This is great. Facebook hereby signals its virtue: it is standing with Muslim women and presumably against Donald Trump and racist, redneck yahoos everywhere. But where is Facebook’s concern for Aqsa Parvez, whose Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it? Or Amina Muse Ali, a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab? Or the 40 women who were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab; or Alya Al-Safar, whose Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain; or Amira Osman Hamid, who faced whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab; or the Egyptian girl, also named Amira, who committed suicide after being brutalized for her family for refusing to wear the hijab; or 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; or the women in Chechnya whom police shot with paintballs because they weren’t wearing hijab; or the women also in Chechnya who were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab; or the elementary school teachers in Tunisia who were threatened with death for not wearing hijab; or the Syrian schoolgirls who were forbidden to go to school unless they wore hijab; or the women in Gaza whom Hamas has forced to wear hijab; or the women in Iran who protested against the regime by daring to take off their legally-required hijab; or the women in London whom Muslim thugs threatened to murder if they didn’t wear hijab; or the anonymous young Muslim woman who doffed her hijab outside her home and started living a double life in fear of her parents; or the fifteen girls in Saudi Arabia who were killed when the religious police wouldn’t let them leave their burning school building because they had taken off their hijabs in their all-female environment; or all the other women and girls who have been killed or threatened, or who live in fear for daring not to wear the hijab?
Who is standing in solidarity with them? Do they have any place in International Women’s Day? Those who taunt or brutalize hijab-wearing women are louts and creeps, and should be prosecuted if they commit any acts of violence. At the same time, the women who don’t wear hijab in Muslim countries are far more likely to be victims of violence than hijabis in the West. Who stands with them?
Blurb1000 says
Endless stupidity.
JMB says
Yes Blurb, I assume you are talking about International Lesbian & Feminist Day which apparently incorporates Anti-Trump Day.
I understand this particular day of celebration also incorporates anti-White Christian Male Day while at the same time expresses utter contempt for any woman who just may plaintively say: “I would love to be able to stay at home and look after my children and no I don’t want to put my children into a government run child care centre, and no, I don’t really want a career in the military”. No doubt IWD and it’s supporters all want legalised Abortion on Demand
But I am sure they will be totally silent on the way women are treated in the Islamic world. While here in Australia we have never had a (reported) stoning and it is unlikely that any Muslim woman will live in a mud floor hut with her large family we do have most of the abuses that Muslim women and girls have to put up with world wide. Child brides and arranged marriages are happening all the time, women are bashed or whipped for misdemeanours and most women are required to wear a headscarf as a minimum dress code but they nearly all wear robes as well.No doubt the situation is similar in Canada, the USA and EU where there are large Muslim immigrant populations. Yes, the Silence from IWD is deafening.
Yes, stupidity and double standards, nothing but.
mortimer says
International feminists are showing symptoms of ISLAMIC STOCKHOLM SYNDROME … they hope the Muslims will abuse them LAST.
beaubear says
they forgot Asia Bibi, a mom of 5 from Pakistan, who is on death row because she dared
to tell her co workers Jesus is the only true light, and Alla is not a god. she’s been imprisoned
since 2009, and 2 men, who defended her right to believe in Christ ,were shot ., you can
find our about her, and write her letters of support at The Voice Of The Martyrs,.com
just go to prisoner alert link and follow link, There are about 15 men as well imprisoned in
different nations just for being Christians
marblenecltr says
Mr. Spencer, you are throwing a whole bunch of microagression against poor billionaire Mr. Zuckerberg. What will he be telling the Harvard College class of 2017 and others? Hijabs welcome.
Angemon says
I bet this made the Starbuck Marxists very, very happy…
mortimer says
ISLAM HONORS WOMEN … with life-long and eternal enslavement.
Long live slaves.
Tommy says
International abortion day. CELEBRATE!
Robin Datta says
They are offerred the choice of a hi-jab or a lo-jab.
Richard Paulsen says
Swedish construction union celebrating women.
https://petterssonorg.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/skc3a4rmklipp2.jpg?w=490&h=228
Gwen says
Unacceptable. Look how far those knees are apart. The destruction of the patriarchy will only be complete when every testicle is voluntarily overheated.
Richard Paulsen says
Yes, isn´t it awful. Agree.
jayell says
So when’s International Men’s Day? I wonder what islam will make of that?
miriamrove says
They will have that soon. They will be featuring a bearded Muslim with a smile on his face pretty much telling the rest of us to f…off. m
miriamrove says
Zuckerberg. Another PC liberal Jew. m
Barbara says
What does Zukerman being Jewish have to do with anything?
berserker says
Ask Facebook if they used an image of Aqsa Parvez for inspiration.
LR says
berserker,
That’s a good one. I think people should write Zucky face headquarters and ask them that.
gravenimage says
Spot on.
Walter Sieruk says
Since today in International Women’s Day it’s fitting that the subject of the viciously cruel ,callous , heartless Islamic custom that is called “honor killing” should be brought up.
As for the brutal ,cruel vicious and murderous actions of Islamic misogyny which is so inappropriately called “honor killing.” This heinously wicked misogynists Islamic tradition reaches such n demonic extent of evil and madness that in number of Muslim nations ,as Afghanistan , if a girl or woman is raped she then might undergo being murdered in an “honor killing.” This is worse that a terrible miscarriage it’s an outright outrageous affront to all that is decent, good right as well as sane. To actual punish the victim of raped and not the rapists is most hideous, vile and wrong. very wrong. The Bible teaches in Proverbs 17:15. “The Lord hates two things, punishing the innocent and letting the guilty go free.” [E.R.V.]
no_one says
Islam has been promoted everywhere at all levels and at all sorts of occasions. Many people are buying into this. Sad story. Probably gulf states have a lot of money to spend on this.
Judi O'Connor says
Although I’M an advocate for the rights of women and girls, as well as for all oppressed people, I don’t feel comfortable with the way too many “advocates for the rights of women and girls” behave. Too often, such ‘”advocates” advocate for social systems and movements that threaten the rights of women and girls when such movements are headed by jihadists.
billybob says
Linda Sarsour managed to get herself arrested in “an act of civil disobedience, at a demonstration in front of Trump Tower in New York. I’m sure that is quite a feather in her cap and she is very proud of herself.
Here is a surprisingly good article in the Washington Times I was impressed with how they covered it.
Then there’s the Israel angle. Among the international organizers is Rasmea Yousef Odeh, a Palestinian activist who was convicted in a 1969 Jerusalem terrorist bombing that left two Israeli men dead and was released 10 years later as part of a prisoner exchange.
“So, here we are in 2017 and a convicted terrorist who murdered two people with impunity (even Odeh’s cousin confirmed in a documentary that she was responsible for the attack) is a leading figure in the contemporary women’s movement,” said Willem Hart in an op-ed on the B’nai B’rith Canada website.
He pointed to the prominent role in the Women’s March in January played by Linda Sarsour, an outspoken advocate of Shariah law and the anti-Israel Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement.
“And, just as Linda Sarsour’s political agenda was given credence in January, not to mention landing an audience of millions of people, now yet another vehemently anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and antisemitic ‘activist’ will be given a platform to spew her radical ideologies,” Mr. Hart wrote.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/6/a-day-without-a-woman-ignites-backlash-over-left-w/
gravenimage says
More oppression chic: Facebook marks International Women’s Day with image of girl in hijab
…………………….
“Unclear on the concept” does not begin to cover it…
Singh the Sikh says
You are full of shit FB. Here’s the real problem:
http://m.indiatoday.in/story/muslim-girl-sings-hindu-devotional-song-singing-reality-show-trolled-in-social-media-facebook/1/899295.html
Imnokuffar says
Nothing surprises me in the context of these radical victimising, man hating, LBGT creatures who hide behind feminism or victim status or both to justify their pathetic existence.
Brian Hoff says
Who give you right Robert to criticism FB the hijab with western clothes worn by woman is beautiful looking. The hijab is appearance more on catwalk in fashion shows.