Muslim woman defends her wearing of American flag as hijab on Fox News to debate Donald Trump

[jpak]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/muslim-woman-defends-wearing-american-flag-hijab-article-1.2439132

The Muslim woman who wore an American flag hijab as she debated religious freedom on Fox News on Wednesday defended what some are calling an insult to the Stars and Stripes.

“I’m a proud American,” Republican Muslim Coalition President Saba Ahmed told the Daily News after her on-air battle with a Donald Trump staffer. “I love the flag. That’s why I’m wearing it, because I’m so proud of it.”

Ahmed, 30, was on the conservative network’s show, “The Kelly File,” as part of a discussion of Trump’s proposal to close American mosques linked to terrorism.

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[guillaumeb]

1. From the Flag Code:

The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker's desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.

http://www.usflag.org/uscode36.html



That sounds fairly clear to me.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Good thing the flag is always used according to that code and never commercialized everywhere.

I admire this women as much as I detest that hatespeaker thing on Fox.

(Very fashionable!)



....Fox and Kelly would be "offended" and "feel insulted" about anything if it paid off enough at the bank.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Like when Sister Sarah Alaskastan aka Palin

Wore those Flag Shoes.

And those flag bikinis they sell.

And t-shirts with the flag on them sold by Target.

What a silly thing to get the vapors about but - uh - Trump! And - Fox!

[Fred Sanders]

6. Flag Code police alert!!

[JustAnotherGen]

27. This is what I'm saying!

I mean of ALL the things to get outraged about - it sure is different when it's a Republican Christian ain't it?

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

25. Wow. That's not a flag motif. That looks like a real flag!

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

26. Trump's statement alone is enough to disqualify him for president

ugh

[LiberalArkie]

4. I think hers is better than the American flag undies though

[guillaumeb]

8. How do you know that she was not wearing

a flag bikini under her robes?

Of course it is silly, but silly is an essential part of the Faux News experience.

[Humanist_Activist]

9. Not enforcable, and considering that there are American flag do-rags, jackets, shirts, pants...

underwear, pins, labels, stickers, etc. What this woman did isn't exactly remarkable.

ON EDIT: Tacky, of course, but par for the course for many Americans.

[BainsBane]

17. That doesn't control the behavior of private citizens

which is covered by this:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

[arcane1]

18. George Bush used to autograph flags and they didn't complain n/t

[guillaumeb]

22. Politicians get a free pass to wrap themselves in the flag. eom

[Journeyman]

23. Pretty clear, until someone wants to muddle it for what they consider a good reason. . .

policemen, politicians, country western singers, pretty girls -- the list is endless of those who wear the flag, not just on their sleeve, but all over and with no regard to silly unenforceable "codes" and "regulations."

[treestar]

33. colbert lol

[Beartracks]

37. Can you really have too much flag?

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[Act_of_Reparation]

38. Not quite.

The Flag Code applies to the flag, not articles of clothing or other apparel colored like the flag. When it says you shan't wear the spangly symbol of our land as a means of securing your testicles against a cold Michigan winter, it means, literally, you shouldn't run over to Billy Bob's Big Ass Lot O' Cars and swipe his 50-foot ÜBERPATRIOT AMERICAN FLAG X-TREME© (Made in China) to use as makeshift undergarments.

Of all the above photos, the only one likely in violation of the flag code is Stephen Colbert, who seems to be draped in an actual flag and not a blanket created in the style of an American flag.

[Hortensis]

5. Oh, brother. Why would she need to defend it?

She looked nice, and notably she got out of there without anyone setting her on fire.

[Fred Sanders]

10. The onus of proof that you even have an accusation is almost always on the accuser....except on Fox.

[Hortensis]

14. As in "SOME would say you are insulting our flag..."? Oh, yes.

We could all quote Fox's tricks in our sleep.

[JustAnotherGen]

28. I think she looks pretty snazzy!

[Hortensis]

35. Me too. She has the coloring to carry off bold red, white and blue.

[KamaAina]

7. 'Cause no one's ever worn a flag bandanna in the history of the republic

[guillaumeb]

11. A nice flag bandana would be okay.

A flag hijab, not so much.

[KamaAina]

13. Why the difference?

Both are, after all, head scarves.

[guillaumeb]

16. Sarcasm on my part. eom

[KamaAina]

20. Phew!

You could always use this: (colon, 'sarcasm', colon, no spaces).

[trumad]

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[BainsBane]

15. Exactly nt

[guillaumeb]

19. These are all considered legitimate uses of the flag.

They are used to make money.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

21. Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions. Nietsche

[Kingofalldems]

24. But but--America's greatest patriot-poopy pants Nugent

wears the flag:

https://s.yimg.com/fz/api/res/1.2/S04mAPh_pX6rWpGr3Iq1Xg--/YXBwaWQ9c3JjaGRkO2g9NDE3O3E9OTU7dz02MjU-/

Has Fox complained?

[leftynyc]

31. And that's the only picture

that needs to be used. If draft dodging Teddy can do it, anyone can.

[tanyev]

29. She was just paying homage to Sarah Palin.

[Blue_In_AK]

42. She doesn't have it wrapped around her head, though.

That's the difference.

[JI7]

30. i would post the G gordon liddy pic but i might get a hide

[Kingofalldems]

34. Here it is but-- Warning! Danger!

[Beartracks]

36. :wow:

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[treestar]

32. Why are they even discussing something that stupid

Trump should be laughed out of the country for that.

[GusBob]

41. I think George Bush ate a cake decorated as an American flag

Thanks to Molly Ivins for this follow up to that: wonder where that flag ended up?

[closeupready]

39. And once again, Megyn Kelly provides ample support that she's a fake journalist.

Incompetent and merely a pom pom girl for the Koch agenda.

[closeupready]

40. So where are all the "SHE CAN WEAR WHATEVER SHE WANTS!!!!!!" peeps, huh?

They having a convention or something...?