Veiled Threat

I don't know why this surprises me, but it does. That picture above is of British soldier Faye Turney, recently captured by the Iranian government. It turns out -- what a coincidence! -- that Turner is a good, modest Muslim from the veil covering her hair. Forcibly veiling other Muslims has a sort of demented, internal logic to it. But when the Iranians start veiling foreign Christians, they decend into the realm of parody.

Oh, and in other news, the Iranians say that Turner recently confessed to entering Iranian territory! Why anyone should believe anything the Iranians say at this point remains, of course, an open question.