Apparently, much is being made of this photo of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francsico, wearing a hijab in order to honor Muslim tradition while visiting the Ommayad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday:
I don’t recall complaints when First Lady Laura Bush donned a hijab when visiting the Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City in May 2005:
Ditto for when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wore one at a mosque in Dushanbe, Tajikistan in October 2005:
(Sorry for the low resolution on that last one; it’s from the Web site of the U.S. Embassy to Tajikistan.)