I just can't even imagine....

Imagine this....you are standing on the beach looking at the ocean.  The mud like sand is caked all over your body, the smell of dead shrimp is in the air, the ocean breeze feels like you have your hairdryer pointed right into your face, and you are experiencing all this delight under a black blanket covering you from head to toe.  

On our weekend trip to paradise, I noticed 4 Muslim women standing in the surf in full on Burqas.  They were about 100 yards down the beach from us...so, I could stare all I wanted without being noticed.  They were there with their husbands and children.  The children were playing in the ocean and the shirtless men were surf fishing.  I got irritated just watching them.  The women were 100% responsible for the wet and gritty kids while the men caught 1/2 pound catfish.  I just can't even imagine what they must have felt like.  And top it off...one of them was about 9 months pregnant.  

I know..."that is all they know, it is how they grew up."  Well, I am going to have to call a "BS" on that one.  How could any human being accept those circumstances?  Really?  Especially being here in this country.   As far as I am concerned, it is torture.  Mental and physical torture.  

We all know I wouldn't have made it very far as a Muslim woman.  I am sure my father or husband would have traded me in or gotten "rid" of me.  I would have been too much of a hassle.  So thankful I was born in this country.  Another thing we forget to be thankful of everyday.