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thursday, september 15, 2005

CAIR Needs Better Photoshoppers

Today’s weirdest story stars the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), who featured a photograph on their web site of “leaders of the interfaith community” in Washington DC on September 9, with the headline: “Muslim message decries terrorism.”

Why is that weird? (And not “funny haha” weird, but seriously disturbing weird?)

Because they altered the photograph to put Islamic head scarves (hijab) on the women in the picture—all of the women, even some of the people in the crowd (with backs to the camera) that may not have been women.

Photograph 1 (from CAIR’s site), unaltered:

Photograph 2 (also from CAIR’s site), altered to avoid offending Islamic sensibilities:
 

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