Victimhood status is currency these days. If you’re a victim, all manner of doors open to you that might otherwise have remained closed: doors to the adulation of the Left; doors to free passes from scrutiny (legal or otherwise) that you might otherwise have received; doors to a privileged status that elevates you above ordinary non-victim folk. And few, if any, groups are more skilled and indefatigable at pursuing victim status than Islamic advocacy groups in the U.S. They have successfully established in the public discourse the wholesale fiction that Muslimas who wear hijab are routinely insulted, harassed, and brutalized in the United States. This piece is an extension of that endeavor, sans (as always) the insults, harassment, and brutalization.
Sawsan Morrar, an award-winning hijab-wearing journalist, says: “Those who tune in to watch this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday will hear my name called as I take the stage to accept a journalism scholarship. They won’t see my portfolio of work, and they will likely forget my name. But they’re sure to notice and remember one thing about me: my headscarf.”
Maybe so. But isn’t that the idea? Isn’t wearing the hijab a proclamation to the world that here is a Muslim woman who is preserving her modesty and piety, in contrast to the non-Muslim women who are walking around with heads uncovered? If Sawsan Morrar wants to be remembered for something other than the hijab, there is one simple way to ensure that: don’t wear it.
She also says: “And as I prepare to attend, I know some at the event may not perceive me as a fellow reporter who, like them, relishes the thought of meeting journalists I admire. Muslims don’t have the luxury of being a fusion of their achievements, interests and uniqueness. Rather, in the eyes of others, we are only Muslim.”
On what does she base this claim? Nothing whatsoever, of course. But this is the Washington Post during the Trump administration, so anything goes for Muslims wishing to claim victim status.
Morrar concludes: “I do hope that when I am called on stage at the dinner, I will be recognized for my achievements in journalism and not used to portray some striking juxtaposition between the Trump administration and the Muslim community.”
Don’t kid yourself, Ms. Morrar, about your helpful Leftist comrades and allies. They will smile, they will congratulate you, they will praise your achievements, whatever they may be, and however large or small. But your being a Muslim, and a hijabi at that, is the only reason why you’re there. To the White House Correspondents’ Association, your only purpose and value is that you are a Muslim who wears a hijab, and thus constitute for the Leftists of that association a virtue-signaling rebuke to President Trump. If you had taken off your hijab and converted to Christianity or became an atheist, would you have been chosen as a 2017 White House Correspondents’ Association Scholar? Not in a million years.
“When I’m honored for my journalism, everyone will see one thing: My headscarf,” by Sawsan Morrar, Washington Post, April 28, 2017:
Sawsan Morrar, a multimedia journalist at the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, was chosen as a 2017 White House Correspondents’ Association Scholar.
Those who tune in to watch this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday will hear my name called as I take the stage to accept a journalism scholarship. They won’t see my portfolio of work, and they will likely forget my name. But they’re sure to notice and remember one thing about me: my headscarf.
Some may call it symbolic that a Muslim American journalist will be recognized at the annual dinner the same year that President Trump declined to attend. Trump is breaking from a long tradition of presidents meeting with the award recipients.
And as I prepare to attend, I know some at the event may not perceive me as a fellow reporter who, like them, relishes the thought of meeting journalists I admire. Muslims don’t have the luxury of being a fusion of their achievements, interests and uniqueness. Rather, in the eyes of others, we are only Muslim….
I do hope that when I am called on stage at the dinner, I will be recognized for my achievements in journalism and not used to portray some striking juxtaposition between the Trump administration and the Muslim community….
Gina L says
As a woman I have ZERO respect for her or any spineless hijab-wearing woman who, just by wearing the bloody thing, shows she accepts her inferior status to men. There’s a great video on youtube after the latest Paris attack of an EX muslim man accusing the (smiling) socialist mayor of Paris as she visits the scene of the crime, and pointing towards a veiled woman onlooker, “Why are these women wearing veils in a free country?” LOL. It’s disgraceful. When I see a woman in a hijab I feel like throwing up. If it’s just a “religious symbol” as they claim why aren’t men wearing them? Modesty? Give me a break.
Lor says
We might ponder that Muslim women feel superior to depraved Western females by wearing their hijab or burkas. Getting to the bottom of it from their inferior/superior complexes.
More Ham Ed says
Islam: “victim” & MONSTER at the same time.
Sarah says
Of COURSE its all I see.
And its all she WANTS us to see. She proudly wears her subjugation to Muslim men and her slavish devotion to an imaginary sky fairy monster – loud and proud. You kind of can’t miss that pillowcase she’s got wrapped around her head and neck.
mach37 says
What else is there to see of a hijab-wearing woman but eyes, nose and lips. All differentiating personal characteristics are hidden, which is the intent of that covering. So, yes, Ms. Morrar – all we CAN see of you is your hijab – and what it stands for, total Submission.
underbed cat says
Isn’t that the point my dear, wearing the headscarf?
I don’t see submission when I see headscarves I only see images of 9/11, Daniel Pearl and San Bernadino..and get sickened by the thought of the silencing that followed. I don’t know her work, nor her name I commend you on your award…maybe someday I will see writers such as Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, Raymond Ibrahim, David Horowitz, Annie Cyrus, Jamie Glavoz, Nonie Darwish,
Stephen Coughlin, Daniel Greenfield that work endlessly to inform…and some who inform by video such as Sandra Soloman…and her thoughts on the hijab and life in Saudi Arabia.
Jesse James says
I lived in India, Malaya, indonesia in the 1950/60s and neverbsaw women making this statement – except in Convents!! Muslims will always claim to be the victims, even after they came running out of a North mosque cheering and shouting: “did you the yuppies jumping”! – after the 9.11 terrorism to the innocents in those towers!!
Jesse James says
Sadly that North London mosque still exists in Findbury!!
Jeanette says
This is the fault of westerners.
We had the chance to nip this in the bud, but too many wouldn’t even listen to those telling them that Muslims are a serious problem.
They have the excuse that many of them had never before experienced severe consequences for any actions, but that isn’t going to help them now.
Expat88 says
The religion of perpetual victimhood. It is very tiring to listen to all of these complaints. Since things are so bad here why do they continue moving to the West?
Jeanette says
How is it our fault that she insists on remaining a Muslim?
She could leave despite threats. Many of our Founding Fathers had bad endings because they did the decent thing. And she would be much less of a loss than they were.
PeteyGunn says
yes but does the bitch have her husbands permission to be there?
Michael Copeland says
Islam instructs her not to show her hair.
She could wear a fluorescent wig.
JawsV says
I detest the hijabs being flaunted in our faces and all they stand for. She’s right — that’s all I see which reminds me of Islam and I utterly detest Islam.
dude says
When you wear something that is symbolic of an oppressive evil cult, than yes, people are going to stare with distaste.
gravenimage says
Yup.
Jeanette says
Well, you’re the one who remains a Muslim.
Don’t complain to US about your hijab, or your FGM, for that matter.
Demsci says
Exactly, at the risk of sounding superfluous; we should consider the religion of a sane adult human in a Democratic Nation Citizen as A CHOICE. Despite the ultimately unsatisfying arguments that are presented against that notion.
I am not sure if wearing the hijab is a subchoice for Muslims, if women can also be Muslima’s without wearing it. Maybe in some cases, but in many cases NOT, but the choice of remaining in Islam in a democratic nation is something they must be held accountable for and for which they must bear all consequences.
Jeanette says
Perhaps you should consider how lucky you are that you don’t have to wear an abaya and cover your entire face except for your eyes.
And the Saudis are considering whether only one eye should have an opening. It seems that leaving a viewing hole for both eyes is simply too much for Muslim men to resist.
tknightfield says
The difference between the full burqa and the hijab, niqab or headscarf, is a difference of degree, not of kind. They are all unabashedly sexist in nature since Muslim men are not required to cover themselves. Whether or not Muslim women in the West believe they are deciding to cover voluntarily and are reconciled with that decision is really beside the point, because the fact is, millions of women in the Muslim world ARE forced to cover through threats of physical, mental, and societal intimidation. Under that definition, the hijab is a symbol of oppression.
Let’s get real. Men call the shots in Islam. There are no female mullahs, clerics, imams, muftis or religious leaders of any kind. Gender segregation is the rule in the mosque and Islamic schools. It’s men who tell Muslim women what to wear and when to wear it, what to do and when to do it, what to think and when to think it. As long as men are in total control of the Mohamed cult, the hijab, burqa, niqab and burkini cannot be seen as anything other than a tool of theologically sanctioned male supremacy and control. In addition, forcing female children to cover is morally wrong, since they obviously have absolutely no say in the matter.
Instead of establishing the Sharia-compliant right of Muslim women to wear the symbol of their oppression in all settings, and perpetuating a phony victimology narrative, the real mission of the media should be the liberation of Muslim women from this misogynistic practice so they can be truly equal, autonomous and free individuals. Isn’t that what Western civilization is all about in the first place? Hello feminists…are you guys out there? Oh right, you’re all too busy rationalizing this medieval practice and siding with the oppressors and their patriarchal misogynist Islamic dogma to actually go to bat for Muslim women here and around the world who are under the boot heal of Islam. Take a bow ladies.
Donald R Laster Jr says
And many people don’t want to admit to those facts. While the original coverings that women wore in the Middle East was to protect their skin the Islamic theocracy uses it as a means of control.
Gen Jones says
Well said!!
gravenimage says
Good post.
Don Foss says
Just like we now have to nominate Black actors for what may be mediocre work, I would not be surprised if she is getting the award BECAUSE she is Muslim. Left organizations gotsta get da token victim in there.
Politicianphobia says
Woman to woman my advice is take it off and shut up. Please turn your watch ahead 1400 years and stop acting so damn stupid. ARE YOU JUST BEING FUNNY, YES YOU MUST BE KIDDING. LOL LOL LOL
somehistory says
Was shopping. moslim behind the checkout, scarf and all. Nothing else unusual….(in this heat here in the South, wearing extra stuff is insane)…until she spoke. Could barely understand her. If she had not been saying what has been uttered by nearly every other checker in America, I probably wouldn’t have known what she was saying. Even knowing, it was hard not to keep saying…and I did a couple of times…”Huh?” :What did you say?’ cause it was so garbled, I had to make sure.
I noticed her scarf. Then I noticed her speech. We do notice things besides scarves. Just glad it wasn’t her turn for attacking someone. And yes, I am becoming prejudiced. Not acting on it, being rude or mean, but in my thinking. And in being *ready* for someone I see here at home to attack.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Violence is a tool of the Islamics, as is deception and other deviant behaviors. Being prepared for the violence and deviant behaviors that an organization promotes is not being prejudiced, it is being prepared and ready.
somehistory says
Thank you. I don’t like having to feel as they have caused us to feel.
Donald R Laster Jr says
She is a part of a terrorist organization that has been operating for 1400 years to force its deviant abnormal behaviors on societies. She is allowed to lie to advance Islam. As the article pointed out she can always remove the scarf but she has identified herself as being a part of the Islamic theocracy and therefore an enemy of the US and all non-Islamic societies. An Islamic can not be a loyal citizen or member of non-Islamic society due to the requirements of Islam. People need to learn what Islam teaches and its real history of terrorism. For instance the Crusades were a defensive reaction to Islam’s constant attacks on the non-Islamic in Europe which started in the 600/700s when Islam invaded North Africa and Europe through Spain..
Northern Virginiastan says
I do hope that when I am called on stage at the dinner, I will be recognized for my achievements in journalism and not used to portray some striking juxtaposition between the Trump administration and the Muslim community….
That’s why you were there sweetie. Same for Hassan Minhaj.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Northern Virginistan.
Kasey says
Just how covering one’s hair determines modest is ludicrous. It just throws more emphasis on her face.If she’s attractive, it’s even more so, thus defeating the original claimed male purpose as Islamic men can’t be trusted anyway with women. Get real and change and don’t advertise Islam as well.
Shazza says
Another GOLD MEDAL win for WHINING in the VICTIM OLYMPICS.
Earl Robert says
She should get an infidel personal shopper to get decked out in contemporary dress. Heels and a nice skirt plus some makeup might help. Most beat reporter are not that good looking. On second (blasphemous) though you can put lipstick on a pig ……….
Susette says
Interesting that muslim women claim to wear the hijab so that they are recognized or valued for their intellect, skills, personality, etc and not their beauty or sexiness. Now, she claims that she will only be recognized because she’s wearing the hijab, and not for her intellect, skills, etc. What you wear matters. A clown will always be seen as a clown first.
somehistory says
An excellent assessment.
gravenimage says
Good points, Susette.