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Saudis outraged as German Defense Minister refuses to wear hijab during Riyadh visit

Dec 19, 2016 8:33 am By Robert Spencer

The principle is always and everywhere the same: in Muslim countries, one should conform one’s behavior to Muslim sensibilities. And in non-Muslim countries, one should conform one’s behavior to Muslim sensibilities.

Ursula von der Leyen is right, in regard to principles that thus far prevail in the West: “No woman in my delegation will be required to wear the abaya, as the [right] to choose one’s attire is a right shared by men and women equally.” But as Muslim migrants stream into the West, how long will women continue to enjoy that right?

“German Defence Minister Sparks Outrage After Refusing To Wear Hijab During Saudi Arabia Visit,” Swarajya, December 14, 2016:

A controversy erupted after German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen and her entourage refused to wear hijab or the full-length burka while visiting Riyadh.

Saudis took to Twitter and Facebook to vent their anger after images of Von der Leyen dressed in European clothing appeared in Saudi News. Al Bawaba translated one tweet as, “The German Defense Minister: Not wearing the hijab in Saudi was deliberate. This is an insult to Saudi Arabia!”

Responding to criticism and obscene comments made against her, Von der Leyen said that she “respect(s) the customs and traditions of the country,” but added that, “No woman in my delegation will be required to wear the abaya, as the [right] to choose one’s attire is a right shared by men and women equally,” according to Iran Front Page. Her statement came days after German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a ban on the burqa head covering in Germany….

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Filed Under: Germany, Islamic supremacism, Saudi Arabia, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Ursula von der Leyen


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  1. gretel says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 8:41 am

    They don’t bend to us, so why should we always bend to them? They have had way too much control over us.

    • Steve says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 8:08 pm

      I agree. Our current administration has bowed to the world and it is time it stops.

      We need to stand up to the Muslim world and push back on their demands to bend to their religion.

      They just need to leave people alone, but they won’t. They need to convert people or people need to submit or die.

  2. Baucent says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 8:45 am

    Well that’s interesting. What is prompting this new cultural assertiveness of the German government? Could it be a realization that electoral defeat is on the horizon?

    • old white guy says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 9:08 am

      I would say yes.

      • DFD says

        Dec 19, 2016 at 2:47 pm

        Definitely so!

    • Guest says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 5:31 pm

      It is prompted by the realisation that AfD is gaining votes with every passing islamofascist event.

  3. David says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 8:45 am

    Islam equates mental illness!

    • john spielman says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 9:46 am

      or DEMONIC POSSESSION

    • skep says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 11:45 am

      Islam…Like rabies in a dog

    • Real McCoy says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 10:57 pm

      Equates mental illness in their head.

  4. Susette says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 8:59 am

    Most of the men surrounding her look angry. And notice how the men in robes all seem to be grabbing their crotches…islam…where the penis rules!

    • linnte says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 12:38 pm

      I had to go back and look at the photo! That is so weird! They ARE putting their left hand on their genital area.

      Good for this German woman!

      • DFD says

        Dec 19, 2016 at 2:49 pm

        Sorry Linnte, but von der Leyen is Merkel’s right hand women and one of her few conidantes.

        • DFD says

          Dec 19, 2016 at 3:09 pm

          Typo: Confidantes

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 28, 2016 at 8:08 pm

          DFD, I will still applaud her actions in this context, if in no other.

      • skep says

        Dec 20, 2016 at 11:51 am

        Muzzis use left hand for wiping.

    • Shmooviyet says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 2:16 pm

      @Susette: yes, noticed those too– the looks then the hands.
      I think they all needed a stop in the men’s room.

      That little woman in her black suit is tougher than all those big bearded guys guarding their ‘stuff’.

      • Carpediadem says

        Dec 20, 2016 at 2:08 am

        Probably a windy day.

      • Carolyne says

        Dec 20, 2016 at 8:02 am

        I went back to look, too. It’s true. They are holding their crotches. Either they are singing a Michael Jackson number or they are sex maniacs,

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 28, 2016 at 8:11 pm

          They were aroused by seeing a woman with uncovered hair…

      • Susette says

        Dec 20, 2016 at 9:27 am

        Perhaps, in public, they are tamping down a “sexual emergency” since the infidel woman can be considered “that which the right hand possesses.” By command of the koran, the left hand, obvious in this picture, is used for arse-wiping.

  5. Charles says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 9:07 am

    These satanic muslim savages NEVER give such considerations to ANYONE ELSE! So, why should the Germans worry about the Saudi’s sensibilities? ????
    Here, I will side with the Germans.

  6. Ren says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 9:27 am

    The wearing of the hijab is a retarded tradition. It is time to ban it.

    • PRCS says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 11:05 am

      In other than selected facilities (banks, as one example) there is no way that articles of Muslim women’s garments are going to be banned in the U.S.

      IMO, Muslim men AND women should be challenged to PROVE—once and for all–that Islam REQUIRES such clothing.

      This woman, among others, says head covering is a CHOICE:
      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/11/minnesota-muslima-dispels-myths-about-treatment-of-women-in-islam

      This Muslim website says it’s “encouraged” but not required:
      http://www.discoveringislam.org/hijab.htm

      And our “filthy kuffar” friends and neighbors need to know–unequivocally–that hijab, chador, niqab, burqa, etc.–express a “religious” belief which declares its followers are “the best of people” and that the rest of us are “the vilest of created beings”.

      My two cents.

      • Guest says

        Dec 19, 2016 at 5:33 pm

        No face covering should be allowed in public spaces.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 28, 2016 at 8:19 pm

        The idea that we have to bow to what Islam says is, with all respect, a bit questionable. After all, that means we would have to accept slavery and violent Jihad.

  7. Lesley says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 9:32 am

    Finally, someone from Germany stands their ground for our principles of freedom and equality :-)!

    • RichardL says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 2:00 pm

      Ursula von der Leyen is a disgusting islam appeaser. She wants more Mohammedans in the German armed forces, which she has already gutted.

      He father was a wonderful man though: same party, but a man of the people. I lived a village down from him.

    • DFD says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 2:52 pm

      Lesley,

      RichardL has it perfectly right. Also, she’s Merkel’s right hand woman. Elections are 2017, enough said.

  8. DiploNerd says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 10:12 am

    This is non-news. Western diplomats and other officials serving in Saudi Arabia routinely represent their countries without wearing the abaya (the black robe). Non-Muslims seldom — if ever — wear the hijab (head scarf) in Saudi Arabia. U.S. Consul General Anne Casper never wore either one.

    • PRCS says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 11:12 am

      And don’t forget the lawsuit by (now) Congresswoman McSally which ended the requirement for western military women to comply:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_McSally

  9. annmarie says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 10:21 am

    Islam is at War with the west. All western countries should ban the burka.

    Islam is political – military masquerading as a religion.

  10. dsinc says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 10:44 am

    Germany’s Donald Trump? Ursula von der Leyen should be the Chancellor of Germany, not the traitor Angela Merkel. A powerful woman telling the Saudi savages to stick their headgear where the sun doesn’t shine. The look on her face says it all. Good for her!

    • DFD says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 2:53 pm

      Sorry to disappoint you. It all electioneering, for 2017, that woman is merkel’s right hand.

  11. Stephanie says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 11:17 am

    … This is an insult to Saudi Arabia!”

    … an ‘insult’ from ‘IMpure’ 8:37 vdLeyen to Superior allah http://quran.com/8/39 http://quran.com/9/29

  12. Custos Custodum says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 11:17 am

    Note that this aspect of the visit of the German defense minister is gleefully noted in a publication named Iran Front Page.

    Geopolitics is not smiling on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for all the money invested by them and Qatar in HRC.

  13. miriamrove says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 11:39 am

    The words Saudi Arabia is an insult in the first place. m

    • Guest says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 5:35 pm

      Yes, liberal Arabs don’t like the dictatorship they live under.

  14. common sense says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 12:10 pm

    Its a free world ain’t it? Good for her such good news!

  15. CogitoErgoSum says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 12:53 pm

    Much admiration and respect for this brave lady’s stand. No submission to any form of tyranny over the mind of man (or woman) ….. EVER! No submission, no submission, NO SUBMISSION………….!

    • Guest says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 5:36 pm

      As others have said, she wants more muslims in the military and is Merkel’s right hand woman. Apart from this moment of backbone, she is an islam appeaser.

  16. Cecilia Ellis says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 1:40 pm

    “The German Defense Minister: Not wearing the hijab in Saudi was deliberate. This is an insult to Saudi Arabia!”

    Nothing escapes Saudi insight . . .

  17. Aspy says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 2:35 pm

    Screw Saudi sensibilities.
    Enough is enough. The world should tell them to lay off or be ready to get their piggy arses kicked.

  18. Eric Jones says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 3:47 pm

    von der Lyen has now aquired enough intellgence to launch cruise misslis on Riyadh.

    Oh the fighting spirit of the fraulein!

    Eric

  19. revereridesagain says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 8:29 pm

    Oh good, there is one person left in Germany with cohones and it’s a woman — German Defense Minister Ursula van der Leyen. Certainly none left on all those Sheikhs of the Burning Desert Sands in their beards, and those tablecloths held on their heads with fan belts, and their dresses. No wonder they’re grabbing their crotches! One little bitty smiling woman dressed as she damn well pleases is enough for them to suddenly wonder where their manhood went. No point in looking, boys. It’s been gone for many, many centuries. If van der Leven is usually an appeaser, let’s hope she gets some encouragement from this to start doing otherwise — think of how good it feels!

  20. Alessandro says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 8:31 pm

    Does anyone know why are they holding their crotch with hand?

  21. Angemon says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 8:57 pm

    Responding to criticism and obscene comments made against her, Von der Leyen said that she “respect(s) the customs and traditions of the country,” but added that, “No woman in my delegation will be required to wear the abaya, as the [right] to choose one’s attire is a right shared by men and women equally,” according to Iran Front Page.

    Ursula von der Leyen has what lacks Merkel – a spine and sense of fairness.

  22. More Ham Ed says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 10:58 pm

    All you need to know about islam (lowercase be upon it) is in the last 30 sec. of this video:

  23. eduardo odraude says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 11:50 pm

    There is hope for Germany yet. This is feminism to be proud of. And the outraged Saudis should feel the outrage of free women the world over.

  24. Rufolino says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 3:17 am

    Is this why she is wearing men’s clothes ? An exceptionally foolish move. Sexual deviance is punishable by death, she should be careful of possibly giving the wrong impression. Germany might find it is a minister short.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 28, 2016 at 9:25 pm

      I’m *glad* she was flouting Islamic norms. And women have been wearing pants in the free West for almost 100 years now–they are no longer just considered men’s clothes.

      These two cuties from the 1920s hardly look like men:

      http://womenwearingtrousers.weebly.com/uploads/2/5/1/8/25189735/9914148_orig.jpg

  25. Ron Barak says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 10:38 am

    Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen presents an impressive figure, striking a blow for women’s rights in the fundamental Islamic world.

  26. Proud Non-Muslim says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 11:16 am

    She does not have to wear hijab. How about the Muslim countries respect Western culture when they do not respect at all.

  27. Historian says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 1:01 pm

    Good for her! She should be the Chancellor of Germany instead of sharia-compliant Merkel.

  28. Real McCoy says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 11:30 pm

    Queen Elizabeth of England, during her visit to am not sure to Saudi Arabia or Dubai she was wearing hijab.

  29. blackcat mendoza says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 7:25 pm

    Just to lighten up a bit, have you noticed that when in traditional garb the need to keep the sheets together allows arab men to play with their penises. Considering their proscribed attitudes towards women, one can only imagine (shock/horror) what’s running through this pervert’s mind… and the kuffar bitch’s wearing pants, for allah’s sake!!

  30. gravenimage says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 8:03 pm

    Saudis outraged as German Defense Minister refuses to wear hijab during Riyadh visit
    ………………………….

    Brava, Ursula von der Leyen!

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