I’d like to comment on a phenomenon I’ve been seeing recently in my deep-blue neighborhood. I’d like to call it the Muslim Fashion Show.
The characters include between three and six (numbers may vary) (young) women clad in full long skirts and hijab headgear, plus one (young) woman in Western dress, no head covering. I refer to the latter as the “liaison” who makes the performance appear wholesome and normal to the average onlooker.
The hijab-clad ladies arrange themselves in an area open and visible to all.
They proceed to wander around in a large circle, aimlessly, not really looking at anyone or anything else.
The liaison beams at all passers-by.
The hijab-clad ladies then drift off to do whatever the environment dictates: if it’s public transit, they take a seat or disembark at the next stop. If it’s at a grocery store, they eventually pick up a shopping basket and start wandering the aisles. The liaison follows them.
The “look at me, I’m in Muslim garb” performance is very consistent. The same characters show up.
It all looks staged.
There have been burqa clad women in the Galleria area of Houston for a long time. You will see very few white people anymore at the Galleria.
They were in full uniform including the ghastly mesh panel over the eyes.
I confess to almost jumping out of my skin at the moment of near-collision with these silently-gliding figures right out of a horror movie.
It was a most startling experience during that moment.....and to this day I'm careful to swing way out when I'm rounding aisle endcaps so I don't have a heart attack when encountering such netherworld apparitions right in my face.
The funny part was seeing the bearded muslim male trailing behind the two spooky females, apparently a husband.
He was dressed in a garish open-neck Hawaiian shirt, bermuda shorts and sandals, sun glasses dangling around his neck....obviously dressed comfortably for the 90-ish degree weather outside the store.
Leni