In FrontPage today I discuss the latest in London fashions (news links in the original):
Sharia chic has come to London. During London Fashion Week, Fashion East designer Louise Goldin sent a model down the catwalk wearing an outfit that obscured the model’s entire face, all except her eyes, and covered her head entirely. Nor was this the only such outfit Goldin featured during London Fashion Week. The outfits were clearly modeled after Islamic dress, particularly the niqab, the full-face veil.London is not the only place Sharia chic has appeared. In December, Marie Claire magazine ran a photoshoot featuring three glamorous women, all wearing hijabs and black dresses down to their shoetops -- and sporting ipods, designer handbags, and other evidence of their modernity and sophistication.
Meanwhile, Urban Outfitters is selling the Palestinian kufiya, worn by murderous jihad terrorists for decades, as a “Skull Desert Scarf.”
Obviously there is no reason for the fashion world to be immune to the fashionable contempt for Western culture and values that pervades most creative fields these days, but it is one thing to hold that contempt and quite another to proffer it to the masses as the vanguard of contemporary culture. Contrast the Urban Outfitters item with the fact that in the 1930s, the British considered banning the kufiya, as it had become a symbol of Arab nationalist resistance to their rule. In the 1930s, the British were unafraid to do what they had to do to protect their own interests; in 2007, the U.S. pledged to give 86 million dollars to the government of Mahmoud Abbas just as a former official of Abbas’ Fatah party appeared on Palestinian Authority television saying to Al-Qaeda: “Do to Bush whatever you want, and we wish you success...We are fighting the Americans and hate the Americans more than you!” The official, Abu Ali Shahin, was of course wearing a kufiya.Likewise, was Louise Goldin or anyone else connected with the pseudo-niqab fashions displayed in London this week aware of the nature of the culture they were aping. Those who are likely to prefer that women never venture outside without covering everything except their eyes are likely also to believe that women are essentially the possessions of men: the Qur’an likens a woman to a field (tilth), to be used by a man as he wills: “Your women are a tilth for you (to cultivate) so go to your tilth as ye will” (2:223).
The Qur’an also declares that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man: “Get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as ye choose, for witnesses, so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her” (2:282). Likewise, this is also a culture that allows men to marry up to four wives, and have sex with slave girls also: “If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, marry women of your choice, two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one, or (a captive) that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice” (4:3).
The same holy book rules that a son’s inheritance should be twice the size of that of a daughter: “Allah (thus) directs you as regards your children’s (inheritance): to the male, a portion equal to that of two females” (4:11).
Worst of all, the Qur’an tells husbands to beat their disobedient wives: “Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them” (4:34).
Finally, the Qur’an allows for marriage to pre-pubescent girls, stipulating that Islamic divorce procedures “shall apply to those who have not yet menstruated” (65:4).
And it is the culture of those who revere the Qur’an as the supreme authority for human behavior that has produced the niqab. Is that the culture Louise Goldin wishes to bring to Britain? Or does she perhaps think its presence there is a fait accompli, since Muslims who clearly believe in Islamic supremacism have become such a prominent feature of the British landscape? Does she regard her fashion creations as a necessary attempt at inclusion and accommodation?
More accurately, they manifest the cultural weariness that has allowed those Islamic supremacists to become quite vocal in Britain, as the recent Dispatches documentary revealed. One may hope that the British will before too longer remember that they were once made of sterner stuff.
Sicking that the fashionistas think this is ok. They will all be out of a job if islam takes over.
I think this is interesting.
It seems like this
harassment only happens in the days following an incident, then it soon calms down and things go back to normal.
is being counted on.
from here
http://www.islam-qa.com/special/index.php?ref=69432&subsite=140&ln=eng
This one looks like one of the Jedi knights, rather than a walking tent with eye-pores. They should send Louise Goldin (let me guess - is she a Jewess?) and the Londonistan Fashion Walk on a tour of the Ummah (Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, Riyadh, Jeddah, Doha, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Kabul, et al). Throw in a few mosques into the tour, and let them tell us how it was when (and if) they are back.
This is so incredibly sick, especially coming from the industry that champions homosexuality so publicly. Apparently anything goes to make a buck, even designing fashion on behalf of tyranny. Someone should force this designer to wear this outfit every day for a year in the scorching heat of Saudi Arabia or Egypt. Or better yet, why not go all out and at the next such event, have the audience stone the models to death while they're walking down the runway. A cool photographer specializing in S&M, someone like Helmut Newton, could take the pics. That would be so incredibly "edgy".
It's interesting that in one passage old Mo says that the face can be shown but in another passage parenthesis are added to say only show the eyes. I wonder who added that in later.
That is the most hideous thing I have ever seen! I wouldn't even wear this on a very cold day for crying out loud!
Who wants to help me start a new fad, im going to dress as a crusader complete with chain-mail, sword and shield.
The one sector that you realy do not want to mess with, is American women. Maybe that is what the Jihadis have to offer, no bitching in your ear 24/7. They might have a point. Maybe we should just put Hillary in power and watch the fireworks. The Jihadis haven't seen the secret weapon, aka, American woman! That is why they do not target them, not cause they want them for breeding, but cause they are worse than us!
I wonder if the thing in the picture will sell (other than as a ski mask)... I can still see a scandalous amount of facial features.
Oh, and she looks a little like Marvin the Martian without the helmet.
She looks like a ninja.
If you put Angelina Jolie in one of these she is still going to look hot.
I might just have to vote Democratic in the upcoming elections. We have two choices, a first lady, now propositioned as president, with a dime whore cheating husband formerly known as President. Or a former Muslim, multi-race candidate that gets realy erked if you ask of his heritage. Which one is immediately converted as rascist or condescending? Condoleeza Rice reference, asserted. Do you realy want emotional baggage as a platform?
"three glamorous women, all wearing hijabs and black dresses down to their shoetops"
1- they're not glamorous- they look horrendous
2- she's got a giraffe neck
3-she's wearing a mask- isn't that against the law?
4- what's with the undereye purple outline - is that to simulate a blackeye?
5- complete covering of the neck is uncomfortable and hot - I'd be desperate to tear it off.
Obviously, the era of women's lib is over - Goldin is a traitor to women. Let Goldin put in on as a test and wear it for a while, so she can see how it would work. Better yet, let's see her go into a bank wearing the get up.
Robert-
I think they do know about the things you note. The problem is they do not take them seriously, and in a sense they are mocking Muslims with the fashions. These "fashions" are similar to the fashions of some years ago that aped the garb of nuns or Christian clergy. Those fashions never got any traction, and neither will these fashions get traction, but the chic are having their fun, and many of those that ape Muslim garb are quite explicitly intending to wear them for non-Islamic purposes.
The problem is that these silly peddlers of chic have contempt for Islamic culture and underestimate the power of religious or ideological beliefs. (They are the kind that once wore Mao hats.) These are people who don't really believe in good and evil, they believe in "values"-the radical subjectivity of all concepts good and evil. They don't see the things you note as evil, they see them as "values" of an alien culture. They are tools of fashion like Mao hats. They don't see the ideology really affecting them. And that's what they are blind to. The ideology will affect them, but in ways no one now anticipates.
In the next few decades the great danger will come from a revived fascism in Europe. These chic fashion clowns are blind to the danger that their neo-Wiemar culture is creating by them not taking the danger of Islam seriously, not seeing the down-the-road danger Islam poses to democratic society. They live for today.
I sometimes thing that there are some in the elites of Europe who are using the Muslim immigration as part of a plan to ultimately move Europe to a crisis that will make the "masses" amenable to fascism. Some in the elites have contempt for the masses, as they do for Islam. They know how easily fashions change with the masses, how fashions can move from Wiemar to Third Reich styles very quickly.
We are living in administrated states. The masses are being kept well distracted, politically lobotomized, and not really informed. These fashions are part of the distractions.
Allat: "Goldin is a traitor to women."
In a sane world, that would be the actual headline to this article.
Trust me, I realy am not a favorite of what the Repubs have to offer either. What is this America coming too? It is like a bad rendition of American Idol, with the guy from Japan wanting to be Rico Suave!
PS - I don't mean the headline to Spencer's article at FPM - I mean the actual headline that would hit the fashion pages covering this runway show.
I saw the full length version of the picture above and it wasn't a dress that went down to the shoetop. It was on Drudge yesterday but apparently is no longer available. It's actually a mini-dress worn with black tights. This is probably preferable for all those pious jihadi's out there who can get down to business that much quicker, rather than tunneling through yards and yards of fabric, when they're feelin' a little frisky and the Islamic right and sacrament of rape is imminent.
Truly ghastly!
But, then, what COULD one REALLY expect of a human sacrifice cult that originated in Babylon and was influenced by the MOON????
In essence, I am saying that I do not take these fashion clowns seriously. They would do the same thing with Mao garb or Fidel garb. The problem is that they and people in Europe don't see how Islam can be used as a justification for a police state. Islam will be Islam, it will be violent, oppressive, intolerant, hate Jews, and may be a good tool to revive fascism.
The great irony in all of this is that in 50 years the only democratic societies left in the world may be America and Israel. Democratic societies are the exception, not the rule in history. I see a will to totalitarianism lurking all over the world, and Islam is part of the picture.
"I saw the full length version of the picture above and it wasn't a dress that went down to the shoetop. It was on Drudge yesterday but apparently is no longer available".ITC
I saw the same thing. It was a minidress. These fasion clowns fiddle while something burns.
"It's actually a mini-dress worn with black tights". ITC
It did make one focus, but not on Islam. My eyes went to a certain place.
oh what a perfect example of the distortion of the ancient masters.
the head scarf was meant to protect purity, mostly used so an innocent girl isn't raped. now women wear it to display their defiance against the West.
the head scarf was meant to be protection and a shelter of modesty. now so celebrated and controversial, a new weapon.
In the case of Regina v. Islam, I introduce into evidence the outfit above, which causes deflection of male interest, still mad in pursuit, to take the proferred bait, but a deflected madness, only north, and not north-west:
Hamlet: Then saw you not her face?
Horatio: O, yes, my lord! she wore her beaver up.
No further comment, m'lud.
"oh what a perfect example of the distortion of the ancient masters. the head scarf was meant to protect purity, mostly used so an innocent girl isn't raped."
And alas, they are raped anyway. Good plan.
"now so celebrated and controversial, a new weapon."
Unfortunately, used against themselves. Luckily, American women aren't that stupid.
Oh my gosh, Hugh. That is just gross.
Why not add a belt with explosives and detonation cord?
Now that would really be Chic.
Hugh-
I am usually afraid to demonstrate my ignorence of literature, but I think I know what you mean, as does Isabelle.
This headgear is perfect to wear while robbing a bank or skiing down a mountain.
But it has no place on the streets of London- or any other civilized western city.
These fashion scums are motivated by only one thing: MONEY
Thanks, Frank. Remember, I did go to 12 years of Catholic school. To my parents' chagrin, along with literature, I learned a lot about innuendo.
I say follow the money. Who underwrote this woman's show? I venture to guess there's SOWdi money involved. no pun intended.
BARF..
I think I'll wear that to the next Star Wars VII premier.
Oh I think I recognize the model they were using. NAZEEM!
Will Victoria Secret carry their line -- because it looks like lingerie.
"oh what a perfect example of the distortion of the ancient masters.
the head scarf was meant to protect purity, mostly used so an innocent girl isn't raped. now women wear it to display their defiance against the West. "
Modesty for who! Whose idea of modesty? A man's?
Oh, God, give me Xena the Warrior Princess!
Give me Lao Ma!
Give me the Brazilian tangas!
Why should beauty have to be covered?
MODESTY INDEED!
"Hamlet: Then saw you not her face?
Horatio: O, yes, my lord! she wore her beaver up."
When I was 8 yrs. old, and not knowing much English, I was a regular, shy little blossom. We'd be learning that poem by Joyce Kilmer, "A Poem Lovely As A Tree," and when the little girl next to me got to "bosom" she'd die of laughter. So I kept asking "what was a bosom?"
Never got the answer.
Now, I've studied Shah-kehs-peh-a-reh in High School, and I just adore it.
But dare I ask, does the Gread Poet mean what I think he meant? Or is it me?
To assist muslims in fulfilling this most sacred duty they providean online form to be filled out, with extensive instructions and explanations of the provisions of sharia, including clauses like Robert mentions above, and spelling out MUCH more, such as that a muslim must NEVER allow a non-muslim, even a close relative who is an infidel, to receive any inheritance.
And, oh yes, there is that requirement to give to charity and, hey, why not good old ISNA -- we'll make sure it is spent in a way that makes Allah happy.
Check out their stuff; they've been using it in the West for years with no apparent opposition. Noone attending a civil liberties meeting or human rights tribunal should be without a copy.
When they ask for the right to operate under Sharia law, let's be quite clear on what this means in terms of specifics, and the inheritance laws are as good a place to start as any.
The downloadable Will has a number of gems, such as a table for the required portion of the estate to go to charity. For your convenience they have already inserted ISNA as the first named recipient (the amount is left to be filled in, though -- hey, you gotta have some choice.) Also several exclusionary clauses for various leftover amounts ... all to go to ISNA, of course. Such as this one:
Gee, with hundreds of thousands of upper-middle-class earnerning Mulsims in Canada, I wonder what their total annual take is. I notice that they don't have their books publicly audited every year like almost every Christian and Jewish charity going...
Sorry, drifted off topic a bit, but I thought this was important information for the mix.
"In the case of Regina v. Islam"
Are you sure that wasn't Vagina v. Islam, oh anonymous one?
Hamlet: Then saw you not her face?
Horatio: O, yes, my lord! she wore her beaver up.
hehe good one there Hugh. They may have it covered, but the good ole beaver is still there. ;)
The queen will soon wear the Burka, this is just to show that she is politicall correct, this is the sign of time and I do wish her all the best
Too provocative to behold!
Time for a cold shower!
Interesting comments Frank. I think you're spot on regarding the clowning and frivolity of such "fashion" statements. The designer is having fun. If only she would think a little harder about where such fun is headed.
A truly "provocative" fashion/culture statement would be to send a Burka down the runway wrapped in a dynamite stick tunic. But don't hold your breath waiting for something like that which would take real guts.
She may be covered but I'd still do her!
Here is Louise Goldin's email lg@louisegoldin.com I've just emailed her Robert's piece.
Hugh-
I am usually afraid to demonstrate my ignorence of literature, but I think I know what you mean, as does Isabelle.
Posted by: Frank
Well I am not quite sure. Perhaps a little further elaboration would be helpful. Do you suppose she is also shaved properly Hugh? ;)
Now, I've studied Shah-kehs-peh-a-reh in High School, and I just adore it.
But dare I ask, does the Gread Poet mean what I think he meant? Or is it me?
Posted by: allat
Would you guys cut it out already? The image of Mr. Fitzgerald in a state of arousal is not an image I care to ponder at the moment. No offence Hugh.
I could do better with an old fishermans sock
For the men
http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/02/miss-world-organization-owns-and.html
Yes! shiva, THAT is more of what I had in mind! Except for Miss Iran and Miss Saudi (gawd, she's a camel!). That was funny! Thanx.
"The image of Mr. Fitzgerald in a state of arousal is not an image I care to ponder at the moment. No offence Hugh."
Robert Grosseteste in his Castle of Love...?
Miss Turkey at the bottom of the page is gorgeous!
haha! Yes rc, but I thought it was actually The Castle of Perseverance?
Another failed attempt at humor on my part.
Does a runway model have the right to refuse to wear something like that? A garment which covers their face, and where they can't breath properly because their nose is covered?
Models who are forced to wear this should contact their union, if they have one, and complain.
Give her a sword and a big horse.
Well, that's it for England then! This is just another indication that the foolish ruling classes there (i.e. the silly, "avant garde" idle-rich, inherited their money, never work for a living, do nothings) are determined to take the British people and nation down the dark path of Islam. They are blind to the danger, blind to the peril to their own lives and freedom and when it is all over, they will fly away on their nice safe golden lear jets to nice, safe neutral countries leaving the ordinary British citizen to face the misery of enemy occupation and captivity. To expiate their own guilt for their treason, they will then proceed to blame the United States for what they themselves have done and proceed to wreck the host countries to which they fled. Save yourselves, Englishmen! These liberal elites are your worst enemies. You mean nothing to them and your country means nothing to them. Somehow you must rise up and stop them now. I am beginning to forsee a British version of "boat people" fleeing to America in the manner of the South Vietnamese if these people are not defeated.
Good day, everyone. Glad to be a member of the site. Seems one of the few to be dealing squarely with the #1 issue of the next 100 years.
Maybe she could have a designer AK-47 to go with this lovely outfit? With a RPG across her back, she'd kinda' look like Boba Fett!
Back in the late 1930's, did the fashionistas ever come up with anything that looked like a Third Reich uniform? I wouldn't be surprised if they did. The models could have goose-stepped down the catwalk giving the Hitler salute.
All of this is simply more evidence of how far down the path of destruction we've gone. So many people are ready to wave the white flag...
Live Free of Die!!
ahhh. but the spin from this designer. sexy, form fitting dresses, jewels, shapes on the breasts, classy make-up, stockings, high heals... demonstrating Middle Eastern garb.
why controversial?
is the fashion calling ME women draped whores? or uptight prudes with no fashion sense?
Here is the full monty with a few extras
http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/
also I'm surprised that no one associated the head covering with the balaclava... number one garment recommended by ME beheaders.
I think the designer has huge balls and I commend him.
This has been just too much fun, just like the "designers" had fun; on one hand the bodies of the broads are slinky sexy, and on the other, the heads are covered like robots or ninjas (the real nighmares) and look at the red gloves - like blood. The overall effect is frightening.
The candidates for Miss Iran are stupendous. Get a load of those pins!
From an on-line dictionary:
"bea·ver 2 (bvr)
n.
1. A piece of armor attached to a helmet or breastplate to protect the mouth and chin.
2. The visor on a helmet.
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[Middle English bavier, from Old French baviere, child's bib, beaver, from bave, saliva.]"
That is the meaning of "beaver" in that "Hamlet" passage that I quoted, in which I change only "he" to "she" and "his" to "her."
The same passage -- "he had his beaver up" -- incidentally, is also quoted in "Ulysses."
Enrich the phrase further, as you wish, and as intended.
Shiva, I wish you hadn't provided that link about Dolly Parton and Cat Stevens. I was a big fan of Dolly's before reading that. Now... yikes.
Giving her the benefit of the doubt I suspect that she just has a big heart (among other big things) and doesn't see beyond her compassion which in this case is misplaced.
And here we see the latest in al-Qaeda's new line of fashion apparell!
This outfit seen here goes very nicely with a 6-foot machete and/or a bulletproof vest worn underneath....