THE RIDDLE OF STEEL

I had thought of saying something vaguely snarky like "This is Miss January in the Afghani-language edition of Playboy" but figured that I would talk about what is important here. The eyes. I don't need to talk about the facial expression, or the angle, what is important here is what you read into the eyes. Frown at this picture and she becomes serious, smile at it and she is happy. Look at it lustfully and her eyes deepen into forbidden coquetry.

In the movie "Kingdom of Heaven" there is a scene where Saladin has entered Jerusalem and the fleeing Christians are refugeeing their way across the desert, Saladin stops as he sees that in their haste to leave, one of them has knocked over a cross. He stops, rights the cross and moves along. According to reports, the crowds in Islamic countries cheered when they saw him show that respect to the Christian faith. Whether or not Saladins' action there actually happened is not important, the reaction to that scene is.