[PGR88]

But we are told in the West that such garments are burqas and hijabs have always been the laws of the land for muslims. Deep rooted tradition.

There was a time when Western culture and values were dominant around the world, certainly among 3rd world elites anyway, and were seen as THE keys for progress and development. Part of that was the West's OWN self-confidence and belief in its own culture of Christianity, personal freedom and personal responsibility. Of course, we have lost that now.

I know Western women who travelled to Muslim areas of India, Pakistan, etc.. in the 1970's who were told to cover up, sexually harassed, etc... just as we heard of now, so the closed Muslim mind and attitudes toward women have always been there. Only now there is a vacuum in the world - and radical Islam seeks to fill it. We are only now waking to this reality.

[a fool in paradise]

Our State Department also worked in a post-WWII world to promote Westernization of our wartime allies (and guard against Soviet expansion of global Communism).

This is now retroactively called a bad thing (those same historians do not speak out against Soviet imperialism).

The Left is on the wrong side of history.