It is more likely that Dresden is referring to the niqab, not the burqa as such, but in any case, this is yet another sign that the Germans know what is coming, and are doing their best to prepare their people for it. Germany’s future will not actually be diverse and multicultural. It will be quite monochromatic.
“German city promotes wearing the burqa using taxpayer money,” Voice of Europe, January 17, 2018:
The Adult Education Centre (VHS) in Dresden will present a course next summer called: Dress codes in Islam. Participants can test burqas and other ‘women oppressing’ Islamic garments.
According to the course book “colourful headgears make curious about the wearers” and people can try out “how a burqa feels”.
The initiative is criticised by Muslim feminist Seyran Ates, who thinks that the course consolidates the traditional role of women in Islam. “The language used in the description of the course uncritically diminishes the worldviews behind the cover: a society in which the sexes are as far apart as possible”, she said….
A spokeswoman of the education centre says “that she sees it as a place of integration. The course is “value-free” and serves citizens to form an opinion.”…The event is funded with taxpayer money from the City of Dresden.
CRUSADER says
Those coverups can become very handy wardrobe in the cold gloomy winters of north-central Germany….
Mak says
Or to cover up explosives designed to kill infidels.
mortimer says
The Islamic veil is the ultimate symbol of misogyny and patriarchal control.
Peter says
But you gotta admit, some of those bush pigs look a lot better with a burka on.
Andy says
Road to Fascism – 10 Signs of Fascism in Any Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icFO-9yWMu8
Andy says
Political Correctness Gone Mad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7uCyBVD-9U
LeftisruiningCanada says
That is a very Marxist explanation of Fascism. “Corporations’ are falsely given a very important place in this interpretation, which is not often the case in actual Fascist nations.
Private industry is often allowed some free reign under Fascism, as it was for a while in Italy under mussonlini. Nazi Germany also did not nationalize all means of production.
But that is not because Fascism is philosophically supportive of a free market. It isn’t. ALL that matters, and all that guides policy in a Fascist country, is what best serves the National Interest at any given moment. This is decided by the Leader, who is believed to be a manifestation of the collective Will.
This video is wrong when it claims that “corporate ownership of the media” is important in a Fascist regime. Who owns it is irrelevant, since the State will nationalize and control it as and when necessary.
While the video does recognize the centrality of ‘Nation’ in Fascist thought, something which can hardly be missed, pretty much everything else in the ten points is hideously marred by the obvious Socialist/Communist worldview of the narrator.
Using the incorrect and trite understanding of a TV host as a starting point for a guide to Fascism is not a good sign….
PragerU has some videos on Fascism which are far more accurate and trustworthy than this one Andy.
gravenimage says
Good analysis, LeftisruiningCanada.
While there is nominally free enterprise in Fascist societies, the truth is that the the Fascist state can seize any business whose owner gets out of line.
LeftisruiningCanada says
“Everything within the State, nothing outside of the State, nothing against the State”
Fascists don’t have the same aversion to private property that Communism do, nor the same reasons, but that’s only because nothing is outside of the State’s control anyway. If the State needs it, they take it. If they don’t, the ‘individual’ is allowed to use it, so long as that use does not contradict the National Good.
Allowing free market enterprise (sort of) may be one reason why there weren’t the same kinds of mass famines as occured under pretty much all major attempts to construct a socialist nation: freer markets just work!
China is going that way for the same reason. They are slowly accepting the fact that central planning can’t operate properly. What they aren’t giving up is political ties and ultimate control over private companies. LiFan is a good example. One of the largest privately founded and owned companies in China….but the owner has been admitted to the high levels of the Party, and attends meetings with all the power controllers.
They call it “managed capitalism” now in China…but it’s more like Fascism than a simple regulated free market.
TheBuffster says
Here are a few excerpts from an article written in *1944* by Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises regarding Nazi economics:
“The foreign critics condemn the Nazi system as capitalist. In this age of fanatical anticapitalism and enthusiastic support of socialism no reproach seems to discredit a government more thoroughly in the eyes of fashionable opinion than the qualification pro-capitalistic. But this is one charge against the Nazis that is unfounded. We have seen in a previous chapter that the Zwangswirtschaft is a socialist system of all-round government control of business.
“It is true that there are still profits in Germany. Some enterprises even make much higher profits than in the last years of the Weimar regime. But the significance of this fact is quite different from what the critics believe. There is strict control of private spending.
“No German capitalist or entrepreneur (shop manager) or any one else is free to spend money on his consumption than the government considers adequate to his rank and position in the service of the nation. The surplus must be deposited with the banks or invested in domestic bonds or in the stock of German corporations wholly controlled by the government.
“Hoarding of money or banknotes is strictly forbidden and punished as high treason. Even before the war there were no imports of luxury goods from abroad, and their domestic production has long since been discontinued. Nobody is free to buy more food and clothing than the allotted ration. Rents are frozen; furniture and all other goods are unattainable…”
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“…German corporations are not free to distribute their profits to the shareholders. The amount of the dividends is strictly limited according to a highly complicated legal technique. It has been asserted that this does not constitute a serious check, as the corporations are free to water the stock. This is an error. They are free to increase their nominal stock only out of profits made and declared and taxed as such in previous years but not distributed to the shareholders.
“As all private consumption is strictly limited and controlled by the government, and as all unconsumed income must be invested, which means virtually lent to the government, high profits are nothing but a subtle method of taxation.”
Find the whole article here: https://fee.org/resources/the-economic-policy-of-the-nazis/
The two poles in politics, if they are to make consistent sense, should place all the totalitarian systems at one pole and all systems that ban the initiation of force and the use of fraud at the other pole. Total state power over life versus the state using its power only to defend life and liberty from those who would initiate force and use fraud to gain their ends.
If you ban the initiation of force and the use of fraud, you get a free market, which is capitalism. People voluntarily trade with each other. The government steps in when people use violence or steal property or defraud, etc., but it doesn’t tell people how to live their lives or run their businesses.
In this model, Nazism/Fascism and communism all belong together because they all use the initiation of force to shape society to the will of the ruling parties or dictators. *None* of these ideologies or their champions admired and upheld free markets. They all wanted total power and total control. It is nonsense to separate Nazism/Fascism from Communism and pair it with a free market system.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Thanks Buffster, that’s great. Mises is good stuff.
Speaking of the political spectrum, have you looked much into the various options there are?
There is a good two axis model in use here: http://www.politicalcompass.org
The left-right is economic, and ranges from command economy to laissez faire.
The vertical axis is social policy, and goes from authoritarian on top to liberatrian below.
It allows for a bit more distinction to be made, since as you mentioned, having Commuinism and Fascism right nex to each other on a single axis is a bit confusing.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Although i do agree that Fascism is left wing economically and left wing (state power rules) with regards to it’s treatment of the people.
It seems that Fascism is so often called ‘hard right’ or whatever, because those making the judgment are themselves so very left. From that perspective, i agree that Fascism is more to their right….but then, so is everything else.
Andy says
Nearly a third of the German Muslim students answered yes when asked whether they could imagine fighting for Islam and risking their lives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81Ka7oKri6M
gravenimage says
What they really mean is fighting for Islam and murdering Infidels.
StellaSaidSo says
They’re handy for concealing ill-gotten gains from the supermarket, too.
I once saw a Muslima try to hide a toaster in the folds of her voluminous shroud.
Andy says
Those BEE KEEPER suits that moslimas wear should ALL BE BANNED in any western society nation!!!
We have to stop being politically correct! Islam is taking advantage of our generosity and Judeo-Christan way of life to twist it to take advantage of us.
FUIslam
Lydia Church says
And instead of promoting the cross, they choose the burqa? (oh sure, no hidden agenda there of course, or an overt one!)
This is what I see everywhere. On the Christian Post there was an article yesterday about how facebook has been banning conservative and Christian sites, but they leave up death threats to those same sites! You can promote any amount of evil ideology and sin, but as soon as you come against it you are banned. The new holocaust is here folks, if you have a Christian voice, you are banned and soon it will be even worse, so remain strong and steadfast in the faith!
Today was another article on the same site saying the same thing regarding facebook and a pro life movie, the list goes on…
There was also an article about a muslim woman who converted to Christianity and has lead 1,500 to Jesus! The story is interesting and more evidence of all that we are saying on here!
: D
gravenimage says
Of course, sometimes the wearers of Burqas look like men because the *are men*. Great way to anonymously commit crimes or wage violent Jihad.
BC says
‘value free’ is not a phrase we usually associate with anything Islamic
JawsV says
What in the heck happened to Europe?
Renee says
Europe vomited the christian faith.
LeftisruiningCanada says
I’d offer that Europe digested Christianity for many centuries, using all that it considered fine and good within it to build itself up into a great and law abiding place, but then decided that it had finished taking everything useful and evecuated the hard to digest parts out.
You know, Jesus, Sin, Judgement, Salvation, Hell, a single source of objective Truth…the bits that humans in out natural state don’t tend to like too much.
epistemology says
The Europeans don’t fight to defend their Judeo-Christian culture. Germany is an especially bad case, as the Germans who killed the Jews welcome the worst anti-Semites in their country. Karl Lagerfeld, the great fashion designer a native German, already said so in a French chat show.
Islam is incompatible with any civilization not only the Judeo-Chrisrian one. People obviously don’t realize that niquabs have nothing to do with multiculturalism – in its genuine form – but are only a token for the oppression of women.
brane pilot says
People in Europe used to signal their virtue by going to church and raising families.
Now that people have abandoned religion and family life, they signal their virtue by embracing self annihilation via progressive politics, homophilia / feminism, and social engineering a Marxist ‘multicultural utopia’ via Third World mass migration.
That is the ‘how’.
The ‘why’ remains a mystery and may never be resolved. No known theory of human depth psychology offers an answer. My suspicion is that progressive brainwashing in elementary schools has consequences no one expected.
DFD says
The headline is misleading. They tried to “…give women a feeling for how Muslim women feel…”
It backfired massively. Even within the established parties was outrage (except the greens/Bolshevists), the thing was essentially scrapped in no-time. What’s left is a workshop where women can try on a burqa or hijab… It went ‘kaplonck’ so quickly that even PEGIDA didn’t find time to respond.
On the plus side, it certainly helped the AfD even further.
Diane Harvey says
“this is yet another sign that the Germans know what is coming”
Or as Kent Brockman, himself representatively as gutless as the MSM and Western politicians and other slavish worshippers at the PC altar, put it,
“Ladies and gentlemen, er, we’ve just lost the picture, but, uh, what we’ve seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over — ‘conquered’, if you will — by a master race of giant space ants [Muslims]. It’s difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume [convert] the captive earth men or merely enslave them [or exercise the third Muslim option, kill them]. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants [Muslims] will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect [Islamic] overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to…toil in their underground sugar caves.”
steve says
Diane, yes, Can you see H.G.Wells, The Time Machine coming to reality ? We, the supine frightened,cowardly Eloi, who watch, quietly embarrassed as their wives and children are killed by the Morlocks who emanate from underground with their prayer mats tucked under their arms to destroy and subjugate…
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yep, Wells and Huxley were all very well connected to political power, and produced pictures of the ‘utopias’ that seemed probable to them. The Eloi/Morlocks and Brave New World aren’t that dissimilar when you get down to it.
Older Canadian says
Why do western governments, apparently of all levels, hate women so much?
Or is this the bond that binds.
Or do they think if they can convince all “decent” women to cover themselves in the Islamic style it will reduce rape and sexual attacks. If so then I go back to my original question stated a bit differently. Why are women hated so much?
Terry Gain says
This is a guess, but since women are generally more liberal than men liberals are more welcoming of Muslims than conservatives I think you asked the wrong question. The better question is why do western women not support Muslim women?
CRUSADER says
Then how can you have a trick with your treat?
Eur says
Soon carnival and Halloween will be prohibited… they are un Islamic.
Peter says
I can see Freddy turning in his grave.
Oh shit!…. there’s a knock on the door
gravenimage says
Muslims have attacked those celebrating Hallowe’en before.
elee says
Given the frequency with which Muslim women martyr themselves to perpetuate their oppression, why does Germany let them walk around in these tents that are just perfect for concealing suicide bomb vests? What’s next, seminars recruiting men to learn they joys of taharrush?
mortimer says
They should be using taxpayer money to teach women why they should NOT wear the Islamic veil.
Lynn says
Amen!
Tjhawk says
If I understand correctly, muslim women pull a covering down over themselves to signal their ownership by some muslim male or other. This distinguishes her from the uncovered women, who, of course, are open to abuse from the muslim males. I can’t remember the sura#
This happened because mohammed’s military cohesion was disintegrating because some of his rapists were raping women already claimed by some other mohammedan rapist. This caused serious squabbling amongst the rapists. The covering was a tool to identify which of the women could be freely raped without causing dissention between the rapists.
Today’s niqab is still used pretty much the same, but in a social rather than military role.
CRUSADER says
Yeah. It’s degenerate.
It’s like how prison clothing became fashionable in general society….
Disgusting deterioration of standards and denigration of comportment !
gravenimage says
What the veil basically says to Muslim men is, “Don’t rape me. Rape that uncovered slut over there”.
gravenimage says
German city uses taxpayer funds to promote wearing the burqa
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So Germany can be just the Islamic sh*thole of Afghanistan…
More:
The course is “value-free” and serves citizens to form an opinion.”…The event is funded with taxpayer money from the City of Dresden.
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“Value free”–they aren’t kidding…
LeftisruiningCanada says
It is certainly “value-free”, but far from free of values.
DHazard says
So I’m in this weird German town and end up in the hospital. Then the diversity nurse comes in dressed for a 12th century funeral. You’re only clue as to who you are dealing with is their tone of voice. Sounds female. Then she finds out you’re HIV positive and her tone changes. “Are you gay?” she asks. “What difference does that make, I have a broken knee.” “ARE YOU GAY?, she demands. “Are you a slave?” I reply. She storms out of the room and her billowing death shroud gets tangled in the IV stand sending it crashing to the floor. Everybody laughs at her after which she files hate crime charges followed up by a discrimination lawsuit. After winning the lawsuit, her husband divorces her in five seconds and keeps all the money per the decision of the local Shariah court. She and her 7 children are then forced to go on state benefits. which she considers owed to her as jizya and for which she feels no sense of gratitude. And to this day none of her neighbors knows what she looks like, but they assume she is anything but a decent human being. She, on the other hand, believes they all secretly hate her. Meanwhile, her eldest son is enforcing the niqab rule on his younger sisters; “You don’t want to look like one of those Western sluts!”, overlooking his own “conquests” of underoage German girls. He is also currently engaged to a woman he has never seen, although they did have a “face-to-face” conversation. Pretty much nobody in the family prays five times a day, every day.
simpleton1 says
A great distillation of how every one seeks and uses the power they possess that can be inveigled out of using the political power in the islamic ideology as a mask.
Cheer Bear Girl says
They want all of Germany to submit to their Islamic rulers.
Tom says
I wonder what the stats are on any increase in robberies using a burka as disguise in Germany.
Given that the Europeans, and particularly the Germans, walk on eggshells regarding the wearing of a burka, this time of Islamappeasement seems to be a boon for criminals looking to disguise their identities.
Perhaps we should all consider keeping a burka in our car for that opportune moment when anonymity may be needed.
terry says
The only reaction we should have for the burka is disgust.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Seeing these garments is like witnessing a non-stop ‘sieg heil’ walking down the street, or a black flag of jihad being waved.
Skeezix says
Worst thing to hit Dresden since the Allied firestorm bombing in 1945.
Politicianophobia says
Every time I look at women in their ghost costume, I realize what an Islamophobic, racist, Islam hater I am. Geeez and my dear Dad taught me to box, talk about diversity.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYmTFL9nbRQ
Cheer Bear Girl says
The deportation of Muslims would have been a better use of taxpayer money.