Why would she do that?

Why would Margaret Thatcher send the Queen to Saudi Arabia, where she was forced to remove her shoes and wear a hijab?   

We're talking about Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II!  She actually had to cover her head in that Muslim country.  It was an outrage.  Do you think for one minute a Muslim ruler -- or any Muslim -- would come to England and be forced to wear western dress?!  

Never!

But they force non-Muslims to adhere to their archaic dress code and kowtow to men.  Absolutely ridiculous.

The Queen in hijab dress.

The Monarch is the Head of the Church in Great Britain.  She is not a Muslim and should never be forced to wear Muslim attire.  But, she did it.  And she looked as regal as anyone could with her head covered.  Again, why did Thatcher send her?  Was it personal?  I know they didn't get on -- probably because Thatcher thought she was the queen and resented the fact that she wasn't.

Whatever the reason, the Queen should have stuck to western dress and Thatcher should have insisted on it before sending her.

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Just to show you how insensitive I can be, I stupidly asked a WestJet pilot I regularly swim with what he thought of the recent collision between that military training helicopter and a passenger jet.  Can you imagine!  I might as well have asked him how he'd like to have died like that.

Just so dumb.