Iran’s not feeling it either, actually:
Iranian religious figures have criticised that Olympic female rower Homa Hosseini was chosen as the flagbearer of Iran, calling the move a ‘heresy’.
“To make a woman march with the flag of the Islamic Republic in Beijing, is pure heresy and shows total disobedience of the laws mandated by our spiritual guides,” said Seyye Ahmad Elmalhoda, leader of Friday prayers in Iran’s holy city of Mashad…
“To make this woman march means to openly declare war to our religious values. Whoever is responsible for this unforgivable act, he should know that this gesture constitutes an obstacle for the ‘appearance’ of Mahdi,” said Elmalhoda.
Dern. And I was so looking forward to seeing him.
If only these so-called “athletes” knew their place.
Well, Lex, since she looks so serious, let’s give her some support here. From both sexes.
Of course, her Muslim compatriots may see to it that she’s stoned to death when she gets back home, like the Dallas Muslim cabdriver who murdered his two daughters because they were too popular with their schoolmates. That would wipe the smile right off my face, I’ll tell you.
And why are the so-called “feminists” in this country so silent at the constant disrespect and abuse of their Mid-Eastern sisters. I wonder about that quite often. They crusade quite a bit for what seem to me to be fairly irrelevant things that happen in this country, but are strangely silent about massive abuses of women in the Mid-East. Do you think it’s a case of “if it didn’t happen here, it didn’t happen?”
Maybe I should ask Gloria Steinem.
Marianne
I note that you tagged this as silliness. I would disagree. I think it is deadly serious and should serve as a warning to women worldwide.
Greetings:
Is them girl children or boy children? I always have trouble with them Arabs.
#3 – Smells like moby.
Marianne, I’m not sure which “so-called feminists” you are referring to (I get the impression you have some sort of *type* in mind, a type that may be very outdated–Steinem????), but feminists in this country are writing about this–I point you in particular to the thoughtful works of Saba Mahmood and Fatima Mernissi as a starting point.
Perhaps the silence you are noting is not the lack of concern by feminists, but the media’s failure to consult feminist scholars on these issues. But then again, the core of the feminist critique is that women have been stripped of their voices, even in matters that concern them most directly.
“Whoever is responsible for this unforgivable act, he should know that this gesture constitutes an obstacle for the ‘appearance’ of Mahdi,” said Elmalhoda.
I say we find the guy, give him a blank check, and then have him organize a game of Carry the Iranian Flag Allllllllll Around the World — using the entire distaff side of the Persian contingent …
Dang, I can’t identify the weapon she’s holding!
Oh, and no smile needed; that facial expression beats Mona Lisa all hollow.