This is so great: now we have two Muslim comic book superheroines, Qahera and Kamala. Clearly some Muslims in the media business realize that Islam has a serious image problem; what they don’t realize is that comic book heroines fighting against “Islamophobia” won’t solve it. When will we get a Muslim comic book superheroine who fights against the “extremists” who have “hijacked” Islam? Or is it only the perceptions of non-Muslims that have to be adjusted, so that as soon as we all come to love jihad, all will be well?
The panels showing Qahera growing enraged by the Western feminists discussing how Muslim women need to be “rescued” are bitterly ironic, given that Western feminists generally make excuses for Sharia oppression of women, rather than speak out against it. What’s more, the Muslim women who really need to be “rescued” are not those who wear the hijab, but — in all too many Muslim countries — those who dare not to wear it.
“Introducing Egypt’s new superhero: Qahera, fighting everything from misogyny to Islamophobia,” by Shounaz Meky for Al Arabiya via Al Bawaba, February 2 (thanks to Maxwell):
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it is Qahera, a new web-based comic heroine who fights social problems affecting women in Egypt.
Qahera, the Arabic word for ‘Cairo’, is on a mission to combat “misogyny and Islamophobia, among other things,” said 19-year-old comic designer Deena Mohamed, whose work is presented in Arabic and English.
The name Cairo “has so many strong meanings, like ‘vanquisher’ and ‘conqueror.’ It seemed appropriate for a superhero,” Mohamed told Al Arabiya News.
“It seemed only natural for her to combat sexual harassment in Egypt, because she mostly deals with issues that frustrate me, and this was a significant one that needed to be addressed,” Mohamed added.
She made Qahera veiled “because she combats Islamophobia that veiled women face to a large extent due to being very recognizably Muslim, and because there’s already such little representation of women in hijabs that isn’t dehumanizing.”
The heroine also fights societal stereotypes regarding gender roles. In her latest production, Qahera mocks a song that promotes the superiority of men over women.
“I do everything, from the initial concept – planning it out and writing it – to the artwork, to posting it,” said Mohamed, a graphic design student. “More talented artists are emerging, especially on the internet.”
She added: “Qahera is great as a fictional medium to raise awareness for issues I care about, and it’s obvious why she’d care about them, but that’s the extent of it.
“I’d love for a superhero like her to exist when I’m out on the streets, but objectively, women in Egypt don’t need a superhero.”
They need laws, regulations, cultural awareness, and a change in societal behavior to prevent harassment.
“A very important theme of my comics is that Egyptian women are already superheroes, so to speak, because they’re actively achieving things despite the challenges they face. Qahera is modeled after them.”

Softly Bob says
Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.
Isaiah 5:20
IslamoBLT, no bacon but a lot of Bull says
Please contact Marvel comics to express your opinions: mheroes@marvel.com
Green Lantern is muslim and gay? says
According to DC Comics introduced its own major Muslim super hero: a Green Lantern from Dearborn, Mich., named Simon Baz. “DC Comics has announced which of their characters is now gay: you guys, it’s Green Lantern.” The article link below: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/06/green-lanterns-light-alan-scott-is-dcs-new-gay-character.
It begs the question, will one of them wear the hijab?
RodSerling says
Lol. She responds to the non-Muslim women’s statements by pulling out a sword! Good thing this comic book author is fighting Islamophobic stereotypes.
Tradewinds says
Yeah, what’s with the sword? Muslims just can’t stay away from swords, can they?
I laughed out loud when I saw this. How utterly pathetic. A joke.
EYESOPEN says
Me too. I thought it was incredibly amusing that this “super-heroine” is starting to unsheath a sword. I should think that muzzie males will start to become jealous now that there are TWO muslim super-heroines!
Defcon 4 says
I wonder if she about to quote quranic scripture about lopping off the heads of unbelievers, or maybe chopping the hands and feet on opposite sides?
It’s refeshingly islamic to see she’s drawing a sword against an unarmed, unbelieving woman. After all, that’s how islam0nazis usually win debates about the nature of their faith isn’t it?
RodSerling says
In the comic about Femen, the Muslim heroine takes a swipe with her sword at the neck of a Femen protestor, then ties them all up and hangs them from a tree, and laughs asking who is going to save them. Interesting to see Muslim comics that have not passed through the Western Muslim apologist filters. This is raw Qur’anic hostility and sadism directed at non-Muslims.
http://www.albawaba.com/video/bGSwIznccsk
mortimer says
Exactly. Free speech is a threat to Islam. Beheading women who criticize Islam is the way to go. If you say Islam is intolerant, Qahera will slash you to silence your use of free speech.
Muslims have a RIGHT not to hear anything they dislike.
Marbran says
That is the first thing I noticed too!!! So these Western women have got Islam all wrong and Qahera is going to set them straight, by unsheathing her sword??? Does this young woman even understand how she is portraying her wonderful Islam?
star of faith says
Only nonmuslims allowed to be gay in public and female promiscuous whores + mean and sadistic people. Muslims are forced to be doers of good and non-homosexuals.
GreekAsianPanda says
Wait. Islamophobia is a social problem in Egypt?
mortimer says
Islamic Stockholm syndrome!…women fighting to remain slaves?…for eternity?
Self-hating women of Islam is what this cartoon is about! And notice that the sword is THE ANSWER…more Islamic violence is the FIRST THING ON THE AGENDA! Right! the religion of “say that and I’l slash you!”
The answer to the free speech of ‘others’ is the sword!
This cartoonist will soon have her life threatened by Islamists. They don’t want empowered women. Empowered women will liberate themselves from Islam’s tyranny.
Deena Mohamed is walking on thin ice, but she will find that out soon.
nacazo says
It looks like a Ninja. sword and all.
williweb says
I have met so many admirable and capable women in my job that even though I am an over the hill WASP man, I consider myself a feminist, which is exactly the opposite of Islam.
eib says
I hope Qahera isn’t planning to use an elevator any time soon.
It would be the inglorious end to a villainous career.
Coke says
Sharia ninja in action?
Jan says
Good Lord.
Is that face supposed to be **attractive** ? She looks like an evil witch/vampire.
Come to think of it, that pretty much sums up islam !
Champ says
Agreed, Jan!
EYESOPEN says
I’ll second that, Jan and Champ!
mariam rove says
is she going to speak up against 9 year old girls being raped and sodomized by 50 year old men? M
Aardvark says
No, but she will behead any infidel who dares to mention Mohammed’s paedophilia!
pdxnag says
I use Islamophobia and Blasphamey interchangeably. Try swapping one for the other. The difference in use is not related to the acts of unbelievers but whether Sharia is or is not yet the law of land where the acts are observed. For example, praying vigorously with mindnumbing repetition to a fictional allah is not yet compulsory for all people in America as it is for people in countries fully suffering under Islam. Failure to pray is enough to be branded a Blasphemer or, heaven forbid, an Islamophobe. The choice of which label to apply depends on where the act occurs, not the act itself.
So, does this superhero fight Blasphemy? (And dare not do anything herself that might be labeled Blasphemey, subjectively, by any pious Muslim she might encounter on the street. She must be like a terrified SuperHero, terrified of Muslims. Dystopia, 24/7. HellsHeros? She can run with as much purpose as a headless chicken, before or after leaving Islam, unless she also leaves any land that applies Sharia.)
Wyldeirishman says
pdxnag, where are you? If, like myself, you’re in the Portland metro/suburban PDX area, that brings the total number of folks I know in these parts that regard Islam as a threat to many levels of liberty to almost double-digits.
Defcon 4 says
I remember reading a story, maybe 7 or 8 years ago, about a man in Iran or Iraq who was found out in the streets by members of his mosque and had missed prayers that day. They questioned him about his absence and he said something to the effect “the matter of my prayers are between me and allah.” He was murdered , right there, in the streets.
mortimer says
Indeed. ‘Islamophobia’ is used as a ‘special pleading’ to allow Muslims to censor and discriminate.
‘Islamophobia’ is a technique to allow the stealth implementation of Sharia law’s ‘slander’ and ‘blasphemy’ provisions. Under Sharia, it is legal to murder apostates and slanderers of Islam. Anyone has the right to apply Sharia punishments in the absence of an authentically Islamic government. Moreover, a fatwa is not required in the matter of murdering a blasphemer or apostate. Anyone is authorized to do it. No punishment is provided in the Sharia. Silence means approval.
Jay Boo says
The idea of Qahera fighting against misogyny without western ‘interlopers’ coming to the rescue is great.
Of course Islam is full of duality.
The heroine’s rejection of non-Muslim interference might make this comic more palatable to sharia headed clerics but by doing so it also promotes a comic book fantasy that Islam is not part of the problem.
Islam is about display and image.
Muhammad provided all Muslim males with a loop hole.
‘SELF-RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION’
A thin line separates the pious image illusions from Islamic delusion.
Fail to pray five a day a not wear a scarf just right might invite a self-righteous rape
eib says
There is no duality in rape, terrorism, and there certainly is no duality in death.
These things are what they are, and to contemplate them in dualistic terms, particularly when the dualism is Muslim & infidel, is deception.
The image of Islam is rage.
There is nothing sacred or dualistic about rage.
gravenimage says
Egypt: New hijabbed comic superheroine fights “Islamophobia”
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And as other posters have already noted, it appears that she uses *a sword* to ‘fight Islmophobia’.
Nothing will teach those uppity Western feminist “Islamophobes” a lesson like being beheaded by a ‘strong Muslim woman’.
Allahu Akbar, Infidel b*tches!
Champ says
Superheroines?
Nah …
Superslaves!
Champ says
…who serve a superheinous religion: islam
Charli Main says
This woman is just another pathetic looser trying to glorify the social repression of her Muslim sisters.
Its such a waste because ex-Muslims have consistently proved to be the best of people and useful members of 21st century society.
If only there was some way to get Muslims to turn their backs on and walk away from the stone age, Satanic inspired nonsense called Islam, the World would be a better and happier place .
Don´t hold out much hope for this, given that Muslims are brainwashed from about the age of 3, in Mosques and Madrassas, that they will get a one way ticket to Paradise, if they rape, loot, murder and force the Satanic creed of Islam on Kaffirs.
Defcon 4 says
The “best of people”? Just because they left a savage death cult?
Wyldeirishman says
Looks like a templar longsword.
Irony much?
Januk36 says
Ironically the muslim heroine is drawing a crusader sword.
Aardvark says
I like the way the hilt of the crusader sword is shaped like a cross…
And I hope the saracen readers of this ‘comic’ strip notice that, too. Looks like a clear case of blasphemy to me!
voegelinian says
Our resident JW Egyptian champion of Egyptian Moderate Muslims, Salah, is noticeably absent from this thread (he or she appears quite often in a multitude of other threads almost daily).
Salah says
Hi LemonLime. Sorry, I’m late. How can I help you?
19-year-old comic designer Deena Mohamed is simply trying to express her own personal views. So what?
We all agree there are many problems in Egypt that need to be addressed. Problem number one: Islam
In one of his latest posts Robert wrote:
“After the spectacular self-detonation of the Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt, Islamic parties have lost some of their luster.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/01/kurdistans-islamic-parties-seek-to-downplay-islam-in-order-to-broaden-their-appeal/
When Islamic parties lose… Islam loses.
When Islam loses… Egypt will be a better place to live.
Why can’t you rejoice when we win a battle?
Defcon 4 says
If her personal views include attacking those who criticise islam, even if armed, so what eh?
Semeru says
New name but still sour as Lemon Lime
CornHolio says
Does she have to yell at evildoers to stop their wicked ways, from inside her house, if her husband hasn’t come home yet? And does she have to wear a lead-lined niqab eye-mesh due to her x-ray vision? Will her archenemy be the German villain, the Swine-Hund? Will he cover himself if capture-proof pig-fat, and sic his filthy German Shepherds on her? And why is she using a Templar and not a Saracen sword? Does she intend on beheading those feminists in order to fight misogyny? And why am I asking so many stupid questions?
fair_dinkum says
feminists in the west have barely said boo.. but someone in Egypt has recognised what the “next big thing” will be, and theyre already trying to counter it.
i could never understand why the womens movements have not been more vocal about islam. lets hope theyre dragged into it and have to respond.
feminism is a huge weapon in the war on islam. if it wakes up to itself, it could make a real difference.
interesting that the 1st response from the hero character is to draw a sword.
its almost a send up of itself. you could do a humorous comic strip where the only reaction she has is to behead people.
is the character beaten for playing with hubbys’ weapons?
if shes out in the street beheading infidels, does her brother accompany her? she could get in a lot of trouble…
in fact in the real world her boldness would be smacked straight back down.
there are no female heros in islam.
[FA] says
When Qahera goes out on these adventures does she bring a male relative with?
Candid Progressive says
Pfffft!
Bob says
Don’t forget the Burka Avenger… http://www.burkaavenger.com/
Loves God says
The illustration has the same sort of feel to me as that “Wear a hijab Day” (in protest to the California woman murdered for wearing one – which later had her husband arrested). Similar logic: Use “this” to protest “that” and hurt feelings within Islam will be soothed.
Shane Von Russell says
Wow, she makes no sense.
PJG says
Fighting “Islamophobia” by ridiculing infidels, giving them ugly caricature faces, making them appear stupid and, of course, “immodest” in singlet tops.
That should build a few bridges!
Unapologetic American says
Has this female “super-suicide-bomber” had her Sharia mandated clitorectomy ?
dumbledoresarmy says
You asked, “Has this female “super-suicide-bomber” had her Sharia mandated clitorectomy ?”
Good question.
One could ask the same of the artist, Deena Mohamed, since she is an Egyptian Muslim. In Islam the dominant school of the sharia is Shafiite – according to which the excision of the clitoris is *obligatory* (in two other schools of Sharia it is seen as *desirable* – a good thing to do – but not *obligatory*; a fourth merely refrains from condemning it). The stats on clitorectomy in Egypt are horrific: a very high percentage of women have been subjected to it.
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/4/07-042093/en/
If her *character* is an Egyptian Muslimah, it would be reasonable to assume that she has been genitally mutilated as per the instructions of the Shafiite school.
dumbledoresarmy says
Correction.
I wrote – “In Islam the dominant school of the sharia is Shafiite – according to which the excision of the clitoris is *obligatory* (in two other schools of Sharia it is seen as *desirable* – a good thing to do – but not *obligatory*; a fourth merely refrains from condemning it).”
I *should* have written – “In Egypt the dominant school of the sharia is Shafiite – according to which the excision of the clitoris is *obligatory* (in two other schools of Sharia it is seen as *desirable* – a good thing to do – but not *obligatory*; a fourth merely refrains from condemning it). “
HARES Mona says
I am Muslim. I don’t wear Higab. I wonder if all those who have written comments have read the Koran… Logically, the last religion is supposed to be the less subjected to any addition as in the first ones… The Koran is the only holy book written during the life of our prophet… I admit that there is different interpretations… The first words in the Koran are read, read and read (addressed to an analphabete “Mohamed” our prophet…) The miracle of Islam is the Koran… So please, try to read it… I know that’s hard… but only try…
voegelinian says
We’ve read the Koran. When it’s not tediously boring, it’s an appalling mass of hateful, intolerant, fanatical, psychotic, violent tissues dripped in blood, unfit for the modern world — unfit for any world.
PJG says
You really think reading the Koran will make us like Islam? We read it because we saw the awful things Muslims were doing in the world, and reading it confirmed our fears. It’s not a “miracle”, more an abomination.
Really, you have nothing to say.
Champ says
HARES Mona wrote: “The miracle of Islam is the Koran”
The quran is a “miracle”, eh? …lol! Wow just another preposterous lie being promoted by a mohammedan slave; since the quran is nothing more than a hate filled manual-4-murder.
Jan says
Either all you mohammedan bints employ the same tone and syntax, when speaking to us ‘infidels’, or you’re the repulsive ‘rezali’.
Unfortunately for you, and the fortunes of your vile cult, we **have** read your koran, which is why we loathe, despise, and have nothing but contempt for, the ‘allah’ demon you worship, and your very ugly, psychopathic paedophile of a prophet.
By the way, ‘mona’, if the koran is the final word of ‘allah’ ( aka satan), and such a ‘miracle’, how come old ‘allah’ changed his mind, said “forget about those bits; this is what I really meant” ? Not terribly ‘god like’ !
You’re wasting your time here, with your pathetic attempts at ‘dawa’. No-one is fooled, we all know too much about your foul ‘religion’.
‘As a matter of interest, (I know you won’t answer) how come somany of your co-religionists ‘misunderstand’ islam ?
Aardvark says
I am Muslim. I don’t wear Higab.
You have my sympathy if you were born into that nasty cult, and my contempt if you joined voluntarily. Whether you wear the ‘higab’ or not doesn’t seem to be relevant. Or even make sense.
I wonder if all those who have written comments have read the Koran…
Probably more people in the civilized countries, where we are all taught to read and to think, have read the koran than in the benighted mohammedan countries.
Logically, the last religion is supposed to be the less subjected to any addition as in the first ones… The Koran is the only holy book written during the life of our prophet… I admit that there is different interpretations…
Your logic is illogical! And the koran is neither holy, nor was it written during the life of your prophet (if he lived at all). It was written nearly two hundred years later.
The first words in the Koran are read, read and read (addressed to an analphabete “Mohamed” our prophet…) The miracle of Islam is the Koran… So please, try to read it… I know that’s hard… but only try…
By ‘analphabete’ do you mean illiterate? Why would your ‘holy’ book be exhorting an illiterate to read? And have you read the koran yourself? I suspect not, or you would not be trying to get non-mohammedans to read it! It is a foul and evil book.
The miracle of islam is that it has not already been wiped from the face of the earth by the millions of disgusted and sickened non-mohammedans.
But that will come, sooner than you think.
Theb Nyip says
Hi Mona: “Logically, the last religion is supposed to be the less subjected to any addition as in the first ones” – by that ‘logic’ you should be following anything that came later like Scientology and L Ron Hubbard, rather than Islam and Muhammed. Since you’re not, then it appears your use of the word ‘logic’ in this context is, as Mr Spock would say, illogical.
RodSerling says
Mona,
I’ve read the Qur’an multiple times. I’ve studied it. Ask me anything about it, if you want to test whether I’ve actually read it.
“I am Muslim. I don’t wear Higab.”
Why not? The Qur’an indicates that women of child-bearing age should wear some sort of covering over their feminine parts, bosoms, “beauty/adornments” (i.e., more covering than what the non-Muslim women of that time wore, so as to identify the Muslim women and prevent them from being harassed). Most relevant verses, see 7:26, 24:31, 24:60, 33:53, 33:59. The specifics are given in the Hadith.
As for the cartoon, I’m actually not that concerned about the issue of the hijab. (I only mention it because you said you are doing something that seems contrary to the Qur’an). I’m concerned about the violence and hatred directed at non-Muslims, which is glorified in the cartoon, which is reminiscent of, and no doubt stems significantly from, the violence and hatred in the Qur’an (the scripture that is the basis of Islamic societies).
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/inj/long.html
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/int/long.html
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/cruelty/long.html
Foolster says
“I am Muslim. I don’t wear Higab.”
Well, your “moderate” credentials are in order. Do I take it then that you don’t actually believe in the Koran if you’re so moderate?
Do you approve of rape of captive slaves (23:1-6)? wife beating (Q. 4:34)? slaying infidels until they believe (Q. 9:14 and many others)? The death penalty for apostasty(Bukhari (52:260) ? If you answered no to any of these questions you are either a liar (trying to deceive non-Muslims about Islam), or you are a non-Muslim apostate.
“Read the Quoran”
Whenever a Muslims entreats non-muslims to read the Quoran that they are supposedly so bigoted against, I think of this line:
“Mohammad, you magnificent bastard, I READ YOUR BOOK!”
voegelinian says
By the way, “Mona” is probably Egyptian, as they tend to spell Arabic words that have a J in them with a G — as in “Higab”. Yet another Egyptian Muslim who doesn’t seem to fit Salah’s rosy picture of his homeland.
dumbledoresarmy says
She (?) might be in France or a Francophone country: she used the word “analphabete” which is the standard French term for “illiterate”, suggesting that English is not her first language (she would have said “illiterate” if it was). She could be either someone who speaks French first and has since learned some English, or someone whose first language is neither French nor English, but who has since learned French and after that, some English.
Defcon 4 says
I particularly like the rabid Jew hatred found in all your holey books Fatima, especially the genocidal ones in the ahadith…NOT.
Softly Bob says
Tried it, read it, studied it, hate it. If I had a dollar for every Muslim who asked me to read the Qu’ran instead of blindly criticizing it, I’d be a rich man.
The thing is, I don’t blindly criticize Islam, I criticize it with my eyes wide open. I understand it and it is evil.
gravenimage says
HARES Mona wrote:
I am Muslim. I don’t wear Higab.
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And what do you think about the fact than many of your coreligionists would beat, imprison, or murder you over this? Enquiring minds want to know…
By the way, “Hares” means “guard”—if she were really guarding herself as islam demands, she would observe Hijab and Purdah.
More:
I wonder if all those who have written comments have read the Koran…
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Like many—perhaps most—here at Jihad Watch, I have read that foul tome several times. What do you think of the passages that hold women to have half the worth of a man, that allow wife-beating, and that condone pedophilia? No mention of these gems, I notice…
More:
Logically, the last religion is supposed to be the less subjected to any addition as in the first ones…
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As poster Theb Nyip notes, this means you would have to put your faith in *more* recent creeds, such as Scientology or Baha’i, or perhaps the Heaven’s Gate cult…
Besides, pious Mohammedans claim that Islam dates back well before the 6th-century AD—that Judaism and Christianity were Islam before the perfidious “People of the Book” ‘changed their scriptures’, and that all the Jewish prophets were actually Muslim, dating all the way back to Adam.
If you’re going to peddle your Da’wa here, you might as well keep your bullsh*t straight.
More:
The Koran is the only holy book written during the life of our prophet…
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Nope, wrong again. The Qur’an is supposed to have existed for all time, unchanging. It was just supposed to have been *recited* by the “Prophet”. Again, please keep you claptrap straight.
More:
I admit that there is different interpretations…
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Not really. The Qur’an is hideously oppressive and violent, and most Mohammedans have trouble acting on its vile tenets.
More:
The first words in the Koran are read, read and read (addressed to an analphabete “Mohamed” our prophet…) The miracle of Islam is the Koran… So please, try to read it… I know that’s hard… but only try…
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Wrong again—you’re batting 0-for-3. The Angel Jibreel is supposed to have assaulted the illiterate Muhammed while shrieking “read” at him on his first appearance—but these *are not* the first words in the Qur’an.
Sūrat al-Fātiḥah consists of a prayer warding off the savagery of Allah, while cursing Jews and Christians:
“In the name of Allah , the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
“[All] praise is [due] to Allah , Lord of the worlds
“The Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
“Sovereign of the Day of Reckoning
“It is You we worship and You we ask for help.
“Guide us to the straight path
“The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked [Your] anger or of those who are astray.”
Those who have evoked Allah’s anger are the Jews, and those who are astray are the Christians.
Now really—don’t you see that you are going to have to polish up your Da’wa skills considerably before you try to snow the knowledgeable Infidels here at Jihad Watch?
Also keep in mind that many of your devout coreligionists will consider you a “whore” for interacting with unrelated Infidel males on social media—that might not go well for you, even if all you intended was Taqiyya.
Droves says
The comic book authors are clearlyislamophobic showing the hijabbed “hero” dealing with uncovered women via a sword….islam is a religion of peace! Well women of the world keep your mouths shut and cover up…actually the super heroine is pretty vulgar showing her face! That sould be covered up too…a sign of real liberation…cover yourself with a black sack!
gravenimage says
The name Cairo “has so many strong meanings, like ‘vanquisher’ and ‘conqueror.’ It seemed appropriate for a superhero,” Mohamed told Al Arabiya News.
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This is a small but salient point: while superheroes vary fairly widely in powers and style, the one thing they have in common is that they are *not* conquerers.
Whether they are saving people on the streets from muggers or saving the world from Lex Luthor or alien invasion, they *oppose* bullies, thugs, and conquerers.
Conquerers are super *villains*, not superheroes.
But why should this surprise us? Muslims consistently show that the people they consider heroes are warlords, oppressive conquerers, and violent Jihad terrorists.*Ugh*.
CornHolio says
I wonder if the person who wrote the comic is actually a Muslim supporter. The fact that the “heroine” draws a sword to deal with Western women and their “arrogant misplaced concern”? Would someone who is actually trying to lessen “islamophobia”, have her drawing a sword there?
gravenimage says
CornHolio wrote:
I wonder if the person who wrote the comic is actually a Muslim supporter. The fact that the “heroine” draws a sword to deal with Western women and their “arrogant misplaced concern”? Would someone who is actually trying to lessen “islamophobia”, have her drawing a sword there?
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The creator is not just a “Muslim supporter”, but an actual Muslim, CornHolio.
As for the sword, this is visual “Ninja” reference, which is very common in comics. Some “Ninja” characters kill their enemies with their swords, some—a bit implausibly, but hey, it’s a comic—just sort of hit the bad guys with the flat of their swords to incapacitate them.
So far, nothing all that unusual here—except for two things.
Firstly, that Islam has a long and horrifying history of throat-cutting and beheading, which is evoked by this Muslim character armed with a sword in the way that a generic “Ninja” character would not. And this is not from the distant past, of course—Muslims regularly behead their victims today.
And secondly, Qahera’s adversaries are not evil assassins or super villains out to take over the world, but “misguided” people who want to help. Even if you agreed with her that these Western women were guilty of “arrogant misplaced concern”, it is clear that drawing a word *in this context* is disturbing and grotesquely wrong.
So I believe we find a Muslim here doing the usual, even though she is trying to do something “groundbreaking”—showing the impulse of Muslim violence against unarmed, peaceful, and well-meaning Infidels.
Really, they can’t help themselves.