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As Iranian women cast off hijab as symbol of oppression, UK Foreign Office celebrates World Hijab Day

Feb 8, 2018 12:30 pm By Robert Spencer

“I can’t see the Foreign Office promoting Christianity or the handing out of crosses.”

Indeed. In the shattered, staggering, dhimmi UK, only Islam gets this fawning treatment. And it’s particularly despicable this year, for while non-Muslim women in the UK Foreign Office were donning hijabs in solidarity with hijabbed Muslimas, reinforcing the false claim that hijab-wearing women are persecuted and harassed in Britain and the West, Iranian women are risking years in prison for taking off their hijabs. The UK Foreign Office should be standing in solidarity with them and calling for freedom and the rights of women, but it will not do so — that would be “Islamophobic.”

“Foreign Office staff invited to wear hijab for the day: Civil service accused of promoting ‘oppression of women’ after giving out free headscarves,” by Ian Drury, Daily Mail, February 7, 2018:

Mandarins at the Foreign Office invited staff to wear Islamic headscarves for the day, claiming they symbolised ‘liberation, respect and security’.

The department was accused of backing the ‘institutional oppression of women’ by giving away taxpayer-funded headscarves at a walk-in event to mark World Hijab Day.

The event was held as women in ultra-conservative Iran burned their headscarves in protest at being forced to wear them or face arrest and prison.

Many Muslim women across the world have shunned the hijab – which covers the hair and neck but not the face – as an antiquated, oppressive, religious tool.

The event was last Thursday, just days before Britain marked the 100th anniversary of women being given the vote….

Anti-hijab activist Masih Alinejad told Reuters: ‘We are fighting against the most visible symbol of oppression. These women are saying, “It is enough – it is the 21st century and we want to be our true selves.”’

Tory MP Andrew Bridgen said: ‘I’d like to know whose bright idea this was. It is ridiculous, a complete waste of taxpayers’ money and not the business of a Government department.

‘I can’t see the Foreign Office promoting Christianity or the handing out of crosses.’

An internal email to Foreign Office staff said the event was taking place on February 1 between midday and 2pm inside the department’s headquarters at Whitehall.

It read: ‘Would you like to try on a hijab or learn why Muslim women wear the headscarf? Come along to our walk-in event. Free scarves for all those that choose to wear it for the day or part of the day.

‘Muslim women, along with followers of many other religions, choose to wear the hijab. Many find liberation, respect and security through wearing it. #StrongInHijab. Join us for #WorldHijabDay.’ Posters for the event, featuring Foreign Office branding, were circulated. World Hijab Day, an annual event, was also marked in the Scottish Parliament….

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  1. melek-ric says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 12:39 pm

    Gotta love the globe of planet Earth wrapped in a hijab depicted at the bottom of that World Hijab Day poster. You’d almost think that the British government was supporting universal Islamification…

    • Lydia Church says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 10:07 pm

      On days like that… I get out the biggest cross I have and wear it all over the place.

      • Andy says

        Feb 9, 2018 at 11:33 am

        The first step to denying a peoples future is to dismantle their past.

        Another Day Another Attack on European History and Identity

    • Lydia Church says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 10:11 pm

      Yes, if this is not islamification, what is?

    • Redbug says

      Feb 9, 2018 at 11:29 am

      I strongly believe that LONDON is almost Islamic, (the Moslem Mayor) while the rest of the UK abhores Islam. The UK is in deep “dodo”!! Needs a change of government with people who love their country.

    • Redbug says

      Feb 9, 2018 at 11:32 am

      If the non-moslem women of the UK really did their homework on Islam, they would be fighting the fact that Moslem women are forced to wear the Hajib, in the first place. Same as in the US; wake up, people!!!

    • J D S says

      Feb 9, 2018 at 1:28 pm

      In my opinion…any garb one is forced to wear, especially if the wearing of the garb was prescribed, ordered, by some extinct entity. from the 14th century, then it is as stupid as dirt and those who wear it fall into the same category as those who are imprisoned and are FORCED to obey, repeat…FORCED!!!!! and have no FREE thought or will of their own not much more than puppets or programmed robots.
      Now how stupid is that? Come on Muslims wake up and take back your lives.

      • David Busnick says

        Feb 13, 2018 at 6:25 am

        Your right they might as well be wearing a yellow star.

  2. Cthulhu says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 12:43 pm

    What next? Swastika Day?

    • CRUSADER says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 2:39 pm

      In a way, the swastika looks like a broken cross….
      ….so, yeah…probably!

      Swastika Day = Broken Cross Day

  3. nicu says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 12:45 pm

    Only stone age Muslims in Germany are proud to wear it !

  4. MFritz says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 12:49 pm

    “World sharia submission day for women”

    • mortimer says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 3:10 pm

      Yes, the Islamic veil is the ULTIMATE SYMBOL of FEMALE SERVITUDE, MISOGYNY and PATRIARCHY.

      Why is the UK government (the custodian of the Established Church) promoting a faith IN OPPOSITION to the ESTABLISHED FAITH?

  5. Marina says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 12:52 pm

    There is a competition going on in Europe titled “which country is the best appeaser of Muslims”.

  6. Jim Conch says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 12:54 pm

    This is obscene, to put it politely.

  7. CRUSADER says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 1:01 pm

    Poster lady looks stern, not happy.

    Hard sell.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 6:33 pm

      Caption should be

      “Big Sister is Watching You”

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 10:07 pm

      I noticed that as well, CRUSADER. Usually, they try to put a smiley face on this sort of stupidity. A scowling Muslimah is more honest.

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 1:53 pm

    The harsh brutal oppression of girls and women in this tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran has ,many times, becomes even worse the forcing females to wear hijab against their will . As this following example reveals.
    That heinously cruel and murderous Islamic tyranny of Iran is very brutal and vicious to the Iranian people. Especially regarding females. Both girls and women. For example a teenage girl in Iran was talking to her boyfriend on the phone and then the Islamic state “police” walked over to her and shot her dead. They did that wicked and malicious thing to her because she was talking to her boyfriend and they also didn’t like her clothing. [1] That was a clear cut case of murder and vicious Islamic madness by Iran’s Islamic state “ police”, who call themselves the “Revolutionary Guards”, they got away with their hideous and malice –filled evil because the mullahs as well as other villains in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime
    [1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili page 240

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 10:20 pm

      Yes–I remember this horrific story.

    • LR says

      Feb 10, 2018 at 9:05 am

      They kill love…And that brings so much needless suffering to this world…How hateful one would have to be to kill a beautiful, innocent, defenseless girl simply enjoying a conversation.

  9. CRUSADER says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 3:01 pm

    Let the Wind of Freedom blow …..

    “The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran”

    Book by Masih Alinejad

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 10:24 pm

      Thanks for citing that book, CRUSADER.

  10. Manny says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 3:25 pm

    Other than covering up one’s greasy hair, what liberation is there in wearing a hajib? It comes down to this. If a woman cannot make the choice of freely wearing it or not wearing it without retribution or ostracism, then it is not a choice.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 10:36 pm

      Imam Muhammed al-Isibali said, “by the age of ten, it becomes an obligation on us to force her to wear Hijab, and if she does not wear Hijab, we hit her.”

  11. Gjallarhornet says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 4:04 pm

    If you’re British … you might just want your tax money back.

  12. Granddaddy says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 5:31 pm

    “World Hijab Day”? Since when? Who says? I looked this up. It started in New York in 2013 (supposedly, you never can really tell any more with all the fake news). It’s just a lot of taqiyya: some muslim girl found an easy mark politician to help her, and now they claim it’s a “world” holiday. People actually give their time and money to this worse-than-useless crap. I understand people can be ignorant of Islam, but even if you know nothing about the Quran, I would think a woman, especially a non-Muslim woman, would be wary about why it’s so important for her to suddenly start wearing a hijab. And now I see all these old people (my age, even) acting like it’s all happy multi-culturalism outreach, some Mickey Mouse summer camp, yelling “Because we like you!” Brainless drivel.

  13. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 6:37 pm

    “Many women find liberation, respect and security wearing the hijab….”

    Liberation ( from beatings, home imprisonment and threat of rape by muslim men )
    Respect ( less chance of rape or being assualted on the street by a muslim man )
    Security ( It keeps most of the muslim men from attacking you )

    Liberation is Slavery
    Respect is Disdain
    Security is Fear

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 10:40 pm

      “Many women find liberation, respect and security wearing the hijab….”
      ………………….

      Yeah–“liberation” and “security” from being attacked by ravening Muslim invaders.

  14. Stacy Girl says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 9:05 pm

    I was disappointed to see VP Pence in the ME, with his wife and daughter donning the slave rags. He stood with the men, and his gals stood off to the side, apart. Glad Ivanka let her blonde strands fly free as she walked with her Jewish husband amongst the muzzies. I’m sure it was banned from the papers.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 10:56 pm

      Yes–even the Trump administration–far better than most–still too often bows to this savagery.

      These are pretty loose scarves, and still show hair–they are not actual Hijabs:

      https://counterjihadnews.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/pence-in-indonesia.jpg

      Still disgusting, of course. If they knew what these things symbolized, I’m sure they would have told these Mohammedans to stuff it.

    • Granddaddy says

      Feb 9, 2018 at 9:19 am

      Pence is obviously another useful idiot.

  15. gravenimage says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 10:03 pm

    As Iranian women cast off hijab as symbol of oppression, UK Foreign Office celebrates World Hijab Day
    ……………………

    Bloody idiots.

  16. Infomaniac says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 2:03 am

    Perhaps for the next World Hijab Day,

    some women could wear a scarf around their shoulders only (head and face uncovered) in solidarity with those women in ultra-conservative Muslim families or countries who are not permitted to live with the “wind in their hair”.

    Wind in their sails, I say.

  17. IanB says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 4:14 am

    I suspect that those women who chose NOT to follow the “invitation” to wear the hijab will be marked down as Islamophobes and will miss out on promotion and salary raises. This happens in the UK to anyone who fails to support the “diversity and equality” policies of employers – Government or private. That’s at best. Many are fired.

    • LR says

      Feb 10, 2018 at 9:14 am

      How is one suppose to support ‘diversity and equality’? Aren’t they there to just do their job?

  18. Horseman says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 12:39 pm

    Wow. You Brits have lost it. What ever happened to the British character and values that beat back the Nazis?

  19. Horseman says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 12:45 pm

    With Islam you have supremacist ideology that will eventually take over your country. (P.S. They think that they already have.)

  20. LR says

    Feb 10, 2018 at 9:18 am

    “Anti-hijab activist Masih Alinejad told Reuters: ‘We are fighting against the most visible symbol of oppression. These women are saying, “It is enough – it is the 21st century and we want to be our true selves.”’”

    Well, people can have their ‘anti-hijab’ day…

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