Much is being made of a photograph of Pelosi wearing a scarf on her head -- "Pelosi in Hijab" -- as she goes to visit a mosque that houses the head of the beheaded saint, John the Baptist. Is she bowing to Muslim oppression? She's wearing the scarf folded and tied under the chin in a style long used by American women. The mosque is the one Pope John Paul II visited. And it's a Christian tradition for women to cover their heads. In the words of St. Paul:
I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I handed them on to you. But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the husband is the head of his wife, and God is the head of Christ. Any man who prays or prophesies with something on his head disgraces his head, but any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled disgraces her head—it is one and the same thing as having her head shaved. For if a woman will not veil herself, then she should cut off her hair; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, she should wear a veil. For a man ought not to have his head veiled, since he is the image and reflection of God; but woman is the reflection of man. Indeed, man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for the sake of woman, but woman for the sake of man. For this reason a woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man or man independent of woman. For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman; but all things come from God. Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head unveiled? Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair, it is degrading to him, but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering. But if anyone is disposed to be contentious— we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God. (1 Corinthians 11:2-16)You may not like that. I don't. But, clearly, headcovering is not just a Muslim thing. But even if it were, showing respect for the traditions of a place of worship you want to enter is completely appropriate. It's not as if she were asked to denounce Christianity to enter the mosque. The mosque was open to her as a place to worship a Christian relic, and she made the sign of the cross in there.
ADDED: Pelosi also wore an abaya. Not a Christian tradition. She also shook hands with the women inside and "watch[ed]" the men.
YET MORE: Here's Amanda Marcotte's summary of this post: "Ann Althouse wants Pelosi to be a little bit more of a sexbot." Whaa? Marcotte seems to be pulling in signals from outer space. Just flat out nutty, Amanda. Or did you even read this post? (Loser.)
AND: Amanda tries to cover up her blundering and I respond to that here.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 208 of 208Re: "France and our Revolutionary War"
Yes, indeed, they were once a great people.
And that's all gone now. Pity.
Now mendacious and untrustworthy, and unable to defend themselves. Hell, theyre so weak and indifferent to their own fate, they can't even reproduce in sufficinet numbers to keep their bloated welfare state afloat. What kind of people commit suicide en masse like that? And they won't enjoy being ruled by their Muslim "youths".
Truly sad.
Well, I guess we can all assume Pogo has never been to France.
*They can't defend themselves? Duh
Read more...talk less.
Hell, theyre so weak and indifferent to their own fate, they can't even reproduce in sufficinet numbers to keep their bloated welfare state afloat. What kind of people commit suicide en masse like that?
this is a matter of simple economics, a wealth effect. more affluent societies have lower birthrates. you should check out the reproduction rate for caucasians in the united states, its right at 2.0 or 2.1, and that number has been on a steady downward trend. if not for the tremendous immigration to the united states, we would shortly be in the same shrinking boat as the "weak and indifferent" europeans.
Re: "more affluent societies have lower birthrates."
Correct, to a point.
At this rate the US will be able to meet its welfare needs.
Not the French, English, Spaniards, or Italians. Their birthrate is below replacement levels.
Except for the Muslims. Lotsa kids being born in the EU for Islam.
Re: "Duh"
Is that supposed to be a substantive response?
Luckyoldson:
On Vietnam, just two sentences:
A combination of cowardly and self-serving institutions, e.g., craven university administrators, leftist faculty and students who declined the danger, inconvenience and ordered life of military service (all the while parroting high-sounding "principles" against the war), gravel-voiced major media defeatists and meretricious Hollywood degenerates like Jane Fonda (who, as our Vietnam-era Tokyo Rose, a mon avis, should've stood trial for treason that cost American lives) helped sink our war effort in Vietnam.
Noam "Hate America" Chomsky (a hypocritical millionaire several times over who attacks capitalism and roots for the most savage of leftist dictatorships), whose political pin-up boy for a time was the maniacal mass murderer Pol Pot, who smilingly killed a quarter of his people and devastated its land, had his malevolent effect as well.
Now with Nancy "Moneybags" Pelosi, whose viscerally anti-military constituency in San Francisco mandates our defeat and our disarmnament, the superannuated hipsters in her district have their second chance to fancy themselves heroes again . . .
Correction: "Three sentences"--but I could follow with dozens more . . .
Jacques Albert,
Oh, okay...we'll get right on that treason trial, etc.
Old, old, old bullshit.
1You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. 2I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard? 3Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort? 4Have you suffered so much for nothing—if it really was for nothing? 5Does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you because you observe the law, or because you believe what you heard?
6Consider Abraham: "He believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."[a] 7Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. 8The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed through you."[b] 9So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
10All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law."[c] 11Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith."[d] 12The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, "The man who does these things will live by them."[e] 13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree."[f] 14He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
Galatians 3:1
Mark 7:1 to 7:20
20He went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes him 'unclean.' 21For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.' "
Just a little more intresting reading.
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