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UK school reverses hijab ban for small children after “Islamophobia” accusations

Jan 22, 2018 1:15 pm By Robert Spencer

Yes, the only reason why anyone would oppose the hijab is because of “Islamophobia,” right?

Well, there is the underlying reasoning behind it. The idea is that it is entirely the woman’s responsibility to prevent men from being tempted. She must cover herself in order to forestall that temptation. So putting a hijab on a young girl is tantamount to stating that the prepubescent girl is a legitimate object of sexual desire, and thus must behave in the same way that is expected of adult women.

St. Stephen’s Primary School in Newham, and all of Britain, needs to have an honest and open public discussion about that, and its implications for the rights of women and girls, but instead, cries of “Islamophobia” will drown it out, and the hijab left firmly in place on the youngest of girls. Britain is, as you know, finished.

“School Reverses Hijab Ban for Small Children After ‘Islamophobia’ Accusations,” by Liam Deacon, Breitbart, January 21, 2018:

A well-regarded primary school has been forced to drop a ban on small children fasting and wearing Islamic headscarves after accusations of “Islamophobia”.

St. Stephen’s Primary School in Newham, a heavily Muslim-populated area of East London, made headlines when it announced the ban, which was welcomed by campaigners who say child veiling sexualises youngsters and promotes extremism.

The school also argued that it could be dangerous for young people to fast, and could possibly hurt their concentration and learning.

However, Muslim parents and left-wing campaigners reacted furiously, claiming that they had not been properly consulted on the new uniform and safety measures.

‘Extremist’ groups such as Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND) objected, and a group of local councillors published an open letter on the Islamist-sympathising website 5Pillars.

The school’s chair of governors, Arif Qawi, this Friday announced he was stepping down following the backlash, telling colleagues in an email reported by the Guardian:

“I wish the school continued success and am truly sorry that my actions have caused any harm to the reputation of the fantastic school.”

The school’s website posted a note on Friday described as a uniform policy update, reading:

“Having spoken to our school community we now have a deeper understanding of the matter and have decided to reverse our position with immediate effect.”

The note was later amended to read: “The school has taken the decision to make the changes to this policy with immediate effect and this follows on from conversations with our school community.

“We will work with our school community to continue to review this policy going forward in the best interests of our children.”

Amina Lone, an activist who has lobbied the government to ban hijabs in schools for very young girls, slammed the school’s capitulation on Twitter.

Miqdaad Versi, Assistant Secretary General of the Islamist-linked Muslim Council of Britain, said his organisation welcomed Mr. Qawi’s resignation because of his allegedly “appalling” statements about Islamic veiling….

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", claiming victim status, Featured, Islamic supremacism, Sharia, United Kingdom, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Newham, St. Stephen’s Primary School


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  1. MFritz says

    Jan 22, 2018 at 1:39 pm

    Maybe those “brave” and enraged leftists should ask some exiled Iranians what actually happened to THEIR leftists once the ayatollahs took over back in 1979…

    • Jean Terry says

      Jan 22, 2018 at 4:37 pm

      Is that the truth!

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 22, 2018 at 10:26 pm

      True, MFritz. The Mullahs savagely liquidated the Communist Tudeh party as soon as they had considated their power there. A good–and very harrowing–book on the subject is “Letters to My Torturer” by Houshang Asadi.

      • MFritz says

        Jan 23, 2018 at 5:54 am

        Very horrific stuff! If you want to see the “final stage” of a (rather) modern state turned into an islamic hellhole, just take Iran as the prime example!

        Most exiled Iranians I know are very westernised and often mistaken for Italians or people from Greece. (And, yes, men AND women, most certainly no hijabs there!) If you talk about their home country they either get very sad or very angry.

        And they always tell me that nothing can change there (anymore) because the majority of the (exploding!) population agrees. Especially, the younger generations who ONLY know this system of systematic oppression and are introctinated from day one.

        Oh, maybe they want more relaxed laws in some regards when they’re younger, maybe less micro managing by religious police and the imams. But that’s IT.

        Women being less worth than men? “It’s the will of Allah.” Daughters being sold off like cattle to old perverts? “It’s the will of Allah.” Rinse and repeat.

        And THIS is the place our society is supposed to go?

        • Anne Smith says

          Jan 23, 2018 at 6:10 am

          Turkey is on the way there under Erdogan. I just hope Trump refuses to give way on protecting the Kurds and stops him annihilating those brave people.
          John Major sold the Kurds down the river after the Gulf War – why are our politicians so cowardly?

  2. LB says

    Jan 22, 2018 at 1:57 pm

    “Islamophobia” — the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card for muslims in UK.

  3. Dwight Hogg says

    Jan 22, 2018 at 2:02 pm

    Of course Muslim men are not expected to be able control themselves and have no responsibility to develop a moral code when it comes to women and young girls. This is why they can rape and prostitute girls as young as 10 in jolly old England. Why there has not been a world wide condemnation of these rape gangs flashing all over the world’s media. A Imam in Canada, Bilal Philips, is claiming that it is ok for an old man to marry a 10 year old….what did we get from the media? Deafening silence.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 22, 2018 at 10:29 pm

      Islam is the religion of pedophilia.

      Have you seen those Hijabs with elastic to be worn by children too small for a regular headscarf? Just appalling.

    • Anne Smith says

      Jan 23, 2018 at 6:15 am

      On the news last night there was a large piece devoted to a van driver who ran down a group of Muslims outside a mosque in London. One – who may have been dead already was being attended to by the group.

      It was a wicked and shocking thing to do and brought the perpetrator down to the terrorists level BUT the news broadcasters made so much of it, printing and displaying his notes and his explanations in such detail that people who knew little of that was going on in Rotherham, Rochdale etc. will now have a good grasp of what the Muslim gangs are up to. I do not think this was the television’s intention but they certainly told us more last night than we have ever been told, even mentioning the forbidden word “Muslim” through the words of the van driver.

  4. CRUSADER says

    Jan 22, 2018 at 2:02 pm

    All one has to say is:

    “J’Accuse!”

    Seems like we have to live the Dreyfus Affair all over again but with the Liberals at fault this time….

  5. Dum Spiro says

    Jan 22, 2018 at 2:05 pm

    Didn’t Muhammad direct that Muslim women cover up so they would be recognized and not abused?

    Maybe this is a way for an abuser to know which little girls are fair game and which he needs to keep away from (according to the earliest authentic teachings of Islam).

    Those little girls who do NOT cover all except their hands and face should know about this Islamic teaching and its origin. Their parents and those others who don’t submit must know this, right?
    — Spero

    • Dum Spiro says

      Jan 22, 2018 at 2:10 pm

      Oh, apparently it’s even stronger than merely Muhammad saying this. It looks like Allah himself said so:

      The Qur’an says: “O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.” (33:59)

      • Stacy Girl says

        Jan 22, 2018 at 7:50 pm

        Forgiving and merciful when it comes to the male attackers.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 22, 2018 at 10:37 pm

        Yes. What the Hijab says is, “Don’t rape me. Rape those uncovered sluts over there”.

      • Save Europe says

        Jan 22, 2018 at 10:53 pm

        Correct. If I’m also – not mistaken – this was a result of Moh’s first wife Khadija, going around with no clothes on. Genuinely.

      • Chand says

        Jan 23, 2018 at 4:26 am

        Yes, a covered up woman is safer in public from malevolent male eyes. But a malevolent male might still attack in spite of the cover. So the next layer of protection is the help from any passerby who happens to be Muslim.
        Any one will help a woman in distress. But if the victim is a covered up woman then sympathies for her will be stronger than for a woman who happens to be exposing more skin.
        On top of that Muslims passing by will jump to her rescue as it is well known trait that they look out for each other in places where they are a minority. That is one of the reasons they demarcate themselves with skull caps, beards, hijabs, etc. They can thereby recognize each other quickly in times of need.
        Attacking a woman covered up is attacking their religious custom, which means attacking their religion, their Prophet and the Holy Book.

        So who is going to dare doing that?

        I do not condone the covering up of small girls or enforcing hijabs. But Muslim women do cover up for protection in public. So do Hindu and Sikh women in India.

  6. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Jan 22, 2018 at 2:11 pm

    ““Having spoken to our school community we now have a deeper understanding of the matter and have decided to reverse our position with immediate effect.”

    Means: The muslims got angry and threatened to kill us all.

    “The note was later amended to read: “The school has taken the decision to make the changes to this policy with immediate effect and this follows on from conversations with our school community.”

    Means: The deaths threats were credible.

    “We will work with our school community to continue to review this policy going forward in the best interests of our children.”

    Means: We dare not ever raise the issue again. Child rape is no laughing matter. At least now the muslim girls are safe.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Jan 22, 2018 at 7:26 pm

      Excellent translation, LIRC.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 22, 2018 at 10:56 pm

      Probably so.

  7. SB says

    Jan 22, 2018 at 2:47 pm

    God help us.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jan 22, 2018 at 3:00 pm

      Ahem….don’t you mean “Allah” help us, there, SB?

      Is SB for Super Bowl?

      Go Patriots!
      (or Eagles)

      Thanks be to God, er Allah, it ain’t the Muslim owning Jags who one that Championship game….

  8. Jean Terry says

    Jan 22, 2018 at 4:37 pm

    Britain is filled with weak leaders, even the schools. Are they going to do everything the Muslims demand? These people came to their country and should assimilate and not live in conclaves that promote jihad. It is sickening to see this. I would think English people would be outraged.

    • thesailor says

      Jan 22, 2018 at 5:09 pm

      “I would think English people would be outraged.”

      I think most of them are. The problem is that those who command them are cowards. Donkeys leading Lions, one might say. We must hope that one day the Lions will realise that the donkeys are actually their dinner.

      • Anne Smith says

        Jan 23, 2018 at 6:18 am

        One of the problems is that the British are very tolerant and kindly and have never seen the need to tell people not to follow whatever religion they wish.
        Live and let live is how most Brits run their lives. In fact it is this well meaning tolerance which has allowed the Muslims to infiltrate and subvert the normal British way of live.

    • Save Europe says

      Jan 22, 2018 at 10:55 pm

      The highest percentage of us are, indeed.

  9. mortimer says

    Jan 22, 2018 at 5:08 pm

    A bumper sticker once read: “Mafia Staff Car: Keepa you hands off!” That sums up the meaning of the Islamic veil. A woman who wears it has been ‘IDENTIFIED’ as the personal subhuman PROPERTY of a Muslim PATRIARCH.

    The Islamic veil is the ULTIMATE SYMBOL of PATRIARCHY and MISOGYNY.

    • thesailor says

      Jan 22, 2018 at 5:12 pm

      Yes. For all the oft-quoted Koranic claptrap, that is the reality today, and probably always has been.

  10. DHazard says

    Jan 22, 2018 at 6:05 pm

    So the hijab repels pedophiles? If so, then boys should wear them too.

    Of course it has nothing at all to do with children. Nobody cares. It’s just another thing Muslims can whine about which is one of the reasons they live in a democracy instead of a Muslim country. In democracies, if you push the right buttons, you can get almost anything you want. And when you don’t get everything you want you can complain, complain, complain. Nothing at all like what is allowed under Shariah.

    On a side note; I suspect that many of the girls who end up wearing hijabs are also the same girls who will shipped off to some crappy Muslim country to be mutilated, just like their mothers.

    • Save Europe says

      Jan 22, 2018 at 10:58 pm

      Plus married off to dirty 50 year old, male, first cousins.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 22, 2018 at 11:52 pm

      And then married off to their cousins in forced marriages when they are underaged.

  11. Infidela says

    Jan 22, 2018 at 6:12 pm

    Go to YouTube and type in Masked Arab and then go to his YouTube video on pedophiles and Islam . In Islam an adult man has the legal right to marry a new born baby girl. Shias have to wait until they are 8 years old before they can have sex with them, Sunnis when their bodies are old enough to take penetrtion, such as 2 or 3 years old.

  12. Manny says

    Jan 22, 2018 at 6:24 pm

    How is this assimilating to their host country? It’s not. It’s a farce. All this immigration does is destroy ones own culture. Stop the Islamic immigration before we are completely altered as a nation.

  13. Older Canadian says

    Jan 22, 2018 at 7:08 pm

    I wonder how long it will be before the young women in England will riot and wave their hijab in protest like they have done recently in Iran.

    Or have white hijab wednesdays in protest to be compelled to wear them as currently being done in Iran.

    Or burn them as part of their liberation in areas which were previously under Isis control which compelled them to wear it.

    Obviously no one cares about this cruel and unusual punishment the poor girls who were unfortunately born in the muslim faith must endure, in a free, demorcratic country such as the UK.

  14. herb planter says

    Jan 22, 2018 at 8:57 pm

    Who gives a phux what islam wants.They can go back where they came from and do that crap.

  15. Indiana Tom says

    Jan 22, 2018 at 9:38 pm

    Yeah, Anni Cyrus turned all sorts of colors when forced to wear the hijab as her father beat her.

  16. gravenimage says

    Jan 22, 2018 at 10:13 pm

    UK school reverses hijab ban for small children after “Islamophobia” accusations
    …………………….

    You wouldn’t want Muslims to get arroused by small children, would you?

    Unless, of course, he was married to them…

  17. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jan 22, 2018 at 10:19 pm

    The authorities can always be relied upon to take the side of Islamic Authoritarianism. The comfort and wishes of the children don’t get any consideration, all that’s seen as important is cooperation with the authoritarian conservative expectations of Traditional Islamic Extended Families. It is precisely the same desire for cultural appeasement that has sheltered Traditional Muslim Families and Islamic Communities from prosecution for the removal of the clitoris and other genitalia from girls supposedly in their care.

  18. Garfield says

    Jan 23, 2018 at 3:35 am

    A hijab wearing women is saying don’t rape me, I’m already the property of some man and have no rights. Rape an uncovered slut.
    A hijab wearing woman is saying there’s no love, just barbaric freaks who can’t or won’t control themselves- there’s nothing but control, dominance and women are objects.

    Why is Islam so pererted and twisted about sex? Covering women in bags, grooming gangs, FGM, marrying children?

    Its a sick perverted death cult masquerading as a religion I feel sorry for those deluded by a fake watered down version of it, wasting their lives with lies.

    Moderate Islam is connected to radical Islam. If I was in a moderate group whose radical members were Isis…I would quit that group immediately. BUT THEY DON’T. Why??

  19. Sarah says

    Jan 23, 2018 at 4:40 am

    Here’s the thing. Lefties look at that image that is accompanying the article and see 9 young girls playing ring-a-ring-a-rosie (or whatever it is that they’re up to).

    I look at that image and I see 9 potential terrorists, who have been raised since birth – and will continue to be raised hereafter, to be nothing more than compliant, leg-spreading birthing machines for Islam.

    To put such young girls in those outfits is obscene, given what they represent. A Western education is hopelessly wasted on each of them.

  20. Politicianophobia says

    Jan 23, 2018 at 1:27 pm

    I look at that picture and I think, what a shame, they will end up like their, brain dead, poor excuses of a mother. I think of my wonderful father, who taught me how to box and told me life is like boxing-some will want to knock you down-but always get right back up and show them how wonderful you are. I have zero tolerance for Islam and anyone who aids in spreading the evil garbage.

  21. Prabh108 says

    Jan 23, 2018 at 3:02 pm

    Slavery is hideous: sterilize the ones who will treat offspring as slave. Horrific photo.

  22. sidney penny says

    Jan 24, 2018 at 12:57 am

    Islamist-linked Muslim Council of Britain, now tells Britain how to run schools.

    How did this come about?What happened to the Education Department.

    Islam, coming to a school near you!

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