The defense attorney who wore a traditional Islamic outfit during the rowdy arraignment of the accused Sept. 11 terrorists is defending her courtroom appeal that other women in the room wear more "appropriate" clothing to the proceedings -- out of respect for her client's Muslim beliefs. [More]Because we see how much respect they have for others.
So, when this...this thing Cheryl Bormann wants a U.S. Court to order other women to wear Muslim garb so her self-control-challenged clients don't get all bonerific and "commit a sin under their faith," a few questions come to mind (including why, with some of these guys, they don't require boys to wear burkhas):
See, it's not simply tolerance of Muslim beliefs--there can be no satisfaction unless they're embraced and obeyed, and by all--kind of like everything else the diversity crowd militantly demands. So if we need to show "respect" for Islamist fanatics in the courtroom by ordering women to don what Oriana Fallaci called a "stupid medieval rag" (as she took her chador off while interviewing the Ayatollah Khomeini), then why wouldn't we need to order them to show that respect everywhere? Never can tell when what you choose to wear might trigger a response...
I'm not clear on what Bormann is saying here, mainly because I, and all other men I know and call friends, aren't forced to avert our eyes from non-cloaked women in order to keep our salacious urges in check. So is she saying her clients are inferior primitives?
Not that I'm entirely unsympathetic. Unless she is being accompanied by her husband or male relatives, I'd have no problem with those she "respects" administering the lash, maybe even burying her up to her neck, gathering some hefty stones and and warming up the ol' pitching arms...especially if she drove there on her own.