LEFT WING BIGOTRY:

Saudis in Bikinis (NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, 10/25/02, NY Times)

If most Saudi women want to wear a tent, if they don't want to drive, then that's fine. But why not give them the choice? Why ban women drivers and why empower the religious police, the mutawwa, to scold those loose hussies who choose to show a patch of hair?

If Saudi Arabians choose to kill their economic development and sacrifice international respect by clinging to the 15th century, if the women prefer to remain second-class citizens, then I suppose that's their choice. But if anyone chooses to behave so foolishly, is it any surprise that outsiders point and jeer?

Imagine the reaction if Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh belittled the abaya that way. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 25, 2002 2:54 PM