Linda Sarsour hardest hit.
Seriously, these are the real heroes, the real feminists, standing up to violence and coercion. They’re also to be commended for rejecting the false victimhood pose that World Hijab Day proponents adopt with such eagerness. Hijab-wearing women are not persecuted in the United States, and this false claim must be confronted wherever possible.
“Women around the world burn their hijabs in protest against the headscarf as report shows half of Iranians think nobody should be made to wear them,” by Sara Malm, Mailonline, February 6, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report):
Videos showing women burning the hijab are being posted on social media in solidarity with a protest movement against enforced headscarf in Iran.
Posted online with the hashtag #NoHijabDay, a response to last week’s World Hijab Day event, the videos show women removing their headscarves and setting them on fire in front of the camera.
It comes as the Iranian government released a report showing that half of the population do not believe that the state should dictate what women wear, despite dozens of arrests this month.
The office of President Hassan Rouhani revealed that a 2014 survey found that 49 per cent of Iranians believed women should be allowed to choose what to wear, DW.com reports.
A woman who spoke anonymously to Deutsche Welle said she believed the numbers would be even higher if the survey was carried out today.
While many Muslim women around the world wear the hijab by choice, in countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Emirates, it is enforced by the state.
Anoud Al Ali, who grew up in the United Arab Emirates but is now living in France, posted a video of herself burning the hijab and called it ‘true happiness’.
She details how she used to be forced to wear the headscarf by her family and in school or she would be punished with lower grades.
Captioning the video, which shows her standing outdoors, taking off a headscarf and setting it on fire in a cardboard box on the ground, she writes: ‘As promised, I did it on my birthday, it feels so liberating to burn the #hijab.
‘And I am doing that in solidarity to #Iranian women who are protesting against the mandatory hijab and for all the forced girls. #nohijabday we are not candies or diamonds to be covered. We’re humans. [sic]’
The Iranian protest movement against the state’s enforced hijab – a policy in place since the Islamic revolution of 1979 – has been intensifying in recent weeks.
Yesterday, the Iranian Judiciary claimed that all women who had been taking off their headscarves off in public in protest in Iran ‘had been on drugs’.
On Friday, Iranian media reported that Tehran police had arrested 29 women for appearing in public without a headscarf.
They are believed to have been copying the stance of Vida Movahed, a 31-year-old woman arrested in December for taking off her headscarf in protest.
A video showing her calmly waving her white hijab tied to a stick above the crowds in the Iranian capital, went viral on social media.
Ms Movahed, who became known as The Girl In Enghelab Street, was detained and spent a month in custody with her 20-month-daughter.
She has become the ‘poster child’ for the White Wednesdays movement, which encourages Iranian women and those who support their plight to take off their hijab, and was started by journalist and campaigner Masih Alinejad….
Peter Buckley says
“It comes as the Iranian government released a report showing that half of the population do not believe that the state should dictate what women wear, despite dozens of arrests this month.”
That’s probably because Iran is no longer a muslim country……………….
Angry Aussie says
Why would it be called the Islamic Republic of Iran if it is no longer a Muslim country?
Peter Buckley says
Because the mullahs who run it want it that way. Did you see the coverage of the recent Iranian protests? One thing stood out:
Government supporters were invariably 40+.
Protesters were invariably young. A sign of what is coming…..
https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/iran-protests/24096-iran-at-least-1000-mostly-young-protesters-arrested
Also, it is common knowledge that the country’s mosques are largely empty:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/11776241/Friday-prayers-in-the-Islamic-Republic-of-Iran-but-where-are-the-worshippers.html
CRUSADER says
Masih Alinejad, a campaigner against forces hijab, explains the social movement that’s inspiring women of Iran to perform acts of personal rebellion.She speaks with Tina Brown on stage during the 2016 Women in the World Summit in New York City.
Masih Alinejad started a social movement against forced hijab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4B0RGWpudo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masih_Alinejad
J D S says
Young Muslim people are the ones who are the jihadi terrorist. One don’t see the old GEEZERS out there with bombs strapped to their bodies. So I don’t see much of a young people change in islam in Iran or elsewhere.
Carolyne says
If you are old enough, Mr Buckley, kindly recall that it was “Students” who instigated the Iranian revolution of 1979. The young people spent hours and days putting together US documents at the captured American Embassy which had been shredded. Many of them had been educated in the US. The “Republican Guard” which enforces these draconian laws are mostly young men.
gravenimage says
Here is an Imam, Muhammed Al-Isibali on Hijab:
“By the age of ten, it becomes an obligation on us to force her to wear Hijab, and if she doesn’t wear Hijab, we hit her”
Notice the assumption starting out that this will involve force and violence. So much for the idea that wearing the Hijab is voluntary.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Couldn’t control himself otherwise.
Will says
High time for a push-back to this backward and misogynic garb ….
Parbatsinhchauhan says
Iran was a Persian country in the past and the people were following the Zorostrian… They are called Parsi.. Later on the whole Iran was converted to Islam by the forceful aggression and war incessantly by the wild Arabic tribes….All the Iranian people were forcefully converted to Muslims by imposing cruelty and atrocities on them… Few people of Iran escaped from this cruelty to save their religious fire and arrived at Sanjan port in India where they got the shelter and freedom of their religion.. So only India is the place where these old Iranian Zorostrian Parsi community lives happily today… The best example is Jamshedji Tara… A renowned business personality of India……So Iran was the great country in the past with it’s great Persia history….Later on it lost it’s glory in the Islamic rulers period…
marc says
far braver than anonymous keyboard warriors like me, shame only us “islamophobes” are supporting them.
Andy says
All right Women’s Liberation!!!!! All Feminists join with your Muslim Sisters!!!
In Burn the HIjab day, Did anyone see LInda Sarsour burn her Hijab?????
Next Celebration is pee and burn the Koran day!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fybIqS3absg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7nLo2AK4fs
Andy says
By the way the Koran in another translation is known as Mein Kampf which was also written by by another NUTJOB!!!
Raja says
Andy, Hope your comment is prophetic.I am not amused about these events because the ideology of Islam is deep rooted. These are so many mechanics that go into the making and running of Islam the war machine. It did not spring up overnight nor will it disappear overnight.
The petrodollar nations along with the likes of Zakir Naiks have done much harm to the liberties of the world. These venomous traits must be uprooted , the sooner the better. The poison of the mullahs run deep in the veins of Muslims.and for starters we should be empowered to speak openly about the vile Islam. That would mean Islam has really sharted to crumble.
Ideally Zakir Naik should be in jail but that remains a piped dream, .Most govts do not want to upset the apple cart of Islam they foolishly revere. They are just interested in the number games of electorate.
I still hope this is the moment for change but it is little too far fetched though.
y
StellaSaidSo says
It is indeed alarming, Raja, to see the size of the following that a fool like Zakir Naik can attract. When I first saw a vid clip of this moron, I thought he was a stand-up comic attempting parody. But the joke is on us. Millions of people take him very seriously.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Ahmed Deedat is still the most popular dawa example in the islamic world, so i’m not surprised that someone so equally lacking in ability and truth like zakir naik can gain such support.
The only thing that matters to most muslims is how much of a showman their leader/teacher can be, how loudly he can shout.
Even the slightly better ones like shabir ali are constantly using double standards and bad logic. After listening to muslim apologists for quite a while, i can hardly stand to hear them anymore – they all have the same arrogant sneering tone and yet argue like little boys.
Pathetic, the lot of them. Their followers are no better.
Terry Gain says
Hoo and Ray. If anyone needs matches or gasoline please let me know.
Westman says
Half of Iran’s population is under 35 yrs of age. The fertility rate has dropped precipitously from 6.27 to 1.75 from 1979(revolution) to 2015. A fertility rate of 2.1 is considered to be necessary to maintain a nation’s population. This appears to be a direct result of education and birth control and is also a worldwide trend in nations having high literacy and access to world-level information.
As a result, the young women of Iran are quite aware of their inferior treatment by the Mullahs and government. The young men are also aware that the Iranian form of Islam is limiting their lives and future. Anyone who knows an Iranian nationalist also knows Iranians consider themselves superior to Saudis. The Iranian government has stoked that enmity without realizing that it might backfire – instead of supporting government jabs at Saudi Arabia, the government and Mullahs may be seen as roadblocks to economic competition with SA.
Let’s hope that more than jihabs will be tossed in Iran long before the Mullahs can bring destructive warfare upon their citizens.
Peter Buckley says
Well said and reasearched, my friend. It is just a matter of time:
http://www.amilimani.com/index.php/item/11-summons-to-defeat-islam
CRUSADER says
All those refugees flooding into Europe should be sent to Iran to fill that land instead….
Monty says
Not at all. The people of Iran are not the government. Iranians are not Arabs and not as backward as many Muslims. Send the “refugees” to Afghanistan or Pakistan, but not Iran. They are a potential bright spot in a dismal Muslim world.
al uzza bint-allaha says
you’re kidding, right?
iranians might as well be arabs.
they may be better educated than arabs, but they still bow to mecca and pray to the arabs national deity, one allah. they fight their wars for islam, not some iranian national cause.
as the saying goes, the arabs will fight their wars to the last iranian soldier.
so please tell me, how can an educated iranian protester be a bright spot when, after protesting, he goes home and prays to said allah and its arab prophet, mahomed?
gravenimage says
Monty, I have been hearing for almost forty years now that Iranians really hate Islam and are poised at any moment to jettison it.
I have enormous admiration for these Iranian women who took off their Hijabs, but all too many in Iran appear to support the Mullahs, at least tacitly.
I would, of course, *love* to be proven wrong.
StellaSaidSo says
Excellent post, Westman.
CRUSADER says
False Feminist, the Sour Sister, Linda “the Bug” Sarsour needs to be hit — and HARD !!!!
Hijab Debate between two muslim girls – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl3KVOLuOjo
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The Great Hijab Debate « Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/the-great-hijab-debate/
The Great Hijab Debate, more formally known as “Politics and Clothing: The Hijab,” held at the Art Institute of Chicago; it was part of the Chicago Humanities Festival under its rubric of “fashion.”
CRUSADER says
Incomparable exMuslim Nonie Darwish tells how values are wholly different…..
Nonie Darwish’s “Wholly Different” | Frontpage Mag
https://www.frontpagemag.com/…/nonie-darwishs-wholly-different-danusha-v-goska
Wholly Different is a three-alarm wake-up call from Nonie Darwish. Darwish informs her reader that it’s not just when it comes to terrorism that Western and Muslim worldviews conflict. Rather, in a thousand little ways, daily life is different. Darwish lists fifty-three features that, for her, differentiate the Western …
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“Wear Hijab Day”? Asra Nomani exposes the global PROPAGANDA …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYykIgZj70M
Asra Nomani discusses the oppressive politics of the hijab and exposes the global propaganda campaign …
Indiana Tom says
Great book!
gravenimage says
Nonie Darwish is a real heroine.
CRUSADER says
She needs a graven image creation. 😉
Older Canadian says
Bravo to all the women who are protesting the compulsory hijab.
Western feminists must be just rolling in the isle in disgust, while crying out how islamophobic these women are.
Wellington says
I can’t here help but think of all the silly women in the West who don an hijab on some kind of hijab solidarity day and refer to Muslimas as their sisters. These women are not only fools and unappreciative of the fact that Islam is a mortal enemy of liberty but they are also abetting evil. Shame on every non-Muslim female who does this.
CRUSADER says
“Sarsour Solidarity Sistahs”
mortimer says
Agree with Wellington. The virtue-signalling Western women are actually neo-Marxist party-line soft communists. ‘The Party’ has disseminated the idea that it is ‘party doctrine’ to support our Muslim strategic allies, as long as we need them as strategic allies. When the neo-Marxists no longer need the Muslims allies, they will CONDEMN them VIGOROUSLY for their MISOGYNY and BACKWARDNESS.
Just wait… you will see it.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, your idea that all leftists know exactly what Islam is is just mistaken.
Many of them support Muslims because they believe that they are just needy refugees and oppressed minorities.
And far from being cynically poised to turn on Islam’s misogyny and backwardness, they don’t believe that these issues have anything to do with Islam itself, and that only “Islamophobes” think that they do–never mind all the evidence to the contrary.
CRUSADER says
First joiners of Islam (while still in Mecca/Makkah) were the poor and oppressed and the ignored and neglected, ….and probably the ignorant and neglectful.
Indiana Tom says
Women around the world burn their hijabs for #NoHijabDay
FEB 7, 2018 9:03 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER 39 COMMENTS
Linda Sarsour hardest hit.
Seriously, these are the real heroes, the real feminists, standing up to violence and coercion.
silly women in the West who don an hijab on some kind of hijab solidarity day and refer to Muslimas as their sisters.
American feminists are a total joke.
CRUSADER says
Sour sister Sarsour is known as “the bug”
LeftisruiningCanada says
Agreed. All they ever do is look for ways to undermine their own civilization. The anti-racists are perhaps the most racist.
gravenimage says
So true, Wellington.
Bill says
I find it sadly ironic that if these women were doing this in Canada or in certain parts of the USA they would be prosecuted by those respective governments for hate speech and hate crimes.
CRUSADER says
Wondering if Irshad Manji for instance would publicly burn a hijab…..
No Muzzies Here says
Women who have suffered under the oppressive religion that mandates the hijab are discarding it. Feminists in Western countries are putting the hijab on to protest the “oppression” of Muslims in Western countries.
Looks like Western feminists are in complete denial of reality.
Jayell says
In the 1960’s they were burning their brassieres as a defiant gesture of liberation. Now they’re burning their hijabs for a similar reason. The brassieres are still with us. Doesn’t look too hopeful for the hijabs, does it?
al uzza bint-allaha says
how about hijabs but no bras?
CRUSADER says
Is that ISIL locker-room talk?
RichardL says
Thank you for giving courage a name: Vida Movahed. She is my desktop picture in the office.
gravenimage says
+1
al uzza bint-allaha says
linda sarsour should do the same on this day.
preferably while still wearing her hijab.
CRUSADER says
How about she burn the full burqa — while wearing it ?
CRUSADER says
It seems that the word NIGGER could also be applied to this matter.
You see, just as with a HIJAB (and the like) being a symbol and expression of oppression, so is the word/term NIGGER, and it has been used as a pejorative, but also as a colloquial, along with being a vernacular term of denigration, like “RedNeck” which traduces, yet is justified as a stereotype in parlance due to common-enough experiences in a frustratingly perceived social setting or set of circumstances. Often this latter arises from marked and opinionated differences in behavior patterns.
However, some people call themselves and are freely called by others this term, NIGGER. In some cases, it is a matter of preference. In a way it has historically been descriptive. NIGGER comes from Negro, and the designation of being Negroid for the demographic. Latin origin for black, of course, and this is rather a neutral origin…. (We indeed have Caucasian as a designation for another demographic, for instance.)
The HIJAB may be worn as a symbol of modesty, and freely chosen for that reason. Also for fashion.
This is a matter of free expression, if done consciously and with little other motive attached.
Other women prefer to be free from wearing the HIJAB, just as many people wish to be free from being called NIGGER. These people reject the oppression associated in these matters.
These topics should be widely open for debate and discussion….on a global basis.
This public square dialog is called for, in the matter of the HIJAB and other Islamic coverings, by Mark Durie, in his book “Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude, and Freedom”
Is all this hateful and vile? Is it really? Is this requiring SPLC to step in and halt freedom of speech? I think not! It is more of an invitation for furthering speech and expression and evolution of dialog. As well as a recognition of certain realities which do exist and persist in contemporary societies.
Grown-up pants being worn today.
Peace…
Calm…
and
Reason.
gravenimage says
The Hijab is not about modesty. The Qur’anic verse notes that wearing it distinguishes Muslim women from non-Muslims so that Muslims will only molest Infidel women.
Qur’an 33:59:
“O Prophet! Tell thy wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their persons when abroad: that is most convenient, that they should be known and not molested…”
In other words, the message of the Hijab is, “Don’t rape me. Rape that uncovered slut over there”.
CRUSADER says
People still choose to see it in this way however — and to make the contrast about how modest women of Occidental culture can coverup but that the Orient cannot if it is of Muslim appearance….
This is what has evolved since the time of the Ansar of “Mudhamman” in Medina and then in Mecca/Makkah.
al uzza bint-allaha says
hear hear!
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
It is an empty Propaganda without any sense of direction. Are they promoting beast way of life now losing even in the West ? such jahiliyya(primitivity)of Stone age revived in the West has no popularity among women in the West .Those promoting It are simply idiots. who Will buy the obnoxious idea ? only prostitutes
gravenimage says
The foul Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
It is an empty Propaganda without any sense of direction.
……………………………
Of course Ibrahim itace muhammed believes that freedom is empty–he has no concept of what it is to be free.
More:
Are they promoting beast way of life now losing even in the West ?
……………………………
Ibrahim itace muhammed is here pretending that the West is becoming fully Islamic, and that women are flocking to the attractions of FGM and forced marriage. Actually, there seem to be more Muslims apostasizing in the West than clueless Westerners “reverting” to Islam.
More:
such jahiliyya(primitivity)of Stone age revived in the West has no popularity among women in the West .Those promoting It are simply idiots. who Will buy the obnoxious idea ? only prostitutes
……………………………
Of course, Jahiliyya does not mean “primititivity”–it refers to anyting that is “Pre-Islamic”–that is, anything from before the presumed Islamic takeover. Muslims, of course, consider anything non-Islamic to be worthless.
Then there is the usual claim that anyonw who does not want to be married off to some Jihadist–often as a child–is a “prostitutes”.
Note while Islam considers a woman being able to feel the wind in her hair to be immoral, what Muslims *do* consider moral includes “marrying” children, taking multiple “wives”, summary divorce whenever a Muslim gets bored with one of his wives, “Honor Killing” if he gets bored and enraged, raping Infidels, and keeping them as sex slaves.
God, I hate Islam.
Savvy Kafir says
Yeah, me too. For those reasons, & so many more.
I just wonder when it will become socially acceptable in the West to publicly utter those very sane, sensible words: “God, I hate Islam.” Not much longer, I hope.
In the meantime, those of us who are willing to become pariahs to the PC Police should keep saying it, every chance we get. “God, I hate Islam. ALL of Islam. And here’s why…”
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Savvy kafir, it is only very few of you suffering from mental delusion due to Satan’s (holy spirit) possession hating Islam. Those with highest rational calculation capacity like Islam.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Oh you will have your little jokes Ibrahim.
gravenimage says
The ludicrous Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Those with highest rational calculation capacity like Islam.
………………….
Hey–what’s not to like? Child “marriage”, mutilating girls, throwing gay people off tall buildings, forced marriage, rape, slavery and sex slavery, the crushing of art and freedom of speech, and the mass-slaughter of anyone who doesn’t submit to Islam?
Might it be that pious Muslims use words like “rational” differently than civilized Infidels do?
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Satan (holy spirit) worshiper Gravenimage, jahiliyya simply means ignorance and It applies to any period of darkness like your stone age you have now revived appearing like group of monkeys in the forest.
6woods says
A group of Monkeys in the forest has more intelligence and common sense than a group of muslims anywhere.
CRUSADER says
Boooooo !!!!
CRUSADER says
That was meant for Mr Irritates.
MFritz says
Just don’t feed the troll. You answer, he stays.
gravenimage says
Women around the world burn their hijabs for #NoHijabDay
………………………….
*Excellent* to see women standing with the brave Vida Movahed and all like her!
Andy says
To: Ibrahim itace muhammed
For Whom The Bell Tolls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eupy_7_xPxw
CRUSADER says
Hurrah!!!!!!
Let’s drink to this.
Cheers!!!!
Andy says
Count me in!!!
CHEERS!!! CRUSADER and all JW READERS!!
“Cheers” Around the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSbuBIR6Nm0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9wkRp0O5iw
CRUSADER says
Keep drinking!
If only to piss off Muslims….
Sam says
“Women around the world burn their hijabs for #NoHijabDay”
Such a culturally insensitive act.
Muslims will start killing more now all over the world
CRUSADER says
That’s the muzzles’ prerogative.
It’s their “free will” to do so.
But it makes them seem more insane.
Islam is lame.
Savvy Kafir says
Ibrahim itace muhammed says: “Savvy kafir, it is only very few of you suffering from mental delusion due to Satan’s (holy spirit) possession hating Islam. Those with highest rational calculation capacity like Islam.”
Right! That must be why the Muslim world has so very much to show for itself, in terms of science & technology, human rights, healthy sex lives, that world-famous aversion to violence, and the Buddha-like calm that’s so common among Allah’s faithful when faced with provocation or offense.
It’s all due to Muslims having the “highest rational calculation capacity”. Suddenly it all makes sense.
gravenimage says
+1
CRUSADER says
Muslims are averse to violence? They are?
Tell more about Muslims’ “Buddha-like calm that’s so common among Allah’s faithful when faced with provocation or offense.”
Really? Cool !!!! I guess it’s better to know a Muslim, after all….
Oh….!!!! I get it….now….you were JOKING !!!
😉
That’s uncool, man, the Muslims won’t get the joke. They don’t get humor!
Norger says
@ Savvy Kafir
Excellent stuff
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Savvy kafir, you mean sciences and technology are miracles inspired into your heads by the Satan (holy spirit)? But it is nowhere stated in mithraist Bible. point at one where scientific inquiries discussed .
truth says
TO even respond to Ibrahim is to be in collusion with him. Why are you encouraging him.
If he was ignored it would choke his comments.
Lydia Church says
Now that makes sense!
terry says
Lol! DO NOT SHARIA on me!
MFritz says
Main stream media response? Mostly ZIP.
Parbatsinhchauhan says
If anybody look at the history of the world before the birth and advent of Islam on this earth, they will realize that Iran was a Persian country in the past and the people were following the Zorostrian… They are called Parsi.. Later on the whole Iran was converted to Islam by the forceful aggression and war incessantly by the wild Arabic tribes….All the Iranian people were forcefully converted to Muslims by imposing cruelty and atrocities on them… Few people of Iran escaped from this cruelty to save their religious fire and arrived at Sanjan port in India where they got the shelter and freedom of their religion.. So only India is the place where these old Iranian Zorostrian Parsi community lives happily today… The best example is Jamshedji Tata… A renowned business personality of India……So Iran was the great country in the past with it’s great Persia history….Later on it lost it’s glory in the Islamic rulers period… Even though they are following the Islam but their culture, name and rituals-traditions are completely the Persian same as the Parsi community living in India….Islam is just forcefully imposed on the poor people of Iran by the fanatics Islamic rulers…
Kasey says
Wear it by choice……more like via indoctrination of the mind which denies them a choice. Defiance means a serous risk of attack from family and peers. No choice here really, only fear!
Owen Morgan says
“While many Muslim women around the world wear the hijab by choice…” (Mailonline)
The “choice” in question being either to wear a hijab/burqa/niqab, or to get hacked to bits by your loving male relatives, for whom being a murderer is more honourable than having a sister with brown hair.
Kepha says
A few years back, while dining with one of my sons at a restaurant, the next table was occupied by a bunch of hijab-wearing young ladies, all with features that bespoke ancestry from the Mideast or South Asia (although their accents were decidedly American). They ordered barbecued pork ribs and ate with gusto.