Burqas, Chris Muir, Day by Day and Bodychecking

Here's an interesting perspective from a foreigner trying on a Burqa for the first time and how suffocating it is to wear it. And not to mention how easy it is to stumble in that thing. Interesting thing is how male Muslims have their own way of "bodychecking" women in Burqas. Is this how some male Muslims have a chance to "feel up" their women in some sort of weird, sex fetish way to get their jollies while bumping them in the streets and sidewalks of the Islamic world?

"After a few hours beneath the burqa, my sight has adjusted and my feet seem to have grown eyes. But my shoulders are sore from the dozens of men who have bumped into me full force. After two weeks as a foreign woman in Afghanistan, no man has ever bumped into me before. Now, in my burqa, I cannot pass five minutes without being plowed into. Does this mean, as I suspected, that women here, faceless under the burqa, may as well be invisible? Or is this just bodychecking for fun?"

Will Chris Muir of Day to Day cartoonist include this part? Bodychecking. I hope so. Seems like the character wearing the Burqa is learning some hard realities about Burqas and how they are designed to demean women and how they are supposed to be "invisible" to the world of men. Yeah, right. Male Muslims get their jollies bodychecking female Muslims in Burqas. If liberated women here in the United States and elsewhere do not mind Burqas, then please, they should wear them and throw away their Calvin Klein jeans. We certainly don't mind if they became invisible for awhile.

If you have missed the Day by Day cartoon episode on the Burqa episode, check it out in the April 2006 series starting on April 8.

As for the male Muslims, perhaps the Abu Ghraib prisoners ought to have been forced to wear Burqas instead? The MSM and liberals will probably scream something about it being worse than wearing underwear on their heads. Why don't the enlightened male liberals wear Burqas for awhile, too?

Yeah. It'd be as sillier as a "Brokeback" moment.