A Moroccan state television channel has broadcast a tutorial showing women how to conceal the evidence of domestic violence with make-up.
Morocco is 99% Muslim, according to a 2016 demographics profile. Little wonder that a TV show would be brazen enough to broadcast a show teaching women how to cover up abuse, as opposed to how to teach women to get help out of an abusive relationship. As reported by the UK Independent: “Moroccan police, prosecutors, judges, and other authorities often fail to prevent domestic abuse, punish the abusers, or assist survivors.” The Qur’an says:
“Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them (Quran 4:34)
“And take in your hand a green branch and beat her with it, and do not break your oath…” (Quran 38:44)
Unfortunately, such verses are considered the word of Allah and are preached by imams on Western soil as well as in Muslim countries. Little wonder that Morocco would opt for a means to keep women looking all pretty for men even after a beating. Fortunately, social media allows for opposing discourse, and the program has elicited an outcry:
A petition signed by hundreds of women said the “standardisation of violence against women” must be denounced, and demanded an apology and sanctions against the station.
Despite how modernized Morocco tries to publicly appear (and yes, the state-run TV station did follow up with an apology), it is a Sharia-compliant country. It has been a member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation since 1969, and it is a signatory to the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights — a Sharia version of “human rights” that is really a sham.

“Moroccan state TV shows women how to conceal evidence of domestic violence with make-up”, by Charlotte England, Independent, November 27, 2016:
A Moroccan state television channel has broadcast a tutorial showing women how to conceal the evidence of domestic violence with make-up, sparking fury within the country.
The segment, in a daily programme on Channel 2M, showed a smiling makeup artist demonstrate how to mask injuries inflicted by a beating, on a woman whose face had been made up to appear swollen and bruised.
“We hope these beauty tips will help you carry on with your daily life”, the host said at the end of the segment, which critics quickly pointed out coincided with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
“Make sure to use loose powder to fix the makeup, so if you have to work throughout the day, the bruises don’t show,” the host said, cheerfully, before recommending the best beauty brands for heavy coverage foundations and concealers.
People who watched the segment said on social media that it was “brainwashing” women to believe that violence was a normal and acceptable part of a relationship, and that the right thing to do was to conceal it rather than report it.
A petition signed by hundreds of women said the “standardisation of violence against women” must be denounced, and demanded an apology and sanctions against the station.
“As Moroccan women and as feminist activists in Morocco, and in the name of all Moroccan people, we denounce the message of normalisation with violence against women,” the petition read. “We demand severe sanctions against this show, ‘Sabahiyat’, and the channel 2M.”
It added: “The violence should not be covered by makeup and the aggressors have to be condemned.”
In response to complaints, the channel has now removed the clip from its website and placed a “clarification” on its Facebook page, saying that the section was “completely inappropriate and has an editorial error of judgement in view of the sensitivity and the gravity of the subject of violence against women”.
But women activists said the apology was inadequate. In addition to questioning its sincerity, they said many of those who watched the segment and might be affected by domestic violence could be illiterate and unable to read the statement.
The clip also continued to be circulated on social media.
The channel later broadcast an apology.
At the start of 2016, Human Rights Watch sent a letter to the Moroccan government expressing concern about the way women who experienced domestic violence were treated.
“Moroccan police, prosecutors, judges, and other authorities often fail to prevent domestic abuse, punish the abusers, or assist survivors,” the organisation said. “In part, that is because Moroccan laws don’t provide officials with guidance on responding effectively……
Cretius says
Islamic law and human rights. LOL
Jerry says
You’re right, it is funny. Except for the countless people who have been murdered, raped, and tortured for islam. Not that the muslim community ever gave a damn about that.
ermom says
Where are western feminists standing up for the codified oppression of women in the Islamic world? Rhetorical question only. When you have CNN’s Alisyn Camorata wearing a hijab on air, saying that all American women should wear a hijab in solidarity with Muslim women, it shows just how much of a fight we’re in. When I see a woman in a jihab, I think she’s telling me one of two things: First I think she may be terrified of her own family, husband, father, brothers, uncles, that she could be beaten or even murdered for NOT wearing one. In this case, I’m sorry for her. But then, depending on attitude, she’s saying that she’s ok with being a 2nd class person in Islam, but YOU, INFIDEL, are 3rd class and one day, WILL BE under Sharia, pay the jizya, convert or die. So the hijab is as offensive to me as a woman, as a KKK hood would be to a black or Jew, or a Nazi swastika would be to a Jew or ANY decent person,
Guest says
Aren’t you and I real feminists for being here and stating our concerns about islam? Real feminists: simply wanting equality before the law for women everywhere, not pathetically complaining about every difference between average men’s and women’s choices in careers etc.
I agree that seeing women in hijab feels like an insult to ‘infidel’ women.
Jerry says
This pathetic makeup conciliation goes to show how muslims have normalized the abuse of women. It’s really the perfect metaphor as to how they deal with the violence in their religion and history, they hide and ignore it. And that makes people like me mad, I don’t like to see women abused, and worse, I don’t like to see violence in the name of god, any god. There’s something especially galling about putting hate and violence in the mouth of god and using it to justify crimes against others. But this is what islam is, a thuggish creed that bullies and beats the weak to satiate muslims’ desire for power over others. Their “god” allah is filled with hate and violence toward all non-muslims. I don’t care if that god is real, we don’t have to respect it. Nor must we honor the religious “rights” of a people who threaten our nation with violence and cultural annihilation. Nature did not endow us with our superior ideals and spiritual heritage so we can simply lay it at the feet of some hateful demon. That’s why I’m so encouraged that enough Americans have responded to the islamic threat by voting in the one man that spoke the truth about it. We truly are a great nation. The majority still knows what’s good and right. I feel proud to be American.
john spielman says
Why do these women require makeup when they must wear a black garbage bag over their head when outside the house any way?
BLC says
You don’t really expect her husband to have to look at what he did to her without makeup to cover it up, do you? OMG, this is unconscionable!
eur says
The treatment of Muslims in all Muslim communities around the world is painful. In my neighborhood a maroccan Muslim woman takes her children to school, her husband mistreats her. She has a lodging order and can not get close to the school … the other mothers have seen him at the door of the school and they have told the woman … she replies: It’s okay .. now we get along … With face of anguish and pity. They are completely subdued.
Angemon says
Maybe this makeup artist can work alongside that German pickup artist:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/11/germany-pickup-artist-training-muslim-migrants-how-to-win-women
Charles says
Anyone who beats up on a woman or a child is both a COWARD and a criminal. The muslums of this world must rid themselves of this cruelty and savagery. If you use Islam as an excuse for brutality, you need extensive mental health therapy.
Don’t bring this PIG EXCREMENT into the United States. We already have enough problems sheltering battered women and their children!
Schrödinger says
Sounds like something you’d expect to read in the Huffington Post.
Actually, there’s very little difference between Morroco’s muhammadan media and our own Dhimmimedia; both whitewash islam, both are deeply complicit in the constant cover up, the censorship and condoning of islam’s inherent violence in general. Except that Morroco’s issued a retraction and apology in this instance — something you’ll seldom see or hear from the West’s enemedia.
Instead they’ve erected a wall — a great, big responsibility and accountability firewall between themselves and any honest reporting and analysis of anything to do with muslims and islam. And they’re making us pay for it.
Crusades Were Right! says
I wonder how many bruised and swollen faces are hiding behind those hijabs?
Ah, Islam – both a cause of, and a “remedy” for, domestic violence!
john spielman says
niqab and burka hide the face and the rest of the body, but a hijab only covers the hair and shoulders but leaves the face exposed
Crusades Were Right! says
What about the sides of their faces, man! The sides!
; ¬)
Guest says
As if Morrocans let women wear make-up any way.
lalla Halima says
Make me discusting of how you treat Muslim .and how you lied about Muslim keep going your ignorance and intolerance .we don’t care about your opinion.
Muslim women from the kingdom of morocco
Shmooviyet says
You don’t care about our opinion, too bad.
Western women and men care about women being beaten.
That is just one difference between us, and you slaves of islam accepting your place.
Angemon says
lalla Halima posted:
“Make me discusting of how you treat Muslim .”
Care to point to a specific example?
“and how you lied about Muslim”
Again, care to point to a specific example?
“keep going your ignorance and intolerance .”
Yet again, care to point to specific examples?
“we don’t care about your opinion.”
Opinions such as?
“Muslim women from the kingdom of morocco”
Are you their spokesperson? Do you speak for all Moroccan muslim women?
gravenimage says
lalla Halima wrote:
Make me discusting (sic) of how you treat Muslim (sic).and (sic) how you lied about Muslim (sic) keep going your(sic) ignorance and intolerance .we (sic) don’t care about your opinion.
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How is this a “lie”? This is from Moroccan television, not a story made up by the “filthy Infidels”.
More:
Muslim women from the kingdom of morocco (sic)
………………………….
Now lalla Halima is claiming that *all* Muslim Moroccan women are fine with being beaten by their barbaric husbands?
Has she taken a poll? Or does she just know that they would be too scared to object, lest they want more of the same? *Ugh*.
June says
Obviously you are a muslim man. isn’t there something in the qur’an about not impersonating a woman?
Maybe you like pretending you are a woman.
Champ says
Morocco: TV show teaches how women can conceal a beating with makeup
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The fact that there’s a program teaching women these makeup techniques to conceal a beating is enabling domestic violence ..this is absolutely nuts!
Angemon says
Yes. This was not some random nut shouting crazy stuff in the street, it was a show on the state TV. The idea was proposed, accepted, produced and aired. Lots of people down the path had to look at it and think “sounds like a good idea”. I mean, this is the kind of stuff that would probably be rejected as an SNL sketch for being too outrageous and hard to believe.
gravenimage says
Just sickening.
Charles says
When I was just a kid, 1960’s, a young couple moved into our quiet New England neighborhood. The husband, “Ken” was a wife beater
After the howling, screaming fights had brought the cops out, several times, in the middle of the night, the neighborhood Husbands decided to put a stop to it!
The next time it happened, 2 big bruisers got in the house, removed the young wife and the two kids, and bounced that bastard around a bit!
Once he was reduced to a blubbering mass of tears, on the kitchen floor, they sobered him up and explained that, if this ever happened again, he’d be looking at a long hospital stay!
They lived on our street for 6 more years. And he NEVER hit her again!
(Yes! I do miss “the good old days!)
I think our muslum neighbors should get this same treatment!