Haddad, the heroine

"Haddad claims to have spurned the head scarf her entire life. “Never,” she says. She recently refused an Italian photographer’s plea that she don a veil for a photo shoot, preferring instead to flaunt the Arabic “J” tattoo on her naked shoulder."  How brave.  How profound.   How thoughtful.  How daring.  If the writer of this piece knew anything about the Arab world, she would have known that Christian women don't wear the veil in the Middle East.  Her refusal to wear the veil is as daring as me refusing to pray at the Wailing Wall.