U of C Prof Calls Anti-Terrorists Racist

Should be unbelievable, but it's all too believable. LGF. The Chicago Tribune has a brief story and a poll on the terrorist chic scarf, with predictable PC results.

Maybe if those of us who object to it called the scarf sexist we'd have better luck. Take a look at this, "Loving and Leaving the Head Scarf", in the Leftie Slate:

For most teenage girls, rebellion involves a tongue piercing or sneaking out to a beer-soaked party. But Suraya Ali, the daughter of unobservant Muslim immigrants from India, shocked her parents and her classmates by donning a Muslim head scarf. "It was my way of flipping the world off, saying, 'I can be what I want,' " says Ali, now 31, who grew up in a Chicago suburb.

But a decade and a half later, Ali had a "strange feeling" of no longer fitting in with her Muslim community; she was constantly set up with potential suitors who assumed her scarf symbolized a certain submissive attitude toward marriage; and her elite education had prompted her to question the traditional roles for men and women laid out in classical Islamic law. "I realized [wearing hijab] is not who I am anymore."

Of course, women in some countries, Muslim or no, don't have the luxury of chic, or choice. Or their lives.

Creepy stuff, and all too real, with import this election.

UPDATE: Amahl Bishara, writing for the Electronic Intifada. Writing for al Jazeera on the notorious Rachel Corrie.

UPDATE: The NY Times yuks it up, managing to trivialize everything, including themselves.