10/1/2020: Finished year 7 (!), with continuing gratitude towards this amazing community. Based in St. Louis, MO. Regular worker-bee and self-taught photography dilettante....
@Weezilou Given the offensive things that are happening in the world right now I don't see how this registers on the offensiveness scale. (As you have made a public statement I consider it fair game for me to comment).
@yrhenwr Absolutely, David. I take no offense in civil public discourse. What I see is a woman with her head draped in the American flag which in and of itself is not meant to be head gear. I find that, alone, disrespectful. Though sporting a generic face, it's the Muslin women who wear the hajib in this style, and so I find this further disrespectful as I can only wonder the response to American women wearing an Islamic flag draped around their head. There are some in that community who would wish to kill people who they feel they are being made fun of fun of in literature and cartoons. I couldn't agree more that in the present the world seems a dangerous place and people in the US and Canada, Paris and Brussels, Bali, Ft Hood, San Bernadino, Ft Lauderdale and Boston, and hey, let's not forget the Twin Towers in NYC, have been under siege by, what pc way should I say it? Muslim Terrorists? I absolutely believe we have laws in place to vet immigrants, and if anarchy were not taking place for several years now, some of this might not have happened. I'd love to see a return to law and order so we might embrace people of all cultures as we did for so long during the years of immigration. Clearly a faction of our country saw the left as far-too-lax, and, feel the need to a return to center. I'm not afraid at all of sharing conversation about beliefs, but I do find it sad if anyone is into character assassination and name calling if they fail to find a valid argument. There ARE offensive things happening, but some of us don't see "the offensive things" to be the same things. Sincerely, thank you for bringing this up..
@Weezilou I rather agree with you. As much as I'd like to confer my American ideals on everyone and would like to think that everyone views the world the same as I do, reality tells me something quite different.
