That point about the scarfs being eye catching. Ok then, wasn’t it the whole pro women approch behind it is women are so great that they do not need to use their beauty to be taken seriously they will be seen for them not their look etc. So why have I seen scarfs that go with outfits? Designer scarfs? Sparkly in your face scarfs? women wearing scarfs with a face caked with make up? Does that not make the scarf some mixed up fashion item? Therefore this defeats the purpose. When women wearing the scarf say the scarf makes me……. So a bit of material makes you powerful? gives you confidence? self respect? That is not healthy you are puting to much dependence on a bit of material wake up because that is not healthy. It is like the magic football boots story. The boy gets given football boots and told they are magical to make him play better. The boy plays better with the boots on. He loses them or they get destroyed or something and he has to play without them. He soon relises that he had this football talent all along and it didnt come from the boots at all. You get it muslim women may respect themselves or have confidence and feel powerful but they need to give themselves the credit for this inner desire to more than they can be and not material.

Back to my first point women who wear skimpy clothes is not benificial but lets face neither is the scarf or burka. My point basically being anorexic is not healthy but the solution is not to eat to success and be obese. Therefore I wish some of these muslim women will open their eyes and see that the only options to get respect is not cover head or face or wear bikini there is a middle ground.

Shame on Ms. Chesler: She has drawn a veil over her once luminous intelligence, and has allowed herself to become benighted by her encounter with a few charming Muslimas. What Chesler seems to forget is that every one of those Muslimas by whom she was so ridiculously smitten revere Mohammed, the Godfather of Islamic misogyny. That by itself disqualifies any Muslim woman from the honor of being a feminist. At best, such a woman would be a grotesquely confused victim in need of psychiatric help and intensive debriefing for several months from the cult that has so deformed her — and not fit to be in the movement until she has kicked the addiction of Islam by which she is beholden to the preposterous, outrageous paradox of revering Mohammed while at the same time fighting for feminism. It would be like a person continuing to revere Hitler, while now supporting the cause of Israel. The insanity of it alone should disqualify such a person.

Accepted,

and Jerusalem is indeed a noble sacred place (Al Quds), in the Land of Israel.

For the record, I call it Jerusalem and believe that the Jews have a historical and spiritual right to that city.”

Yes, though it seems that many in the world think they have no place at all, even in the place of their Hashem.

Pretty p**s-poor rationale, if you ask me.