Good for her: Michelle Obama passes on headscarf during trip to Saudi Arabia

Hotair ^ | 01/28/2015 | AllahPundit

[Veto!]

This will be the moment that goes down in history that I TOTALLY AGREE with Michelle’s decisions and behavior. No headscarves for free women. Ever.

I didn’t love the tacky blue outfit, however.

[PghBaldy]

LOL!

[SeekAndFind]

If she does, she'll be following the example of then Speaker, Nancy Pelosi when she visited Syria in 2007:

[proud American in Canada]

I’m glad Michelle didn’t wear a scarf. With all due respect to Mrs. Bush, I found that picture of her with a scarf on her head to be disturbing.

It’s almost like the equivalent of Obama bowing to the king. Americans do not bow, and I don’t think American women should be wearing signs of oppression. They are just as free as American men.

[This I Wonder32460]

Wow, perhaps it’s because Mrs. Obama is black that they are making a fuss about her not wearing a scarf. They didn’t make a fuss about the white first ladies not wearing a scarf. Are they racists? And regarding Condi Rice, I’m sure that while Ms. Rice is being diplomatic and saying the King meant well by giving her a “shroud” to wear, that she knows that more then likely he really was insulting her and trying to let her know where she belongs. Again, are they racists?

[PghBaldy]

At least it was blue, which seems more subdued than red, yellow or orange for mourning...

[MortMan]

She didn’t do anything that Laura Bush didn’t do (although Bush did once don a scarf in Jeddah when a group of cancer survivors presented her with one), but as the west’s elite slowly assimilate Islamic norms on blasphemy, affronting the Kingdom by eschewing a scarf feels more transgressive than it used to.

In other words, Laura Bush did it first, but Michelle is, well, Michelle, so she's MUCH more bold to have followed Laura's lead!

[RnMomof7]

The great woman libber wears a scarf in the Mid east.. just a hypocrite

[gdani]

It's sad to see so many people here upset by a "lack of protocol" towards terrorists (the Saudi royal family) directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans on 9/11 & beyond.

We should have told them to take their funeral & stuff it where the sun doesn't shine.

[alloysteel]

Even Nancy Pelosi was sufficiently obsequious to don a head cover when she made a point of visiting dignitaries in Damascus. And if it was good enough for Nancy, it sure is equally good for Michelle.

Michelle just might find herself buried to the waist and being pelted with stones before she gets out of town.

[Da Coyote]

For the first time, I am with her on this.

Anyone that tells muzzies they can shove their 6th century attitude on women up their collective ....holes is gets a kudo.

Now, if only she’d say what she really thinks about her muzzie, limpid, weak-d*cked quota boy socialist hubby......

[MortMan]

As noted in the article, the scarf Laura Bush wore was a present from Muslim women cancer survivors, and was worn when presented.

[ansel12]

Isn't that a picture of her visiting a Mosque?

They all wear a cover for that, even Michelle and Laura Bush.

As an example, while not a Mosque....

[South40]

I don't agree Laura should have worn a scarf. The purpose for posting her picture was to show that some choose to respect the local customs and some don't.

The community organizer bowing was not custom, it was the act of a man acknowledging he is not top dog in the room, similar to how a beta male would show respect to the alpha male of the group. Barry is certainly no alpha male; the world knows that and he does too.

[SampleMan]

She was registered as livestock.

[SampleMan]

She was registered as livestock.

[miss marmelstein]

Yikes! She looks like a peasant working in the olive grove circa 1910!

[SampleMan]

She was registered as livestock.

[Plummz]

If the rumors are true and Michelle is a tranny, is he/she/it even required to wear a scarf under their law?

[ansel12]

What is the situation for that photo?