A group of women in Denmark is defying the face veil ban, referring to the ban as “racist” and “intolerant.” These women would not dare protest “intolerance” in an Islamic state. Islamic supremacist incursion into the West, disguised as women’s “rights” and an issue of “tolerance” and “racism,” while exploiting democratic freedoms, is nothing new. As the article indicates below:
To protesters and women who wear the veil, the ban looks like another sign that Denmark is betraying its long-held value of tolerance. “It’s not just about us fighting for the right to wear our niqab,” Sabina says. “It’s also about us fighting for right to live our lives as practicing Muslims in Denmark. We are saying to the government: we do not accept this form of racist, Islamophobic and oppressive politics.
It is well known — or should be — that the burqa and niqab are outward manifestations of the inferiority of women under sharia. These women should join the real heroes of women’s rights in Iran, who shed their hijabs in the streets.
Wearing of head coverings is enforced in sharia states because women are instructed in the Quran to cover themselves; this is true despite the regular insistence that the coverings are not a religious requirement. If a woman doesn’t wear it, she may be abused, and if she is, it’s her fault.
(Quran 24:31) And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.
(Quran 33:59) 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.
In Western democracies, women are equal to men. The burqa and niqab should be banned because of that, as well as on security grounds.
It is no accident that two issues in particular regularly appear in Western news outlets as contentious: the face veil and “Islamophobia.” Both of those issues can be manipulated into questions of “racism,” “tolerance,” “diversity,” and “multiculturalism” within the framework of democratic countries (which are viewed in traditional Islamic law as part of the House of War). The real issues involved, however, are the Islamic ideas of the supremacy of male over female (as manifested in the burqa, niqab, hijab, chador, etc.) and that Islam is superior and must not be insulted (“Islamophobia” accusations). Other Islamic practices cannot be so easily sold in the West, such as FGM, wife beating, forced underage marriage, the declaration of the supremacy of Islam over other faiths, etc.
The controversy over face veils, as well as that over “Islamophobia,” are really about declarations of the supremacy of Islam over Western societies and laws.
“‘Now It’s a Sign of Protest:’ Muslim Women in Denmark Defy the Face Veil Ban”, Karis Husdad, Time Magazine, August 2, 2018:
Sabina started wearing the niqab two years ago as a way to feel more connected to God. The face veil—a piece of fabric tied around the back of her head that only reveals her eyes—is a reminder of her identity and beliefs, she says. “I found it very beautiful,” the 21-year-old education student explains, sitting cross-legged on the floor of the women’s prayer room in Det Islamiske Trossamfund, a mosque in Copenhagen. “In the beginning it was a very spiritual choice.”
But starting this month when she wears her niqab in public, her act of devotion will also be an act of civil disobedience. She will be one of the Danish citizens defying the country’s ban on face coverings in all public places, which came into effect on Wednesday.
“Now it has also become a political choice for me,” says Sabina, who asked TIME not to disclose her last name out of concerns for her safety. “It is also a sign of protest.”
Sabina is a founder of Kvinder i Dialog (Women in Dialogue), an organization started by niqabis—women who wear the veil—that brings Muslim women affected by the ban into conversation with the larger Danish population through events, social media and public appearances. Their goal has been to dispel what they say are misconceptions about their choice to wear the veil: that niqabis are forced to wear the garment, don’t go to school or work, and are radicalized and pose a threat.
Now their aims have expanded to include standing their ground in Danish society. On the first day of the ban, the women led a public protest over their right to wear the veil. Hundreds of people of different religious and ethnic backgrounds congregated at Den Sorte Plads in Copenhagen’s Nørrebro neighborhood, donning niqabs, colorful scarves and flamboyant face coverings—a horse head, fake beards and lucha libre masks were spotted across the plaza—to challenge the enforcement of the ban. The crowd marched on local streets led by a sign that read “My clothes, my choice” and chanted “No racists in our streets!” as they locked arms around the Bellahøj police station. At the same time, across the country a protest took place in Aarhus, Denmark’s second biggest city.
Many in the crowd said taking to the streets seemed to be the only way to bring attention to the problem. “When I was a kid, no one talked about who you could be and how you could look and dress,” said Line Schmidt, 33, wearing a black balaclava with yellow translucent heart-shaped glasses.“It’s not the Denmark I know.”
To protesters and women who wear the veil, the ban looks like another sign that Denmark is betraying its long-held value of tolerance. “It’s not just about us fighting for the right to wear our niqab,” Sabina says. “It’s also about us fighting for right to live our lives as practicing Muslims in Denmark. We are saying to the government: we do not accept this form of racist, Islamophobic and oppressive politics.”…..
DogOnPorch says
Islam’s welcome is wearing VERY thin in the West.
Pet Charles says
I don’t think so. I don’t see how. NO Western government has taken a zero tolerance position against Islam.
Jayell says
Who exactly gave islam any ‘welcome’ in the West? Musims have just been tolerated.
Proud Kaafir says
It is not just tolerated. The governments are welcoming them against the will of the general public. This is a classic example of how democracies can deteriorate then go against the people and still remain in power.
Cunamarra says
Millions upon millions of German and Nordic women and college students. “Refugees Welcome,” or have you forgotten? How else would so many Pakistani people make it into the UK without UK government subsidized welcome mats passed out over six decades?
People should be careful what they ask for. Whining “but I didn’t know” doesn’t buy forgiveness.
gravenimage says
They weren’t all women, nor have there been millions of them.
And there have been demonstrations *against* Muslims flooding in, too, like the ones in Cottbus, Germany.
Ecosse1314 says
One of the woman said”it’s not the Denmark that I know”.
She will be delighted to know many ethnic Danes feel the same way but for very different reasons.
gravenimage says
*Spot on*, Ecosse.
Ernie says
So true Ecosse 1314 !
Simone says
Islam is mainly a political belief system. They put women on the front line so that they can rally support from those that believe their ‘poor me, I’m being victimised’ stories.
Simone says
Islam uses the Left as it’s tool to empower itself.
Jayell says
If she never knew the ‘Denmark’ where you don’t conceal your identity, then she never knew the real ‘Denmark’ at all in the first place and she was just making up her own ‘Denmark’ in her head to suit herself. We can all do that sort of thing so long as we don’t expect everyone around us to conform to our own private fantasies, but if coming to grips with reality proves to be an insurmountable problem, then ‘reality’ will ultimately deal with us in a way we might not appreciate too well. This woman and her friends need to learn that lesson the nice way now, or she will be taught it another way later.
mgoldberg says
It is not those who wear a niqab that are in danger. It is those who don’t wear coverings who are in danger in all muslim lands, and now…. they are in danger in muslim no go areas of the west that have gangs of those who do not allow … no coverings.
mortimer says
Agree. Koran 33.59 THREATENS UNVEILED WOMEN WITH RAPE.
THE ISLAMIC VEIL IS THE ULTIMATE SYMBOL OF MISOGYNY AND PATRIARCHY.
CogitoErgoSum says
Question: Why are there no churches in Saudi Arabia?
Answer: Because of people who think as these veiled women do.
Question: Why do they wear the veil or burka?
Answer: Because they fear that Muslim men will rape any woman who shows her face or hair or more than the smallest trace of female flesh. Muslim men lack self-discipline when it comes to sex …. in emulation of Muhammad.
Question: Why are they standing in public and not at home hiding themselves from public view?
Answer: Good question. They should be hiding themselves most of the time and then don the burka only for very quick sprints between hiding places … and while scurrying they should be accompanied by a close male relative. Each one of these women needs a lesson in discipline from the male who is responsible for her. Where are their men?
mike9a says
Question: Can one follow islam’ teachings and be normal?
Answer: No.
mortimer says
Agree with mike. YOU CANNOT SUPPORT SHARIA LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS at the same time.
THE ISLAMIC VEIL IS THE ULTIMATE SYMBOL OFGENDER INEQUALITY, MISOGYNY AND PATRIARCHY.
CogitoErgoSum says
Do you see the men in the picture who are wearing masks? This is not normal behavior for a man and it should not be for a woman either. No human being’s face should be considered a “private part” or something to hide from others. Our face is the best way we can express our individual uniqueness and the best way for us to recognize one from the other. It is also the best way for us to express our emotions and feelings. Covering your face is just plain wrong on so many different levels. As Jesus said, if your eye is what causes you to habitually commit a wrong, pluck out your eye and don’t blame the object that your eye sees … OR perhaps you can just learn some self-discipline. But no, there would be too many blind Muslim men in the world if that advice were to followed, so Muslim women need to hide themselves …. and all the other women need to be wary of Muslim men …. who should all be wearing the mask of an outlaw.
Carol the 1st says
“Do not throw your peanuts down before squirrels, lest they turn squirrelly and rend you or worse yet, rend each other.”
Best to keep the sex toys bagged.
Save Europe says
Respectfully, on your second rhetorical question you fail to understand that many of them deliberately wear what they do, so as to insult non Muslims – ie – you cannot look at us/how dare you !!!
It’s really important to understand this. It’s understated.
balam says
You can never win with the Muslim. If it is made compulsory for MUSLIM women to wear Burka, then it would be called racist and Islamophobic. You have no choice but to send Muslims back to where they came from.They are like bed bug in your trousers or like a stone n your shoe. JUST GET RID OF THEM.PERIOD
James Lincoln says
Both Poland and Hungary have made the very smart choice of not letting Muslim migrants into the country – period.
They are being blasted by the mainstream media, but they rightfully do not care.
Better to avoid the problem and be called racist, Islamic, far right, etc. then to let Islam take hold in your country.
James Lincoln says
I meant Islamophobic.
elee says
Be strong Denmark!
Jay says
Why did these women move to Denmark?? Acclimate to the national identity of Denmark, or go back
where you came from! The Muslim invasion is destroying England, France, Germany, Norway, Denmark, etc etc. it’s complete madness and should be unacceptable to countries accepting these invaders.
Acclimate or go home!! Simple solution. Instead of being grateful for the generous and gracious countries that accept them, they declare war on the soverignity and customs of that country. Total insanity!
CogitoErgoSum says
Does Quran 9:29 sound to you like it’s advising Muslims to acclimate or go home?
gravenimage says
They want to conquer Denmark.
somehistory says
They are breaking the law and they are doing this because they wish to break any and all laws with which they disagree.
” live our lives as practicing Muslims in Denmark.
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And many are the “practices” of moslims that are painfu/hurtfull, unlawful, evil, violent, hateful, degrading, disgusting and deadly.
As has been said time and again, the clothing that moslim women wear is a large part of the waging of jihad, the constant and unrelenting warfare of islam against the whole of humanity.
they are braking the law….lock them up and put them through the process of trial and sentencing.
John says
arrest them and Kick them out of your Country, islam is nothing more than a Barbaric Bigoted Subhuman Totalitarian Ideology followed by 7th century Uncivilized SAVAGES
tim gallagher says
Very good summary of Islam, John.
MFritz says
Denmark is not “YOUR” country – you don’t accept it’s history, culture and values. You never have and you never will. Wearing the face veil AND the hijab makes this VERY clear to everyone. Go home to your shithole countries, if you want to live “your way”. And good riddance!
tim gallagher says
I could not agree more, MFrtiz. Islam is the complete opposite of our western culture and values. And, as you say, these foul, face covering garments are one of the clearest examples . Islam is 100% incompatible and a threat to our civilised, western way of life. Muslims are always only about imposing barbaric Islam on all non-Muslims.
gravenimage says
Spot on, MFritz.
FYI says
So,wearing the niqab makes her feel “connected to god”?
She means “allah” of course:”allah” must never be confused with God.
“allah” of the koran who says..
The legal testimony of a woman =half that of a man koran 2:282
A son’s inheritance =twice that of a daughter k4:11
polygamy k4:3 and child brides k65:4 are OK?
allah;
The antisemitic racist{k2:65}antichristian{k9:30}misogynistic{k2:282},theologically-challenged god of islam
And these women think that such a god as “allah”{baal} is worthy of respect!
allah,if anything, hates women{koran 2:282}
Guest says
Islam lets men and women know their place in society, for women, that place is a lowered place with regard to men. Muslim women are happy with their place and accept their subervience to men. They do as they are told! They feel as if they are the owned property of men. First their father owns them, and then their father transfers ownership to her husband who similarly treats her as a child or a semi-adult in need of direction, or a lesser being than himself.
As an Atheist who holds all religions in contempt, I have to say that without the Islamic religious element, the notion of male ownership of a woman who is quite happy to be owned, holds a certain appeal as opposed to the run of the mill emancipated, quarrelsome, semi-lesbian feminist harpies you are likely to find yourself legally welded to in the West.
Fertility rates in the West have plummeted, perhaps because Western women, and Western men have lost the plot. Nobody wants to get married, and if they do commit, then they only want to have a Puppy.
If ther is a slipup and a pregnancy results, then our governments are quick to facilitate the killing of that preborn child.
I am thinking the Muslims have figured out a better functioning male/female dynamic that works to maximize reproductive fitness.
Your woman is like a tilth unto you (like a field) and you may go into her as you see fit!
The wife is expected to never refuse her husband sex. Even if she is cooking at the stove and he desires sex, she is to drop everything and satisfy him.
Perhaps to the readers here in the West who have been to a large extent indoctrinated into the ideology of feminism this seems strange and wrong, but is it really? It surely confers reproductive Fitness upon the society if nothing else, so perhaps the Feminism with it’s anti-natalist objective is the failed ideology.
Carol the 1st says
If you were a female member (of society of course) WHO would you like your daddy to assign your life, your body, and your reproduction to?
gravenimage says
The repulsive Guest seems to think that raping women and children “confers reproductive Fitness on society”.
Why doesn’t he just convert to the creed of force and slavery right now?
Some of us actually believe in freedom and human rights.
Rosie Barnes says
Unfortunately for them they can’t take their case to the European Court of Human Rights, as it already rejected challenges to the bans in France and Belgium, and sided with those countries in upholding the bans.
In Belgium, judges said the nationwide prohibition, which came into effect in 2011, did not violate the rights to private and family life and freedom of religion, or discrimination laws.
The court found Belgium had the right to impose restrictions aiming to ensure the principles of “living together” and the “protection of the rights and freedoms of others”. Its ruling said the government had been responding “to a practice that it considered to be incompatible, in Belgian society, with social communication and more generally the establishment of human relations, which were indispensable for life in society…essential to ensure the functioning of a democratic society”.
Viking says
Denmark is a land of Vikings and for Vikings! If muslims do not accept the Denish law they can leave the Denmark!
EXHATEISLAM says
All these bitches need to go back to the oppressive lands they came from, and on the way back take that bitch linda sarsour with you.
Guest says
I am not well schooled on this topic so I will make some perhaps ill-informed comments and welcome anyone who knows better to set me straight. Perhaps Robert Spencer could do so or point me to good resource.
I believe that the female Covering for Hijab (niquab,burka,chadari etc) are not really meant to benefit women, but rather to protect and benefit the Muselman from suffering the sin of Lust.
The only benefit that accrues to the woman, is that she gets brownie points from Allah for NOT Tempting the men who may see her into sinning in his mind. Allah recognizes her for doing this good deed.
I seem to remember Doco that showed some Islamo-wenches going even further to make sure they did not inflame lust in men, by painting the window of their kitchen over so that male passersby would not suffer a lusty glance at them as they washed the dishes.
I believe that if a Muslim man feels lust when looking at a woman, he gets tagged with the sin, but the the woman who ’caused’, or inflicted him with that lust is more to blame than he is because she was the proximate cause of the mans sin.
The problem as I see it with a Western society allowing the practice is that it creates a visible dividing line by which all women are judged in an Islamic context. Muslim boys and men are enculturated to quickly evaluate the worth of a woman on first sight. If she is Covered then she is working to protect him from the sin of Lust and is therefore valued as a good woman, but if Uncovered she is regarded as a slut or a whore because she is doing him harm by instigating the Sin of Lust in him.
The covered women are therefore causing the uncovered women to be looked down upon by Muslim Men, and this could lead to the women suffering differential treatment, including harassment from Muslim Men, and cause harm to those women’s human dignity.
Am I wrong?
Carol the 1st says
If the world revolved around keeping a lid on it FOR the world’s “princes”, then this must explain why many of these sports wear thobes.
Thomas Lewis says
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
When in Saudi Arabia, do as the Saudi’s do.
When in Denmark, do as the Danish do.
Stop the Child like behavior of Muslims Islamist who are not able to live peacefully in countries NOT THEIR OWN.
Kesselman says
Unfortunately, the divide is not exclusively between the muslums and the Danes but between the Danes themselves – like elsewhere in the West. That’s the whole misery. For most anti-muslums, the great barrier to getting a hold of the issue is political correct compatriots and weak politicians.
Keil says
Unfortunately, the divide is not exclusively between the muslums and the Danes but between the Danes themselves – like elsewhere in the West. That’s the whole misery. For most anti-muslums, the great barrier to getting a hold of the issue is political correct compatriots and weak politicians.
Kay says
I think that is one of Islam’s main weapons and is used intentionally. They call their perversions by righteous words and thereby dupe many. And Westerners end up fighting with ourselves or at best not trusting one another.
Rolf Wittwer says
Such devilish behaviour and outlooking people are probably intentionally provoking Civil war.
This is no more our Europe.
We have to stand up now and organize demonstrations too.
We can and should no tolerate anymore everything which is in completly contrary to our traditional way of life. Where are politicians and people feeling responsable to their own folks????
This darkdressed and -minded people do have the complete final submission of Europe in their brainwashed head. And they think all goes well without any resistance.
WHAT A SHAMEFUL DEFEAT FOR THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK!!!!!
gravenimage says
Denmark: Muslim women defy the face veil ban as “Islamophobic” and “intolerant”
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They want Denmark to cave as Switzerland has unfortunately done:
“Swiss government caves to political correctness, rejects burqa ban”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/08/swiss-government-caves-to-political-correctness-rejects-burqa-ban
Save Europe says
It IS really very simple in these cases –
1) in some scenarios they are cajoled into wearing a niqab or burka OR
2) it is an insult to EVERY one of us infidels, that we cannot look at them and that they have Salafi ideologies.
Either way it is wrong.
Carol the 1st says
If Islamic men have a problem they should go to a shrink or take saltpeter.
KJW says
I just wrote a comment explaining the use of hijab and veil in the Qur’an and Hadith and how Umar campaigned for it. It appears that my post disappeared. I don’t get this commenting here-my comments always go to moderation and now I don’t even see my post at all saying that. I wish there were directions! Frustrating to write that all out.
gravenimage says
Jihad Watch is still experiencing technical problems.