While putting together this post about Linda Sarsour’s race transformation, I noticed that the only male in the video was the fey Muslim media darling Reza Aslan, who claims that “a hijab is a thing that a male Muslim should have absolutely no opinion about.” Later on in the video, someone else assures us that the hijab is entirely a matter of choice, not of coercion.
Those things are easily said, but they don’t match reality. What does Reza Aslan have to say about 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?
All of these women were threatened, brutalized and/or killed by Muslim men for refusing to wear the hijab. Does Reza Aslan have anything to say to those men? No? Why not? Who is standing in solidarity with these women? 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 speaks for them?
Jack Holan says
REZA ASALAN YOU can’t control yourself. Your Personal Fatwa and you break it yourself! You have an opinion on it that Men shouldn’t have an Opinion. If you had to go back to Iran & live by the Words of the Quran and Ayatollahs; you wouldn’t make it past a week o’Pious One.
Delphi says
One of the very, very few moderates.. now if only there were more..
gravenimage says
Delphi, Reza Aslan is *not* a “moderate”.
Look back through the archives here at Jihad Watch–you will find that he is a thoroughgoing Muslim supremacist.
Wellington says
Most definitely, non-ambiguously, Shermanesquely seconded, gravenimage. (Sorry for the {triple} redundancy but my blood was up.)
BC says
Please engage brain cells before commenting. In no way is Aslan a moderate, though he likes to pretend to be one to get time on TV
Dacritic says
We don’t need these fucking moderates.
mortimer says
ASLAN FORGETS TO MENTION THAT ISLAM-À-LA-CARTE like his is FORBIDDEN!
Koran 33.36 – “It is not fitting for a believing man or woman to exercise any choice in his or her own affairs once God and His Messenger have reached a decision upon them. Anyone who disobeys God and His Messenger is in manifest error.”
Aslan MAKE UP his own heretical version of Islam. This is called ‘BIDA’. ‘Bida’ may be punished by beatings, imprisonment or death or all three.
Westman says
Yes, Aslan certaiinly is an Islamic idelogical food faddist.
Islam’s hijab and female cloaking is an endangerment to the West because the migrant Muslim men have not learned to control themselves under that system. Then they come to the West, and are excited, and too many become exploiters because the ideology does not prohibit the exploitation of infidel women. Then the reprehensible government “leaders” blame it on the victim.
gravenimage says
I don’t think Aslan believes this–it is just that he is now pretending that the Hijab is purely a woman’s choice, and some sort of feminist statement.
Of course, if Muslims ever take over, you will not find anyone flogging this.
Michael Copeland says
“…because the migrant Muslim men have not learned to control themselves”.
Really?
Muslim men are INSTRUCTED to control women.
They are told:
“Any woman not wearing a headscarf is asking to be raped”.
“Their women are yours to take, legitimately. Allah made them yours.”
“It is their penalty for disbelief.”
Raping kaffir women is thus presented as a devout soldier’s duty: it “brings us closer to Allah”.
gravenimage says
True, Michael. This is not about Muslims lacking control, but about their wanting to violently control others.
mortimer says
Sayyid Qutb version of Koran 33.36 “Whenever God and His Messenger have decided a matter, it is not for a believing man or a believing woman to claim FREEDOM OF CHOICE in that matter. Whoever disobeys God and His Messenger strays far into error.”
Sorry, Reza, THERE IS NO FREEDOM OF CHOICE or OPTIONAL VEIL in Islam. Allah AND his messenger got together as partners and THEY made the decision together.
gravenimage says
Aslan knows this, Mortimer–he is just using this to snow the credulous Kuffar.
shosh7154 says
if these same women immigrate to yemen, somalia, iran, pakistan, afghanistan, syria, or any other muslim country, they will feel and hear the bones in their arms shattering into pieces from the rods of the religious police of islam…then they will learn the real and full meaning of the muslim head cover.
gravenimage says
Spot on.
mariam rove says
Reza and Linda should get engaged! M
Westman says
What a thought, Meriam! Would the kids look like Tom Cruize or Penguins?
mariam rove says
My dad was so religious. While growing up we were not allowed to listen to Music. I turned to be an atheist and despise Islam. You never know. May be they will have one like me who will then piss them off on a daily basis!!! M
Westman says
Mariam, I didn’t quite go so far(it still bothered the parents). I’m agnostic, even with a science degree. I’m not hedging the bet. I just can’t find ample evidence on either side to determine who this “God” is or that it’s all a random creation. I’m quite willing to wait for the actual other side of life if there is one. I don’t fear a truly educated and experienced God. It’s dogmatic religionists that are dangerous.
The religionists have guessed their way for thousands of years and had not a few “prophets” who sold their own theology or what they thought was best for the community. Science eventually caught up with their ignorance and has led to some discredit.
Someone(a god) who burned people who didn’t obey what he/she commands, yet has the highest intellect, doesn’t make sense for anything but a vicious dictator; running a human ant farm. A dictator would micro-manage yet there has been nothing for thousands of years. If there is a God, the Islam version cannot be it.
gravenimage says
mariam, you are a brave man for having left Islam.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Uh, I thought “mariam” was a girl’s name, like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Learned
gravenimage says
Mark, I’m not sure why miriam chose this username–he has never said. I’m just glad he was brave enough to have left Islam. He is a long time and respected poster here.
Manuel 2 Paleologus says
Hah! Hah! Hah! I second that. What a bunch of idiots.
lebel says
Pretty good points, clearly some women are being forced or pressured to wear it. That is to be condemned.
But clearly some do it because they want to, this also should not be denied.
Westman says
In most cases, yes. However where it is necessary to remove it for identification and security there must be exceptions. Try googling hijab, abaya, niqab, burqa, bank robber crime and see what has already happened,
gravenimage says
Some Muslim women use it as a form of Muslim surpremacy, which lebel from his posting history clearly applauds.
gravenimage says
It also distinguishes who can and cannot be raped by Muslims–“uncovered meat” is fair game, as lebel knows. Does he approve of this, as well?
Jack Diamond says
Regardless if they want to or don’t want to, it falls under the category of ibadat, religious observances and regulations and is part of the Shariah. Just like the mosque and halal meat and just like the jihad. Muslim women have a choice, until they don’t. And when Islam gets the upper hand they don’t.
And if, in freedom, they choose garments of slavery and oppression, or badges of Islamofacism, we are to celebrate it? Find it charming and harmless? The Hijab is nothing less than the announcement, right in the face of the infidels, that Islam is here! Shari’a is here, infidels! That is exactly what they mean wearing it (besides don’t kill me, father).
Well, the infidels get used to it don’t they? Pretty soon the progression to the burqa or niqab hardly raises an eyebrow in cosmopolitan dar al-Harb, so tolerant of women’s right to wear what she pleases and not be harassed. It becomes the new normal. Without thinking any deeper about the matter, without understanding Islam and how it advances and what it intends.
Michael Copeland says
The veiled muslim woman is
“a Soldier of Islam….. Flag-carrier for Islam; the flag is, of course, the veil.”
Pascal Hilout, former Muslim
http://gatesofvienna.net/2017/09/pascal-hilout-a-veiled-woman-is-a-soldier-of-islam/#more-43848
Jack Diamond says
Yes, excellent and eloquent.
“I am grateful to the “Islamists”
for showing us the true face of Mohamed,
because, they imitate him. In the Middle East
the people of ISIS do no more than apply
and reproduce what Mohamed did
14 centuries ago. And so I thank them
For showing us the true face of Islam.
But unfortunately we have not completely
left behind us the doubletalk nor the aversion
towards speaking of the subject. Because
this fear of being persecuted
makes it so that we do not always speak
Truly. At the time, of course, the precautions employed
were to speak of “Islamism” and not of “Islam”.
And then also, one still spoke of the
Muslim woman as a victim
of the veil. Perhaps she is that,
in the Middle East. But in France
she is (a victim) no longer. She is a soldier of Islam.
And at Riposte Laïque I think I have contributed
to finally getting the idea accepted: Let’s stop
believing that the Muslima is only
a… let’s say… victim.
No. She is the vector.
Today here in France:
her veil says to us all
“I am Muslima and I will only marry a Muslim or a
Well-circumcised convert. It is SHE who facilitates a not insignificant number
of conversions via her bed.
Believe me.
And while we have not understood this,
as long we don’t understand that with the Muslima
and her veil, the melting pot
is completely torpedoed, we will have understood nothing.
We will not understand why the French nation is breaking up.
And so I have contributed a little to this idea
that we must move the Muslima from her status of victim
to the one of soldier for Islam. Even its flag-carrier.
Flag-carrier for Islam; the flag is, of course, the veil.”
gravenimage says
Good posts, Jack and Michael.
Native jo says
Many Muslim women in western countries say they have to get approval to not wear a hihab or niqab in order to comply with dress codes. If there is a ban, then it would be harder to punish women who don’t want to wear it.
Jayell says
What was that quote from that charming young lady?…. “When I put on my hjiab I’m no longer
like those ordinary white girls in New York”……So is that an admission that she’s WORSE? Or is she telling us that she’s an arrogant racist, convinced of her aristocratic superiority over all those kuffar peasants? Well the only ‘superiority’ I could make out in all the smug swaggerings of that procession of ‘delectable’ young females modelling the pieces of rag over their heads lay in the sheer decibel quantity of acoustic garbage issuing from their oral cavities. And to think that the forbears of those ‘ordinary white girls’ would have been creating that not-so-ordinary great metropolis of international repute whilst the ancestors of this veritable paragon of perfection with the cleaning cloth on her head were probably mucking out their camels in their moth-eaten tents. Yes, dear, oh chosen one of Allah, you are SO much better than the rest of us – in your dreams! The trouble is, your ‘dreams’ are every civilised persons’ nightmare. And, having seen and heard these charming creatures expounding on the sanctity of their precious headgear, I now know who to avoid like the plague when I see them coming. There’s an interesting contrast between these pretentious paragons and the good ladies of the industrial northern mill towns of the UK, who also usually wore scarves over their heads; that is mill girls put the scarves on for protection, worked hard for the good of the wider community, were decent and honest and had no time to be insufferably conceited.
WPM says
She should get a FGM then she can be extra special, fully an Islamic female adult, and Reza Aslan should get himself castrated so he will not have to feel guilty for being male.
gravenimage says
“When I put on my hjiab I’m no longer like those ordinary white girls in New York”
………………
Yes–no freedom, no agency, no decency, no capacity to love and create–instead, a symbol of conquest and cruelty. *Ugh*.
Guy Macher says
Reza’s Muslim barrow owner needs to order him to stop with the drek, already!
gravenimage says
Why would they? It’s working, most of the time.
Georg says
If they got married do you think it would be Reza Sarsour or Linda Aslan?
Jack Diamond says
Reza Cockroach, definitely
Georg says
Catchy
Paul says
I am sure that the one featured at 1:25 minutes is the same one parodied
in this cartoon, a video that’s actually honest! :
Paul says
*Indeed, it is the same one. Her name is Amani Al-Khatahtbeh.
gravenimage says
Paul, thanks for posting this animation by Sye Ten–he is hilarious, and absolutely spot on about Islam.
Paul says
He sure is. Glad you like it 🙂
gravenimage says
People should check out his other animation videos on Islam–they are well worth seeing!
Irene Brekelmans says
It seems, that we never get any real answer on our questions, if you get an answer, it is so illogic, that
one starts to wonder if everything is still ok in the brains of those people who are answering, or no answers at all from the lefts. It is amazing. See above question, one of the many about a moslim young girl
who refused to wear her hijab, and so the father chokes her to death (Aqsa Parvez).
Why isn’t there anybody and a leftist who gives a good logical answer, and explain why you find this normal !!!. This is not normal this is an atrocity. You are killing your own child for a hijab, you kill your child for honour, what honour and for whom., for other people who do the same to their children.
Citizens of countries should be protected against you by their governments. That will only happen when you kill or rape a son or daughter from the elite or the government or a mayors daughter. But Muslims don’t do that, because they know what will happen then, but may be one day you can find your brains back. And one day, you will have to, so says our God and you are not aloud to conquer the world.
Nobody is and nobody is superior to anybody on this earth. So think about that
Sam says
YOU CAN NOT FIX STUPID.
zachary says
The Hell with all those rags on your head That phony Quran Sharia Law Drinking Camel Urine wiping your ass with your hands Killing anybody you do not like your a bunch of animals stay in the desert you ruthless savages.
gravenimage says
Reza Aslan: “A hijab is a thing that a male Muslim should have absolutely no opinion about”
………………….
My God, what a load of crap. You’d think that wearing the Hijab was the idea of Muslim women–rather than a demand of the “Prophet” himself, most often enforced by Muslim men.
Aslan is from Iran, where women are beaten or arrested for not being “properly” veiled. Is he about to criticize his masters?
Of course not–this is for Infidel consumption.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Uh, I thought “mariam” was a girl’s name, like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Learned
gravenimage says
Mark, miriam rove is a guy–an Iranian ex-Muslim. I’m not sure why he picked this username–he has never said.
But he is a staunch Anti-Jihadist, and very sharp. That’s good enough for me!
shosh7154 says
miriam is also Hebrew….very interesting this iranian man with an israeli jewish lady’s name
libertyORdeath says
Not sure if this was mentioned but even non Muslim women are being forced to wear a hijab or worse when in a “Muslim country” and almost without question when in the presence of a muslim man. If Mr Azlan’s usual fantasy Islam was as he claims, what would be the point if the hijab is optional or not highly frowned upon or outright illegal as it is in much of the Islamic world? Even non Muslim female politicians and religious leaders SUBMIT to wearing the hijab in the presence of the “all powerful” male Muslims of places like Saudi Arabia and Iran.
With the left constantly focused on the “lies” coming from President Trump, it’s a real surprise to see they’re outright support and belief in lie after lie from many of the Muslims of the world. The sad part is that trumps lies rarely do anything of note while Islam’s lies are responsible for the death, destruction and subjugation of more than a billion human beings just from within islam alone. That doesn’t even account for the countless others who have suffered from the lies and deeds of Muslims for some 1400 years.
Everyone in the world who is not a Muslim and NOT YET a dhimmi need to take a firm stand and reject and oppose these lies and deeds at every turn. I like to think of the great John Paul Jones when this thought crosses my mind…We have not yet begun go fight!
gravenimage says
True–non-Muslim women have been beaten, imprisoned, and murdered outright for not wearing Hijab.
FYI says
What about cannibalism?
what do muslim males think about the revolting business of eating human brain tissue?
Surely the muslim male must have opinions on this.
Muslim men should show solidarity with their muslima sisters and cover their faces:
The Murqa;burqas for men
Everything in islam appears to be geared towards satisfying the male.
You can have “two,three,four” women if you like in an immoral,sinful,polygamous relationship says allah in koran 4 v 3..But why stop there? How about 7,8 or 9?
So allah conveniently accommodates the male but a muslim woman with “two,three ,four” husbands would not please allah.Yes,that would be wrong.
And when the devout muslim man goes to paradise the male carnal fantasy continues..
72 virgins.
According to muhammed(the most incredibly perfect and holiest man that ever existed)most of those who go to hell are.. women.All that hijab wearing for nothing!
The needs of women in paradise seem not to be considered by allah except yo be subject to the male.
What do they get in paradise from allah?
A sewing kit,a half-eaten candy bar and a message from allah “you are super!Now clean the toilets on your way out,love xxx allah”
Henner720 says
Im glad he only said that. And not kill all jews.BTW what is the chance anybody will adhere to that mans orders.?
gravenimage says
Nope–and he knows it. This is just for Infidel consumption.
Dan says
During the oil crisis in the 1980s the Muslim countries were greatly enriched it is apparent they used the wealth to purchase control of the western media outlets so now they are protecting themselves from scrutiny and brainwashing the politically correct sheep thank God they can’t buy Robert Spencer or Pamela Geller and some of the rest of us keep up the work Mr Spencer
The Rational Orangutan says
It’s interesting to note that you often hear these Western Muslims speaking of how perfect Islam is. But how many Muslims from a Muslim majority country is able to speak as freely as these western born Muslims. I’m from Malaysia and prides itself as a bastion of moderate muslims in Asia. Even here things are bad. Few states actually force the ladies to wear hijab. PErhaps Linda Sarsour and Reza Aslan should visit more Muslims majority countries before they open their mouth.