Posted on 09/02/2009 8:48:29 AM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
Feminist author Naomi Wolf took issue with Jamie Glazov's post about her:
Naomi Wolf here. Mr Horowitz, you and I have met, and I am simply appalled at this misrepresentation. I am writing to ask strongly that you remove this falsehood from your site and correct the record. Ms Chesler’s piece is factually inaccurate as is this. I have never said any such thing. I do not find the burqa `sexy’ and do not wish to institutionalize it and it is shameful that you and she would traduce discourse with these kinds of falsehoods. In my original piece — which neither of you see fit to reproduce fully — I note that Muslim women struggle with such serious forms of oppression as infanticide, genital mutilation, legal inequities and so forth and that many of them have told me that they wish that Westerners would focus on support for these issues rather than what they wear.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsrealblog.com ...
From the article as it appears in the Syndey Morning Herald:
"I experienced it myself. I put on a shalwar kameez and a headscarf in Morocco for a trip to the bazaar. Yes, some of the warmth I encountered was probably from the novelty of seeing a Westerner so clothed; but, as I moved about the market - the curve of my breasts covered, the shape of my legs obscured, my long hair not flying about me - I felt a novel sense of calm and serenity. I felt, yes, in certain ways, free."
Naomi would do us all a favor if she wore a Burqa.
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