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Michigan non-Muslim high school girls don hijabs to learn about “literature, religion and identity”

Feb 23, 2014 10:12 pm By Robert Spencer

Brighton_Hijabs“But in a school community where no students and only one teacher outwardly practice Islam, wearing the scarves was a good way to draw curious looks, questions and a few unfriendly comments.” Ah yes, unfriendly comments — in other words, the whole thing was a lesson in that all-important dogma of our modern world: Muslims are victims, and deserve special accommodation.

Here are some victims whom these public school students would be better off studying: Aqsa Parvez, whose Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it; and Amina Muse Ali, a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab; and the 40 women who were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab; and Alya Al-Safar, whose Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain; and Amira Osman Hamid, who faces whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab; and the Egyptian girl, also named Amira, who committed suicide after being brutalized for her family for refusing to wear the hijab; and the Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South Australia who were told that they had to wear the hijab or be fired; and the women in Chechnya whom police shot with paintballs because they weren’t wearing hijab; and the women also in Chechnya who were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab; and the elementary school teachers in Tunisia who were threatened with death for not wearing hijab; and the Syrian schoolgirls who were forbidden to go to school unless they wore hijab; and the women in Gaza whom Hamas has forced to wear hijab; and the women in Iran who protested against the regime by daring to take off their legally-required hijab; and the women in London whom Muslim thugs threatened to murder if they didn’t wear hijab; and the anonymous young Muslim woman who doffed her hijab outside her home and started living a double life in fear of her parents, and all the other women and girls who have been killed or threatened, or who live in fear for daring not to wear the hijab.

“Brighton High School students don hijabs to explore literature, religion and identity,” from Michigan Radio, December 16, 2013 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

Maybe more than any other, high school can be a time when what you choose to wear has a huge impact on your sense of identity.

As students take their first steps into adulthood, they walk a fine line between fitting in with their peers and developing a unique sense of self.

Earlier this fall, a group of AP language students at Brighton High School were asked to read a memoir by Iranian author Azar Nafisi. The book detailed the experiences of women during that country’s religious revolution, including dealing with new standards of modesty in the way they dressed.

To experience the material first-hand, several girls in the class in Brighton chose to spend a full school day wearing hijabs, the head-scarves worn by Muslim women in many parts of the world.

The exercise gave students a chance to learn about an unfamiliar culture and religion. But in a school community where no students and only one teacher outwardly practice Islam, wearing the scarves was a good way to draw curious looks, questions and a few unfriendly comments.

Teacher Diana Mason and three students at Brighton who took part recently told Stateside about the experience.

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  1. JamesonRocks says

    Feb 23, 2014 at 10:37 pm

    So, I wonder how many of the participants tried FGM just to better understand the culture and enhance dialogue.

    • Sovereign Man says

      Feb 23, 2014 at 10:46 pm

      Dunno, but that idiot teacher Diana Mason needs to try a lobotomy.

      • mortimer says

        Feb 23, 2014 at 11:13 pm

        She’s obviously had one already.

      • Cunamarra says

        Feb 24, 2014 at 5:59 am

        They stopped performing surgical lobotomies in the 70’s. “They” have since improved the procedure and the modern term for it is “a college education.”

      • Hoekom Jy My Haat says

        Feb 24, 2014 at 3:59 pm

        What kind of an American teaches female students to be submissive and deferential to men. This teacher needs to be fired.

  2. mortimer says

    Feb 23, 2014 at 11:12 pm

    And now the Muslim girls will go to catechism classes and mikvas!

    How enriching is one-way tolerance! Muslims don’t permit TWO-WAY tolerance because it’s ‘AGAINST THEIR RELIGION’…isn’t it?

    • californiadreamer says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 10:31 am

      Your comment is more insightful than many would think, but it is absolutely the truth! Muslims are taught to convert others to Islam or consider anyone who does not as an infidel and kill them! Strong words –but the truth! I dislike hearing people say that Islam is a religion of peace when it is so far away from the truth, they do not seek peace, or compromise or “let’s just get along”…they want anyone who is not seeking their god to die.

      Excellent point you made!

      • logdon says

        Feb 24, 2014 at 1:47 pm

        And when they visit Christian houses of worship?

        http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_email.cfm/blog_id/18844

        • CogitoErgoSum says

          Feb 24, 2014 at 2:02 pm

          Amazing! Muslims can turn even prayer into an act of terrorism. Simply amazing……..and disgusting.

  3. mortimer says

    Feb 23, 2014 at 11:16 pm

    While they’re at it…how about helping this girls with the concepts of Islamic divorce, multiple marriage and CONCUBINAGE? For good measure, throw in a study of INHERITANCE LAWS that short-change women! Then tell them about Islamic paradise where the greatest joy is for wives to watch their husbands cavorting with braindead SEX-SLAVEGIRLS for all eternity. Then explain that women are the slaves of men throughout eternity and if they don’t like that, they will burn in hell.

    • doreva says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 1:16 pm

      Mortimer, also, since “all religions are the same”…we should note that Jesus, when asked by someone about whether if you married your sister in law who was widowed in “this life” and then went to heaven, who’s wife would she be, yours or your brother’s, and would it be “adultery”, He repllied that “in heaven there is no marriage, we are all equal souls with God”, that is,

      Matthew 22:30 ESV / 88 helpful votes

      For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
      … my point is, there is NO SIMILARITY WHATSOEVER between islamic “scripture” and the Gospels, of course you know that, i just had to make this comment, how diametrically opposed the two visions of “paradise” are…the Christian one foretelling “equality” before God, the Islamic one parodying the sad reality of mankind’s limitations. 🙂

  4. Gary Woods says

    Feb 23, 2014 at 11:23 pm

    This photo is more of an Portent that the MSM and Politicians ignore and will rue the day they aided and abet the spread of Shariah Law by-proxy.

  5. Kathleen Galli says

    Feb 23, 2014 at 11:31 pm

    Will they also teach them about infant “thighing and Sodomy”, pedophilia and the Islamic prepubescent “child bride” exploitation by young and old islamic sexual deviates; will they also get to experience genitalia mutilation or be beaten repeatedly or be taken out back for a bullet to the head when they don’t please their owners who have “honor killing” clauses protecting them from murder charges; what about “temporary marriages” which encourage Islamic men to be promiscuous without any kind of accountability or responsibility to their sex slaves? Just wondering!

    • Any infidel insults Islam ,I will put him under my feet says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 8:39 am

      Islam the best way

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 24, 2014 at 5:44 pm

        “Any infidel insults Islam ,I will put him under my feet” wrote:

        Islam the best way
        ………………………………

        Islam is the best way to abuse women and Infidels, destroy science and the arts, and put the progress of mankind back 1,400 years.

        • Defcon 4 says

          Feb 25, 2014 at 2:53 am

          I’ve read that there are mosques that are amazingly beautiful. It’s just too bad there’s not an equally beautiful ideology to go along w/them.

    • Kathleen Galli says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 11:09 am

      That Islam is damned is clearly unveiled in the ancient Hebrew scriptures (and I’m not a Hebrew). All nations slated for JUDGMENT and DESTRUCTION are Islamic. Please read the ancient scriptures which Islam stole from the Hebrew people and then twisted to support their Babylonian Idolatry called the “Mother Book,” Islam. Islam will continue to “kill, steal & destroy” until the end but their Apocalyptic perversion won’t be fulfilled the way your diabolical religion has attempted to twist outcome.

      O yeah, your religion of sexual deviates who exploit infants via “thighing and sodomy,” the “prepubescent child bride” provision for filthy young & old vile pedophiles (Muhammad had sex with his child bride when she was 9), “temporary marriages to condone sexual immorality, promiscuity and lack of accountability, Islam’s provision of “honor killings” and the stoning of their sex slaves/victims (because their sex slaves are no longer virgins) … all represent one of the most diabolical/demonic cultures/religions on the face of the earth.

      Your (un)holy books are full of perversions and filth — Islam is destined to be destroyed by the brightness of Yeshua haMaschiah’s coming … the oil fields of Arabia will burn forever and the princes of Saudi will be no more. Iran and the Kurds will most likely attempt to fulfill these Hebrew scriptures to prove that the scriptures they’ve stolen from the Hebrew people is Islam’s divine prophecy but the final JUDGMENT & DESTRUCTIONS and INTERVENTION is by the Lord of Glory, Jesus. The Islamic Caliphate will be destroyed; Leviathan (Egypt & Assyria) will be severely punished by Jesus Himself.

      http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Destruction_of_Leviathan.png

    • Kathleen Galli says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 3:21 pm

      Muhammad married Aisha when she was 6-years old and consummated his marriage with her when she was only 9-years old (Sahih al-Bukhari, 7:62-64). This is an abomination in most cultures. In America we call this pedophilia and sentence sexual deviates to prison terms.

      http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/pedophilia-palestinian-child-brides-islam-political-poster-1275765257.jpg

    • Rob says

      Feb 25, 2014 at 2:58 am

      Are those scarves the new acid-resistant variety?

      • Defcon 4 says

        Feb 25, 2014 at 10:34 am

        You might have invented a whole new trend in islamic fashion — acid proof women’s clothing. It might be nice if it were rock proof as well.

  6. Saleem Smith says

    Feb 23, 2014 at 11:53 pm

    High School girls being forced to don the hijab to show their respect for Islam?

    Something is very, very wrong with this picture.

    But why stop there?

    Why not go all the way?

    Maybe these girls should jettison over to the lands of Islam – maybe Afghanistan or the Sudan – and get sized for the full wedding Burka!

    There are plenty of pious Mohammedan men in these two countries and elsewhere who take Islam seriously and want to follow it to the letter.They would be glad to receive and rape these young women with the blessings of Islam’s canonical texts (the Qur’an, hadith and sira).

    Rape of Women in Islam:

    There is no equivalent term for ‘rape’ in the Qur’an. Likewise, there is not a single verse in the Qur’an which even remotely discourages forced sex. In contrast, there are several verses in this book which give the green light to rape and other sexual crimes against women.

    Qur’an chapter 4 verse 24 discusses lawful and forbidden women for pious Muslims.

    Qur’an 4:24: Also (forbidden are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess (slaves). Thus has Allah ordained for you. All others are lawful, provided you seek them from your property, desiring chastity, not fornication. So with those among them whom you have enjoyed, give them their required due, but if you agree mutually after the requirement (has been determined), there is no sin on you. Surely, Allah is Ever All-Knowing, All-Wise.

    What we see in the beginning of this verse as “forbidden” refers to sexual intercourse. The Qur’an dictates, women already married are forbidden for Muslims except those whom their right hands possess (sex slaves). It is obvious from this verse, a Muslim can have sexual relations with his slave-woman.

    Coitus Interruptus in Islam:

    Coitus interruptus is the practice of having sexual intercourse with a woman but withdrawing the penis before ejaculation. Apparently this was a pretty important topic for Muhammad and his companions as evidenced by the abundance of Hadith material on the subject.

    According to Muhammad, when having sex with (i.e. raping) a captive, it’s better if you do not pull out the penis at the end.

    Hadith, Sahih Bukhari, Vol.3, Bk.34, No.432:

    Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri: that while he was sitting with Allah’s Apostle he said, “O Allah’s Apostle! We get female captives as our share of booty, and we are interested in their prices, what is your opinion about coitus interruptus?” The Prophet said, “Do you really do that? It is better for you not to do it. No soul that which Allah has destined to exist, but will surely come into existence.”

    We ex-Muslims know that Islam is cruel hoax that all women should abhor.

    http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Islam_and_Women

  7. Muck Fuslims says

    Feb 23, 2014 at 11:56 pm

    So what’s the lesson for the boys, how to beat up, rape, and other abusive behavior toward women who don’t wear one?

    Is the one standing 2nd on the right a man? Couldn’t he be hung for crossdressing?

  8. No Fear says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 12:53 am

    I like to wear the uniform of my group. Many people discriminate against me. What is wrong with saying my group is superior? Why is it wrong to blame the Jews for everything? Why do people think it is wrong for us to have the death penalty for those who leave the group? Why do people think it is wrong for us to proclaim that our group is invincible and will one day dominate the world?

    Life as a Nazi is tough…..poor me.

    (sarcasm…of course I am not a Nazi)

  9. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 1:42 am

    And after their little dozy bint exercise in dressing up, they need someone to sit them down and make them watch “Submission” by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Theo Van Gogh: and tell them what happened to Theo Van Gogh…murdered by a Muslim, for having *dared* to assist an apostate from Islam to make a movie that *truthfully* described what life is really like, under Islam, for many, many Muslim women. And then they need to be given Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s “Infidel” and “Nomad” to read; and Phyllis Chesler’s “An American Bride in Kabul”. For extra credit they can read Nonie Darwish, “Now They Call Me Infidel” and Wafa Sultan “A God Who Hates”, in which Wafa declares flatly, “Allah hates women”.

    Or they could just be given to read those passages in the Sira and the Bukhari Hadith that discuss Mohammed’s marriage to little Aisha; together with some passages from Miriam Ali’s “Without Mercy”, or some news stories about child ‘brides’ in Yemen and Afghanistan.

    • St. Michael Defend Us says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 8:49 am

      Thank you for the book suggestions. I think I may purchase some and mail them to the school for their library.

  10. Tim 84 says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 2:16 am

    The dumb kids also missed the point of the book. The author left Iran because of the way she was treated. I chalk it up to teenage girls being dumb. The school should have forced them at gunpoint that would have been a news story and a real lesson.

  11. Tony Davis says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 4:39 am

    The girls should sit in a hole and let me throw rocks at them, just to gain a little reality, and then butchering time. Come on girls it’s all for God!!! You all know you are second hand shite!!!

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 9:43 am

      I believe women are usually buried to their chest and men to their waist before the stones are thrown and if they can escape being buried, then hey, they get to go free.

  12. Dennis Trisker says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 5:06 am

    I wonder what the parent’s reaction was! If any.

  13. Steffen Larsen says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 5:35 am

    I wonder whether they risked having the label “racist” attached to their school records, if they refused to take part in this? As happened in England.

    • thomas_h says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 9:40 am

      Steffen,

      “As happened in England”

      If you have a link to it, or if it’s not too much hassle for you to find it, could you please post it? Thanks.

      • Steffen Larsen says

        Feb 24, 2014 at 10:04 am

        Sure.

        http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2511841/Children-8-racist-miss-Islam-trip-Schools-threatening-letter-parents-met-outrage.html

        • thomas_h says

          Feb 24, 2014 at 4:10 pm

          Mange tak, Steffen!

  14. Stephen says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 6:11 am

    So where’s that “separation of church and state” that schools always strictly enforce??

    • somehistory says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 6:34 pm

      My thoughts too. So many schools have prevented students saying anything about Jesus, having a Bible, or even mentioning God while in school, at commencement exercises, or ball games.
      And recalling when all of this began, with the m.m.o’hare woman, it was decided that the kids could talk about their faith, have a Bible or other religious book, but teachers and other school staff were the ones not allowed. The only way for the staff to bring up religion was in a specified religion class or risk being fired.
      Now, we have Christian kids restricted as to speech, literature on their faith, etc., but this sort of thing goes on with impunity for students and teachers alike. No charges filed against the teachers, no lawsuits filed on behalf of students who are *offended* by this display as they are when a Bible is seen, or Jesus is named.
      Others, who are expert on the subject of Islam, have repeatedly pointed out that the wearing of the hijab is the *first* volley in the war of muslims asserting their self-proclaimed *supremacy* and the more hijabs, niqabs, burkas, we see around us, the better entrenched that assertion.
      I was told once by a young muslim that by saying one little phrase that I could/would become a muslim. These students and their parents should be made aware that with one little wearing, they are declaring maybe something they would not wish to be saying at all.
      They just seem to think it’s cute, makes them *special* and *exotic* for a little while.
      But where is that separation we continually see enforced when a young one wishes to say something about God or Jesus while on school property?

  15. Cunamarra says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 6:13 am

    Where will this line of thinking lead us?

    To experience the material first-hand, several girls in the class in Brighton chose to remove their hijabs instead of spend a full school day wearing hijabs, these were given acid baths in order to give them the head-scars worn by Muslim women in many parts of the world.

    • Tony Davis says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 11:05 am

      Classic!!! I will remember that one!!!

  16. duh_swami says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 6:27 am

    The purpose of a religious uniform is to control behavior. You do not see Muslimah’s in full Islamic dress with a Quran in one hand pulling slot machine handles in Reno with the other, shouting Allahu Akbar every time they got a winner. Similarly you do not see a Catholic Priest in uniform shouting ‘Jesus save’s’ when he wins. Sinning while wearing a religious uniform is hypocrisy.

  17. Rezali Mehil says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 6:56 am

    Ahhh!! Don’t they look colourful.

    I cannot believe that you are getting so upset over nothing. Tomorrow they will take the scarves off and all will be back to “normal”.

    Where is the harm in integration attempts. …I am amazed that you are so upset.
    No one has been forced to do anything …they have only been asked to step into a muslimah’s shoes for a day.

    More Later….

    Rezali

    • St. Michael Defend Us says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 8:48 am

      Let’s try an “integration attempt” in which all the muslimas REMOVE their headscarves for a day- wherever they may be. And, yes, they HAVE been forced to do this- by their teacher, school, and peers, no matter how subtle the force.
      Don’t bother to come back to give us more.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 9:47 am

      Maybe the muslime world should follow suit — and stop persecuting people of other faiths.

    • Jay Boo says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 10:54 am

      The hijab is not a big deal, it is merely a vanity adornment to help Muslims forget about the vast emptiness offered by Islam’s empty ideology as long as the students are also taught about the vile hateful Islamic supremacist violent agenda of Islam then wearing a hijab for a day is much like wearing a Halloween demon mask and pretending slave to the Serpent of Satan for a day. It is no different than dressing up as a clown and claiming to be Muhammad. As long as students learn the full true story than yes I agree Islam is colorful.

    • Tony Davis says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 10:59 am

      Ahhh! They all look so pretty, I wonder if they were taught about FGM, stoning of women to death and hanging of gays just because they are gay. Ahhhhh! They all look so pretty!!!

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 2:23 pm

      I am just wondering why they are all smiling while wearing those symbols of subjugation and oppression. I guess it is, as you say, because they know it is just for one day and tomorrow they will go back to “normal.” But I wonder how they would react if they were told they had to wear those things all the time. Who would be amazed and upset then…..and would they continue smiling?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 6:17 pm

      The repulsive Rezali Mehil wrote:

      Where is the harm in integration attempts. …I am amazed that you are so upset.
      ………………………………..

      When innocent Infidels are asked to “integrate” with Islam, it always results in their being subject to Shari’ah law.

      That is, in fact, what Nafisi’s story was about—being forced to wear the Chador.

      Speaking of which, what is Shi’ite Rezali Mehil doing in the civilized UK, rather than being forced into Purdah back in the Islamic Republic of Iran?

  18. Jeff says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 7:01 am

    I thought religion was not allowed to be taught in public schools? Where’s the outcry! Where are the Roman Collars for the boys?

  19. Stephanie says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 7:16 am

    Did they have a Muslim male minder go around with them all day?

  20. gerard says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 7:50 am

    Would they also have their students wear a Swastika armband?
    If they don’t, it is only because the current societal reaction would not be in their favour.
    Right and wrong do not enter into the decision-making processes of such people but only what is popular.

  21. gg says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 8:31 am

    Morons. They have no idea what a hijab symbolises and why the paedophile-prophet received a revelation (from himself of course) about it.

    Since these leftist whores enjoy islam, can I beat them black and blue? Honour kill them? Mutilate their vaginas? Rape ’em?

    That photo makes me physically sick.

  22. foggie says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 9:05 am

    Time everyone realised Islam is a one way street, totally intolerant religion, its followers out for total world domination and any type of recognition is playing right into their hands. Unbelievable in the 21st century that the western world is accepting this sort of crap.

  23. foggie says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 9:13 am

    Btw whats the british flag doing in that picture? Is that where Americans think all muslims come from. Come to think of it can’t blame you for that…..

  24. Beagle says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 9:13 am

    This is what the estabishment of religion looks like.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 9:51 am

      “This is what the establishment of religion looks like.” Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzttttttttttttt. Wrong. This is what the establishment of ISLAM looks like. Your idiotic assumption is that all “religion” is on-board w/the maniacal, intolerant, Jew hating, violent stupidity of islam.

      • voegelinian says

        Feb 25, 2014 at 1:03 am

        Have you noticed there seems to be an increase in Equivalencism lately on Jihad Watch comments?

        Equivalencism is my term for the idea that “Sure, Islam is pretty bad, but all religions are bad too”. It comes in various flavors and sizes, but it all boils down to the same thing: Watering down the full catastrophe of Islam. And it often masks an anti-Christian animus. It’s almost like these people are veteran Christianophobes, and only fairly recently they decided to bundle that with a bit of Islam-criticism.

        The only permissible position within the Counter-Jihad in this regard is something more or less like the following:

        “I may not like Christianity or any other religion, but there is no comparison with Islam: Islam is a gazillion times worse than any other religion on the planet today and throughout all world history. So I now recognize that it’s silly for me to even bring up the comparison. Please smack me upside the head to help dislodge this PC MC bug that got stuck between my ears. Thank you.”

        • Defcon 4 says

          Feb 25, 2014 at 3:20 am

          I’ve heard the fallacy of false equivalence used to defend islam0fascism in person. One of my former friends, highly educated yet still ignorant, would rebut any and all criticism of islam by basically stating: “Christianity is just as bad”. The naive stupidity of this defense of islam0nazism is mind boggling. My new reply to such arguments is to agree and suggest the defender move to the nearest islam0nazi state to free himself from the evils of Christianity forever.

  25. Kathleen3 says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 9:50 am

    Students, including Muslims, should then be forced to wear garments associated with the Jewish, Catholic, Buddist, Mormon, and Protestant faiths

    • SaturnV says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 12:02 pm

      They do learn about those faiths in literature classes. They read “The Crucible” and “The Scarlet Letter” and learn about how intolerant protestantism is. They read “Chansons de Roland” and learn about the evils of the Crusades. They read “Candide” and learn about the evils of the Spanish Inquisition. But when they read about Islam, they only learn that jihad is a peaceful inner struggle.

      • voegelinian says

        Feb 25, 2014 at 12:55 am

        Very good. Alas, the Syllabus of Errors of the PC MC West contains many more books by which to reinforce the twin memes of its paradigm of reverse racism (irrationally excessive self-criticism and irrationally excessive admiration of the Other) — a veritable library full; supplemented by countless television shows and movies over the decades.

        How many books do we suppose the Muslim world has produced which are as profoundly self-critical of their own society and their own culture — which is to say, synecdochically, of their own Islam — as the West has produced in its own scathingly searching and morbidly corrosive self-criticism?

        I believe the number to answer that rhetorical question was (allegedly) invented by the Arabs: al-zifr. Translation: zero, zilch, zots.

  26. ralphyboy says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 11:30 am

    You can tell they’re not muslim girls in the picture; they’re smiling.

  27. Joel says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 12:28 pm

    Why not have a day when ALL OF THE BOYS HAVE TO WEAR YARMULKES (Skull CAPS), TSITSITS ( fringed garment worn under the shirt, on top of an undershir rt-usually; worn by Orthodox Jewish men and boys from about 3 or so onward). ALL DAY?

    After, all, Judaism is older then Islam by a few thousand years, and has contributed more to the world then Islam— if one does not count homicide bombings, beheadsing; and hiding behind women and children.

  28. Joel says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 12:29 pm

    word in last line: beheadings

  29. doreva says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 1:09 pm

    in all fairness, they should have tried other religions too, such as Wiccan, Catholicism, of course (they could all have tried “confession”), maybe some Hinduism, or Sikhism, and then Buddhism (oh yes, that’s not a religion, it’s a philosophy), and perhaps some Scientology (it is legal in the USofA, isn’t it?)…because “all religions are the same”…hmmm, either “Islam is a religion of peace” or “all the other ones practic violent jihad too”…which one is it anyways?

    • Champ says

      Feb 24, 2014 at 4:46 pm

      …and satanists need some pc lovin’, as well; in fact, islam and satanism are one in the same.

      • Defcon 4 says

        Feb 25, 2014 at 10:46 am

        I imagine the public practice of satanism in any islamic state wouldn’t be welcomed or tolerated for long and death a very strong possibility for the practitioners.

  30. Hummer says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 1:16 pm

    Send the teacher for a sabbatical to Iran, Pakistan, Libya, ect. to get some real experience- if she survives it then come back and she then can teach the truth.

  31. voegelinian says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 2:01 pm

    I don’t mind in the slightest, on principle, having school-children don the quaintly exotic garb of other cultures for a day. If Muslims were not saying and doing horrific, intolerant, hateful, and mortally dangerous things all over the globe in the name of their religious-cultural blueprint, I wouldn’t mind at all our cultures allowing theirs to weave their colorful threads in and among the threads of our tapestry.

    Since, however, Muslims ARE saying and doing horrific, intolerant, hateful, and mortally dangerous things all over the globe in the name of their religious-cultural blueprint (and when they’re not, they show signs of co-dependent enabling of their hateful, intolerant, murderous co-religionists), I do mind.

    Furthermore (there’s always a further wrinkle to the ghoulish fabric of this infernal religion), we have a mountain of evidence to indicate that the entire Kit & Kaboodle of the panoply & plethora of seemingly innocuous cultural paraphernalia (including the hijab) that constitutes Islamic culture everywhere — unified beyond its deceptive diversity — is, in fact, seamessly part of, and instrumental in, the overall supremacist expansionist Jihad that is, and has been for 1,400 years, their relentless desideratum.

  32. gravenimage says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 4:40 pm

    Michigan non-Muslim high school girls don hijabs to learn about “literature, religion and identity”
    …………………………………….

    Good God. As other posters have mentioned, I very much doubt that they are teaching these girls what the Hijab symbolizes—oppression and the permissibility of the rape of unveiled women. Nor—as noted—that so many girls and women have been murdered for balking at wearing the slave rag.

    Nor will these girls learn many of them would have suffered FGM, or that at their age many of their Muslim sisters have already been forcibly married off to old men, where they could suffer beatings, marital rape, and “Honor Killing”.

    More:

    Earlier this fall, a group of AP language students at Brighton High School were asked to read a memoir by Iranian author Azar Nafisi. The book detailed the experiences of women during that country’s religious revolution, including dealing with new standards of modesty in the way they dressed.
    …………………………………….

    *Unbelievable*—a willful misreading of this book. I’ve read “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, and while Azar Nafisi, like so many liberal Muslims, stops short of identifying Islam as the cause of the problem, she makes it *absolutely clear* that she opposes the Mullahs forcing Iranian women into the Chador.

    Further, Nafisi finally had to flee Iran, having been barred from teaching and fearing arrest. A number of her students fled to the West, as well.

    And guess what? Nafisi *does not* wear a Hijab now.

    So if these girls were going to don the Hijab, it should have been in the context of seeing what it is like to be forced to wear what is seen as a badge of inferiority and control. I very much doubt that this is how it was presented to them.

  33. Wellington says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 8:03 pm

    An example of child abuse pure and simple because putting a happy face on totalitarianism, this time by way of a pathetic sartorial effort, is always an abuse of the young.

  34. 1984 says

    Feb 24, 2014 at 10:30 pm

    Maybe as part of this cultural sensitivity movement, Muslim girls could be asked to wear a crucifix around their homes.

  35. Defcon 4 says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 3:23 am

    As someone has noted before if wearing the hijab, chador and burqa is so liberating, then why aren’t muslime MEN wearing them? Don’t they feel the need to be modest?

  36. Mike says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 8:10 am

    Yuck. Muslim and Jewish style headcoverings should not be something to glorify. They are symbols of misogyny – hatred and oppression against women. When are Jewish and Muslim girls going to be asked to don crosses to understand Christianity? Oh, right..they won’t be, b/c only Christians are forced to “understand” and tolerate the other two religions – not the other way around. Ridiculous.

    • Joel says

      Feb 25, 2014 at 9:46 am

      Jewish WOMEN ARE NOT FORCED TO WEAR HEAD COVERINGS. SOME (MANY?) RELIGIOUS WOMEN DO; BUT IT IS NOT FORCED.

      I have NEVER heard of a Jewish woman killed by other Jews because she was not wearing a head covering.

      There is no comparison.

      AND JUDAISM IS NOT MISOGYNISTIC.

  37. Mike says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 8:12 am

    And Jews. Don’t forget Jews. Christians have been killed by Jews and Muslims for thousands of years.

    • St. Michael Defend Us says

      Feb 25, 2014 at 8:49 am

      Don’t forget your “sarc” or people may misunderstand you.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 26, 2014 at 12:15 am

      I believe at one time there was a pogrom against Christians carried out by Jews in Jerusalem, but it was more or less a response to the Byzantine empire’s persecution of Jews in Israel (I believe they even built a church on the Temple Mount). I think the Persian empire (then run by Zoroastrians) was allied w/the Jews at the time as well.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 26, 2014 at 1:09 am

      “Mike” wrote:

      And Jews. Don’t forget Jews. Christians have been killed by Jews and Muslims for thousands of years.
      ………………………………….

      “And Jews”—what absolute crap.

      • Joel says

        Feb 26, 2014 at 12:18 pm

        You are right; Mike’s email is crap;

        It is Christians who have killed Jews (IE: Pogroms in Russia and other eastern European countries; Jews exiled from Britain, Spain and Portugal (or they ahd to convert–see Spanish Inquisition); the Holocast (20th Century); and the list goes on.

  38. rocky says

    Feb 28, 2014 at 1:09 pm

    LOL Is that a male teacher? They should do this with a boys’ class!

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