Google promotes the Sharia’s dress code for women in its latest doodle celebrating the Islamic “holy month,” Ramadan.
Hundreds of million of women all over the world live without the most basic human rights. They live under the brutal Islamic law, the Sharia. The Sharia gives husbands the right to beat their wife/wives (Quran 4:34) and allows them to have sex with girls down to nine years of age (because this is what their good example, Muhammad, did). Besides giving men the right to abuse women and girls, Sharia robs Muslim women of their right to pick their own religion (leaving Islam is to be punished with death according to Sharia) and to chose their own sex partner(s): the family has to approve their husband, and should she wish to divorce her often violent partner, she needs his permission and will have to pay him for it (Arabic: khula’). Sex before or outside the marriage is unthinkable (punishment according to Sharia: death by stoning).
By marking Ramadan with a veiled Muslima, Google romanticizes the brutal religious oppression of women. If the Disneyfied woman on Google’s Arabified logo should choose to rid herself of the veil, leave her oppressive family and go find a man that she really loves, she would be killed.
Not so Disney-like, is it? The woman on Google’s Ramadan logo is not free; she’s a prisoner of her own religion.
So how does Google celebrate Easter? They don’t (though they do celebrate “The 56th Anniversary of Xingu Indigenous Park in Brazil”; “Mountain Day”; and the Indonesian holiday “Mudik” – with a veiled woman…).
An expert in search engines explains here how Google in its search results promotes Islam and places criticism of Islam at a disadvantage.
Too bad, especially for the many Muslim women who see nothing romantic in having to wear several layers of warm cloth because nobody is allowed to see the shape of their bodies – or who dream of just going to the beach in a bikini.
Via 10news.one.
Aloha Akbar says
Even in cartoon form they’re ugly creatures
Shmooviyet says
That smiling, arm-bearing woman certainly doesn’t resemble an average Somali muslim female lugging around 10 lbs of covering. The cartoon’s expression is closer to one who has escaped husband brother father uncles etc., torn off the veil and stomped on it.
Google and its happy-show are sickening.
Jim says
First of all, it’s “arm baring”, not “arm bearing”. I had to check out the picture again to look for the (non-existent) weapons. Second of all, it’s not just the arms. That’s a pretty low-cut top, too. The hijab is designed to cover not only the head but the chest.
Bottom line- this is not a picture of a Sharia-compliant, covered Muslim.
Carolyne says
She could be “Arm bearing” underneath that garb. I guess if you have nothing sensible to say, you can criticize someone’s spelling.
Maybe someone could tell me what that orange thing is that looks sort of like a waffle potato chip.
berserker says
I am confused. The doodle is supposed to celebrate the work of Zaha Hadid.
See: https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-zaha-hadid
It says nothing about Ramadan.
I do not care for Islam but please check before writing an article.
Gen Jones says
Indeed. The drawing doesn’t show a veiled woman for starters, it’s Zaha Hadid, who if you didn’t know all that much about architecture, you may have become familiar with her work since she died last year and there were many articles and tributes in the press. Also, she’s standing with one of her reknowned buildings.
I usually respect the work of Nicolas Sennels but this isn’t even the work of Sennels apparently, it’s just a repeat of an unsigned article from another rather shady looking news source.
There’s plenty of news to be outraged about, repeating this nonsense makes JW look unhinged.
Gen Jones says
Oppressive dress code – not Ms Hadid. A good read from Women’s Wear Daily:
http://wwd.com/eye/people/zaha-hadid-dies-obituary-karl-lagerfeld-fendi-nadja-swarovski-thomas-tait-10401178/
carpediadem says
Exactly. I just took the garment to be one of the stylish types of jackets favoured since the 1980s. Very stylised and out there. Nothing like the abaya actually.
no_one says
I noticed there was nothing for Easter and this year it was the same date for all denominations. I liked that unity very much.
Clare L. says
Isn’t that the Sydney Opera House? Her outfit sure doesn’t look shariah-compliant to me – more like an operatic costume – ?
TAD says
Bill Maher uses the “n” word and demeans victims of slavery, past and present, but that’s ok; comparisons of President Trump with Hitler demean all those who died in the Holocaust, but that’s ok. So is it any surprise Google blindly promotes a stylish rendition of Muslim head and body wear, completely oblivious to how it demeans and oppresses women (and adolescent girls).
But that’s ok.
andra says
Honestly, my feelings for Muslim hijab-wearer is very limited. Too many of them see me as infidel slut who needs to be submissed by Sharia.
Frustrated an Citizen says
You obviously detest women and don’t want them to have civil rights!!
Gen Jones says
Please direct your ire elsewhere. This Google Doodle celebrates architect Zaha Hadid, commemorating the date (in 2004) on which Hadid became the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Frustrated an Citizen says
That comment was directed to Google!!!
Valkyrie Ziege says
; All I got from that day’s ”Google” link is that she is a lousy architect.