Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Holy Land accessories


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From National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez, a typical I'm-mentioning-it-so-I-care more-than-I-claim gambit --

A reader asked me if it was especially offense (sic) that Catholic Pelosi went to Syria and wore a headscarf during Holy Week.

The above is Fra Angelico's Resurrection of Christ and Women at the Tomb. The women are wearing scarves.

[K-Lo had also promoted this Drudge-ready idiocy, and Mona Charen dives into the controversy a day late: "She had no business conducting her own foreign policy of course, but if she did have to go, she should have done so holding her uncovered head high as the representative of liberated, western womanhood."]