It's a Calamity!

Egypt's minister of culture Farouk Hosni has come under heavy fire after speaking to an independent newspaper against the veil, saying it's sign of going backwards and that Egypt is not going to improve while people are listening to worthless Muftis.
Mr. Hosni then backed up and said that these were his personal opinions and not formal and that he was not giving a statement but rather came in a phone conversation with the guy who published this.
Needless to say all the Islamist groups with the MBs in front slammed the guy as ignorant and trying to dishonor Egyptian women and unclothe them.
Saudi grand Mufti Sheik Abdul-Aziz al-Sheik called it a calamity, and for once in my life I find myself in total agreement with an Islamic cleric but for all the different reasons:
Sure it's a calamity when comes a time when any one is judged and even asked to resign for speaking his opinion.
It's a calamity when the virtue of a women is measured by a stupid piece of cloth she cover her hair with.
It's a calamity when women are subjected to all sorts of pressure to finally submit and cover their hair.
Islamists keep saying that western countries are oppressing Muslim women not to wear the veil, which is not true but they stop short of criticizing the massive pressure put on women in their own countries to don the veil, starting from the clerics who tell the women they would be hanged from their hair in hell if they should not cover it, to the girl's parents who see the veil as a way to protect their little girl out on the streets and of course we all know now how that turned to be, to the husband who wishes to have an early start to show his women who's in power or just that he's embarrassed that all his friend's wives are veiled and his wife is not, if not all that then it's the main-stream pressure out on the street, unveiled women are harassed verbally and sometimes spat on in the public transportation and out on the street, isn't this enough pressure to make even the brightest girl to wear the veil, just to skip all the trouble?
One of the best arguments I heard regarding what the minister said came from the MBs themselves, they said that politicians should not speak in matters of religion, that's great so shouldn't this work both ways I mean shouldn't you religious people not speak in matters of politics?
So what the hell are you doing in our parliament you bunch of assholes?

Waldorf