Enough with the Orwellian “hijab as empowerment” movement. My latest in PJ Media:
It happened on “World Hijab Day.”
A Muslim student at the University of Central Florida, Rayyan Sukkarieh, grew enraged when another student, Kathy Zhu, refused her invitation to don a hijab in solidarity with supposedly oppressed Muslim women.
Sukkarieh took to Twitter to admonish Zhu: “You didn’t take the time to even ask questions or try to understand what Hijab is. That’s ignorant of you. You literally sprinted after taking the photos. Pathetic.” Sukkarieh added: “TWITTER DO YOUR THING. Let’s get this girl expelled….Ignorance will not be tolerated at my campus.”
Happily, UCF officials rejected this call to expel Zhu. That Sukkarieh made it at all, however, reveals the authoritarianism and coercion at the heart of both Leftism and Islam.
Sukkarieh’s demand is the problem many in the West have with the hijab in the first place — wearing it is not a choice for all too many Muslim women, but rather a symbol of their oppression and subjugation.
Indeed, World Hijab Day is a sick farce in the first place. Muslim women all over the world are forced to wear the hijab and subjected to violence if they do not. Courageous women in the Islamic Republic of Iran are taking off their hijabs as a sign of resistance to the oppressive Sharia regime under which they live, and at least 29 women have been arrested for doing so.
Yet instead of recognizing reality, women in the U.S. are fed the false narrative that hijab-wearing women are actually being harassed and persecuted in the West — and that standing in solidarity with them is feminist.
The harassment and persecution is more manufactured than real. Just weeks ago, an eleven-year-old girl in Toronto made international headlines with her claim that a man had followed her and cut her hijab with scissors. After an investigation, police concluded that the attack never happened.
Likewise, Yasmin Seweid, a Muslim teen who claimed in December 2016 that Trump supporters on a New York subway tore off her hijab and no one in the packed subway car helped her. She, too, gained international media attention, and she, too, made up the whole thing.
Shortly before that, a hijab-wearing Muslim student at San Diego State University also falsely claimed that she was assaulted by Trump supporters.
In July 2017, a Muslim in Britain falsely claimed that a man had pulled off her hijab in a “race hate attack.”
In November 2016, a University of Michigan Muslim student claimed she was “accosted by a white man who told her to remove her hijab or he would set her ablaze with a cigarette lighter.” She also fabricated the whole event.
Nonetheless, on World Hijab Day non-Muslim women all over the country wore hijabs in solidarity with Muslim women who are supposedly plagued by “Islamophobic” harassment.
But where was their concern for Aqsa Parvez?
Her Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it.
Or for Aqsa and Amina Muse Ali, a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab?
They showed no concern for the 40 women who were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab; or for Alya Al-Safar, whose Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain; or for Amira Osman Hamid, who faced whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab; or for the Egyptian girl, also named Amira, who committed suicide after being brutalized by her family for refusing to wear the hijab; or for the Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South Australia who were told they had to wear the hijab or be fired; or for the women in Chechnya whom police shot with paintballs because they weren’t wearing hijab; or for the women in Chechnya who were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab; or for the elementary school teachers in Tunisia who were threatened with death for not wearing hijab; or for the Syrian schoolgirls who were forbidden to go to school unless they wore hijab; or for the women in Gaza whom Hamas has forced to wear hijab; or for the women in Iran who protested against the regime, even before the recent uprising, by daring to take off their hijabs; or for the women in London whom Muslim thugs threatened to murder if they didn’t wear hijab; or for the anonymous young Muslim woman who doffed her hijab outside her home and started living a double life in fear of her parents; or for 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 for the girl in Italy whose mother shaved her head for not wearing hijab; or for all the other women and girls who have been killed or threatened, or who live in fear for daring not to wear the hijab.
Who is standing in solidarity with them?
Not Western feminists….
Read the rest here.
mortimer says
The Islamic veil is the ultimate symbol of patriarchy, misogyny and female repression. A woman who voluntarily wears the veil declares her own inferiority and thus she is a self-loathing woman.
revereridesagain says
She is also a predator who tries to destroy other women for rejecting the symbol of Muslim male tyranny that is working so well for her in the Dark Age Muslim world and giving her the illusion of sharing in their power. This little whore of Allah should be handed over to an ISIS nest where she can give full expression to her submission .
Strangerinastrangeland says
That is a point that most will not recognize. This little predator seeks favored status.
Older Canadian says
Excellent article
Now lets have “Feel the Wind in your Hair” day.
Lets expose the most cruel, vile treatment of women every created by man.
If men can control what a female must wear they also control their mind.
Enough of this religious and/or cultural nonesense in the 21st century.
bodega says
The hijab is a thrall. I suggest ALL proMuslim American women wear the hijab and be in thrall to their men.
I wonder if those American men who are pro-Muslim are deeply misogynist. I can find no other reason that makes sense. Is that what this nation has come to…rule by misogynists? Has it always been thus? Certainly took women long enough to get the vote.
In case they do not know what a thrall is, let them use a dictionary where the word still exists.
Peter says
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“TWITTER DO YOUR THING. Let’s get this girl expelled….Ignorance will not be tolerated at my campus.”
Happily, UCF officials rejected this call to expel Zhu. That Sukkarieh made it at all, however, reveals the authoritarianism and coercion at the heart of both Leftism and Islam.
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And who does she appeal to, to broadcast her bigoted message to a wider audience ?
Twitter, of course. Along with the other freedom of expression boa constrictors (eg Facebook, Google, etc), these digital fascist are well versed in silencing and vilifying those who’s opinions differ from theirs.
utis says
The school should have thrown out Zukkarieh for interference with Ms. Zhu’s freedom of choice and movement (let alone harassment and slander). If not, she should have been made to attend class on English meaning of “freedom” as well as one on taking “No” for an answer to street pests like her.
Ms. Zhu probably had more important things to do, like go to class or get to a job that helps her cut back on school loans for education at Second-Hand U. Good for you, Ms. Zhu.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Agreed, Ms Zhu appears to be an exemplary student judging from her twitter account and several interviews with national media.
No wonder she was targeted by a nothing whinge merchant like this baby muslima.
Indiana Tom says
reveals the authoritarianism and coercion at the heart of both Leftism and Islam.
All are under the umbrella of the Illuminati, Bilderbergers, CFR, Trilateralists, UN, EU, and other collusionists to destroy Western civilization.
Indiana Tom says
Women in Tehran would not want her, that has been proven.
Carlos Danger says
I’ll gladly use her head rag to wipe my bottom.
Lydia Church says
PARODY OF IRONIES!
1. First of all, I (anyone) decide what to wear, not someone else. They have turned some false form of anit-bullying campaigning into a bullying campaign. “If you don’t side with us against [blank thing symbolizing bullying], we will beat you up!” [bully you] It is another parody of ironies that is being used by the propaganda manipulation of the masses campaign committee; PMMCC for short, for their elite globalist agenda or EGA. Thus they are oppressing her for not conforming to their agenda.
2. It is interesting to see that this took place in the US, in Florida, not the middle east.
The same human right applies everywhere. But it is one thing in the middle east to be persecuted for this. Now they are calling for it here in the US. I know no one bothered her, but just the fact that they called for it, that student who posted the tweet should be suspended for bullying! Next thing they will take his advice. That is how these things move along. This is so reminiscent of the nazi era, bullying everyone into compliant silence. Now they have social media to carry out the threats and to beat everyone into political correctness. “Bullying… in the name of ‘anti-bullying’!”
3. Yes, the hijab is a symbol of oppression for these women. To do a real test, just take away the law and see which women would still be wearing one. If some do, then at least it is not because they fear the consequences for not doing so, they genuinely want to and then it is not a result of oppression. But many would remove theirs, so they only do it under oppression. So joining in ‘solidarity’ with them would be to remove a hijab, not to don one, historically speaking. And how fitting that they want to use oppression to coerce a woman to wear a hijab to ‘show her support of women being oppressed for wearing a hijab’! (Let’s just get more women to wear a hijab, to, you know…. show our solidarity with these oppressed women who are forced to wear a hijab… oh sure! That makes such perfect sense… in opposite logic dimensions!) Why not truly support and defend these oppressed women, and not by looking like an oppressed woman? How about showing solidarity with the Iranian revolution, and these women??? Yes, how about it?!
4. Where is all the support for the persecuted Christians in the middle east and elsewhere around the world, like north korea? Where is the international day of the cross, to show our support for them? If they don’t want to promote the wearing of one religious symbol, then whey another??? Hmmm?!
5. THE HIJAB; DISSECTED. Taking a hijab in and of itself, it is only a piece of fabric. It can also be analyzed to death, as I am pretty good at doing. In and of itself, it is a ‘neutral.’ The significance lies in what is symbolized by it. In different cultures you see the ‘head covering’ in many forms and it means different things. In ancient times, many people wore them for different reasons. One was like a sun umbrella. You also see many Biblical characters depicted wearing them. It is hard to do a play of a Biblical scene without someone wearing one, such as a nativity play, a play of Joseph going down to Egypt, etc. It is just what they did. But oppression was not part of those cases. That does not mean it wasn’t in other cases. You also see Jewish men wearing those little round caps, not just women. In such cases it symbolized that ‘God was over you,’ and some sort of reverence for that. Other cultures have used it, we also see it in India but I don’t know what it symbolizes there. Some Jewish women wear veils in synagogues, some Catholic women wear a veil at church, and some Christian groups do as well as there are Bible references to this. Only there it symbolizes something totally different. For the church it symbolizes being under the ‘covering’ of God and His atonement. The concept of a covering comes up in the Bible often. It is not oppressive in that sense. Anyway it became a tradition in the middle east. That is another matter. But when they call it a ‘hijab,’ they are putting it under the muslim context and that is the clear connection they make. I can wear one if I play Mary in a nativity play, but not in a ‘solidarity’ with islam way; in any way.
Hope this was helpful!
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Lydia Church says
That should read:
#4 then why another?
Everything else is correct!
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Lydia Church says
Oh, and this is where wedding veils originally came from. It symbolizes the church (the Bride of Christ) coming under the covering of the Bridegroom (Jesus). The two shall become one flesh as the Bible says. It is a beautiful mystery, largely misunderstood by most.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Tamaskan tatamakan” – Show a victim’s face [and then] take over.
MFritz says
Zhu wearing the hijab would have been another “small victory” for jihad.
Carolyne says
I was appalled at this idiot saying that it was “MY campus.” Since when did it start to belong to only her. I congratulate Ms. Zhu for having the fortitude to refuse this moron’s order. Ms. Zukkarieh is the ignorant one. Twitter, do your thing. Tell her so.
The point of a Muslim woman covering her head is so that Muslim men will not go into a sexual frenzy at the mere sight of female hair. I have not heard that this is a significant problem in Florida.
Hogdude says
Rayyan, cool it. You’re in the Land of Freedom. If you want to celebrate being a sex slave to a primitive political movement masquerading as a religion, fine. Just don’t complain. Go home. We don’t need you.