Oh my this is a photo from Beirut

[nadinbrzezinski]

That is a classic

[hlthe2b]

1. well, since the domino theory was used to justify intervention

against the spread of Communism, it would be rapt irony, if it actually worked in reverse-- to spread democracy.

Nice pic

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Yep, the irony, the CIA got it right

just not about what.

[NJCher]

2. determination

I love this look on the woman's face.


Cher

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. I know, that is the kind we rarely see round these parts

any longer.

[Lorien]

5. We could learn a lot from the Egyptian people. nt

[gateley]

9. Walk like an Egyptian. nt

[Hannah Bell]

14. yes nadin americans are all stupid couch potatoes not smart like you

[pinto]

6. ??? The flag on the building is the Egyptian flag. Maybe not a Beirut photo. Great pic, tho.

:hi:

[fishwax]

7. could be by the egyptian embassy in beirut

That could explain the flag. :kick:

[fishwax]

10. here's a pic of a protest last year at the egyptian embassy in beirut

looks to me like the same building ...



From this blog: http://sursock.blogspot.com/

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. It is the embassy and that is from Al Jazeera

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/01/29/live-blog-301-egypt-protests

They are crediting to Beirut

[gateley]

8. Powerful. nt

[sharesunited]

12. Lose the headscarf or trade one tyranny for another.

[Leftist Agitator]

13. Seriously?

You know, a hijab is not a burqa. Most Muslim women wear the hijab because they want to, as a sign of their faith. I know a Muslim woman here in the US who wears a hijab with a Louis Vuitton logo.

Also, would you say, "Lose the yarmulke (or crucifix) or trade one tyranny for another?"

[FLPanhandle]

16. Muslim women who don't wear the hijab take a ton of abuse too.

I wouldn't say they have much "choice" or they "choose to" in order to go out without abuse.

[sabrina 1]

17. I have muslim women friends in the UAE, Jordan

and in Iraq. None of them have to wear the hijab. Their husbands don't care whether they do or not, but they wear it, sometimes, because they like it, same way people wear scarves here. My Iraqi friend is no longer in Iraq because since the western crusaders wrecked her country, all her rights as a woman, equal pay, wear whatever you want etc are gone. But in Saddam's Iraq she wore blue jeans and no one bothered her.

All of them were very surprised to know how the people in the U.S. viewed them and my friend in the UAE thought it was funny that people here thought she HAD to wear certain clothes. I told them to blame it on Fox News.

[FLPanhandle]

19. I spent a year in Saudi

Those women had no choice.

[sabrina 1]

21. Arab/Muslim countries are as different as European countries.

Saudi Arabia is not Jordan or Saddam's Iraq eg. Nor is it the UAE.

And the rich in Saudi Arabia when they go to Europe, can wear whatever they want. It's all hypocrisy with them.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. Ok do you think the US is like Canada and Mexico?

The difference between very secular Egypt and theocracy light Sauid is astounding.

[Hannah Bell]

15. fuck that bs

[pampango]

18. Trade a head scarf for secret police, political prisoners and torture. Tough call?

For moderate Muslims to triumph, political openness will work better than oppressive regimes. Fundamentalist Muslims (or Christians or Jews) don't thrive on openness but on using government power and violence to their ends.

[trumad]

20. Dumb

[DutchLiberal]

23. My Catholic grandmother wears headscarves. So do lots of women...

You think they're under the tyranny of the Pope?

[Poll_Blind]

25. What a crock of shit assertion.

Bookmarked.

PB

[Change Happens]

26. WTF?

[upi402]

24. Wonderful! +1,000 k/r n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

27. Latuff, again.

His cartoons are sometimes simplistic, but I guess you sometimes have to be simplistic to deliver a point as quickly as possible.

By the way, he's a Carioca like me.