[joathome]

"To take it off would be the equivalent of some other woman being forced to remove her blouse," said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, D.C.-based Islamic advocacy group."

I get really sick of this crappy analogy. It doesn't fly. For starters, I don't walk around in my bra in front of my dad, brothers, uncles, grandfathers, etc. And, I've seen Muslim women de-cloak in public ladies' rooms, with no thought to the fact that there were other women there. Most women don't walk in a public ladies' room and take off our blouses!

[NYCVirago]

"To take it off would be the equivalent of some other woman being forced to remove her blouse," said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, D.C.-based Islamic advocacy group."

I get really sick of this crappy analogy. It doesn't fly. For starters, I don't walk around in my bra in front of my dad, brothers, uncles, grandfathers, etc. And, I've seen Muslim women de-cloak in public ladies' rooms, with no thought to the fact that there were other women there. Most women don't walk in a public ladies' room and take off our blouses!

I hadn't heard this analogy before the article, but you raise some very good points as to why it's a bad one.