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Are these women about to do the dance of the seven veils? By the by: that "vixen under the veil" fetish? It's been going on a long time. [Vintage Ads] More »
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We all do stuff our moms and dads just don't understand. (Princess Diana's mother called her a whore for "messing around with effing Muslim men.") But how different is your life from the one your parents imagined for you? For American women who have married Saudis, things are tough, reports Jeffrey Fleishman of the Los Angeles Times. Lori Baker met her husband at Ohio State University in 1982. They fell in love, she converted to Islam, they have two sons. But she's sacrificed family and friends. "My mother and father were just devastated at my conversion," she says. Her husband's family wasn't thrilled he was marrying an American, but just wanted him to come home after living in the States for years. "The feeling was, 'If you have to bring her with you, go ahead,'" Ms. Baker explains. But, she adds, "My husband is the man of my dreams, and I decided to go wherever that took us." She and other American wives are always fully covered in public. "When I first got here, I felt naked without my head scarf," Ms. Baker says. Now she feels comfortable in her abaya: "Nobody knows me. They can't see me, and if you're covered, they respect you. Sometimes without a covered face it's like walking down Main Street wearing a bikini." More »
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