As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Lt. General Philip Sheridan on visiting the Ottoman capital during Ramadan, had the following quote concerning the head Ottoman and the actions of his harem.
You will notice in the following that Islam was quite liberated compared to what it is now. The veil was more like an head band and the women were quite coquettish in beckoning General Sheridan to them.
Just a view of Islam in the 19th century, which in the 21st century would get these women beheaded.
"Shortly after we reached the Esplanade, carriages occupied by the women of the Sultan's harem began to appear, coming out from the palace grounds and driving up and down the roadway. Only a few of the women were closely veiled, a majority of them wearing an apology for veiling, merely a strip of white lace covering the forehead down to the eyebrows. Some were yellow, and some white-types of the Mongolian and Caucasian races. Now and then a pretty face was seen, rarely a beautiful one. Many were plump, even to corpulence, and these were the closest veiled, being considered the greatest beauties I presume, since with the Turk obesity is the chief element of comeliness.
As the carriages passed along in review, every now and then an occupant, unable or unwilling to repress her natural promptings, would indulge in a mild flirtation, making overtures by casting demure side -glances, throwing us coquettish kisses, or waving strings of amber beads with significant gestures, seeming to say: "Why don't you follow?" But this we could not do if we would, for the Esplanade throughout its entire length was lined with soldiers, put there especially to guard the harem first, and later, the Sultan on his pilgrimage to the mosque."
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army
"Down between the two ranks, which were formed facing each other, came the Sultan on a white steed—a beautiful Arabian— and having at his side his son, a boy about ten or twelve years old, who was riding a pony, a diminutive copy of his father's mount, the two attended by a numerous body-guard, dressed in gorgeous Oriental uniforms. As the procession passed our carriage, I, as pre-arranged, stood up and took off my hat, His Serene Highness promptly acknowledging the salute by raising his hand to the forehead. This was all I saw of him, yet I received every kindness at his hands, being permitted to see many of his troops, to inspect all the ordnance, equipment, and other military establishments about Constantinople, and to meet numbers of the high functionaries of the Empire."
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army
From 21st century history it is a reality that Tehran would have stoned the women for being lewd and Obama would have shot the Sultan and replaced him with a committee of Islacommunst al Qaeda terrorists.
nuff said
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