Last week a national treasure was condemned and, in the name of political correctness, modified beyond cultural recognition. I am, of course, referring to the USA Basketball Team Dancers.

Dancers wear black leggings, white T-shirts to respect cultural sensitivities during the FIBA Basketball World Championship game between the U.S. and Iran in Istanbul

While playing the newly nuclear Iranian basketball team in Turkey, the competition dance team, a source of hope and joy for millions around the world, were forced to cover up in a “nod to Muslim law.”

…dancers were ordered to cover up for their performances during the game. Islam prohibits women from exposing their skin in public, and Iranian officials had turned their backs when the dancers performed in earlier games.

Let us not offend the sensitivities of the ever PC Iranian officials.

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Ladies, grab your sweat suits.

During the game the American Basketball team placed new international sanctions on Iranian rebounds, time of possession, and shots from the paint, crushing the team in an 88-51 reverse-fatwā. If only more international differences could be settled by Lamar Odom.

However, we lost the cultural competition. By forcing our dancers to cover up, we bow to Iran’s intolerant, barbaric quasi-theocracy. Sheepishly muzzling that which makes America the Land of the Free in exchange for a pittance of respect from a country who openly confers in the stoning, whipping, and violent suppression its own people.

In the long thread of history, no country has attempted to champion political correctness more than ours. America, willingly, and ever more consistently, sacrifices common sense and cultural robustness for that lukewarm-placated feeling of “societal enlightenment.”

Problem: the rest of the world is not as generous as we are. America effectually is the one whom must give, bend, and dissolve our national identity until it matches the weak sustenance of the international community. We see this transience every day. No further natural resource development or drilling, new VAT tax proposals, G20 restrictions adopted, Cap and Trade promised, border fence censure, trade deficits expanded, humanitarian critiques from all sides, and offensive Islamic centre locales forced.

Let the girls dance in Turkey in the same clothes they wear in Miami Beach. Let the Iranian officials turn their backs. It would not be the first time they turn away from the freedoms of expression that make our country great. We should stop covering them up.