OMG. Where to start?
Linsday Lohan was photographed on a beach in Phuket, Thailand in a Burkini on March 29, 2017.
Apparently, she has been exploring Islam and studying the Quran, as well as dabbling in the swim attire worn as a religious obligation by many Muslim women.
A few days later, she was cavorting in the same waters in a plunging v-neck, skimpier bathing suit.
Apparently for Lindsay Lohan, experimenting with a different religion also entails experimenting with the clothing required by the religion, as well as getting photographed wearing it. She is an actress, after all, or used to be before her partying ways dried up the majority of the movie offers.
I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise that a Hollywood starlet who needed to jumpstart her career would stoop to pandering. But the only women I have seen swimming in a Burkini were Muslim women who wanted to get in the water without violating the dictates of their religion. They weren't going to swim in a bikini or a one-piece, that day or any other day.
A year ago, when my husband and I were traveling in Jordan from Petra, through the mountains up to Amman, we stopped at a hotel on the Dead Sea to take a swim and cool off. I'd read about how the Dead Sea was so salty you couldn't sink if you tried. It was true.
I was wearing a one-piece bathing suit. A few European women were wearing bikinis. Some Muslim women were wearing Burkinis similar to the one worn by Lindsay Lohan. And a few others who were swimming far away from the rest of us were wearing the full abaya and hijab (robe and headscarf).
I watched as a Muslim woman in the distance wearing the abaya and headscarf approached the water tentatively. After she finally immersed herself in about three feet of water, she seemed both frightened and delighted but what I noticed mostly was how difficult it was for her to gather up all of those yards of wet material to walk back to where her family was sitting on the beach, while keeping the folds of drenched material covering all parts of her body.
I am not a Muslim woman. But I respected that for that woman, a swim in the Dead Sea meant she had to plunge in completely clothed from head to toe. And so she did.
And so did Lindsay Lohan. But for a very different reason.
For publicity.
Shame on her.