The West's new pretext for military intervention: makeup

Freedom returns to Mali’s Timbuktu, as women show their faces, put on makeup, dance

“On the morning French commandos parachuted onto the sand just north of this storied city and ended 10 months of Islamic rule, Hawi Traore folded up her veil. On the next day, she wore heels. On the day after, she put on her sparkly earrings, got her hair braided and tried her mother’s perfume.”