The World Hijab Day website presents hijab-wearing as a sign of empowerment; women and girls who wear hijabs are called “queens, princesses, and sultanas.” One blog post by Megan Baase, however, reveals that experimental hijab-wearing may have other effects. Baase writes that she didn’t know much about Islam until World Hijab Day. After reading about Islam and “why women wear hijabs,” she decided to convert: “I would’ve never learned about Islam if it weren’t for world hijab day.” Now, the U.S. Department of Education is encouraging Islamic proselytizing.

Ever since 9/11, educators have been trying to promote a positive view of Islam under the pretext of fighting harassment of Muslims. American textbooks repeat Muslim doctrine as if it were historical fact, students are taken to pray in mosques, and girls are asked to dress up in hijabs, the Muslim head scarves.
When I taught at Georgia Perimeter College (2007-2010) I’d see posters on bulletin boards put up by a Muslim professor who advised the Muslim Student Association (a “legacy project” of the Muslim Brotherhood), inviting girls to “wear a hijab for a day.” In 2009, at the annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies, I reported on such panels as “Muslim Perspectives Through Film and Dialogue.”
Now we have a World Hijab Day on February 1. The first one was held in 2013. The organization’s website reported that that February, “Girls of all faiths across East Lancashire [United Kingdom] have been taking part in World Hijab Day to understand and appreciate the muslim [sic] culture.” At Pleckgate High School, the head of “RE and citizenship,” was quoted as saying, “Staff and pupils, Muslim and non Muslim, wore the hijab all day as a way of increasing understanding. . . .”
Here in the USA, in Texas, later that month, WND reported, “Students Made to Wear Burqas – in Texas.” The exercise was part of the Texas CSCOPE curriculum. In California, at Natomas Pacific Prep public charter school, some girls wore hijabs as part of their senior projects.
This year according to the World Hijab Day’s website, college campuses in Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania participated. Advice for Muslim Student Associations on holding such events is offered at the site, as are testimonials from Muslim and non-Muslim women. So is New York Assemblyman David Weprin’s statement in support of World Hijab Day 2016.
On February 11 of this year, the U.S. Department of Education sent out an official “Homeroom” blog post titled “Protecting Our Muslim Youth from Bullying: The Role of the Educator.”
It began: “Not since the days and months immediately after September 11 has the Muslim community faced the level of anti-Muslim bias and bullying that has been seen over the past several months. In the wake of Paris and other terrorist attacks, combined with the emergence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a lack of information among the public about Islam, and the tendency to associate Islam with terrorism, there has been an increase in expressions and incidents targeting the Muslim community. . . .”
An alleged “increased wave of anti-Muslim sentiment in our public discourse, political rhetoric and everyday interactions,” includes schools, where youth have been called, “terrorists” or “ISIS” and attacked physically, verbally, and through social isolation.
The “statistics,” however, come from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). As evidence of 75 reported incidents, ranging from assault to fliers opposing a mosque in Fredericksburg, there are links to only 10 news reports that go so far as to only describe allegations (many of these will likely prove to be hoaxes).
The suggested activities and curricula also come from ADL, which has long been selling its anti-bullying programs and materials to schools. These activities are aimed at the larger goal of controlling students’ emotions and thoughts, i.e., getting them to stop “hating,” and to uncritically accept all cultures and lifestyles. (Early in the Obama administration, such anti-bullying programs were directed at protecting gay students and were coordinated with then-“safe schools czar,” the co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Independent School Teacher Network, Kevin Jennings.)
Among the Department’s suggested activities is holding a “Walk a Mile in Her Hijab Day.” There is a link to a video of a classroom at Vernon Hills High School in Illinois, where girls are shown in a classroom helping each other put on hijabs. It’s presented as a fun activity, dress-up for teenagers. The event, held last December, was organized by the school’s Muslim Student Association President, Yasmeen Abdallah, who claimed it was intended to “denounce negative stereotypes.”
At a Rochester, New York, high school, another Muslim student, Eman Muthana, successfully petitioned the administration to participate in World Hijab Day this month. Some parents became outraged. Muthana said it was a way to share a cultural experience and fight prejudice.
The World Hijab Day website reported that Memphis Central High School also participated this year. The blog-poster, identified only as “Mary,” a “Christian, USA,” did not report any outraged parents, but only feeling good at “seeing so many people support one another.”
The World Hijab Day website presents hijab-wearing as a sign of empowerment; women and girls who wear hijabs are called “queens, princesses, and sultanas.”
One blog post by Megan Baase, however, reveals that experimental hijab-wearing may have other effects. Baase writes that she didn’t know much about Islam until World Hijab Day. After reading about Islam and “why women wear hijabs,” she decided to convert: “I would’ve never learned about Islam if it weren’t for world hijab day.” The post features a picture of her and her four-year-old son, both wearing hijabs. She writes that she “couldn’t say no” to his request to “be just like mommy.”
Although proponents claim such activities are cultural exercises, critics rightly point out that students are not asked to participate in the wearing of crucifixes or yarmulkes. Now, the U.S. Department of Education, under the cover of anti-bullying, is encouraging Islamic proselytizing.
The development is alarming especially given the Department’s increased grip on day-to-day school operations. “Dear Colleague” letters give directives on such things as bullying, rape prevention, and school discipline. School administrators tend to act preemptively to fend off potential punishment from the feds. It’s why school websites are plastered with anti-discrimination statements and notices about training in “affirmative consent.”
To ward off charges of creating a hostile school environment, school officials may want to have proof in the form of a list of activities that encourage cultural sensitivity – like having girls wear hijabs.
Such activities do have consequences. We need to listen to what Muslim converts say, rather than what the Department of Education says.
Mary Grabar, Ph.D., taught college English for 20 years. She is now a resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. She founded the Dissident Prof Education Project, Inc., a 501(c)(3) education reform initiative that offers information and resources for students, parents and citizens. The motto, “Resisting the Re-Education of America,” arose in part from her perspective as a very young immigrant from the former Communist Yugoslavia (Slovenia specifically). She writes extensively and is also a published poet and fiction writer. Ms. Grabar is a contributor to SFPPR News & Analysis.
This article originally appeared at the Selous Foundation for Public Policy Research website.
eduardo odraude says
Thank you for this excellent article.
Yes, if hijabs are to be worn, why can’t everyone wear crosses, and yarmulkes on the same day? Or better, let students read The Third Choice, an easy yet scholarly read that pulls no punches whatsoever about Islam, yet is compassionate.
jihad3tracker says
+++++ I WELCOME MS. GRABAR AS A CONTRIBUTOR TO JIHADWATCH. +++++
Islam’s pathology regarding women — as objects only worthy of male domination, control, exploitation, rape — goes all the way back 1400 years to Muhammad himself.
Manuel Paleologus says
Islam is not a religion but a perverted ideological cult created to counteract Christianity. Islam is not a ‘religion’ of peace since means submission. It consider women as animals needed for sex, pleasure and to bring bastards into this world.
The Islam is the greatest danger of the humanity and it was always.
nomoreislamicstate says
You have it down! I have been near these people in the UK and I can tell you first hand they are animals. They can not even keep their hands of women who are not covered from head to toe. http://www.blindfoldnation.com/index.php/2016/03/01/summer-will-bring-about-significant-sexual-assault-cases-in-europe/ This summer will be the worst year by far for rape according to that article. Muslims are third world savages due to their religious beliefs which hold them back. We need to make sure Hilary does not get in, rapes are happening in the US as well as all other nations accepting rapefugees!
Carolyne says
It’s even worse. If Hillary Clinton orSanders should become President, we can say goodbye to our First and Second Amendments. The First gives us freedom of speech and religion and the Second the right to keep and bear arms. Both of these rights are anathema to leftists and are targets for destruction. Hillary Clinton has said she would like a gun confiscation like Australia had and she attended a meeting to consider outlawing criticism of Islam. These are also targets of the United Nations, which is in control of Islamic countries The next President will appoint a Supreme Court Justice to replace Scalia and if the Dems have their way, it will be a leftist who will upset the balance of the Court and will abrogate those Amendments.
Christianblood says
Manuel Paleologus
I agree with all your points about islam but the question is why then are American/Western elites such as this departments of education and many others are promoting islam in schools while they ban Christian prayers and Bible studies from every where in the public square? What is going on here?
Could these American/Western enablers of islam be even more dangerous to the Western societies? How can they be stopped?
Ex-muslim says
@ Christianblood
I am sure real demonic forces masquerading as (postmodernist moral relativism or liberal democracy) has taken a very strong hold on the Western psyche and it will only take a huge disaster to wake the people up and dislodge those demonic forces. It will really have to get worse before it gets better.
eduardo odraude says
Christianblood,
To stop them, we have to get out from behind our computers, stop sending emails and making websites, and go in person and talk directly with priests, pastors, politicians and journalists about the victims. The Left is defenseless if you focus on the victims rather than directly on Islam itself. You don’t even have to talk about Islam at all. Just focus on Islam’s victims, what has happened to them and is happening to them. That means we have to educate ourselves a little each day about the victims. We have to make sure we carefully check and our sources and look at other viewpoints too so we do not discredit ourselves with false data. One place to start is with Raymond Ibrahim’s website. http://www.raymondibrahim.com/ Read his book, Crucified Again.
Christianblood says
eduardo odraude
Great points ‘eduardo’. Totally agreed!
gravenimage says
Here’s a Muslimah lauding the dhimmitude in Russia and contrasting it with the “Islamophobia” of America:
“In Moscow, there are millions of Muslims (perhaps the city with the most Muslims in Europe). There are many hijabis here. I get some ugly looks and people sometimes mock me, but alhamdulilah I feel safe. In fact, I feel safer as a Muslim in Moscow than I did in the US. When I must return to the US, I fear I may end up removing my hijab until I can feel safe enough to wear it proudly again. Inshallah, I will be strong and protected in the face of hatred.”
“A Former Atheist’s Journey to Hijab”
http://worldhijabday.com/a-former-atheists-journey-to-hijab/
Some things *are* better in Russia vis-a-vis Islam–but many things are not.
The fact is that all of Dar-al-Harb is under serious threat from Islam. But Russian supremacist “Christianblood” likes to pretend that this is only a problem in the West.
Shane says
The traitorous left is allied with Islamists against the West and Christianity; their goal is to destroy Western Civilization. The left hope to replace Western Civilization with an all-powerful state, but it looks like Islam will dominate the West and establish Islamic Republics.
Christianblood says
Shane
Good point! Is there any hope now? How could these crazed leftists who love islam but hate and despise Christianity be stopped?
Gretchen says
Absolutely disgusting, you lie and deceive these girls don’t tell them the true evil that they would be subject to as a Muslim. Religion should not be in any public school
Bulling of Muslims but it’s totally ok to Billie anyone not of your faith.
Go back to your war torn country.
Not in America!!!!
eduardo odraude says
Hijabs nauseate me, for perfectly good rational reasons. Among others:
http://quotingislam.blogspot.com/2011/06/in-core-islamic-texts-muhammad-says_08.html
quotingislam.blogspot.com/2011/06/in-core-islamic-texts-muhammad-allows.html
quotingislam.blogspot.com/2011/06/canonical-hadiths-say-muhammad-in-his.html
Ex-muslim says
@ eduardo odraude
Hijabs/niqabs are political statements expressing uncompromising islamic supremacism in the public square. You can counter them by wearing a huge visible Cross on your neck all the time and by sticking a visible Israeli flag on your jacket.
eduardo odraude says
http://www.quotingislam.blogspot.com/2011/06/in-core-islamic-texts-muhammad-allows.html
http://www.quotingislam.blogspot.com/2011/06/canonical-hadiths-say-muhammad-in-his.html
mortimer says
The U.S. Department of Education is illegally making ‘an establishment of religion’ in contradiction to the US constitution. They must consequently now ‘balance’ their mistake by promoting EVERY religion, including Wicca and atheism if they are to atone. They should be sued at law and fined and the civil servants responsible should be fired.
Those who oppose the hijab should have EQUAL ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT FUNDING to spread their propaganda about how the hijab OPPRESSES WOMEN.
As far as conversion to Islam is concerned, most Western converts learn how perverted Islam is and leave in less than two years.
abad says
It’s all part of Obama’s plan for America – turn us into Amerabia/Ameristan.
BTW Obama’s move for public education Islamic indoctrination of students in in direct violation of the Constitutional Amendments.
But then he has been violating the Constitution since day one when he was elected and he was bailing out banks on taxpayer money.
Lest we forget that slick move on his part.
phyllis says
now I say let us be fair, we need a world ” boy carrying fake heads ” while they scream allah ackbar
that way the boys get to see how it feels to be a muslim man
gravenimage says
Here are Muslims playing soccer with the severed heads of their victims (CAUTION! Gruesome images!):
http://shoebat.com/2013/12/29/muslims-play-soccer-heads-victims/
Fun for the whole schoolyard!
Angemon says
In all fairness, there’s not much to play with a severed head. Certainly not basketball or baseball. Is it racist to think that the best way to get Americans to stand up to islam is to tell them that under islamic law their favorite sports will be replaced by soccer? 😉
Manuel Paleologus says
And this is coming from the White House. When we can wear crosses and take Bible in Saudi or any other muslim country without being oppressed, then, I do not have a problem with all these pro muslim trend in the Depart. of Education.
gravenimage says
“By the age of 10, it becomes an obligation on us to force her to wear Hijab, and if she doesn’t wear Hijab, we hit her.”
–Mohammad Al-Jibaly
mortimer says
The HIJAB is a justification of rape. If you don’t believe me, look up Koran 33.59.
The hijab is purely about the Arab HONOR CULTURE in which women are ‘honored’ as are race horses or camels.
Wafa Sultan, psychiatrist said, “”If Islam really treated women with honor, we would see the positive consequences of that honor over the course of the past 14 centuries. Islam did not treat women with honor. On the contrary, it has distorted the concept of honor.
“… I can call this pen a knife for 14 centuries, but it will never become a knife. It will remain a pen. Islam has turned these concepts upside-down, and has forced its followers to see things as their opposites – to view killing and beheading as an act of tolerance, to view taking a woman captive as an act of compassion, to view the plundering of spoils of war as their right, and to view masturbation against a little girl’s thighs as marriage.
“Thus, it has destroyed the intellectual structure of the Arabic-speaking nation, and has produced people who cannot distinguish between things and their opposites – people with distorted thinking and warped mentality, as infertile as barren land, which cannot yield a thing.
“The best proof of this is the reality of Islam. When the Prophet Muhammad married the child ‘Aisha, this was not an act of honor toward her childhood. When Muhammad married Zaynab, the wife of his adopted son, after seeing her naked and desiring her, this was not an act of honor toward married women. When Muhammad married the Jewish woman Safiya, upon his return from a raid in which he killed her father, brother, and husband, this was not an act of honor toward her. The same goes for all his marriages.”
“The Subjugation of Women Reduces Them to a Level Lower Than Beasts – Not to Mention the Laws of Inheritance, Testimony in Court, The Beating Of A Wife Who Refuses to Go to Bed With Her Husband, And ‘Honor’ Crimes”
“Accusing women of being ‘lacking in brains’ is not an act of honor toward her. Human beings – whether male or female – are the property of their Creator. No human being has the right to own another. The subjugation of women reduces them to a level lower than beasts – not to mention the laws of inheritance, testimony in court, the beating of a wife who refuses to go to bed with her husband, and ‘honor’ crimes.
ECAW says
Thanks for all the erudition you bring here Mortimer. One question though, how do you get it out to those who need it most, the antis and the neutrals?
mortimer says
We are ‘getting the information out’ here and elsewhere on the internet. People won’t buy our books. We have to write to politicians and to the newspapers. Some of the letters will not be blocked. We have to have all the facts right and the ducks in a row or it will be picked apart. Their minds are closed!
There is substantial resistance to ‘the information’. People do not wish to abandon their comfortable, New-Age assumptions, because they would need to completely rethink they their approach to life.
They really want to believe the ‘religion of peace’ propaganda, because then they can sit back in their easy chair and open another beer.
gravenimage says
Mortimer wrote:
We are ‘getting the information out’ here and elsewhere on the internet. People won’t buy our books…
………………….
Actually, Mortimer, Robert Spencer has two NYT bestsellers:
“New Robert Spencer book tops Alinsky, now #1 Bestseller in Radical Political Thought”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/08/new-robert-spencer-book-tops-alinsky-now-1-bestseller-in-radical-political-thought
A lot of people *are* buying these books.
ECAW says
Yes, but how are we here, who don’t write books, getting our point of view under the noses of neutrals and antis? We are preaching to the converted here since anyone who comes here is half converted already, probably by atrocities or other outrages. Apart from newspapers which are very scattershot, and heavily “moderated” and anoying public figures, the only site I know which provides access to a substantial number of possibly swayable HuffPo type sheep is the appalling Craig Considine’s blog. I wish more people would send a bit of their eloquence and erudition his way. If anyone knows of similar places I would be grateful to hear of them.
Manuel Paleologus says
A good and balance point. Thank you.
cs says
Great text, I like Walfa Suntan, she is like Nonie Darwish.
gravenimage says
Yes–a woman who wears the Hijab is saying to Muslim men, “don’t rape me–rape that uncovered slut over there!”.
beyondculturewars says
Do not let your daughters (or sons) wear hijabs or any form of Islamic dress (including the Hamas scarf) unless she (or he) understands the obligations to Islam that the costume demands…….full commitment to the Sharia.
Love this video…….The political side of hijabs…….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQEcEYtWYB0
ECAW says
Me too. Wouldn’t it be nice if teachers who get their pupils to “just try on” the hijab also showed them this video…just for the sake of balance.
Wellington says
When I see a woman wearing an hijab I might as well be looking at a woman wearing a swastika.
Yes, this is how finally, and so fittingly, I want the hijab to be seen, i.e., as the equivalent of the swastika, since Islam is the spiritual version of Nazism (no wonder the only religion Hitler admired was Islam). If this awareness of what the hijab really represents occurs, much else will start to fall into place, rather like what would happen if folks aplenty came to realize that the term, “radical Islam,” is redundant.
Knowledge is power. Meanwhile, Islam hides behind its religious veil and meanwhile worldwide many, many, many Muslim women who refuse to wear the hijab (let alone that garbage bag, the burqa), are threatened, beaten, mutilated and even killed. Herein lies the “real story” about the hijab——and by now one knows this or should know it.
And as for all those dhimmi women who don an hijab for a day to be one with their “Muslim sisters,” such women, every last one of them, is a betrayer of their own gender. They are enabling fools. Yes, every last one of them.
mortimer says
Wellington wrote: “…a woman wearing an hijab…might as well be … a woman wearing a swastika.”
Both are uniforms of fascism. Both are endorsements of programs of atrocities and the violent suppression of human rights.
A woman who wears the hijab is self-hating: she is declaring her support for the inferiority and repression of women as well as the use of violence to control women, marital rape, sex slaves, polygamy, Islamic divorce, pedophilia, forced marriage, cousin marriage, etc.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yes.
That is how *I* see it. Whether it’s ‘just the headscarf’ that is so deceptively similar to the nun’s wimple, or whether it’s a heavier degree of covering (all the way on up to the Niqab or the Burka that erase the woman’s face) it is the exact function equivalent of a Swastika armband.
Gang Colours – the sharia badge of the Allah Gang – and an implicit threat to all non-gang persons in the vicinity.
The current campaign to get naive westerners to view the hijab as ‘cool’ and the latest fashion statement and to view Muslim females in their slave rags/ sharia badges as poor little persecuted petals who must be pitied and protected and admired – and their right to flaunt their gang allegiance in our faces be earnestly upheld – is as bizarre as it would have been to have had a ‘wear the swastika’ campaign in 1940 across all Allied countries, with people being admonished to be tolerant and nice and encouraged to be admiring toward any woman of German nationality or ‘aryan’ ancestry who chose to proudly wear Nazi costume in the street.
Angemon says
Nazis presenting Auschwitz as a place where Jews and Gypsies don’t have to pay rent, get free meals, medical checkups and plenty of physical exercise…
Backlash from muslims killing people in the name of allah? I’ll believe it when I see it…
Susan says
I would be enraged if I were a parent! I would never let my daughter wear a hijab or any other form of Muslim clothing. I would storm the school board for allowing such an outrage! What part of “this is not a Muslim country” do they not understand! Out of honor for all the women who have died and been murdered for NOT wearing the hijab I would keep my daughter home!
Hope says
Parents need to complain, complain, complain to the schools. Grill your kids about what is going on in school, ask them on a regular basis. Tonight my son told me that his class was just given this assignment: Partner with another student in class and write about one another’s culture and religion. As this assignment was given in COMPUTER CLASS, I smelled a rat immediately. Upon questioning my son, I found out there are THREE Muslim students in the class! Well, hey, what a surprise! I will be calling the teacher tomorrow to get that assignment canceled, and let the administration know I will not put up with this sneaky “let’s learn about Islam!” stuff. All parents must be vigilant and very, very vocal.
Champ says
This is akin to having students dress like devil-worshippers in appreciation of “Devil Worship Day” …same thing, since islam is the ‘religion’ from hell and muslims serve satan/allah.
Dan Jones says
Google “Liberals say children do not belong to the parents”… Eye opening…
More End Time News At:
http://www.shininginthedark.com/?page_id=6088
Hope says
Dan Jones, I did Google that and found the article about the MSNBC “expert.” Totally freakin’ scary. I will not have my children indoctrinated into this socialist, multiculturalist “religion” of the Left.
abad says
My college political science professor said basically the same thing years ago – and at the women’s college I was attending.
Well.
He made the BIG mistake of saying it to a class where one female adult student, originally from Poland, came to the USA with her husband and daughter, and she responded to his spiel about children being the exclusive property of the state – uh no! – since it was the parents who did all the rearing of the children, not the government.
I did say Poland?
And I am sure we all know how well Socialism worked out for Poland. My PhD Political Science Professor just could NOT make the connection to save his damn life if he had to. That was just one of the times I was disgusted with one of my professors.
I swear once they reach PhD level they just parrot liberal ideas they do NOT know how to think nor really question anything.
Sad.
ECAW says
Here’s a good example of the mush that resides in a modern PhD’s brain, shown up most clearly in the comments:
https://craigconsidinetcd.com/2016/02/27/video-a-christian-view-of-prophet-muhammad/
Mirren10 says
Hi, ECAW.
I went to the link and read the exchange. Your comments were excellent, and the unctuous weaselling of Considine quite nauseating.
I don’t agree with you about the “mush” though. To me, “mush” denotes a wooly minded kumbya attitude. What struck me in Considine’s replies to you was his total brass faced acceptance of the idea that there is no such thing as factual truth, and therefore he is justified in purveying a deliberate lie. That strikes me as straightforward malevolence.
Trin took your point, but Paul refused to see it. I left a comment, but it’s ‘awaiting moderation’ !
Somehow I doubt Considine will allow it; I said he was a charlatan. 🙂
Angemon says
I know, right? Muslims who say he needs to convert to islam are called muslims while Christians who say he’s not a Christian if he considers muhammad a prophet are “islamophobes” – biased much? Does he even know what his own scriptures say? And the part where he goes “to me, prophet means such and such”? Nope. Nope. Nooooooooope. Words have meanings, and the widespread meaning of “prophet” is someone who receives a divine revelation from God, not “altruist” or “peacemaker”. If he can’t use the proper words that mean what he wants to say, or at least establish from the beginning which words means what to him, the fault lies with him, not with his detractors.
Overall, it’s the same sort of insidious victim-playing we see in left-aligned groups – receiving criticism becomes “being attacked”, criminals becomes “victims [of an unfair society that oppresses them for whatever reason – sex, skin color, sexual preference, etc.]”, eat the rich becomes “pay their fair share”, critics of them become “fascists” or “fear-mongers”, disagreement with them becomes “hate”, etc.
ECAW says
Thanks for your support Mirren10, I’ve been ploughing a lone furrow over there for some time now. I saw your comment so it’s been accepted but he’s started zapping mine now when they get to close to the bone.. He is a case, and your words “unctuous” and “charlatan” are both apt. The thing is he’s got a lot of readers, mostly Muslims and groupies like Paul, but I hope that some are still reachable by reason.
I had thought that he had some kind of a messiah complex but this exchange, the first real one I’ve managed to engage him in, puts me more in mind of Mohammed himself with his malignant narcissism. He seems to identify with Mo, in fact it occurs to me that Considine might have fallen in love with him like Lesley Hazleton and Karen Armstrong (he was so masterful after all!).
Hope says
Can anyone tell me, is this blatant imposition of Islam on our public schools the result of Common Core? And is it true that the Common Core curriculum is financed by Saudi Arabia? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
gravenimage says
Check out the happy-Hijab book for children in Grade 10:
http://commoncore.scholastic.com/parents
Angry Aussie says
There is no excuse for any western woman to convert to Islam. Ever.
MR says
How about a No-Hijab Day?
“Leave your hijab at home for a day
Feel the wind in your hair
Feel the freedom
This could be first day of the rest of your new life”
Aardvark says
You beat me to it, MR. Excellent suggestion. They should try it in Saudi!
Arthur says
Feb 1: World Hijab Day
We can do better!
Let’s get even more multicultural! Hand out a teacher’s note to all the elementary school children explaining another day to celebrate cultures.
March 1st could be World Female-Genital-Mutilation Day: please send your little girls to school with a rusty razor or sharp coke bottle fragment. This way they can learn about other cultures (African Islam) through personal experience. The Imam’s wife will be offering her services.
I wonder how many parents would ignore this notice?
Nimrod says
Starting in the 60s, young women were told that acting like throw-away sex objects was “empowering”.
Now they’re being told that a symbol of Islamic slavery is “empowering”.
Whether you’re trying to get women to just put out or you’re trying to enslave them, the common theme seems to be that if you want women to do something, especially the young ones, just claim that it’s some sort of “empowerment”.
The older people need to start doing their jobs protecting the younger ones. We’ve already seen what happens when they don’t; various statistics involving single motherhood, divorce rates, and certain types of crime back that up.
Society will not magically do a good job of raising your kids for you. The state will not do a good job of raising your kids for you. Abandon your kids to these things and you are throwing them to the wolves!
Dennis says
How about March 1 becomes “Be a slave for a day”? Maybe ‘Honor killing victim day’? “Yellow star for a day”? ‘Gulag resident day’? ‘Do as I say or I will beat you day’?
Carolyne says
“Behead an infidel day.” Teachers first.
Noel says
Please, no, not March !st. It’s St. David’s Day. Perhaps muslims could dress up as coal miners, or the Welsh women’s costume.
More Ham Ed says
Time for more cartoons.
Nomis says
If non-muslim women are encouraged to wear a hijab for a day to help them understand the alleged benefits of doing so, would it not be reasonable to encourage muslim women to not wear their hijab for a day to help them understand what that would mean to them? After all, there is no compulsion in the Qur’an to wear a hijab, as we are repeatedly told. And muslim women are free to make up their own minds on the issue, as we are repeatedly told. So surely it isn’t too much to ask a muslim woman to leave her hijab at home for once. In the interest of cultural cohesion and understanding of course.
Nomis says
Oh, and if hijab wearing is so empowering, how come only the women get to wear it. Surely men would join them to gain all the benefits we keep hearing about. Why isn’t the prat in the photo from Vernon Hill joining in the fun so he too can feel “empowered”?
William says
The hijab, it is a sign to us, dirty Kaffirs, that the wearer is lacking brains to reason and see that by wearing this hideous garment they show their submission to a Satanic and evil ideology of death and slavery of mind, body and spirit,
Bobby D. says
I’m outraged! I’m triggered! This is so racist! I can’t believe the DOE is promoting cultural appropriation!
*sarcasm*
I thought religion wasn’t allowed in schools? Oh, I see. Only when the protected class does it it’s considered ok. Gotcha
mortimer says
It isn’t ‘fascism’ when WE do it.
Jay Boo says
Madrassa madness
Sergio says
In my opinion, they should have a hijab day but it should be 100% like in the Muslim countries: women must be beaten if they try to remove their headscarves or show a little bit of illegal skin. That will make them understand Islam like nothing else.
mortimer says
Sergio wrote: “women must be beaten if they try to remove their headscarves”
That’s it.
WorkingClassPost says
I have a question.
Just what did she ‘learn about islam’ that persuaded her to convert?
Given that she is probably not a blood-thirsty witch, she was obviously misinformed about the true nature of the cult so was that self-delusional, or was she deliberately deceived to get her participation?
My point is that having joined the cult, her life is now in jeopardy should she find out the reality of their ideology, and then want to quit. So, that must be a strong case for some sort of criminal conspiracy on the person/s who fraudulently convinced her that islam was benign.
This may seem optimistic, but terms like ‘reckless endangerment’, and ‘criminal negligence’, spring to mind.
As an individual, she may be happy with her new found buddies, but there are probably many more gullible innocents who fell for this garbage, and now regret it intensely.
There are precedents for these actions and this from a couple of years ago (not sure how it finished):-
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/23/parents-high-school-daughters-cult-indoctrination_n_5381240.html
What about a class action from one of those do goody civil rights lawyers, to expose the dangers posed by islamic proselytism and deceit.
Janet says
It will be a cold day in hell before I’d let my daughter or granddaughters were a hijab!!! They try to say it empowers women and girls! What a crock! That’s what you get with common core!!!
Panmelia says
I simply don’t understand WHY the parents allowed such an outrageous stunt at their daughters’ expense. If I had learned about this, I would have torn a hijab (ugh!) into pieces at the school and promptly taken my child out of it.
I am shocked to learn that a similar propaganda exercise was carried out in a school in East Lancashire in the UK, where I live. If the papers reported it, I didn’t hear of it.
Are these teachers nuts? It must be a form of Stockhausen Syndrome: the urge to pander to, protect and support your would-be oppressors, promote sexism and misogyny in the classroom and pimp for muslim converts in school time. Outrageous, cretinous behaviour!
Good for Mary Grabar. It seems it takes someone from a formerly oppressed country to recognise stupidity when she sees it.
rubiconcrest says
Since sporting the Hijab is not a choice for many women and is a form of bullying, the reverse should also be celebrated. ‘Remove the Hijab Day’ should be celebrated in conjunction with world Hijab day.
Ciudadano says
In the sixties feminist burn their bras to declare freedom from misoginistic western culture. Today women in islamic countries are harrased, beaten, killed or raped for not wearing jihab and in the west the left celebrates jihab day. Kind of schizophrenic.
Michael Warden says
Meanwhile, back in Britainistan, the submission to Islam by the authorities – in this case Bedfordshire police – continues. It is now ILLEGAL in Britain to walk down the street carrying a Christian cross. It offends the muslims, you see. And that is not good for “Social Cohesion”. Britain First activists walked down the High Street in the former English Town of Luton. Vebally and physically abused by the muslims, the two Britain First leaders were arrested and the others given a Section 35 Notice which orders them out of Luton. Similar orders were given at a demonstration in Dewsbury. Section 35 is Obey Or Else Be Arrested.
http://www.britainfirst.org/
http://www.britainfirst.org/breaking-news-britain-first-officially-launches-high-court-challenge-to-luton-bail-conditions/
whoisjohngalt says
Abraham Lincoln once said “The philosophy of the class room today will be the philosophy of the government tomorrow”.
This, like Gramsci’s communist long march through the institutions, is very well planned. Because of Gramsci, the Frankfurt School and many, many others, we now have an education system that has become a reeducation camp instilling Leftist philosophy into the uneducated.. Utilizing this template, CAIR, MSA etc etc now see the way to further indoctrinate the young skulls full of mush into the correct ideology of Islam.
First the hijab, then the Shahada, then the logic and compassion of banning blasphemous speech towards anything Islamic. To date, they have been quite effective.
Hate crime legislation was a platform upon which further Leftist/Islamic totalitarianism could be built.
Thank you Robert Spencer, Pam Geller, David Horowitz et al for all you do.
Ginger says
Yep, Get the girls so they become the Muslim breeders of tomorrow.
Pam Dworshak says
Maybe what we need to do is make February 1,Hijab, and quran burning day. I know us doing that will make them feel like poor victims, but them doing this is making our girls victims. Being we have a fire going, a good hog roast sounds really good and some nice cold beer. Sounds like a good party to me. 😉
steve says
Why not FGM for a day too, [ FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION-MUSLIMISATION ] perhaps films showing how it is done to babies and young girls, in colour with sounds of screams . NO western teacher would DARE, they are all spineless Muslim sycophants.
ninetyninepct says
Good idea Steve. Muslimas must have their genitals mutilated on that day or show in public that it has been done to them. Examples of how this mutilation is carried out will be demonstrated by teachers, principals and school board members.
SoCalMike says
One more good reason to abolish the so-called misnamed Department of Education.
It should be called the Department of Indoctrination and Stupefaction.
ninetyninepct says
Separation of Mosque and State. That is the law.
To avoid charges of racism and discrimination, the same schools and universities must now observe World Non-hijab Day where all Muslimas must remove their hijabs. This will be an effort for them to experience what it is to be free.
Mae says
“Cultural exercises,” my foot…or should I say “my thrown shoe”? If a young woman were to show up wearing this sign of submission to the Islamic male fetish and include some fake bruises, cuts, and perhaps a broken arm as would happen for real if a Muslima were to refuse to wear the hijab in many Muslim nations, she would probably be suspended from school for a “hate” crime.
Parents MUST refuse to allow their children to be indoctrinated. They MUST show up at school meetings, prepared with statistics and photos of what happens to actual Muslim women if they stray from the slave plantation. Parents should also learn what their legal rights are because the school will certainly try to detain any protesting parent, probably calling the police, or–as in the case of Marine protesting the indoctrination of his daughter–refused permission to enter the school campus.
We MUST fight back wherever and whenever we can when confronted with this diseased political religion which promotes lies, which brainwashes its adherents, which rapes and kills innocents.
cs says
Thanks for the great text.
Bernice says
Don’t know about princesses and queens, but sultanas are raisins, dried up and wrinkled.
juanita says
if my daughter came home telling me she had to wear a burka I would sew the school system. Public schools have no business teaching about any religion. I am a believer in Christ and its not far to teach one religion and not the others.
Mo says
“I would’ve never learned about Islam if it weren’t for world hijab day.”
How old is this Megan Baase? I had to look it up, but she’s old enough to have a small son. So she is an adult. I was going to leave a comment on her blog post, but I am too angry and disgusted. I can’t trust myself to be civil or even coherent over there.
How can it be 14 years after 9/11 and people like this woman STILL have not bothered to learn anything about this death cult? How stupid and ignorant can the average person STILL be? I have zero patience for them. There is no excuse for this!
Plus, what sort of person then CHOOSES to belong to a religion that is in the news nearly every day because its followers are slaughtering people around the world? What kind of person CHOOSES to follow such an evil cult?
eduardo odraude says
Muhammad says the minds of women are deficient
In Sahih al-Bukhari, the most canonical hadith collection:
Volume 3, Book 48, Number 826:
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
The Prophet said, “Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?” The women said, “Yes.” He said, “This is because of the deficiency of a woman’s mind.”
Mirren10 says
Hi, ECAW.
I went to the link and read the exchange. Your comments were excellent, and the unctuous weaselling of Considine quite nauseating.
I don’t agree with you about the “mush” though. To me, “mush” denotes a wooly minded kumbya attitude. What struck me in Considine’s replies to you was his total brass faced acceptance of the idea that there is no such thing as factual truth, and therefore he is justified in purveying a deliberate lie. That strikes me as straightforward malevolence.
Trin took your point, but Paul refused to see it. I left a comment, but it’s ‘awaiting moderation’ !
Somehow I doubt Considine will allow it; I said he was a charlatan. 🙂
Mirren10 says
Apologies for the double posting. I’m typing on a tablet, and it sometimes does this, I don’t no why.
Carole Kotkiewicz says
Every time I read about Islam I want to barf.
gravenimage says
Muslim Indoctrination and the Department of Education: From Hijab Dress-Up to Convert
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*Of course* this is intended to gain converts. This is a form of Da’wa.
More:
One blog post by Megan Baase, however, reveals that experimental hijab-wearing may have other effects. Baase writes that she didn’t know much about Islam until World Hijab Day. After reading about Islam and “why women wear hijabs,” she decided to convert: “I would’ve never learned about Islam if it weren’t for world hijab day.” The post features a picture of her and her four-year-old son, both wearing hijabs. She writes that she “couldn’t say no” to his request to “be just like mommy.”
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What crap this is. Islam is the most segregated of all faiths.
Boys don’t wear Hijab–and will soon come to sneer at the inferior women who do.
Here’s the moronic Megan Baase–I wonder what her new Muslim name is?–and her cross-dressing son:
http://worldhijabday.com/2836-2/