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Oppression chic: Nike offers “Pro Hijab” for athletic Muslimas

Mar 8, 2017 12:36 pm By Robert Spencer

Will Nike offer stoning supplies for adulterous Muslimas? Will Nike offer a series of blades suitable for slitting the throats of Muslimas who dare not to wear the hijab? Will Nike offer Klan hoods for racist athletes?

“Nike Has A New Product For Muslim Women: The ‘Pro Hijab,’” by Zahraa Alkhalisi, CNN, March 7, 2017:

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) — Nike will soon begin selling a performance hijab for Muslim women athletes.

The head cover, called the “Nike Pro Hijab,” boasts a single-layer pull-on design made from lightweight polyester in dark, neutral colors. The fabric’s tiny holes will make it breathable while remaining opaque, a requirement for hijab-wearing women.

Nike said it began developing the hijab after some Muslim athletes complained about wearing a traditional head scarf during competition.

The design process took 13 months, and the final product will be available for sale in the company’s Spring 2018 season.

Nike said the hijab is already being worn by Emirati figure skater Zahra Lari.

“I was thrilled and a bit emotional to see Nike prototyping a Hijab,” Lari said in a statement. “I’ve tried so many different hijabs for performance, and … so few of them actually work for me. But once I put it on and took it for a spin on the ice, I was blown away by the fit and the light weight.”…

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  1. Em says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 12:40 pm

    So she has to cover her hair and neck but the rest of her body is clad in skin-tight material???

    • Mockingjay says

      Mar 8, 2017 at 1:14 pm

      Yeah it’s just ridiculous.

      It’s “virtue signalling”, muslim style :

      “Look at me, I’m a faithful and fanatical muslim(a), I wear a hijab !”

      • Isabellathecrusader says

        Mar 9, 2017 at 5:44 pm

        But when I do a camel spin please look at my crotch.

        • Paskudni says

          Mar 9, 2017 at 9:35 pm

          Wearing that outfit in Saudi Arabia would probably get you caned because it shows
          the figure.

    • no_one says

      Mar 8, 2017 at 5:26 pm

      Exactly my thought. One can see every detail of her legs, but her head is covered.

    • frederick King says

      Mar 9, 2017 at 3:27 am

      I noticed that. Strange culture. Will Nike market Burkinis next ?

    • wezneck says

      Mar 9, 2017 at 9:00 am

      Any negative comments for men in sports? Boxers who are almost naked?

      • Mockingjay says

        Mar 9, 2017 at 1:25 pm

        – You’re not too bright, are you?

    • K says

      Mar 9, 2017 at 1:32 pm

      My thoughts exactly! Also, koran demands modesty, not the hijab. The hijab is cultural. Either way a hijab with body defining cloths is a dichotomy.

    • abad says

      Mar 9, 2017 at 6:41 pm

      I thought Islam forbade participation in sports??????

  2. Angemon says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 12:42 pm

    Gotta hand it to Nike: great business sense.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Mar 8, 2017 at 1:27 pm

      FOR THOSE OF US WHO HAVE MOTIVATION & TIME: Tell managers in a local Nike-product mall store // OR // online purchase site // OR // corporate headquarters what your opinion of this marketing ploy is.

      CORPORATE contact has the big advantage — regarding effective pushback — of copying and pasting Robert’s superb remarks, plus the addition of your own extra statement.

      Assure Nike executives that any future purchases by you, family, friends,are canceled forever —there are other shoe companies to buy from, especially ones which understand that subjugation of women is essential in the sacred texts and teachings of Islam — AND THE LIFE OF ITS “PROPHET”.

      • Angemon says

        Mar 9, 2017 at 4:53 pm

        Yup, gotta hit them where they feel it the most: their purse. I’m not going to burn my track suits and running shoes, but I will definitely look into any other brand when time comes to replace them. Might settle for Le Coq Sportif, depending on the results of the next elections in France…

  3. Hari Singh says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 12:42 pm

    Are they just addressing the changing European market and making adjustments.
    Where is the feminist outcry?
    This step reminds me of the totalitarian communist V. Lenin who said,”the capitalists will sell me the rope to hang them with.”

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 9, 2017 at 8:27 am

      Grimly spot on.

  4. andra says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 12:44 pm

    I could imagine that many former costumers of Nike won´t buy there anymore as they don´t want to Support the Islamisation of the West. So Nike will sell some hijabs until Sharia is Western law. By then women´s Sport will be forbidden because it´s haram and the Nike women section can close down forever. Very smart, Nike.

    • mike9a says

      Mar 8, 2017 at 12:50 pm

      just lost one

      • Mockingjay says

        Mar 8, 2017 at 1:07 pm

        …and another one.

        I’ve Always been a Nike fan.

        Not anymore.

        I say: full boycott.

        – PS: On offer: Nike T-shirts and other sports gear, multiple colours, good condition.

        • Frank Courtney says

          Mar 9, 2017 at 4:56 am

          I never buy clothing with the manufacturer’s visible name or logo on it.

          If they want to use me as a mobile billboard they will have to pay me.

    • no_one says

      Mar 8, 2017 at 5:38 pm

      Can’t boycott them. The last time I bought a Nike item was 6 or 7 years ago. I don’t even remember when that was.

  5. Charli Main says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 12:56 pm

    Some of these shameless companies, would sell their mothers for a few extra cents in the profit column.

  6. Wellington says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 1:35 pm

    “Merely” a variation of Lenin’s assessment that capitalists will even sell the rope that hangs them. Of course, Lenin thought that all capitalists had no morals but those that don’t engage in crony capitalism which Marx, Lenin, Stalin, et al. thought was the only capitalism that existed. But they were wrong about this, as they were about so much else. Capitalism, as with democracy, must be infused with a proper sense of morality, a sound ethical direction, or it quickly devolves into a sham version of itself, a crony version of itself, as with Nike here.

    • epistemology says

      Mar 9, 2017 at 8:54 pm

      Anyway it’s nothing new. Nike once cancelled the selling of a pair of trainers that gave you the feeling of walking on air. Air was written on the heel in some arched font and the muzzies complained that Allah was written on the heel, what a blasphemous writing! Nike complied as usual.
      You’re right, Westerners behave as if they are living in a sharia state.

      Take care, my friend

  7. Whatsizface says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 1:46 pm

    Lets see what the Qatari-run Islamweb says about this:
    http://www.islamweb.net/emainpage/index.php?page=fatwa&tab=6&q=Nike&search_txt=SAME&search_type=Question

    Looks like its not allowed!

    What now Nike?

    • Guest says

      Mar 8, 2017 at 2:45 pm

      Thanks, very helpful. They summarize:

      “We have already issued fatwas 5810 and 82398 highlighting that it is forbidden to wear clothing that bears the Nike logo because it is the name of one of the Greek gods; thus, it represents a polytheistic symbol; so please refer to the above fatwas.”

      LOL

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Mar 8, 2017 at 4:52 pm

      Whatsizface, great post! ? Hilariously appropriate bit of news for Muslim-appeaser Nike! Kinda brings a tear to your eye, doesn’t it … ? How do you say “oops” in Arabic?

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 9, 2017 at 8:29 am

      Thanks for that link.

  8. Magali Marc says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 1:56 pm

    If only this initiative could help women from Muslim countries get involved in sports …
    But the woman on the photo is wearing tight fitting clothes, is that acceptable to Muslims???

  9. mortimer says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 1:57 pm

    Many Muslim women pass out during athletic exertions from wearing a head cover that doesn’t allow them to lose heart from their face, neck and scalp.

    The hijab puts women athletes AT RISK of heart attack and fainting.

  10. mortimer says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 1:58 pm

    Correction: hijab “doesn’t allow them to lose HEAT from their face, neck and scalp.

    • Westman says

      Mar 8, 2017 at 3:58 pm

      What’s next? Black Spandex Burqa for the Muslima soccer teams? Uhhh… there are professional Muslima soccer teams? And it would only be fair to require all Olympic women swimmers to wear a speedo Abaya.

      Such nononsense, none of these companies will make a profit on Muslima sports wear. This is nothing more than retaining Muslim men as customers while putting on a good SJW show for feminists.

  11. Cthulhu says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 2:00 pm

    Will pastafarians get a special Nike performance colander too?

  12. Sam says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 2:01 pm

    PLEASE!!!!!!NO!!!!!!!!

    I AM SICK OF THOSE BLACK CLOUDS APPEARING ALMOST EVERYWHERE NOW IN AMERICA.

  13. ich says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 2:27 pm

    Nike will progress to burka im sure
    at some point true islamists will decry
    this and start offing heads

  14. Ed Lee says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 2:42 pm

    When I see a company with the size, reach, and reputation of Nike embracing Islam, I fear we are fighting a losing battle. How many other major clothing brands will follow Nike’s lead? If we see competing products from other companies such as Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, American Eagle Outfitters, Columbia Sportswear, PVH, Under Armour, Lululemon Athletica (just to name a few), the struggle against jihad will have become a lot more uphill. A Google search on “retail clothing hijab” yields 948,000 results. One on the listings on the first page is Amazon. None of the brands listed above, shows up; yet.

  15. marina says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 2:57 pm

    A Muslima figure skater should not be performing in a burka. She has to wear some kind of tight clothing. And all male eyes will be on her. Is that even allowed in pisslam!!

  16. Georg says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 3:10 pm

    “Oppression Chic”

    This with today’s article about the “Muslim” denied entry later characterized as “Indian” when charged with molestation points to the genius of this site and criminal misdirection we’re up against… daily.

    “Will Nike offer a series of blades suitable for slitting the throats of Muslimas who dare not to wear the hijab?”

    Hint: http://loganswarning.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Olympian-mocks-1024×678.jpg

  17. Shanon says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 3:45 pm

    Watch as ISIS starts wearing them then Nike will be associated with Terrorisom. That could happen.

  18. No Fear says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 4:08 pm

    No more NIKE for me.

    • Red Bee says

      Mar 8, 2017 at 6:48 pm

      Spot on! Vote with your money. We should make a black list with Nike on top. Do not buy from traitors. Sink them all! All hands on deck!

      I am bloody serious about this. We must act & fight.

      Put your ideas on my forum and / or mail me. What are we going to do before it is too late again?

  19. common sense says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 4:44 pm

    Boycotted Nike just now.
    Will Nike make a Judo Gui with a Crusader cross on it? No probably not, if they did I’d buy it.

    • Frank Courtney says

      Mar 9, 2017 at 7:29 am

      I never buy clothing with the manufacturer’s visible name or logo on it.

      If they want to use me as a mobile billboard they will have to pay me.

  20. somehistory says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 5:01 pm

    Remember from 2009 when what’s his face said he was there to insure that women could freely wear the “…..” ?
    What about the women who wish to be free not to wear it? What about every non-moslim who wishes to go places and see things without seeing moslim women wearing it?

    Why couldn’t moslim skaters and skiers just wear a ski mask? Much like the bank robbers and burglars want to remain anon. After all, the purpose is to rob people of freedom.

  21. utis says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 5:14 pm

    The really galling thing is that once Islam rules the roost, the imams will start demanding the bitches get out of sports, competitive or otherwise, and get back to the kitchens and bedrooms. There will be no women’s Olympics (hell, there will be no Greek-inspired Olympics), there will be no women’s sports at all.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 9, 2017 at 8:31 am

      So true, Utis.

    • Isabellathecrusader says

      Mar 9, 2017 at 5:52 pm

      Will that ensure that Linda Sarsour goes away?

  22. Leith Wood says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 5:22 pm

    Today is Woman’s Day 2017. With a big smile on my face, I’m happily giving up any relationship with Nike and Facebook. What a relief!

  23. davej says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 8:39 pm

    Hey now, it’s Muslim chic, all the cool kids are doing it. Virtue signaling is all the rage. Don’t say you don’t like it – that’d be racist!

    Nike and Facebook will sell out their culture for a nickel.

  24. billybob says

    Mar 8, 2017 at 9:20 pm

    “Will Nike offer Klan hoods for racist athletes?” Very appropriate question, since Muhammad was just as racist as the KKK.

  25. Pandit Technology says

    Mar 9, 2017 at 3:02 am

    This is absolute nonsense. So the females can now be told by male relatives that even Nike think’s hijab is allright…so just shut up and DO IT….nice of nike, NOT…yeah dollars speaks I guess, so boycotting NIKE henceforth… The most stupid are the fanatical ISLAMIC WOMEN believers They are themselves agreeing to be less equal to men, can have their daughters married off to real old men, etc etc….There is a reason why Islam is so fragile ..permits no thinking…it simply makes my head spin ( and yeah it would have been off too, if I was in “pure” Islamic state) as to the level of nonsense that Koran prescribes and it’s faithful follow, without thinking……Thank you for highlighting and yes, from now onwards boycotting companies who are overtely sensitive to fanatics, as they are not sensitive to me or my freedom. My own small fight.Oh yeah,,, today we are celebrating women day…empowering them…NOT

  26. Osman says

    Mar 9, 2017 at 7:54 am

    Why any women wearing veil will want to play sports anyhow?

  27. gravenimage says

    Mar 9, 2017 at 8:26 am

    Oppression chic: Nike offers “Pro Hijab” for athletic Muslimas
    ……………….

    “Oppression chic” indeed. What utter madness.

  28. gravenimage says

    Mar 9, 2017 at 8:33 am

    To be fair to Nike, I don’t think these idiots have the faintest idea what the Hijab *really* signifies–and they are too happy with their state of ignorance to find out.

  29. Troybeam says

    Mar 9, 2017 at 11:37 am

    Boycott works people.

  30. berserker says

    Mar 9, 2017 at 4:47 pm

    Looking forward to the ‘1979: Just Do The Revolution’ collection. Heard good things about it from Khomenei.

  31. Sh. N. says

    Mar 10, 2017 at 3:02 am

    This is not the first time that greedy business-minded people compromise humaniterian principles.
    They will do anything to make billions of dollars.
    They sell advanced technologies, softwares and hardwarea to Islamic rulers of Iran, assisting them with their oppression. They just see the money they cannot see the time their children will be stoned to deth or beheaded by a Muslim executor.

    Believe me!
    I am living under an Islamic oppressin.
    I am afraid if you don’t get what the real Islam is, you will experience what I have experienced.

  32. Oopali Operajita says

    Mar 10, 2017 at 11:56 am

    Okay: When in Rome do as the Romans do, is going to be replaced by: Whilst anywhere in the world, do as the Muslims do. If not, blow their brains out while masquerading as the religion of peace.

    How boring! Imagine the world being buried in universal blackness!

  33. logi says

    Apr 5, 2017 at 11:42 pm

    It’s comical that Nike would make a sports hijab but they would never market or make an undergarment for specifically for Mormon athletes, Buddists or any other religious group that had specific rules for what men or women must wear. I think most intelligent people can see through this as sheer marketing and an effort to take people’s eyes off the steep fiscal issues they are facing by using controversy as a headline-grabbing distraction. How can you advocate women’s rights and equality with a product that caters to religious oppression of women’s rights?

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