Please don't think it's contrived that Madonna did this. I think for a pop concert it is one of the most moving performances I ever did watch.

Particularly poignant when it's hot on the heels of the recent persecution of women protesting in Iran.

Madonna's Isaac is a beautifully horrid reminder that the freedoms that women have in the Western world outweigh the challenges we have still yet to face.

Within my race, within my ethnicity, women are creatures strong, beautiful and rare. Even in the Arabian Nights, they spoke of controlling women for we were prized for our intelligence and wit. They oppressed women, shut them in boxes and kept them removed from society as a means to prevent them from uprising.

Women's weakness, our feeling of being powerless.

We are powerless because we are unable to band together and help our sisters persecuted unjustly for crimes as simple as not covering their heads.

Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged.