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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Via Andrew Sullivan

... an unveiled woman in Iran.













Sullivan writes:

It's a simple picture of a woman
on a bus. But she's wearing no
headdress or veil and a
Western haircut in Iran.
…The MSM does not provide
enough glimpses into the
struggle of Iranians against
their dictators.


Years ago, UD was walking with her young daughter through the Pentagon City Mall (malls have odd names around here) when her daughter began to stare at two women walking slowly toward them. They were veiled from face to foot. You could barely see their eyes.

In an interesting visceral reaction, UD tightened her grip on her daughter’s hand and turned her quickly around in the opposite direction. She didn't want her daughter to see them.