An advertisement this past summer for the clothing brand Gap shocked many in France.
The latest Gap ad campaign, “Back to school” features a little girl in a hijab, CNEWS France reports.
On 24 July, Gap Kids launched the “Back to school” ad campaign and on 31 July, the brand tweeted an ad which features a little girl in an Islamic veil.
This latest ad campaign wasn’t well received in France, a boycott was even launched. “I’ll never accept to see little girls in veils. I will never go to Gap”, tweeted Anne-Christine Lang, deputy of Onward.
A petition against the ad called “The veil is not child’s play” was also started on Change.org
“We are asking GAP in Europe to disassociate itself from the GapKids campaign, #GapToSchool, who dares to place a girl with a hijab in the middle of children from different cultures, as if the veil were a colorful dimension that adds to social diversity. The veil is not a fairy tale!…
“This campaign trivialises the wearing of the veil, it gives a joyful and fraudulent image. We do not stop progress: today veiled, sexually marked at 10 years, tomorrow prevented from playing sports and bathing without a veil, the day after tomorrow excised [genitals cut] and forcibly married?
“We ask GAP in Europe to comment on this sensitive issue and not use this type of sexist campaign to sell clothes,” the petition reads.
While the ad received mixed reviews in the United States, where it first appeared, in France it was received with fury. For as the French petition showed, Gap’s attempt to celebrate the hijab — as part of its “diversity” campaign — did not amuse or fool the French, who are keenly aware of its significance. And some Muslims who don’t care for the hijab also chimed in: “Dear @Gap @GapKids your attempts to ‘inclusiveness’ by normalizing ‘Child Hijab’ is disgusting. You’re literally supporting an act of child abuse,” said a post by Hanouf Mohammad on Twitter.
The French opponents of this hijab ad did not buy the idea that young girls decide for themselves to wear it. They understood it is imposed by adults, usually the parents, and furthermore, because it is an ostentatiously religious article of clothing, it violates the principles of France as a laic state.
If Gap wants to advertise in France, it should do so in a way that does not undermine the laws or values of France. In France, it should be remembered, it is forbidden to wear the hijab in schools. It’s a sign of health in the French body politic that so many were outraged by this hijabbed girl in the Gap ad.
The French correctly saw the inclusion of the hijabbed girl in the advertisement as an attempt to flaunt a supposedly cheerful “diversity” and to acclimate the larger public to the wearing of the hijab by young girls. But the French saw this ad campaign as trivializing an important issue, by giving “a joyful and fraudulent image” to what they know is only one in a series of impositions on Muslim girls and women by Muslim men. The French petitioners wrote scathingly about the “progress” that was being mendaciously imposed through these ads — the celebration of the wearing of the hijab — as being part of a possible series of other intrusive measures that Muslim girls must endure, from being sexually marked at 10 years by the wearing of the hijab (and perhaps, though it’s unclear, this is also meant as an allusion to Muhammad’s consummation of his marriage to Aisha when she was nine), to being prevented from playing sports, or going swimming, without a veil. The practice of clitoridectomy or female genital mutilation (FGM) is also mentioned (that procedure is inflicted on girls aged anywhere from a few days to fifteen years) and forced marriages, too, as if someday the Gap might make light of these practices. Exaggeration for effect. The French who rose in rage to declare that that hijabbed girl in the ad disgusted and sickened them, showed that they were not fooled, but were quite capable of spotting, and condemning, the smuggling in of a message that, as their petition said, “trivializes the wearing of the hijab.”
Tom says
Good on those French men and women and the enlightened muslims who highlited the abuse of girls and women that wearing the hijab or burka represents.
The Gap is only using this as a means of capturing the muslim market. Little do they realize that their greed is only serving to promote a backward and barbaric treatment of young girls and women. Or maybe they do … and like our politicians …. just don’t care.
mortimer says
Yes, good for them to push back. The Islamic veil is the ULTIMATE SYMBOL of MISOGYNY and PATRIARCHY. Why not ban it? There is no GOOD ASPECT in the Islamic veil.
The rejection of Islam is finally taking wings in France. Good luck.
However, many of the French politicians and leaders have been BRIBED by Muslim groups to make them favorable to Islam.
The NAIVETY of Western politicians should stop right now, because it’s 17 years after 9-11. They have had plenty of time to learn that Islam is MANY CULTS IN ONE …
-a death cult, a rape cult, an honor-killing cult, an extortion cult, a plunder cult, a censorship cult, a misogyny cult, a lie cult, a pedophilia cult, a sadomasochistic cult, an obsessive-compulsive cult, a supremacism cult, a Jew hatred cult, a Christianophobia cult, a male chauvinist cult, an inbreeding cult, an obscurantism cult, a superstition cult, a personality cult, a cruelty to animals cult, a group-think cult, a suicide cult.
Benedict says
“sexually marked at 10 years” …..
Here is the other side of the same coin from the same “laic state.”
https://youtu.be/LV8CIz57EmM
CogitoErgoSum says
True, a child wearing lipstick sends the message that she is sexually desirable to men. A child wearing a hijab sends the message that yes, she is sexually desirable but if you men want sex with a child, look elsewhere for a child not wearing a hijab. Lipstick and the hijab both send the same message …….. that a little girl is an object of desire for men. It says a man can’t look at a little girl without wanting to have sex with her. I find that insulting.
Benedict says
“I find that here in the United States no one forces me to look at things I do not wish to see.” …..
So just look the other way, CES.
(Ha! Got cha!)
CogitoErgoSum says
But it’s still okay for you to insult me?
CogitoErgoSum says
I’m still trying to make sense of this. You say I can look away but you support the idea that little girls should wear the hijab because you must actually think I can’t look away. But if I can look away, what’s the point of the hijab? Ha! Now that is funny.
gravenimage says
CogitoErgoSum is a civilized man, and is not aroused by unveiled schoolgirls.
gravenimage says
True, CogitoErgoSum.
gravenimage says
This is the *third time* that Benedict has come out in favor of Islamic veiling–first the Niqab:
“…I will delight in seeing Muslim women wearing niqab and will even defend their right to do so and also encourage other women to wear niqab.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/10/un-human-rights-committee-says-france-violated-human-rights-of-two-muslimas-by-fining-them-for-wearing-niqab#comment-2004234
And the Burqa:
“I fully sympathizes with a fight against the burqa and niqab in the Muslim world. In the West, however, I suggest they are a justified “divine design” or nemesis designed to expose the hypocrisy in condemning a full-body cloak for women while promoting and allowing vulgar, public nudity for both sexes…”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/10/algeria-mp-calls-burqa-ban-in-public-sector-a-declared-war-on-islam#comment-2004807
In other words, He *wants* to see women in the West prevented from even showing their faces. And now he has nothing critical to say about forcing little girls to wear the slave rag–which tells Muslims to rape other unveiled girls. Just appalling.
Benedict says
No, G. He wants us to connect the dots between public nudity and public anonymity in niqabs and reflect a little on why one kind of attention seeking should be illegal and the other not.
CogitoErgoSum says
Wait a minute. I didn’t realize we were talking about people walking around in public nude. I would be against that for hygiene reasons alone. For heaven’s sake, where do you live?
gravenimage says
More apologia for forced veiling. *Ugh*.
And Benedict’s claim that public nudity is rife in the West is also of course absurd. For instance, Benedict has claimed that public nudity is legal in San Francisco–when the very opposite is the case:
“San Francisco Ban on Public Nudity Ruled Constitutional by Ninth Circuit”
https://blogs.findlaw.com/decided/2017/05/san-francisco-ban-on-public-nudity-ruled-constitutional-by-ninth-circuit.html
And no–women being allowed to appear in public with their faces exposed is *not* nudity.
Benedict says
You are a rather dishonest person “gravenimage”.
I have stated nothing whatsoever about San Francisco. I have provided a link to an article written by Dennis Prager, and what he writes about public nudity in California anyone can check for themselves.
So what is it you want to achieve by your lies?
CogitoErgoSum says
Benedict, you must be talking about nude beaches. Again, I’d say that those are places where a person has to make a conscious effort to go and see. Anyone who does not like them should just not go there. There are plenty of other beaches without nudity. People are free to choose for themselves. Actually, I find those who think that way more respectful towards my feelings than the people who think I’m a child-molester who can’t control himself when he sees a little girl without a head covering.
Brian hoff says
Wearing than string bikini is like being nude in public it leave very little to your imagination.
gravenimage says
I have said nothing that is not true here. Benedict just does not like being called out for his apologia for the foul Muslim veil.
gravenimage says
The vicious “Brian hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–has come out here before for veiling–including the veiling of small children–before. Anything short of being immured in a Burqa he considers “nudity”.
gravenimage says
Good points, CogitoErgoSum.
Brian hoff says
Graveimage I said nothing of the kind.. The string bikini cover so little of the woman body she might well be nude. Than more traditional one pieces swimsuit is modesty and ok.
gravenimage says
So now “Brian hoff” is telling us which types of bathing suits are allowable for Infidels? He has already said that he want to impose Shari’ah law on his fellow Texans.
CogitoErgoSum says
Brian, you can avert your gaze or close your eyes. Try directing your thoughts elsewhere when you are tempted to go where you do not wish to go. Don’t blame others for your own weaknesses.
As far as the purpose of the hijab, as I mentioned before it’s either because Muslims assume I am a danger to their women and little girls who must be kept from tempting me with their hair ……… or it’s to let Muslim men know who they can and cannot molest because the sight of a woman’s hair drives them mad and uncontrollable. In the latter case, a non-Muslim’s wife and daughter become fair game for the Muslim men. They can’t control themselves so it’s the woman’s fault if they rape her. Either way, their reasons for the hijab are disgusting.
Brian hoff says
Graveimage I didnot tell what woman can wear or not wear. The Pope is correct many western women wear the string bikini in town and in public places which arenot beach. They are naked. It about time the government pass law against the string bikini for public morality.
Carol the 1st says
Benedict seems to have things topsy turvy. Hijabs are abstractly offensive when worn by adult muslimas because these women are presumed to know their historical sexual significance (some wierdo peeping-Tom friend of Moe hanging around the pooping grounds) and the “branded cattle” it makes of them and the “fair game” it makes of “other” women roaming about the field.
It’s a different issue when prepubescent girls wear them (and, if I’m not mistaken, traditionally the onset of puberty is when these scarves are traditionally donned as a signal to males that a girl is ready to be “bandied about” in the marriage market). When a small PREpubescent girl is clothed in such “possessive”, virtue-signalling garb it is done in order that the ‘religion’ can be WORN ON THEIR SLEEVE. It serves as an unnecessary, gloating shout from muslim adults that: “These are just innocent children! So what are you gonna do about our self-glorifying crowns now kafirs? ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!”
It also enables them to carry the issue of Islam into the classroom where gentle kafir children will not be wearing the “gang colours”.
gravenimage says
More from “Brian hoff”–who posted here for many years as “DefenderofIslam”:
Graveimage I didnot tell what woman can wear or not wear. The Pope is correct many western women wear the string bikini in town and in public places which arenot beach. They are naked. It about time the government pass law against the string bikini for public morality.
…………………………….
I have not seen the Pope say anything about women wearing bikinis–nor can I find anything in an on-line search. Citations, please.
Then, “DefenderofIslam” claims that he is not telling women what they can or cannot wear, at the same time that he is calling for Shari’ah law to be imposed to criminalize women’s clothing.
He won’t stop at the bikini, of course–in many Muslim countries the wearing of Hijab or worse is violently enforced. Here is just one example:
“Islamic Republic of Iran video: Member of religious police attacks student for wearing her hijab wrong”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/06/islamic-republic-of-iran-video-member-of-religious-police-attacks-student-for-wearing-her-hijab-wrong
There are, grimly, many more.
Brian hoff says
Islamoprobic racist french. Muslim in america have constitution right to wear the hijab at any age compare to unfree france.
CogitoErgoSum says
Would you please explain the purpose of the hijab, Brian?
revereridesagain says
Brian, little girls do not “choose” to wear the hijab. Little girls do what their parents tell them to do. Especially little Muslim girls. Stop trying to use our Constitution to justify Islamic oppression of females.
Brian hoff says
At moslim one day than little muslim girl wear the hijab and the next day her head is bare.
gravenimage says
What is “Brian hoff” babbling about here?
Lavéritétriomphera says
I have to confess I was shocked when I saw a little girl veiled, but it is true in all totalitarian systems the children as well as the parents are not allowed to choose.
gravenimage says
I see that “Brian hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–wants to see little girls forced to wear the Hijab.
Muslim cleric Muhammed Al-Isikali said, “by the age of 10, it becomes an obligation on us to force her to wear Hijab, and it she doesn’t wear Hijab, we hit her”.
WPM says
Hit her ,really if she is uncovered and not with a male relative she is open to rape ? To Brian Hoff that is a big so what ?
Brian hoff says
We donot follow that muslim scholar we expect by 13 year old to wear the hijab at the mosque for prayer. It than little girl want to wear the hijab like her mother and big sister what the harm.
gravenimage says
Note that the vile “Brian hoff” has *nothing* critical to say about beating children to get them to wear Hijab. But then, this should not surprise.
Brian hoff says
We donot follow everything than scholar say. One scholar went around saying than woman doctor cannot treat than man that hospital in america where writeing up policy to handle this. I expressed my opinion it the best doctor to treat me is than woman than the man doctor is not fit to treat me I would choices the woman doctor to treat me. It turn out to false and he was scholar he make it up.
gravenimage says
“Brian hoff” *still* won’t say anything critical about Muslims beating children. But then, why would he?
Lavéritétriomphera says
@Brian off,
“We do not follow everything that scholar say” Well, that’s lucky …
mach37 says
Whoever said that “Brian Hoff” is in Texas needs to note that he is a faker, trying to pass as American by using that name. His first language is not English; he is below average in English grammar and spelling.
Muslim2018 says
The French people are overreacting, so what if she is in hijab.
revereridesagain says
You know perfectly well “so what”, if you really are a Muslim. Stop trying to play word games with people who know your sharia at least as well as you do, and are well aware of the filthy, exploitative, demeaning attitude of Islam towards females.
gravenimage says
“Muslim2018”–formerly “Muslim2017”–would have us ignore the fact that any unveiled female–*even little girls*–are Halal for Muslim men like himself to rape if they are not immured in a Hijab.
He also wants us to ignore all the girls Muslims have murdered for not wearing the Hijab:
“The Lonesome Death of Aqsa Parvez”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/63437/lonesome-death-aqsa-parvez-robert-spencer
eduardo odraude says
Thanks to Hugh Fitzgerald for some positive news about a bit of sanity among the French in their reaction to the disgusting GAP ad. I’m rather tired of amoral businesspersons who go whichever way the political wind seems to blow more profits. GAP is just the kind of organization to be cravenly, idiotically, immorally PC. Won’t be buying from them anymore, not unless they stop making such ads.
eduardo odraude says
I have a request for Jihad Watch.
I have been one of your readers for over a decade. I once organized a massive mailing of one of Robert Spencer’s books to Congress.
I ask Jihad Watch writers to adopt a discipline of working to unearth a larger number of positive stories — or positive aspects of stories — that give hope. At times this site’s relentless reportage of bad news — though the bad news it reports is accurate — has an effect on my morale not unlike that intended for Americans by Tokyo Rose during World War 2. I know there are other allies of Robert Spencer who feel as I do about this. So I request that all the writers here adopt a discipline of unearthing stories or aspects of stories — ideally this would be half of Jihad Watch content — that give hope or even slight indications of progress in resisting jihad and sharia and containing Islam. I understand that might mean Jihad Watch would be giving more emphasis to positive aspects than perhaps seems quantitatively justified by world trends, but nevertheless I think this site would be more helpful to its own cause and to me if it worked harder to showcase hopeful aspects about how people are successfully, if only in small ways, resisting Islam and jihad.
revereridesagain says
It’s true that it would be encouraging to read examples of people actively resisting Islam, so much of the news has been about the success of it’s relentless cultural jihad. The success of Robert’s latest book, “The History of Jihad”, has been very encouraging. We need to know about more examples of people pushing back against Islamic encroachment into their communities and succeeding, to encourage others to do the same.
eduardo odraude says
Yes, it would be great to hear of pushback or any other positive aspect in this worldwide struggle.
Carol the 1st says
Dr. Steve Turley often has good news.
gravenimage says
Yes–I cited this article when you posted this on another thread, Eduardo. We do need to see some heartening stories too.
eduardo odraude says
Thanks, gravenimage. I saw your comments at the other threads too and appreciate them. For me, the optimum would be half stories about all the horrible foolishness, and half stories about any darned small positive event, interview, progress in this struggle against jihad and for the containment of Islam.
gravenimage says
Thanks, Eduardo.
I also think that heartening stories are important–hearing about brave Anti-Jihadists and ordinary people–as here–fighting back against Islam.
Probably too much to hope for half the stories being positive–at this point, at least. I hope we see that change.
I know that Robert Spencer always keeps his optimism, though–as well as his sense of humor. A great role model.
Ragdoll says
Someone should tell that to Marks and Spencer in the UK, who sell a child’s hijab as part of the schoolwear range 🙁
gravenimage says
Yes–disgusting.
Mirren10 says
Absolutely, Ragdoll.
https://www.marksandspencer.com/s/contact-us
I’ve sent them an email pointing out how hypocritical they are, selling a hijab for *little girls*, whilst flaunting their statement on *Modern Slavery*, and telling them I won’t be shopping there again unless they withdraw it.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Mirren.
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: Mind The Gap, Or Signs of Sanity in France
………………..,
Good to see some pushback.
Benedict says
This veil-thing is much ado about nothing.
gravenimage says
So now Benedict not only wants to see adult women in the West immured in Burqas, but *little girls*, as well? Just sickening.
Is he fine with Muslims raping unveiled women and girls? This is the message of the veil:
“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 (as such) and not molested…”
–Qur’an 33:59
“Molested” means sexually molested.
Benedict says
I don’t think Benedict is fine with Muslims raping unveiled women and girls, G. It should be so self evident that one becomes ridiculous by stating it.
But he is fine with a little thinly veiled Shakespearean humor.
gravenimage says
Why should this be ridiculous? That is *exactly* what the Muslim veil is about.
And Benedict’s having to refer to himself in the third person here does not exactly give weight to the idea that he much opposes it.
He may find the topic of Muslim rape and forced veiling hilarious, but many of us find our humor elsewhere.
mach37 says
Qur’an 33:60 If the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is disease and those who spread rumors in al-Madinah do not cease, We will surely incite you against them; then they will not remain your neighbors therein except for a little.
33:61 Accursed wherever they are found, [being] seized and massacred completely.
In the original Arabic, “And massacred completely” is repeated, as the final sentence of this verse. Why, oh why, does EVERY English translation omit the final sentence of 33:61? This looks like an attempt to “abrogate” the Quran so it seems a little less violent.
It seems to negate the ending of S. 33:59 – “And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.”
eduardo odraude says
Much ado about nothing?
Symbols, especially symbols of totalitarian movements, have terrible power. The veil is not much ado about nothing, any more than the Soviet Union’s hammer and sickle or the Nazis’ swastika were ado about nothing.
Besides. The hijab is not just a symbol. It’s bound up with the Islamic texts’ treatment of women as virtually the chattel of Muslim men.
gravenimage says
+1
dumbledoresarmy says
Precisely.
I think of it as the Slave Rag.
It has NOTHING to do with anything that we in the modern or the premodern West think of as chastity or modesty.
It is about power, about control and, in the west, today, the hijab – the slave rag, the sharia badge – is the badge of a woman’s membership (whether chosen or under compulsion) in a totalitarian death cult that intends the destruction and pillage of the host society.
Its nearest analogue is a Swastika armband.
mach37 says
The present goal of “the veil thing” (never mind that this article is about the head covering, not the face covering) is to require ALL women, including infidels, to cover their heads, as the Muslim masters want.
jewdog says
If demographic trends continue in western Europe, then France as a laic state will go the way of Turkish kemalism no matter what Gap or anyone else does.
b.a. freeman says
often, the french hate things *because* they come from the u.s. that attitude used to infuriate me when i was much younger, but i eventually grew out of being offended by fools. this is one time, however, that i would not mind The Gap being dissed for being american, if that happened, because it adds to the acceptability of protesting the hijab and anything else islamic in france. if the french are lucky, they will one day (soon, i hope) hold islam in far more disdain than they ever held the u.s.; if i’m not mistaken, they have the highest proportion of muslims living there among all other EU nations, and are thus in the gravest danger from islam.
eduardo odraude says
17 of the bottom 20 nations with respect to women’s rights are Muslim-majority nations:
http://quotingislam.blogspot.com/2011/06/womens-rights-18-of-bottom-20-nations.html
The hijab is part of that oppression. Women who claim to like the hijab are the “Uncle Toms” of the female world.
Elisha says
Keep walking in blindness, Hugh, and keep pretending that atheism can secular humanism can account for morality and reason. You’re more foolish than the muslims.
Elisha says
“… and keep pretending that secular humanism …”
gravenimage says
Elisha, why are you attacking brave Anti-Jihadist Hugh Fitzgerald? What has he said that is immoral or unreasonable?
And how can you claim that he is worse than Muslims? Hugh Fitzgerald is not oppressing and murdering Christians. Muslims are, though.
In fact, the stalwart Mr. Fitzgerald has many times exposed the plight of Christians and Jews threatened by Islam:
“Hugh Fitzgerald: Pastor Brunson’s Deed of Derring-Do”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/10/hugh-fitzgerald-pastor-brunsons-deed-of-derring-do
“Hugh Fitzgerald: In Germany Now, Wearing the Kippah Can Be Dangerous”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/04/hugh-fitzgerald-in-germany-now-wearing-the-kippah-can-be-dangerous
There are many more such stories from him.
eduardo odraude says
Elisha,
So what if a writer here is an atheist. So what if another writer is an Orthodox Christian. So what if other writers here are Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh or agnostic. Atheists and all kinds of religious people need to unite in the effort to stop the spread of totalitarian Islam. Aggressive dogmatism expressed toward allies is not helpful.
gravenimage says
Yes–we *all* need to stand together.
Benedict says
Signs of insanity in France?
What is more insane to you: A Muslim women or girl in hijab or nude customers in a restaurant and naked visitors in museums? :
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/paris-first-nude-restaurant-onaturel-naturist-association-a8037151.html
https://www.traveller24.com/Explore/International-Getaways/nsfw-stripped-back-art-experience-at-palais-du-tokyo-museum-in-paris-20180507
eduardo odraude says
Totalitarianism is far more insane than nudism.
Benedict says
If you sow in nakedness you either reap Yom Kippur or the Day of Judgment! The secular France has chosen the Day of Judgment.
gravenimage says
More apologia for forced child veiling from Benedict, i see.
SamB says
Benedict raises an important caveat even if it comes across as hypocritical. Christian ethics and morals cannot be less than what Islam suggests. Having said this we cannot assume that everybody is a Christian in a bikini. Western society in is inundated with liberal thinkers; they usually are not beholden to the norms of (others). Perhaps, this is the trajectory of Benedict. On the other hand, Islam dictates to its adherents, even to the point of death, a specific behavioral outcome. Christians already burnt their fingers during the Middle-Ages with this one; remember the witches, Zwingli, Martin Luther and others. Islam has no such drawbacks, it sets the rules. Whether it is ijma, or qiyas the ultimate test of legitimacy is the Qur’an and the Sunna. Benedicts underlying thought seems to be that the Shari’a is legitimate because Christian hypocrisy has failed the state. But, I have pointed out elsewhere that the we coexist in a pluralistic society and Christian morals does not drive the national moral agenda. The question who is Islam? They don’t even have the decency to give any of us space in their domain…is this what Benedict argue?
Benedict says
Sharia is what we get if we spurn the most precious thing we have: our Judeo-Christian tradition and the power struggle between Islam and Christianity in the West is decided by the answer to the question posed by Pilate: “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?” – Barabbas being incorporated in Islam. And I perceive Burqas and Niqabs in the public space in Europe a taunting, mocking and poking reminder of what is coming if we don’t turn back. “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded;” and “God is not mocked.”
eduardo odraude says
“Sharia is what we get if we spurn the most precious thing we have: our Judeo-Christian tradition…”
I suppose that on the whole I agree. It’s true that materialism, by itself, seems unlikely to hold off the spread of Islam. And if nudism (see the two comments further above) is deemed an expression of a tendency to trust above all in materialism, then perhaps there is an insanity there that bears comparison with the insanity of Islam’s totalitarianism.
Carol the 1st says
Nudism is just stupid sensationalism. You only need to feel threatened when this wears off and they decide to push the pedal to the metal by gravitating to more “virtuous” Islamic pleasures like beheading, stoning, burning alive, calling others “infidels” and trying to force mental garbage down their throats and take over their countries, etc.
Kelleigh Nelson says
There are plenty of other places to shop. When I saw this in a store window in Knoxville, TN, I said to myself, “Well, that’s the end of ever spending a dime with these idiots again.”
No problem, there’s plenty of other places who will take my money.
Giacomo Latta says
I have to say this on the wrong thread. 180 comments about Sinead O’Connor converting to islam? There are more people giving her attention than she thinks so she had no reason to convert to islam. Warning to all current and future parents! Please show your kids lots of attention.
mach37 says
Muslim Advocates on Madison Avenue:
The hijab is not a fashion statement, it is a political statement, flaunted as conspicuously as possible. I see it nightly on US TV, hijabs prominently displayed in top-dollar ads placed by A-list companies who seem to be flagrantly “Advertising for Islam,” in ads for totally unrelated products, like Coke.
I don’t see the financial reason for pushing so hard for Islam – the Muslim population in the US is a tiny fraction of the total nationwide; this must be a political decision by Madison Avenue advertising companies. Can their be enough Muslim enclaves in the high-population cities to actually warrant the risk of a backlash on Islam by the rest of the world?
gravenimage says
This was an American company, but was marketed in France, which has a large and growing Muslim population.
mach37 says
I believe Americans also read this blog; I’d like “raise awareness” (favorite term of activists in the USA) of Americans as well. Coke is also marketed in France. Maybe some of these companies are using the same video ads in other countries?
gravenimage says
Yes–many Americans read here, including myself.
Carol the 1st says
It’s a way of casually “normalizing” what is quite disgusting when placed under a proper lens. We’re being “handled”.