With the exception of a few of the most fanatical and reactionary nations, most Muslim countries do not require non-Muslim women to wear headscarves. I have never heard anything about Jordan requiring non-Muslim women to wear them. And obviously Israel doesn't require it. Obama is being silly at best, misogynist at worst. Maybe he's taking it out on other women as compensation for having to bow to his domineering wife.
With the exception of a few of the most fanatical and reactionary nations, most Muslim countries do not require non-Muslim women to wear headscarves. I have never heard anything about Jordan requiring non-Muslim women to wear them.Jordan is among the most progressive of Muslim countries. They have women serving in the legislature, and women have been voting there since the 1960s.
And obviously Israel doesn't require it.
That's probably a symbolic message to his radical leftie friends and supporters, who believe that Israel belongs to the Palestinians, so anything done there should be consistent with what the Palestinians want.
Obama is being silly at best, misogynist at worst. Maybe he's taking it out on other women as compensation for having to bow to his domineering wife.
That's an interesting theory.