Monday, May 09, 2011

I WON'T CLAIM THAT ALL RELIGIONS SUCK

But the so-called Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity & Islam) all seem to have serious difficulties with women's sexuality and the more traditional the sect within each group is, the more serious the difficulty.  This story is from Mediaite:
Hillary Clinton Photoshopped Out Of Situation Room Photo
by Justin Fenner | 1:30 pm, May 8th, 2011

A orthodox Hasidic newspaper called Der Tzitung has wiped Secy. of State Hillary Clinton and Counterterrorism Director Audrey Tomason out of the now-famous photo of US government officials watching the raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani compound, following its editorial policy never to print pictures of women.

Jezebel reports that Der Tzitung doesn’t put pictures of ladies in its pages because they could be considered sexually suggestive.
Here's the altered photo...


UPDATE: Time Magazine also reported this extremism.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

There was a treatise called "Hole in the Sheet" out you might want to check out and decide for yourself.

Steve J. said...

Ok,thanx Ken.

Steve J. said...

Snopes says it is false...

http://www.snopes.com/religion/sheet.asp