamentalists have turn these countries to Middle Ages.

Just wonder what we women will be turned into by eeeh…hmmm… you know whom…him… eeeh

Comment by SJ | 2009-01-08 08:51:03
The fact is that is their culture we may not understand how they live but they have been doing so for years, who are we to say if our lifestyles is better then their own, and then we wonder why some of them hate us like that.

I completely agree with this comment, although I despise BM.

I thought it was very funny, a satire on the over-exposure of western fashion compared to the under-exposure of Islamic fashion.

I mean, yeah, it’s a crock of manure that women are forced to wear burkas and I wouldn’t last 2 seconds in a country which imposes such a drastic dress code and I agree it’s disgustingly oppressive women are forced to wear them but Maher had some funny lines like ‘Christian’ Dior changing his name to ‘Muslim’ Dior and one of the shrouds ‘showing curves in all the right places; the dome of the head and the shoulders.’

Political correctness can be aken entirely too far as we all experienced with the race-baiting BO campaign.

So please don’t stone me for voicing a contrarian opinion and yeah, I’m a she.