The mental gymnastics is pretty impressive in this one. On the one hand, the author quotes the Brookings Institution, saying “Salafism is the idea that the most authentic and true Islam is found in the lived example of early, righteous generations of Muslims, known as the Salaf, who were closest both in time and proximity to the Prophet Muhammad.” But on the other hand, the DW news outlet continues to spread pro Islamic mass-migration propaganda, going to extensive efforts to convince its readership that Islam is a religion of peace, and that extremists do not represent Islam.
“Muslim fashion shops in Germany linked to extremist Salafists”, Deutsche Welle, September 15, 2016:
Hijab stores in Germany have been recently making headlines after reports that they serve as stepping stones to extremism. Through clothing, they propagate a sub-culture that promotes patriarchy and Islamic extremism.
The Hijabi store in a central Frankfurt district sells niqabs, burqas and others kinds of veils for orthodox Muslim women.
The outlet has several choices for women wanting to try out different versions of the Islamic garment, all of which are on display on the company’s website. These include long linen dresses with high collars in muted colors like brown, mauve and green. For festivities, women can choose between different designs in abayas – or robe-like dresses, some trimmed with brocade and some with high, frilled Edwardian-style collars.
The store also offers a selection of veils and small decorative pins to secure it. Inside the veil, women often wear a tube-like stretchy collar, which keeps the hair from straying outside the headscarf.
The Hijabi has made the headlines for its alleged links with Salafists. Earlier this week, Germany’s public broadcaster ARD ran a report on how stores like Hijabi and a similar one in Wuppertal, in the country’s west, helped women integrate into an orthodox Islamic way of living, eventually assimilating them into Salafism and subsequently, extremist Islam.
DW tried contacting the owners of Hijabi and other Islamic clothes stores like the Hoor-al-ayn in Berlin. Unfortunately, there was no response to our requests for interviews.
According to the Brookings Institution, “Salafism is the idea that the most authentic and true Islam is found in the lived example of early, righteous generations of Muslims, known as the Salaf, who were closest both in time and proximity to the Prophet Muhammad.”
Stores selling niqabs and burqas have sprouted in Germany only in the last 10 or 15 years, Susanne Schröter, expert on Islamist feminism and extremism at the University of Frankfurt told DW. Nowadays, one sees more women wearing the niqab also because German women want to dress up in this manner.
“This shop in Frankfurt, Hijabi, is linked on the one hand to Salafist consumer culture. Salafism is not just a religious or political movement, it’s also a lifestyle. People who follow this ideology want their whole life to be shaped according to the Salafist utopia,” she added.
Many Salafist women prefer organic products, because everything was organic when the prophet was alive. “It includes soap, freshly pressed fruit juices and all kinds of things. There are even labels that offer Islamic clothing for men, including T-shirts with slogans,” Schröter explains.
Wearing a burqa becomes a kind of rebellion in a country like Germany, where emotions are strong against the Muslim garment. Its wearers believe that obeying the laws of their God is much more important than the enemies they make because of their choice of clothing, Schröter says.
A “typical” outfit in the Salafist sub-culture includes a long skirt, topped with a khimar, or a loose, knee-length shawl with long arms. A pair of gloves and a headscarf completes the outfit. There is also a discussion about which colors are suitable for niqabs. These outfits are also available for children, as young as two-years-old.
“This is why these shops are so dangerous. They are part of a culture in which members want to express that they belong to this Islamist ideology. Patriarchy, anti-democratic thinking, support for violence – because they believe they live in a world which is anti-Muslim – are all part of this thinking,” Schröter says.
These shops could help people find a link with groups that propagate such thoughts, Schröter says, also because they initiate buyers into Quran-reading and other similar activities to influence their mindset…..

Keys says
How nice. Can one pick up a manicure kit there too, or a FGM kit ?
Some light whips for the disobedient women, perhaps ?
No Fear says
“Many Salafist women prefer organic products, because everything was organic when the prophet was alive.”
If they copy Mohammed’s behaviour we are all in trouble. Beheading, rape, murder, torture ……
Angry Aussie says
Yes, but they still prefer to drive around in the inorganic BMW, Audi or Mercedes-Benz. At least that’s the case in Australia. No more camels for these fine ladies.
Incidentally they still enjoy Western pleasures, like the ability to shop alone and without a male chaperone, all the wile, dressed in their finest black robes.
Robert McKenna says
“Dressed in their finest black robes” ……. with all the pockets on the inside and the washer-dryer combo between their knees.
epistemology says
That’s what they’re told to do and want to do. Well at that time there were no full veils for two-year-old toddlers but the times are changing.
Another matter that worries me is the price. I heard it was 35 €. That’s very cheap for a full dress and makes it affordable for anybody. By all means they want their muzzie women to dress what they call modestly. I heard a fully veiled woman say on telly when I deal with men I want it to be it more neutral, I don’t know what she means, when you look at somebody’s covered face, you get frightened I don’t think that’s a neutral situation or whatever. Anyway they want to impose their way of life and their fucking sharia everywhere in the Western world. It’s disgusting. When in Rome do as the Romans do. They have to assimilate not us. But Erdogaga says assimilation is a crime against humanity. Well Islam is a crime against humanity.
Sam Kent says
Agreed! Islam and their scriptures are a crime against humanity.
Keys says
35 Euros for half of a bolt of cloth ! Could make 2 or 3 adult skirts out of that.
nicu says
Bonn – Bad Godesberg – we call it the GAZA – STRIP is full of them 🙁 No German goes out there at night – in the day time it is horrible enough ….
abad says
They will never assimilate so long as they insist on wearing Islamic clothing.
Robert McKenna says
Wearing what they know to be ridiculous get ups in any but the sand piles they come from is a DEMONSTRATION !
It has nothing to do with their religion, such as it is, and everything to do with getting in your face !
They actually DARE anyone to criticize them for looking like expensive rag bags. Then, they can break down and be poor, abused little victims. (And file poor, abused, little law suits)
Watta buncha twats !
linnte says
Freedom to choose which garbage bag to wear. And they love it, and call it modesty.
Ted Tyler says
And you have a new catchy slogan: “Celebrate the New Modesty”.
Oceanside says
“Patriarchy” is not the problem with Islam. If someone wants to believe in that, fine. Let them.
Remember, feminists define “patriarchy” VERY, VERY broadly. If we make that a crime, half of us would be arrested for insisting that only women can breastfeed babies.
It’s the rape/torture/murder part of Islam that’s the problem.
JIMJFOX says
“arrested for insisting that only women can breastfeed babies”
What? Care to explain?
Robert McKenna says
I think he means animals who are also lactating at the time the whelp is hungry. You know, a stray dog ……….. or perhaps a pig or two. Maybe a smaller NANNY GOAT or a miniature …………. OH HELL, you get the idea.
Westman says
Patriarchy – a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line or/and a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it.
Could there be an Islam under Matriarchy? Would there be a “rape/torture/murder part of Islam” in a matriarchy? Did Muhammad (Allah) say women were of inferior memory/appreciation and that two are required for testimony, in place of one man, so that one can remind the other?
Patriarchy is not a crime; it is a reprehensible past traditional bride of Christianity and an eternal doctrinal bride of Islam. Nothing could be more anti-feminist or anti-equal than Islam. Allah intends for women to be unequal and unequivalent to men, forever.
Women can go to a convenient Mosque to get the signup sheet for Houri or Hell in the hereafter. If choosing Houri, one can be on call, with the other four, for a man who is never satiated. Paradise?
Westman says
Correction: “other three” replaces “other four”
reyol says
“Salafism is the idea that the most authentic and true Islam is found in the lived example of early, righteous generations of Muslims, known as the Salaf, who were closest both in time and proximity to the Prophet Muhammad.”
Too bad the MisProphet Muhammad didn’t know about the land of Germany. Because the MisProphet didn’t know about a land called Germany, neither did his invisible friend, Allah. So, how can they adhere to an authentic and true Islam of the Salaf when they live somewhere that the Salaf, the MisProphet and the creator of the universe, Allah never mentioned?
somehistory says
Well, maybe they need those things to hide the ugly…islam makes for double, even triple, ugly…inside and out, soul and spirit.
But they are delusional….nothing hides the ugly.
Rosewood11 says
The thing that drives me nuts with this is that I like wearing head-scarves, I have done so for years, So did Jackie O. So does the Queen. I see people of many ethnicities wearing them–Greeks and Russians for example–and I think they’re beautiful. I refuse to give up wearing them because some idiots in a mutant form of a mutant religion has appropriated them. Along the same line, the New Age movement has claimed naturally-occurring crystals as one of their symbols. Should Christian women then stop wearing diamond engagement rings? Hogwash!!!
I think a better solution is to wear head scarves in every way possible. Jewish women also wear them, and there are sites online that teach how to wrap and tie them into all kinds of chignon-shaped coverings, as well as the traditional method tied beneath the chin. African women also have amazing methods of tying up a head-scarf into configurations that rival any hat. Wouldn’t it make the muslims crazy to see a woman in head scarves as a fashion so they wouldn’t know who was muslim and who wasn’t by their dress!?!
Islam the religion of killers says
Great Idea Rosewood, woman wear scarves with such panache but as this invasion of mutants unfolds we are going to need to recognise them from a distance..
The irony is because Alla commanded them to dress this way ,, they have to …
It’s their uniform
Ted Tyler says
Vision Fantasy: Kate Upton with a fashionable head scarf – on rollerblades and wearing a skimpy bikini.
linnte says
I like wearing them too! What a great idea. Use their own tactics again st them.
somehistory says
Wear it like Aunt Jemima and show plenty of clean, beautiful hair, flowing and glowing.
dumbledoresarmy says
A few useful articles.
Here is one – “From Hijab to Jihad”.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/5666
Here’s another – “Outlaw the Hijab”.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Outlaw-the-hijab
And Daniel Greenfield, on the so-called Burkini:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263991/burkini-about-sexual-violence-against-women-daniel-greenfield
Robeaver says
Vests, organic…….fertilizer vests.
Jay Boo says
BALD — Muslima
Hijab or no Hijab
There nothing sexier than a shiny headed bald Muslima zooming by at the ice shaking rink.
Mubarak says
“they propagate a sub-culture that promotes patriarchy” –
What a terrible and retrograde idea. Didn’t Marx propagate the destruction of the family in order for freedom to manifest itself—?
And didn’t Theodore Dalrymple present the consequences: https://youtu.be/ksVoOYmWTYE —?
We have abandoned the patriarchy in the West and a nightmare of this institution is foisted upon us – it looks almost like the return of the repressed in Freudian terminology. –
The judgments of “Our Father, who art in heaven” are indeed ironic!
Angemon says
“Islamist feminism”? And “feminists” huff and puff in supposed righteous anger and indignation when I laugh at the notion of “intersectional feminism”.
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“German” women? Don’t you mean “German” muslimas? This is misleading and disingenuous.
Another disingenuous passage. A lifestyle usually reflects one’s values and world-view. Something that’s forced on someone under the threat of physical punishment is NOT a lifestyle. How many testimonies of ex-muslims, even in the West, contain a passage similar to “I left islam but I haven’t told my family/community because I would fear for my life, so I live a double life”? “Salafism”, like any other brand of islam, includes a strict set of rules, “revealed” by “allah” and enforced by the community, that govern the tiniest aspect of one’s life. You break those rules, you suffer. That muslims worldwide don’t universally abide by all of them (whether because they are not aware of all of them, don’t care or are fortunate enough to have other influences in their lives) won’t change that. As long as they continue unchallenged, there’ll always be someone devout enough to follow them – and that includes punishing others for failing to do so.
“Emotions are strong”? How about “it’s a security hazard”? How about “more and more people are becoming more aware of islamic tenets and realize the significance of what wearing a hijab means”? No, that would be too honest – better chalk it up to “emotions”. Who needs to know there are logical reasons to be against the hijab? You wouldn’t want to promote “islamophobia”, would you?
Meaning that if they have to pick between following the law of the land and the law of “allah” they’ll go with the latter. And if they do so with something as trivial as clothing, what side will they take when it comes to, for example, punishing a thief or an adulterer? Again, a disingenuous passage – if “salafism”, or any other brand of islam, were just about a “choice of clothing” we wouldn’t be in the mess we are today.
So far so good, even though if I were just getting my info from the above article I’d wonder what was so dangerous about a “choice of clothing”.
You’re doing great.
And you lost me there. “They believe they live in a world which is anti-muslim”? Why is that? Could it be that it’s because they are living in a society that is not ruled by sharia and that islamic orthodoxy says that non-muslims are always scheming against muslims? Could it be that for them, as long as sharia isn’t the law of the land applicable to all individuals, muslims and non-muslims alike, they are, indeed, living in a world that is anti-muslim? Could it be that, as long as they see it that way, no amount of “interfaith dialogue” or “outreach” will ever succeed? Could it be that as long as people in charge insist in “respecting” islam, as opposed to challenging its tenets, they’ll see it as a sign that they’re right all along and double down instead of back down?This is where “pundits” and decision-makers go off the track – they seemingly believe that if they are good and nice to muslims, muslims will eventually realize we’re not at war with them and normalize their behaviour to fit a modern, civilized society. What muslims think, and why they think it, doesn’t make it to the equation.
Praeceptor Maximus says
German elections will be next year; if Germans elect Merkel instead of Frauke Petry of AFD, then they deserve whatever they get; they get no sympathy from me. If Germans want to commit suicide, then who am I to oppose them!
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
This ain’t all bad. They are prospering now that they’ve fled Islamic economies, and they’re giving back. Better for them to pay for all the Jihad mass murder than us. If this trend keeps up, we could be out of the Moslem-funding business in 20 yrs.
Paul says
Talking of Germany and the social engineering going on, the
establishment is becoming more blatant in trying to shove the
cult of the murderous paedophile down everyone’s throats.
Of course, they’re still using weasel words like “tolerance” and “diversity” –
at least for now, before they take to the streets and actively side
with the jihadists in the not too distant future.
The stuff revealed in this link is just absolutely disgusting. For goodness
sake Germany, vote Merkel out at least. Know thy enemy :
http://www.infowars.com/tv-ad-encourages-german-women-to-wear-hijabs/
Kumi Ho says
“Nowadays, one sees more women wearing the niqab also because German women want to dress up in this manner.”
I got news for you- the ONLY women wearing niqabs in Germany are of the Muslim faith – no one else wants to be associated with a security risk or a population with a perchance fir murder and rape.
solange silverman says
“Hijab stores in Germany have been recently making headlines after reports that they serve as stepping stones to extremism. Through clothing, they propagate a sub-culture that promotes patriarchy and Islamic extremism.”
I would venture to say that this is true, just as it would be true for stores selling items with Nazi or KKK symbols on them and pushing them to somehow be “cool” and “chic.”
Mockingjay says
– if you’d try to wear a nazi uniform or any clothing at all with swastikas on it you WILL find yourself swiftly arrested in Germany – but any sort of islamic apparel is fully o.k. as far as the “anti-fascists” are concerned.
solange silverman says
This is one of my most favorite quotes in regard to Muslims and assimilation; “Thinking that “Muslims are loyal outside of Islam to other nations’ laws and ways of doing things is really showing Muslims how stupid these nations are. I always remember Brigitte Gabriel when she described her country, Lebanon, helping the new arrival of Muslims into the land and helping them in every aspect of their life and she says they turned on the people, as soon as they got the foothold, and, when the Arab Christians of that Nation began to become persecuted and killed, they asked ‘Why are you killing us when we helped you?”
The Muslims answered, ‘if you were are that stupid to help us, it is not our fault.’
This is what Islam thinks about weak nations that are tolerant of their agendas….the leaders of these nations allowing Islam to seed are WEAK, and they are giving their Nation up to a hostile invading people under the Banner of Islam… This is why, if Hillary gets in, I believe we, too, will be trod over,” ~ Thomson Figueroa Nancy, , FB commenter
abad says
Hey if those garbage bags they wear hide their guilt…………… Islam, the Religion of Guilt(TM)