As I write this, the big news story (one of them, anyway) is that Lowe's is pulling advertising from a TV show called "All American Muslim" because some so-called Christian organization is threatening a boycott. This is eliciting the typical red-meat response from the Gawd-lovin' Murican's, as evidenced by this collection of comments from the Lowe's Facebook page.
Listening to a news story on the opinions surrounding this debacle, one interviewee was heard to say that headcoverings are un-american. Something which your humble blogger can only interpret as a topic offensive to blonde-Caucasian-Jesus. You know, that Jesus that people like to trot out on black velvet in their holier-than-thou worship services which do less to honor Christ than they do to honor peoples' interpretation of what they'd like Christ to be.
The Bible does have a lot to say about headcoverings. Take, for example, 1 Corinthians 11:5. It states that "every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head." Then there's 1 Timothy 2:9, which states that women shouldn't have pretty hair and should dress modestly, i.e., wear a covering on their head. So what is it about head coverings that offends followers of BCJ so? If head coverings are an affront to God himself, should we go after those naughty Mennonites and Amish? Should we also target those odd little cult-like evangelical congregations that wear doilies on their heads? Check out this interesting page on the history of headcoverings in Christian faith. The practice of headcoverings in Christianity predates the very existence of Islam itself.
Of course, this assumes that the real issue is the headcovering, and not the chosen faith of the person wearing that.
