There's No Veil On That Helmet

Anousheh Ansari, the 40-year-old Iranian American who boarded a Russian rocket to the International space station failed to have one desire fulfilled.

She fled Iran in 1984, aged 16, after the country’s radical Islamic regime closed down the wine company where her father was a senior executive. (Iran's loss is America's gain)

Although she spoke no English when she arrived in the United States, she earned two degrees within five years, took out a loan to start a software firm with her husband and then sold it for $500 million. (sounds like she lived the American dream)

At her last press conference she told how she had been obsessed with space since she was a child.

“Ever since I was a child, I always used to gaze up at the stars and wonder what’s out there in the universe,” she said.

However, when she announced she wanted to wear the Stars and Stripes on one sleeve of her space suit and, to inspire women in the country of her birth, the Iranian flag on the other she became pressured by both the US and Russia to refrain from any "political" statements. One must be politically correct even in space.

Are we now so afraid of the mad mullahs that we cannot allow this outstanding lady to wear the patches she pleases on her spacesuit? Is there a fatwa about women in space? What absolute nonsense. Why do we continue to kowtow to the idiots in Iran and elsewhere. If this provokes them to riot again, all the better. Let the civilized world continue to view the Islamomaniacal asinine spectacles. We should be reminded regularly that the prophet's psychotics must be dealt with decisively.

Thanks to the Telegraph.