Show Your Face

The protesters currently adopting the Arab headress (or some homemade version of it) and protesting with covered heads and faces are interesting to say the least. Personally I think they look foolish and cowardly.  I have to wonder if the women wearing them know what their life would be like if they were suddenly and magically transported to the Gaza Strip where the Hamas they are supporting would actually be in control of their lives.  It certainly would be different for them -- they might even have to trade in their scarf for a full length Burka with a total face covering and be subject to the primary purpose of a woman in that part of the world which is, simply to "manufacture men" as is stated in the 1988 Hamas Charter.  That would be cultural shock for sure. There are no such things as women's rights there. Am thinking protests wouldn't work well there either. According to my research, Hamas doesn't tolerate criticism well. There are cases of actual and recent beheadings on record. You also won't find any LGBTQ support there either.  I shutter to think of the Hamas treatment of the LGBTQ.  And yet the anti-Semitic "protests" in support of Hamas continue here in the "land of the free". Ignorance is rampant among these hidden faces.

Then there is the whole hide my identity issue.  Why?  If you are so committed to the reason for your protest, why not stand up tall and show your face -- tell the world how proud you are of what you are doing?  You could even write about it and sign your real name.  One theory is that the protesters do not want to be identified because they do not attend the college they are protesting. Paid protestors for certain.  I know this was the case in 1968 when the activist SDS  (Students for a Democratic Society) moved onto the campus of the first college I attended.

I offer a second theory based on the protests at the second college I attended during that era where the campus was actually taken over by outside agitators at one point. They even controlled the Administration building for a time.  (Thus the underground classes that I have mentioned in previous blogs.) Impressive and ... scary.  Anyway -- my theory is that protestors may not want Daddy to see them on national television and then pull their financial support.  Yep -- I have seen that happen too. That even happened in the days before social media and national coverage by the "legacy media".  I would think it would be a real possibility in these days of posting every detail of one's life on three or four platforms. Daddy would find out for sure and the danger of him cutting the purse strings is real. Yes -- this need for disguise is interesting to me and ... I am so sick of it.  And this doesn't even touch the protesters off campus -- the ones who love to destroy and share their hate.

Oh how is wish there were no room for Anti-Semitism in our world.  It is ugly and shameful to the core. And to have a bunch of masked cowards dancing around like Bedouins lost in the desert is disgusting. Actually they give Bedouin sheep herders a bad name.  The potential and proven violence of these protests is not free speech. It's an attempt to control and to spread hate and fear.  Not good. Deep down, I don't think any of them could be proud of themselves.  If they were, why wear scarves wrapped around their faces and hold them in place with large ugly sunglasses? Why are they hiding? Ridiculous!