Laura * and Condi wearing the black head coverings/bhurkas.... [View All]

[Francine Frensky]

As a female, I was bothered by the photos of Laura and Condi wearing head coverings (some kind of black cloth? was it planned or did they just rip a small curtain in half?) when they visited the pope's dead body. Eerily similar to the head coverings forced upon the Afghan women. Bhurka's for american women??

What offends me more is that I'm catholic, and while wearing head coverings for women was the old standard (from the 1950's), it is not common anymore for catholic women to wear something on their heads, not at all required in any church I have ever visited, so that struck me as either ignorant (uninformed and insulting) or frightening, if they were forced to wear it as this was in italy and catholics are just that backward over there (and maybe that kind of thinking will come to america soon?).

I avoid the mainstream media at all cost, just caught the video on Wednesday night of the bush clan praying by the pope's body, so perhaps this has been covered in the media already, but honestly, that bothered me.

Anyone know what was going on there??