Here is still more trumped-up victimhood propaganda. It’s much more likely that the only real reason why Fakhruddin Ahmed’s wife might not be able to leave the house is because he hasn’t given her permission to do so. Islamic law stipulates: “The husband may forbid his wife to leave the home…because of the hadith related by Bayhaqi that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, ‘It is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to allow someone into her husband’s house if he is opposed, or to go out if he is averse'” (Reliance of the Traveller m10.4).
Much more commentary interspersed below.
“My wife won’t leave home alone thanks to Trump’s anti-Muslim hysteria,” by Fakhruddin Ahmed, Star-Ledger, October 15, 2017:
Hijab or headscarf-wearing women are disproportionately impacted by the anti-Muslim hysteria President Trump’s rhetoric and incitements has engendered. Hijab is a mystery to most Americans.
“Do these women wear it when they are intimate?” some wonder. (No, women take their hijab off as they enter the privacy of their homes.) Women aspire to enhance their spirituality by donning the hijab. However, those who think the hijab makes women obsequious do not know Muslim women!
Fakhruddin Ahmed leads off with a rhetorical straw man, trying to make any opposition to the hijab appear ridiculous. “Do these women wear it when they are intimate?” Does anyone ever really wonder that? It only seems to appear in Muslim and Leftist apologetics for the hijab, such as this egregious video from Vox.
Muslim Americans do not compel their womenfolk to wear the hijab, nor do they consider women not wearing it less Muslim. It is the woman’s choice. American society pressures women not to wear it. Those who do, consider it feminist, liberating and empowering. Hijab covers the head, not the brain, they stress.
“Muslim Americans do not compel their womenfolk to wear the hijab.” Maybe, but Muslims in the U.S. don’t have a different version of Islam from that held elsewhere, and elsewhere, multitudes of women have been compelled to wear the hijab. Has Fakhruddin Ahmed heard of Aqsa Parvez, whose Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it? Or Aqsa and Amina Muse Ali, a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab? Or the Muslim woman in Italy who was raped and beaten by her husband, and forced to wear a burqa? 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 all the other women and girls who have been killed or threatened, or who live in fear for daring not to wear the hijab?
“American society pressures women not to wear it.” Really? Where? The hip, cool Leftist intelligentsia celebrates the hijab. Western feminists defend the hijab. So where is this pressure coming from?
Hijab is a symbol of modesty, privacy, and perpetual prayer. It is not a defiant religious statement. The Qur’an (24:30-31) implores Muslims –men and women — to lower their gaze and guard their modesty, and advises women to draw veils over their bosoms and not flaunt their beauty. While many women fulfill the Qur’anic exhortation by wearing the hijab, most men avoid wearing religious garb.
“While many women fulfill the Qur’anic exhortation by wearing the hijab, most men avoid wearing religious garb.” Why the dichotomy? Fakhruddin Ahmed doesn’t explain it, but actually it is because the hijab is a manifestation of a woman’s responsibility to prevent men from being tempted by her appearance. If they’re tempted anyway, and she is molested, it’s her fault — hence honor killings.
Women wear the hijab to discourage unwelcome prying eyes from male strangers. Although the hijab reflects a desire to be left alone, ironically, it makes the woman more conspicuous — and a target: Hijab-wearing women are the easiest to identify as Muslims, and bear the brunt of anti-Muslim prejudice.
Hijab-wearing women are the targets of verbal abuse, racial slurs, and taunts, such as “ISIS terrorist!” “Go back home!” Sometimes the attacks are physical, such as snatching away of the hijab exposing the woman’s hair, or punching the woman. In May, a substitute male teacher was charged with a hate crime for ripping off eight-year-old Safa Alzockary’s hijab in a Bronx school, injuring her eye.
Not surprisingly, Fakhruddin Ahmed’s account is misleading. The teacher must have been a white racist Trump supporter, right? Wrong. The teacher’s name is Oghenetega Edah, and he is black. Nor was his action some out-of-the-blue manifestation of “Islamophobia.” The New York Post reports: “The girl was misbehaving in class and sitting in the teacher’s chair without his permission. So the teacher tapped her on her arm to get her to move. When she wouldn’t, he threatened to take the scarf, cops said. ‘I’m taking it off,’ he said as he pulled the Hijab off her head, causing an injury to her right eye, according to cops.” So is Oghenetega Edah a bad teacher? Yes. Should he have pulled off Safa Alzockary’s hijab? No. But this is more an incident of poor classroom discipline than of “anti-Muslim hate.”
After enduring eight days of silent hostility and cold stares, and the Muslim and Syrian refugee bans, Rumana Ahmed, a hijab-wearing Obama National Security Council appointee, left Trump’s White House, according to a 2017 article she wrote in The Atlantic.
Here is Rumana Ahmed’s Atlantic article. It’s a classic piece of victimhood posturing, but she says nothing about “silent hostility and cold stares” in the Trump White House. Her article is all about how she opposes Trump’s policies, which made her a poor fit for his NSC anyway. She says: “I had to leave because it was an insult walking into this country’s most historic building every day under an administration that is working against and vilifying everything I stand for as an American and as a Muslim.” It was an insult, but she says nothing about any Trump staffer insulting her, and you can be sure she would have if any of them had done so.
Two American heroes were murdered and another injured on a Portland, Oregon commuter train on May 26, when they came to the assistance of a hijab-wearing 17-year-old Muslim girl who was being verbally assaulted and physically threatened by a 35-year-old white supremacist. The best and the worst of America were on display on that train. To express their gratitude, Muslim Americans raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the families of the three heroes.
In reality, the Portland killer ranted against Jews, Christians, and Muslims. He said: “You don’t like it? You got a problem with what I’m saying? F*** all you Christians and Muslims and f****** Jews , f****** die. Burn you at the stake… f****** die.” But the establishment media did not note that he included Jews and Christians in his hatred, and reported him as “Islamophobe.”
On June 18, another 17-year-old hijab-wearing teen, Nabra Hassanen, was murdered by a 22-year-old man, as she, along with a group of hijab-wearing women were heading toward a Virginia mosque for morning prayers after eating the early morning meal Suhoor at a fast-food restaurant in preparation for the day’s Ramadan fast. As the assailant got out of his car swinging a baseball bat, all her friends ran away. Hassanen, wearing the traditional long dress abaya, tripped. The man bludgeoned her to death with the baseball bat and dumped her body in a pond near his apartment.
The killing of Nabra Hassanen was a heinous crime, but the killer was not an “Islamophobe,” he was a deranged thug, and he did not kill her because she was a Muslim. Police found nothing to indicate that this was a hate crime.
Fear of such life-threatening encounters is persuading some Muslim women not to wear the hijab. On Dec. 16, 2016 USA Today related the story of Melissa Grajek of San Marcos, Calif., who stopped wearing the hijab after a man snatched away his son, who was playing with Ms. Grajek’s son, and said, “I can’t wait until Trump is president because he’ll send you back to where you came from.”
Here is the USA Today story. Is there any witness to this incident besides Grajek herself? Even if it did happen, it’s just some lout. People are rude and obnoxious to other people every day; it doesn’t make the news.
Because of the increasing threat that the hijab poses to women wearing it, many Islamic scholars are expressing the opinion that under these adverse circumstances, it is permissible for Muslim women not to wear the hijab. To protect themselves, Muslim women are also signing up for self-defense workshops, buying pepper spray, taking firearms training, and applying for permits to carry concealed weapons….
Carried to the extreme, tendencies toward seclusion and segregation can result in non-integration and Muslim ghettos, which have incubated Muslim terrorists in Western Europe. We, as Americans, should not let that happen here.
If there are going to be Muslim ghettos in the U.S., it will be Muslims who establish them. Last year, the former head of Britain’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Trevor Phillips, said that Muslims refused to assimilate. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said: “Assimilation is a crime against humanity.”
The Qur’an says to Muslims: “You are the best nation produced for mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and believe in Allah.” (3:110) Meanwhile, it says of unbelievers: “Indeed, they who disbelieved among the People of the Book and the polytheists will be in the fire of Hell, abiding eternally therein. Those are the most vile of created beings.” (98:6)
Why would one of the “best nation,” who “enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong,” want to integrate into the society of “the most vile of created beings,” who do not?
Jaladhi says
Lie of all the lies – “it’s woman’s choice” just followed by the warning do as I tell you or els!! Who is he trying to fool?? Oh, just the gullible Americans!
mortimer says
There are SIX DIFFERENT WAYS of deception that are permissible in Islam:
1•Taqiyya (Shia) or Muda’rat (Sunni): tactical deceit for the purposes of spreading Islam.
2•Kitman: deceit by omission.
3•Tawriya: deceit by deliberate ambiguity.
4•Taysir: deceit through facilitation (not observing all the tenets of Sharia by ‘making things easier’).
5•Darura: deceit through necessity (to engage in something “Haram” or forbidden such as drinking alcohol to exploit non-Muslims).
6•Muruna: ‘flexibility’ or temporary suspension of Sharia to make Muslim migrants appear ‘moderate’ and blend in until Muslims numerically strong enough to enforce Sharia.
Muslims imitate Allah ‘THE GREATEST OF DECEIVERS’.
Allahu khayru l-makireena – Koran. 3:54; cf. 8:30
Eagle says
Fakhruddin Ahmed needs to unlock the closet door so she can come out. Has she had her FGM done, maybe this is why he will not unlock the door!! Fakhruddin Ahmed is a lie and and asshole.Maybe he is looking for Obama’s five shit award?Everywhere in the world, where there are Muslims and non-Muslims, there is conflict because the Muslims attack the non-Muslims. The Qur’an teaches the Muslims to make war against the unbelievers, and to subjugate them. A real example: CAIR is attempting to demonize the Burmese Buddhists for protecting their home land. It’s only after decades of Muslims attacking, robbing, raping Buddhists, killing their monks and burning their temples, that has made them campaign to send the Rohingyas Muslims back where they came from – Bangladesh. Burmese Buddhists are finding new ways to make life miserable for Muslims who have brought nothing but misery to this Buddhist country. Buddhists are fed up with Islamization, the only contribution of which, has been soaring rape, murder, and crime rates. So, they are doing whatever they have to do. America will have to learn what the Buddhists have learned in Burma.“ The very same thing is going on now in America.This happens to be what the Muslims want!! This is what Keith Ellison, CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood want to happen so they can prop up Sharia Law in the U. S. CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood have no allegiance to America, American Law. They only have allegiance to Allah and Sharia Law.
Jacqueleen says
My sentiment exactly…..Lies, lies, lies. A woman cannot leave the house alone…she must be escorted by a man and have his permission to leave…..Did I read this correctly?
Jayell says
Someone of a muslim persuasion calling someone else ‘hysterical’? I think I ‘ve heard everything now!
mortimer says
Taqiyya. It’s actually PSYCHOLOGICAL PROJECTION… attributing to ‘others’ your own shortcomings, prejudices and personality flaws, rather than face them and reform oneself.
Dave says
Assimilation is not going to happen: Hijrah – To emigrate in the cause of Allah. “And whoever emigrates for the cause of Allah will find on the earth many locations and abundance,” .
rubiconcrest says
The truth is she can’t leave the house uncovered due to her fear of fellow Muslims in the community and her husband.
Pete says
One less muzzie out in public
Sounds like progress
Please deport?
I wonder about leftists says
The victimising of muslims are getting old. Every day a new one, one even more pitiful than the other.
Even if this was true, you did it all yourselves, YOU BLEW IT !!!
But I must say, you are wonderful story tellers, how you come up with everything every day. It is a pity that your stories and deeds are so sinister and atrocious, otherwise you would be great writers, sorry I forgot,
you have already the most important book [sarc]
Carolyne says
Muslim women wear head covering because the sight of a woman’s hair is apt to send a Muslim man into a sexual frenzy which he can’t control, being the sub human that he is.
“The strongest chain is a hair of a woman’s head.” That’s a song from the old Broadway musical, ” No Strings,” but it speaks of devotion between men and women and the strong bond of love, not sexual frenzy, rape and murder.
Voytek Gagalka says
I. e., justifying Islam horrendous track record by referencing to daily life “suffering” (true or invented) in the land of kuffar, and always with an objective to further spread Islam. One must admit, extremely clever tactic which, so far, unfortunately, works in most instances. Most of media will eagerly jump to help them in that task: look how those “poor” Muslims are “suffering” because of widespread “Islamophobia”!
mortimer says
Exactly. The media send INFORMED journalists to cover sports, INFORMED journalists to cover politics, INFORMED journalists to cover FINANCIAL STORIES, but they send UNINFORMED journalists to cover Islam.
MFritz says
So he found his perfect excuse.
mortimer says
THAT VICTIMIZED MUSLIM SLAVE WOMAN STAYS HOME because of misogynistic SHARIA LAW and NOT because of Pres. Trump who has always promoted capable women in his companies.
Guest says
Why do I find that hard to believe
SAM says
Wow. Muslims have no morals. This man is living in the most tolerant country in the history of humanity and he is bitchin about his wife being scared going out the house.
I don’t want Muslims in America
Stan Lee says
You’re right, but most likely in his mind “tolerance” is not a virtue but is a weakness.
Freedom is what we strive for and have fought for, if they are free at all, it is to obey directives as conveyed in the koran. If they deviate from the koran and pursue our freedoms, they are guilty of apostasy and subject to one of their brethren putting a “hit” on the koranic deviating party.
They came to a country with freedom as its theme, but they aren’t here for the freedom, they are here to scheme against it because it belongs to non-Muslims whom the koran directs “to be struck in their necks wherever they can be found.” Wherever they are, they must endeavor to create a world ruled by Islam and no other belief.
gravenimage says
Muslims will use our freedoms until they are in a position to crush them.
gravenimage says
New Jersey: Muslim claims his wife won’t leave home alone because of “Trump’s anti-Muslim hysteria”
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What a load of crap. More likely he has forbidden her to leave the house.
religionofpeace says
Another example of Muslim taqiyya (lying). The truth is women is forbidden going out without her guardian permission that the restrictions have been implemented widely all over the Islamic countries under the name of Sharia Laws (Islamic laws).
Muslim tend to follow Sharia laws instead of our secular laws.
Henner720 says
cause potus is a muslim. to him. not still but even though.disturbing muslim order. tell me what the purpose of having him in gods own country is? get the buggers out. in a company dø they hire alot if mental to go bankrupt a.q.a.p.
Politicianphobia says
Ye gad, how sad, too bad, we are not being had. South Carolina Imam Sayyed Adly said recently ” A man owns a woman and that women should be “as prisoners” in your house. There are planes leaving the US for the Middle East. Western tradition, if you are not happy move. GOOD BYE