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World Hijab Day encourages non-Muslims to don hijabs in solidarity with Muslims, ignores victims of forced veiling

Dec 29, 2018 11:33 am By Robert Spencer

Once again non-Muslim women will signal their virtue by donning a hijab. But where is their concern for the women who have been brutalized and even killed for not wearing the hijab? Do the women who will happily participate in World Hijab Day care about Aqsa Parvez, whose Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it. Or Amina Muse Ali, a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab? Have they shown any 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?

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. Who is standing in solidarity with them? Not the participants in World Hijab Day.

“World Hijab Day Encourages All Women to Wear Veil in Solidarity with Muslims,” by Edwin Mora, Breitbart, December 26, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report):

The World Hijab Day (WHD) non-profit organization launched its 2019 campaign Wednesday, encouraging women and girls of all faiths, backgrounds, and ethnicities to “voice their choice” of wearing the headscarf for 24 hours on February 1, in solidarity with Muslim women across the world.

“#FreeInHijab is the much-needed hashtag for our current global situation where women in hijab are labeled by media as oppressed and symbolically imprisoned,” Nazma Khan told Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency (AA).

“Through this hashtag, women are encouraged to voice their choice of wearing the hijab; thus dispelling common misconceptions,” Khan added.

Each year since its inception in 2013, WHD has invited women to wear a hijab — a headscarf worn by Muslim women — for one day on February 1.

“Perhaps, this one-day experience will make them see the hijab in a different light,” Khan told AA.

“More than 70 global ambassadors from over 45 countries have been involved, and women from around 190 countries participate in the annual event,” Al Jazeera noted last year.

Khan explained that WHD’s 2019 motto is “Breaking Stereotypes, Shattering Boundaries,” noting that the campaign also includes “promoting World Hijab Day both online and offline globally.”

Each year, the non-profit organization prepares for World Hijab Day weeks in advance.

In 2017, WHD became a nonprofit organization focused on fighting discrimination against Muslim women through awareness and education, according to the organization’s official webpage.

Khan has told several news outlets that the hardships she faced growing up in New York City due to her hijab motivated her to establish World Hijab Day.

“I was constantly bullied in middle school and high school. Discrimination took on a different height after 9/11,” she said, referring to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.

She added, “Every day, I would face different challenges just walking on the street; I was chased, spat on, surrounded by goons, called a terrorist, Osama bin Laden, etc.”

Khan described her experience as “devastating,” adding that she did not want anyone else to go through the same thing.

“Therefore, I thought to myself, if I could invite sisters from all faiths and backgrounds to walk in my shoes just for a day, perhaps things would change,” she said.

In 2017, New York state and the House of Commons of the U.K. recognized February 1 as World Hijab Day. The Scottish Parliament and the Philippines have reportedly followed suit.

Khan dismissed accusations that the organization is spreading a political Islam ideology….

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  1. Mary says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 11:52 am

    How about an unhijab day..

    • Manny says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 2:26 pm

      I was thinking the same thing. Celebrate taking off that monstrosity.

    • PRCS says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 2:48 pm

      There is one.

      #NoHijabDay

    • mummymovie says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 3:04 pm

      December 26th is not World hijab Day.

      There’s no such thing.

      December 26th is Boxing Day. You can’t have a worldwide day of observance for a cloth headbag that is a historic symbol of violent, totalitarian oppression of women.

      It would be like celebrating, say… National Noose Day in here America, for instance.

      This is just more of the same old nauseating MB/CAIR/OIC/ISNA doublethink islamic conquest propaganda nonsense… and just after Christmas, as a dirty, underhanded muslim kick in the nuts.

      • Penny says

        Dec 30, 2018 at 11:21 am

        Well, if that date is Boxing Day, then I guess it’s fitting they would chose it for wearing something that symbolizes women being beat down. lol

    • Save Europe says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 8:45 pm

      ….like Iranian women were doing, earlier this year….which, ironically, coincided with World Hijab Day, outside of Iran.
      The irony is incredible.

      • PRCS says

        Dec 30, 2018 at 12:18 am

        https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/world-hijab-day-regina-muslim-youth-network-islamic-circle-of-north-america-1.4541530

        No one there seemed even remotely aware of what was happening in Iran at that time.

        Including the “reporter”.

        The line from THE NATIONAL TODAY was added after somebody sent the CBC Ombudsman a note about that.

    • SweetOlBob says

      Dec 30, 2018 at 4:42 am

      Mary:
      Why, in the WORLD would any female want to cover their head like the beat down, sexually violated and mutilated women of this uncivilized, cancerous, cult ?
      Any female doing this must have totally lost their mind …. or didn’t have one to begin with.
      It’s like they are saying; I am a female, therefore I don’t count as much as if I had testicles. You men may beat me. You may prevent me from leaving the house. You must be allowed to insist that I cover my body completely no matter what the temperature. I agree that I may never own property. I agree to share my valuable man with up to three other women who are treated just as miserably as I.
      And finally, I agree to have all pleasure connected with sex to be forceably, and painfully removed.
      Makes really good sense, doesn’t it ?

    • mortimer says

      Dec 30, 2018 at 5:29 am

      How about FEMALE SLAVERY DAY?

      The Islamic veil is the ultimate symbol of misogyny. Women who wear it are participating in their own subjugation.

    • ninetyninepct says

      Dec 30, 2018 at 11:28 am

      Whenever you see one, ask if their owner is treating them like a person or a posession.

  2. Georg says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 12:03 pm

    Nothing quite like being in “solidarity” with the aims of the mullahs, Taliban, Islamic State, Salafists and Islamists worldwide. Verrry progressive.

  3. mgoldberg says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 12:11 pm

    A better idea would be a day to honor those slaughtered for not wearing the hijab, who’s identities have been erased from the world by their families, by their religion, and by the western progressive globalists who have not a shred of shame at any of that.

    • Older Canadian says

      Dec 30, 2018 at 5:23 am

      Yes agree, should be done on January 31st., the day before this brainwashing campaign. It would be a great, wonderful way to “Honour” those who, died or were permently maimed, because they wanted to go through life knowing what it is like to “feel the wind in her hair”.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 30, 2018 at 5:33 am

      Goldberg, they would call a commemoration of the victims ‘Islamophobic’.

      Like calling International Holocaust Memorial Day ‘Naziophobic’.

  4. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 12:14 pm

    My God! And the women of Iran thought they only had their mediaeval freaks to deal with. But don’t let my “Islamophobia” get in your way, sisters. How about:

    World Cut Off My Clitoris Day
    World Beat Your Wife Day
    World Fuck a Little Girl Day
    World Kill Your Children Day
    World Don’t Leave the House Day
    World Share Your Husband Day
    World Remain Uneducated Day
    World Unclean Menstruation Day
    World Stone Me to Death Day

    100 years of feminism and “World Hijab Day” is what we have to show for it! Well done, sisters. Well done!

    • Dawne says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 1:07 pm

      Your excellent post puts World Hijab Day into stark perspective. This should not be allowed in western, non-Muslim countries. What are people thinking?

      • Bill Quest says

        Dec 30, 2018 at 6:39 am

        The ‘liberated’ & ‘modern’ sistas are on a mission …sharia compliancy …. Drip-by-drip-by-drip-by-drip-by bloody-DRIP …..

    • Manny says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 2:28 pm

      Outstanding!

    • Indiana Tom says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 4:39 pm

      World Hijab Day Encourages All Women to Wear Veil in Solidarity with Muslims,”
      World Hijab Day Forces All Women to Wear Veil or be whipped by Muslims,”
      Much better now.

    • Indiana Tom says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 4:44 pm

      Forgot…
      World Fuck a Little Son Day
      World Fuck your household pet Day
      World throw gay offspring off the building day.
      World Honor Killing Day.

      • Lydia Church says

        Dec 29, 2018 at 10:25 pm

        And World Terrorist Day… run a truck into an innocent group of bystanders and pedestrians…
        and don’t forget to shout ‘allah akbar’ for full effect… jump out of the truck running with a machete…

  5. jennifer says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 12:24 pm

    anjuli

    excellent response; hate prevails in islam, unfortunately. islamophobia is term created by muslims to cover their asses and, of course, put the blame on something outside of islam for their problems.

    personally, for every muslim female who has been tortured by islamic men or others; the men should get the end of their penis’ cut off without anesthetic with a rusty razor blade. that is not hate; that would be revenge

  6. Jayell says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 12:37 pm

    “#FreeInHijab is the much-needed hashtag for our current global situation where women in hijab are labeled by media as oppressed and symbolically imprisoned,” Nazma Khan told Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency (AA).”

    ‘Much needed’ by WHOM, exactly? And WHY? If these muslim women want to go around with things permanently on their heads, that’s purely their business and nothing to do with anyone else .And what ‘other people’ think about women going around with things permanently on their heads is purely a matter for the ‘other people’ alone and no concern of anyone else – unless, of course, our muslim friends think ‘other people’ don’t have a right to hold opinions that don’t meet with their approval. So that’s it, is it? Every female around the world has got to walk around on February 1st with material wrapped round their head just to meet with the approval of muslims? Since when did their entire world have to conform with the approval of muslims?

  7. James Lincoln says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 12:43 pm

    The World Hijab Day needs to be followed up with a World Cross Day.

    Muslims get a chance to wear a cross for 24 hours.

    If that happens, the West may finally get a chance to bankroll a Christian cathedral in Saudi Arabia.

    • AnnaA says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 1:40 pm

      Another day that would be nice to add is World Kippah Day. (I apologize if I have insulted any Jewish readers of this blog. It is not intended)

    • somehistory says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 1:51 pm

      +2

    • Anjuli Pandavar says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 2:44 pm

      The other way round, James. The other way round. If it’s to be hijab first and Cross the next day, they’ll agree and then renege. That’s how they operate. However, insist on Cross first, then hijab, and you’ll see how keen they are.

      Of course, I’m just playing along with the mind game. I think this whole thing is obscene, utterly obscene. Spitting in the face of not only all the women who’ve been beaten and killed for refusing to be complicit in their own oppression and in infidel women’s rape sanctioning, but also of the many Iranian women who’ve taken on a *totalitarian state* to free themselves and are paying the price for their boldness, as Robert has been good enough to lists out. Most Westerners *have no idea* what it means to live under totalitarianism, or what it means to not have freedom, to not have choices. This is not a criticism of Western people, but it is an obscene perversion of values when we are invited to don the hijab “in solidarity with Muslim women across the world,” as if the hijab is a choice, or worst, a right that they are denied. The “solidarity” called for is with the fantasy Muslim woman construct that answers feminists’ need for relevance in a world in which they’ve rendered themselves irrelevant. They have no idea what the Hell they’re talking about. Their so-called “solidarity” is most certainly *not* with the women living under Iranian, Pakistani, Saudi and other Islamic totalitarianism, no, but solidarity with women facing “Islamophobia”, a non-problem with which the entire planet is awash. This is so f*cked up, so totally, utterly f*cked up. I’m sorry for venting in your thread, James. Please understand I’m not venting at you.

      • James Lincoln says

        Dec 29, 2018 at 4:29 pm

        No worries Anjuli, excellent post.

    • Ren Ostertag says

      Dec 30, 2018 at 5:52 am

      Plus, plus, plus – plus 1000 James Lincoln.

  8. revereridesagain says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 12:52 pm

    They just bleat that those are “bad experiences”, same as they use Anni Cyrus’ horrendous abuse in her forced childhood marriage to dismiss her criticism of Islam. These people are ignoramuses to whom nothing is more important than impressing their equally callous and ignorant friends. And, of course, it fits into the #MeToo meme as these women also cover their hair to insult men with the unspoken accusation that seeing their hair provokes lust and leads to rape.

  9. European pagan says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 1:17 pm

    How about a niquaB*tch day? (Headscarf with short skirts, like on YouTube)

  10. Wellington says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 1:22 pm

    Any non-Muslim female who participates in this is, at best, a fool, at worst complicit with the misogyny, sometimes lethal, inherent in Islam.

    • PRCS says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 2:58 pm

      And so often unaware of current events.
      Last year’s event occurred while Iranian women were being arrested for casting their hijabs off.

      https://ca.news.yahoo.com/apos-feel-beautiful-apos-regina-122412082.html
      ‘They feel beautiful’: Regina’s Muslim women host World Hijab Day

      “Therese Durston was walking by when she saw the display, stopping to chat with the women and to try out and take home a scarf of her own.

      “They never have to do their hair, and I was envious of that fact — they never have bad hair days,” she said with a laugh.

      Durston said she’s taught several students that wear the hijab, who seem to cheerfully embrace this part of their faith.

      “They are positive people,” she said, adding, “I don’t see the hijab, I just see the people.””

      • Older Canadian says

        Dec 30, 2018 at 5:49 am

        Yes I remember reading that. Sort of made me wonder what her stipend was for her performance. Could not come up with any other excuse for any western woman supporting such a archaic dress code that forces women to go through life “never feeling the wind in her hair”.

      • Anjuli Pandavar says

        Dec 30, 2018 at 6:04 am

        “I don’t see the hijab, I just see the people.” says Therese Durston.

        —

        I don’t see the blade, I just see the frightened girl with her legs splayed, held down by her mother and grandmother.

        • PRCS says

          Dec 30, 2018 at 5:01 pm

          OC and AP,

          I sent a polite email to the CBC Ombudsman after that story was published. They responded, positively:

          “Thank you for your Feb. 21 letter to the CBC Ombudsman on reporter Janani Whitfield’s story on World Hijab Day.
          You take issue with the lack of global context in the web story, stating that 18-year-old Ayesha Azam’s comments that the hijab is about “freedom” and “expression” don’t account for other countries in the world where the hijab is a legal requirement.
          “In my opinion, by not noting that nations in which Islamic law is the law of the land can–and do–force women to wear “the veil”, the article failed to provide accuracy, balance, and integrity, “ you write.
          You cite accuracy, balance and integrity, which are core values in CBC’s Journalistic Standards and Practices.
          This was a narrowly-focused report on a public event, namely a group of young women in a Regina mall inviting people to try on a colourful scarf of their own as part of World Hijab Day.
          The reporter did not ask in detail about the practice of mandatory hijabs to get a response given that the participants were speaking very specifically about their experience as Muslim women in Saskatchewan.
          You are correct that the mandatory hijab is controversial in some countries around the world, sparking recent protests in Iran.
          CBC News has covered those protests in great detail on radio, television and the web.
          Thanks to your writing we added an external link to a story from late-January from CBC’s The Current, which speaks about women in Iran rebelling against the mandatory hijab.
          Your letter improved the story and provided a broader perspective to any reader coming to the piece.
          The reporter also reflected upon her interview with the women at the mall.”

          I’m currently drafting another polite emai, to be sent–in advance of this year’s event–concerning hijab’s true message–to Muslim men:

          Abuse the “unbelieving” women and slave girls–not me.

  11. abad says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 1:30 pm

    The liberal feminists in America will wear a hijab.

    I will never wear a hijab, I belong to the Lord Jesus Christ.

    • Anjuli Pandavar says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 2:54 pm

      abad,

      I’m sorry to break it to you, sister, but St (disputed) Cyril did a real number on Christian women. So I wouldn’t be so smug if I were you. You have the Enlightenment to thank for not being forced into “modesty and silence”, not your Lord Jesus Christ, however good he might be to you otherwise.

      • somehistory says

        Dec 29, 2018 at 3:04 pm

        I believe abad is saying she takes no part in islam…as it goes against everything Jesus Christ stands for, commands, and expects of His followers. The “freedom” to know this and do as she chooses, comes from Jesus as, “he came to set all men free.” (Gal. 5:1)

  12. somehistory says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 2:12 pm

    In the world of journalism, there have been some who, for a day, week, month, etc. have entered a group to “study” and find out just what the experiences are. Such as one who dons old clothes and lives *Homeless” for a time in order to see and try to understand the homeless and what they must endure.

    This wear an ugly, restrictive scarf for a day, is promulgated to do the same kind of thing…show other women how it feels to wear one. This is balderdash. Just as a journalist cannot “know” what it actually feels like to be homeless…and hopeless…by putting on old clothes and not going home for a time, a non moslim woman cannot “know” how it feels to be moslim and wear the ugly thing all of the time.

    However…this is not *really* the goal of these women who are “profiting” from their “non-profit” strategy.
    The moslim scarf serves the purpose of showing the world moslim superiority….the male moslim can make the females wear it, no matter the weather nor the wishes of the females.

    The moslims women who wear it voluntarily are making statements too….They as females are *superior* to even males who are not moslim. But, esp are they superior to the female non moslim. They are protected from the rape…or so they like to pretend…that the non moslim women receive from male moslims for being dirty and evil. They are the clean women and only get raped by their husbands.

    And this gets to the core; This “day” is being advertised and promoted to get “all” women to bow to the wishes of the moslim males…if only for a “day.” To give the idea that islam is superior…so much so that *women of all “faiths” and none, are giving in to islam…at least for a day.

    Women who are True Christians will see this for what it is…as “sharing with demons.” These women will refrain. Other women who see islam for what it is…an evil, filthy cult, should also be able to see they should not go along with this.
    Foolish women may believe it’s a good thing to do. The foolish people…male and female… do many foolish things. Unfortunately.

    • Anjuli Pandavar says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 2:58 pm

      somehistory,

      “And this gets to the core; This “day” is being advertised and promoted to get “all” women to bow to the wishes of the moslim males…if only for a “day.” To give the idea that islam is superior…so much so that *women of all “faiths” and none, are giving in to islam…at least for a day.”

      —

      This is an excellent point.

      • somehistory says

        Dec 29, 2018 at 3:08 pm

        Thank you, Anjuli.

  13. dan christensen says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 2:29 pm

    Around the 15’th century a ‘codpiece’ was a covering flap or pouch that attached to the front of the crotch of men’s trousers and usually accentuated the genital area.
    Around the 21’th century a headscarf is a covering head cloth that attaches to the top of women’s heads and usually accentuates what muslims perceive as genital area.
    It would be more appropriate if muslim men carried a codpiece and women no headgear.

  14. Ashley says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 2:44 pm

    I found this refreshing:

    https://christianaction.org/can-leads-effort-to-oust-world-hijab-day-from-public-schools/

    • PRCS says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 6:14 pm

      That WAS a pretty interesting article.

  15. nicholas william tesdorf says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 5:41 pm

    Muslims dedicate their lives to persecuting non-Muslims and then wonder why people are suspicious and wary of them. There is no great intellect at work here.

  16. PRCS says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 6:20 pm

    https://twitter.com/i/moments/1079102742755303424

    NOHIJABDAY

  17. PRCS says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 8:32 pm

    Note to this hijabi:

    The nose ring has to go, dear.

    https://www.facebook.com/WorldHijabDay/photos/a.978573412218800/2030800086996122/?type=3&theater

  18. SB says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 8:39 pm

    I just gotsta get my hijab on so no man will rape me cause of my sexy hair.

    • Bill Quest says

      Dec 30, 2018 at 6:53 am

      These righteous sistas needs to give their head a shake…. but not so vigorously as to cause their precious  scarf to drop……. thus displaying their licentiousness and inciting in the muslim male an uncontrollable  lasciviousness !

  19. Save Europe says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 8:42 pm

    Better idea – to illustrate the parity between their genders then encourage/force every Muslim male to wear a hijab…..

    • DK says

      Dec 30, 2018 at 1:51 am

      Yes, good idea, considering beard hair is scientifically described as pubic hair.

  20. Brian hoff says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 10:04 pm

    How would some of you hijaboprobic react it your wife sister and daughter wore than hijab for 1 day or worst convert to Islam. You would most likely react violence.

    • Wellington says

      Dec 30, 2018 at 12:38 pm

      No, that’s how Muslims react when they don’t get their way. Stop it with the projection.

    • somehistory says

      Dec 30, 2018 at 5:25 pm

      All of the females in my family have too much common sense to fall for this “day” and way more than enough appreciation of freedom to fall for the lies of islam.

      We here all know what you would do if your family members left the satanic cult. Just remember, grinding the teeth, wears them down. And anger is bad for the heart and blood vessels.

  21. Lydia Church says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 10:28 pm

    Ha! I love these humorous comments!
    I needed that.

    On a more serious note… I propose
    WORLD CROSS DAY
    where people of all faiths show solidarity with Christians and persecuted Christians…
    yes, let me know when they roll that day out for public endorsement!

  22. dan christensen says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 4:17 am

    Muslims will never understand that religion is a private personal matter – also religious headscarfs!
    With so many religions and gods pestering modern societies, is it unfair to demand of everybody, that they all follow the divine rules of every rotten religion.
    It is simply not possible to obey every demented gods bizarre commands concurrently.
    For this reason, we should arrange a yearly “Olympic games” day for all gods and their religions. Every god must perform some miracle in order to demonstrate his (her) powers. The winning god gets the right to have his commands followed by all 1 month after his (her) victory.
    Any religion not winning first prize 10 times in a row, will be declared unlawful and its god(s) shunned forever thereafter.

  23. Paul says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 6:16 am

    Useful idiots or dhimmis at play.

    Myself I am waring a hijab alongwith an Osama Bin Laden horror mask.
    My face is all sweaty and I am getting funny looks in the supermarket.

    Oh no ! The security guard comes along and ask’s me to remove my scarf and mask.
    I reply its my religion and the face mask is real. That IS what I look like.
    I am ejected from the supermarket. I didn’t get to buy any bacon…

    Paul

  24. Eric says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 8:26 am

    Should have a ” burn the hijab day” instead.

  25. Logic&Reason says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 9:24 am

    Useful idiots in the West have been conned by Linda Sarsour.

    The Trojan Horse looks so pretty in the latest designer hijab and heavy makeup, doesn’t it?

    Pfffttt….

  26. Elizabeth Thorne says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 11:45 am

    Lets have No: Taqiyya Day
    No Kitman Day
    No Tawriya Day
    No Taysir Day
    No Darura Day
    No Muruha Day
    One Wife Day
    No Sex Slaves Day
    No Jihad Day
    No Confiscating property Day–including women and Girls
    No Jizyah Day
    No Child Marriage Day
    No Thighing Day
    No Slaves Day
    No Beating Slaves Day
    No Blasphemy Law Day
    No Qisas Day
    No Cutting of Body Parts Day for Stealing.
    No Stoning To Death Day
    and finally ASSIMIULATION DAY

  27. Berengaria says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 11:47 am

    Another Khan is being pushed down our throats, via the DEM FAKE NEWS MEDIA. Just wait for the Buildup to World Hijab Day!
    Khan & her ilk have mustered a Fairly Motley Crew of Supporters, New York
    State, U.K. House of Commons, Scottish Parliament, Philippines & of course, the DEM PARTY of the USA, I suspect!
    Will “Hijab Day” soon be declared a Federal Holiday in the USA? There are far too many Hijabs, ensconced in Our Federal Government, ever since 9/11/2001, so look for the US Congress to come out & encourage ALL FEDERAL FEMALES to adopt the Hijab, WHAT A SIGHT!

  28. Elizabeth Thorne says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 11:47 am

    What about an Asia Bibi Day.

  29. Elizabeth Thorne says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 11:49 am

    I like the idea of an ASIA BIBI DAY.

  30. Elizabeth Thorne says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 12:06 pm

    What about a Robert Spencer Day–World wide everyone reads Robert for just one day. It could be called ‘What A Wonderful World Day” by Robert Spencer.

  31. healer says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 1:02 pm

    THIS IS NOT ISLAM

    by Amir Taheri
    New York Post
    August 15, 2003

    August 15, 2003 — FRANCE’S Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has just appointed a commit- tee to draft a law to ban the Islamist hijab (headgear) in state-owned establishments, including schools and hospitals. The decision has drawn fire from the French “church” of Islam, an organization created by Raffarin’s government last spring. Germany is facing its hijab problem, with a number of Islamist organizations suing federal and state authorities for “religious discrimination” because of bans imposed on the controversial headgear.In the United States, several Muslim women are suing airport-security firms for having violated their First Amendment rights by asking them to take off their hijab during routine searches of passengers.

    All these and other cases are based on the claim that the controversial headgear is an essential part of the Muslim faith and that attempts at banning it constitute an attack on Islam.

    That claim is totally false. The headgear in question has nothing to do with Islam as a religion. It is not sanctioned anywhere in the Koran, the fundamental text of Islam, or the hadith (traditions) attributed to the Prophet.

    This headgear was invented in the early 1970s by Mussa Sadr, an Iranian mullah who had won the leadership of the Lebanese Shi’ite community.

    In an interview in 1975 in Beirut, Sadr told this writer that the hijab he had invented was inspired by the headgear of Lebanese Catholic nuns, itself inspired by that of Christian women in classical Western paintings. (A casual visit to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, or the Louvres in Paris, would reveal the original of the neo-Islamist hijab in numerous paintings depicting Virgin Mary and other female figures from the Old and New Testament.)

    Sadr’s idea was that, by wearing the headgear, Shi’ite women would be clearly marked out, and thus spared sexual harassment, and rape, by Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian gunmen who at the time controlled southern Lebanon.

    Sadr’s neo-hijab made its first appearance in Iran in 1977 as a symbol of Islamist-Marxist opposition to the Shah’s regime. When the mullahs seized power in Tehran in 1979, the number of women wearing the hijab exploded into tens of thousands.

    In 1981, Abol-Hassan Bani-Sadr, the first president of the Islamic Republic, announced that “scientific research had shown that women’s hair emitted rays that drove men insane.” To protect the public, the new Islamist regime passed a law in 1982 making the hijab mandatory for females aged above six, regardless of religious faith. Violating the hijab code was made punishable by 100 lashes of the cane and six months imprisonment.

    By the mid 1980s, a form of hijab never seen in Islam before the 1970s had become standard gear for millions of women all over the world, including Europe and America.

    Some younger Muslim women, especially Western converts, were duped into believing that the neo-hijab was an essential part of the faith. (Katherine Bullock, a Canadian, so loved the idea of covering her hair that she converted to Islam while studying the hijab.)

    The garb is designed to promote gender apartheid. It covers the woman’s ears so that she does not hear things properly. Styled like a hood, it prevents the woman from having full vision of her surroundings. It also underlines the concept of woman as object, all wrapped up and marked out.

    Muslim women, like women in all societies, had covered their head with a variety of gears over the centuries. These had such names as lachak, chador, rusari, rubandeh, chaqchur, maqne’a and picheh, among others.

    All had tribal, ethnic and generally folkloric origins and were never associated with religion. (In Senegal, Muslim women wear a colorful headgear against the sun, while working in the fields, but go topless.)

    Muslim women could easily check the fraudulent nature of the neo-Islamist hijab by leafing through their family albums. They will not find the picture of a single female ancestor of theirs who wore the cursed headgear now marketed as an absolute “must” of Islam.

    This fake Islamic hijab is nothing but a political prop, a weapon of visual terrorism. It is the symbol of a totalitarian ideology inspired more by Nazism and Communism than by Islam. It is as symbolic of Islam as the Mao uniform was of Chinese civilization.

    It is used as a means of exerting pressure on Muslim women who do not wear it because they do not share the sick ideology behind it. It is a sign of support for extremists who wish to impose their creed, first on Muslims, and then on the world through psychological pressure, violence, terror, and, ultimately, war.

    The tragedy is that many of those who wear it are not aware of its implications. They do so because they have been brainwashed into believing that a woman cannot be a “good Muslim” without covering her head with the Sadr-designed hijab.

    Even today, less than 1 percent of Muslim women wear the hijab that has bewitched some Western liberals as a symbol of multicultural diversity. The hijab debate in Europe and the United States comes at a time when the controversial headgear is seriously questioned in Iran, the only country to impose it by law.

    Last year, the Islamist regime authorized a number of girl colleges in Tehran to allow students to discard the hijab while inside school buildings. The experiment was launched after a government study identified the hijab as the cause of “widespread depression and falling academic standards” and even suicide among teenage girls.

    The Ministry of Education in Tehran has just announced that the experiment will be extended to other girls schools next month when the new academic year begins. Schools where the hijab was discarded have shown “real improvements” in academic standards reflected in a 30 percent rise in the number of students obtaining the highest grades.

    Meanwhile, several woman members of the Iranian Islamic Majlis (parliament) are preparing a draft to raise the legal age for wearing the hijab from six to 12, thus sparing millions of children the trauma of having their heads covered.

    Another sign that the Islamic Republic may be softening its position on hijab is a recent decision to allow the employees of state-owned companies outside Iran to discard the hijab. (The new rule has enabled hundreds of women, working for Iran-owned companies in Paris, London, and other European capitals, for example, to go to work without the cursed hijab.)

    The delicious irony of militant Islamists asking “Zionist-Crusader” courts in France, Germany and the United States to decide what is “Islamic” and what is not will not be missed. The judges and the juries who will be asked to decide the cases should know that they are dealing not with Islam, which is a religious faith, but with Islamism, which is a political doctrine.

    The hijab-wearing militants have a right to promote their political ideology. But they have no right to speak in the name of Islam.

    • Wellington says

      Dec 30, 2018 at 6:36 pm

      “But they have no right to speak in the name of Islam.”

      Perhaps, but how do you explain Sura 4:34 and the “captives of the right hand” or similar rot as found in Suras 4, 23, 33 and 70?

      Moreover, Islam endorses polygamy and women have no chance of being equal to men in any society which endorses polygamy, as Islam does.

      I aver that Islam is inherently misogynistic. Prove me wrong.

  32. Elizabeth Thorne says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 3:10 pm

    No Sitting On The Floor On The Straw Mat In The Corner Day.

    World Oppression Day.

    Put On Your Red Dress Baby We Are Going Out tonight Day.

  33. TKF says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 3:25 pm

    Can’t wait for World Niquab Day, and World Burqua Day! You gals are so liberated….now get your asses to the back of the mosque and shut the f*ck up!

  34. Older Canadian says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 5:41 pm

    Actually I prefer they wear the thing. It identifies who and what they are. It gives me the opportunity to stay clear of them. Sort of a safety thing just in case they get a mad moment.

  35. Elizabeth Thorne says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 9:36 pm

    What about having a world wide “Horse Pucky” Day.

  36. sidney penny says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 9:49 pm

    “Who is standing in solidarity with them? Not the participants in World Hijab Day.”

    Super question and super answer

  37. Lory says

    Jan 1, 2019 at 9:14 pm

    Screw that! For example…… a very well educated, successful businesswoman in my “upscale” village church took the pulpit one Sunday donning a muslim womans garb (black with stylish gold trim) and “teaching” us poor idiots about how wonderful Muslim culture is. I interjected a thought when she got to hiijabs – “yes well, what about the Muslim father (Pakistani I think) who strangles his daughter to death BECAUSE she did not want to wear it?”
    “Lory, we can talk about this after church”.

  38. KWJ says

    Jan 2, 2019 at 2:58 pm

    Is there a World Bindi day for Hindus where everyone can wear a dot on their forehead in solidarity with Hindus that may be made fun of because of that? Sikhs have had a trying on turbans events but I don’t know if there is a World Turban Day.

    I find World Hijab Day to be self-aggrandizing and self-centered because women are forced to wear it in some countries or by their parents or communities and have died over it as this article points out so well, and that’s just known instances.

    Kids make fun of and harass other kids from anything to being fat, ugly, a nerd or whatever. The kind of people who harass hijabed women in public are the same loudmouths who do that over a number of things. They claim there are 1.5 billion, some say as much as 1.8 billion but many leave Islam or hide they don’t believe. Counting kids isn’t a matter of choice. Yet they think all non-Muslims are clueless or care. So you choose to wear it despite its origins and that women suffer over it and are harassed and punished if they don’t wear it.

    The thing is, in the 1950s and early 1960s women were wearing scarves in their heads as fashion, some very much like hijabs which are of Greek origin, the real wrapped up kind and abayas. So, it’s like, get over yourselves.

    Iranian girls still care about their hair because they don’t have to wear hijabs at home nor private parties. Iranian women do wear short dresses at private parties such as wedding parties. What college kids were busted for were parties with mixed gender dancing which snitchy neighbors often report. They received lashing as punishments, though sometimes they can buy their way out of it. They’ll also receive punishments for shaking a man’s hand aside from family.

    No Hijab Day would be much more significant and thus emancipation for women. We could have World Short Dress Day in acknowledgment for all the women around the world who are not oppressed by a patriarchal society who decided how women should dress amongst other simple inequalities that I enjoy. Social justice, you know.

  39. Stan says

    Jan 3, 2019 at 1:47 pm

    The title of this article is: World Hijab Day encourages non-Muslims to don hijabs in solidarity with Muslims, ignores victims of forced veiling.

    The word muslim is capitalized twice. Is this because of the respect the author has for the religion of peace?

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