I remember the first time I saw a woman in a burka.
It was in front of 1185 6th Ave, in the middle of the day.
There was a man, middle eastern, altho I didn’t focus in on his nationality that second, it wasn’t important. He was playing ball with his son, who was maybe five. Right in the middle of a busy sidewalk. It was pretty cute, actually, this father and son, zoning out the rest of the busy world.
I was walking north, and I walked around them to the right, which put me more towards the curb. I was still smiling at the sight, when something made me look to my right. There, parked at the curb, was a black car (taxi) with the back window half down. In it, a pair of eyes was staring at me. I didn’t get the feeling she was smiling either. She was in a burka, so all I saw were her eyes.
I felt a cold chill come over me. It was like someone had opened up a ten thousand year old tomb, and I was about to go inside. It was frightening.
Wait, so why aren’t people crying out for the Hasidic people in Brooklyn to stop wearing their religious clothing??
And if you hadn’t seen a burkah prior to 9/11, you didn’t have your eyes opened. I remember seeing them on a school trip when I was a kid and asked my teacher what it was. That was 25 years ago.
I sat next to a French woman once going somewhere or coming back from somewhere and we had the most mesmerizing conversation (or let’s say I listened to her). She informed me, wide-eyed and ernest, that American women were really getting much better in terms of fashion. Really improving. I was trying to stifle my reaction which was somewhere between laughing and asking where she got her credentials to certify us as improving in the fashion department. I guess I have always been a zenophile, but the whole French thing never really turned me on. It always seems like you can’t just speak French and be your American self, you have to tranform yourself into a French person and try to pass.
“Etson – does it change your mind that Rauf was in Tribeca long before 9/11?”
To the degree that it changes the answer as to why he’s building here now.
If it’s just that the space was convenient and they got a good deal or something like that then I don’t have a big problem with it.
If he’s trying to spark some realignment or discussion of America relative to Islam and using this as an experiment / trial balloon, then I am less comfortable.
By daveinbedstuy on August 18, 2010 4:01 PM
I think there needs to be a special police force formed to police who can and who cannot wear a wifebeater or any type of tank top.
And bicycle shorts made of spandex. And leggings.
I remember the first time I saw a woman in a burka.
It was in front of 1185 6th Ave, in the middle of the day.
There was a man, middle eastern, altho I didn’t focus in on his nationality that second, it wasn’t important. He was playing ball with his son, who was maybe five. Right in the middle of a busy sidewalk. It was pretty cute, actually, this father and son, zoning out the rest of the busy world.
I was walking north, and I walked around them to the right, which put me more towards the curb. I was still smiling at the sight, when something made me look to my right. There, parked at the curb, was a black car (taxi) with the back window half down. In it, a pair of eyes was staring at me. I didn’t get the feeling she was smiling either. She was in a burka, so all I saw were her eyes.
I felt a cold chill come over me. It was like someone had opened up a ten thousand year old tomb, and I was about to go inside. It was frightening.
…ok, gotta go work now.
but don’t worry I’ll be back. 😉
Wait, so why aren’t people crying out for the Hasidic people in Brooklyn to stop wearing their religious clothing??
And if you hadn’t seen a burkah prior to 9/11, you didn’t have your eyes opened. I remember seeing them on a school trip when I was a kid and asked my teacher what it was. That was 25 years ago.
more information for this
feast of pure reason,
where would a lesbian feel more at home,
Mecca a sharia compliant city
or
Madrid a city with a long christian tradition,
not saying one is better at all,
just pointing out the political correctness of
11217’s ridiculous stance.
I sat next to a French woman once going somewhere or coming back from somewhere and we had the most mesmerizing conversation (or let’s say I listened to her). She informed me, wide-eyed and ernest, that American women were really getting much better in terms of fashion. Really improving. I was trying to stifle my reaction which was somewhere between laughing and asking where she got her credentials to certify us as improving in the fashion department. I guess I have always been a zenophile, but the whole French thing never really turned me on. It always seems like you can’t just speak French and be your American self, you have to tranform yourself into a French person and try to pass.
“Etson – does it change your mind that Rauf was in Tribeca long before 9/11?”
To the degree that it changes the answer as to why he’s building here now.
If it’s just that the space was convenient and they got a good deal or something like that then I don’t have a big problem with it.
If he’s trying to spark some realignment or discussion of America relative to Islam and using this as an experiment / trial balloon, then I am less comfortable.
There was a mosque at “ground zero” before the World Trade Center even opened.
How’s that for hypocrisy.
Or the fact that there is a strip club and an OTB closer to the “hallowed ground” of ground zero than the proposed new Islamic Cultural Center.
By 11217 on August 18, 2010 4:00 PM
“1. Treating women as chattle
2. Denying the existence of gays
3. Denying the religious expression of others
(try building a Synagogue in Mecca)”
You’ve also just described many in the Republican party in the good ole U.S. of A.
11217,
please back that statement with solid proof as I have.