The American Spectator

p> UNDERCOVER ANGELS br> Re: Mary Grabar’s Little Girls in Headscarves : /p> p>I’d imagine more than a few letters will be written to the editor about the “Little Girls in Headscarves” piece by Mary Grabar, and I’m guessing those will be of three types. Those who fully support Grabar’s thinking, those who think she’s politically incorrect and needs a good dose of multicultural thinking, and those, like me, who think that it’s none of her business. As Christians, my wife and I have certain standards that we hope our daughter will follow. If she chooses not to when she’s an adult, that’s her choice. If she chooses not to while she’s still a child, we’ll just have to muddle through the same as parents and children always have. But when Grabar ends with “It may be too late for the woman swathed in black, but we need to reach her daughter,” I can’t help but wonder, who is “we,” and will I be able to keep “them” out of my home? The beauty and horror of our great nation is that such decisions rightly, constitutionally, belong to adults and parents. If Professor Grabar wants to help others assimilate, she’d best focus on fostering a culture worth adopting and defending. Perhaps instead of ranting against other cultures and multiculturalism, she should put more thought into her own culture. br> — Christopher B. Hayes /p>

I, too, wonder how Muslim oppression of girls and women is tolerated here in a country which “invented” the worth of the individual. I left Florida and now live in North Carolina where the sight of one of these poor creatures is an occasion for whispering and stares, they are so rare.

In Florida my liberal Democrat friends offered a progressive’s explanation. It was that “just because you choose to live in America doesn’t mean you become an American. It is not realistic to expect immigrants to adopt our language, culture, mores, or religious beliefs.”

I think this is how the United States will end. Detroit will become a Muslim city state ruled by sharia and fatwa. The West Coast will become a province of China; New England will become one large, collective farm that provides milk for Ben & Jerry’s. The South and Southwest will become part of Mexico known as Provincia de Dinero. The United States will be no more, but its values will go on in Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska.

p>But, as always, I digress. There is a much simpler explanation of why little Arab girls and women were their hideous clothes: if they don’t their husbands and fathers will kill them. br> —