This is a most welcome and much-needed initiative. The women who indulge in virtue signalling every year by donning a hijab on World Hijab Day have never shown any concern for the victims of the enforced hijab. They have never indicated that they know of or care about 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. No Hijab Day is a needed rejoinder.
“#NoHijabDay Campaign Fights Women’s Subjugation, Indoctrination,” by Abigail R. Esman, IPT News, January 30, 2019:
The first time my friend Nour appeared in public without her scarf, a neighbor commanded her to put it on. When she refused, he grew enraged. “Then you are no longer Muslim!” he called out after her as she continued down the street.
The year: 2008
The place: New York’s ultra-hip East Village.
But when Canadian human rights activist Yasmine Mohammed removed her hijab during a 2004 visit with her mother in Vancouver, Canada, the fury was even greater. “That was the day,” she recalled recently, “when my mother threatened to kill me.”
Now, with worldwide demonstrations planned on Friday to celebrate Muslim women who choose to wear the hijab, Mohammed is leading a protest, instead, in support of those who don’t….
With World Hijab Day and NoHijabDay both around the corner, the Investigative Project on Terrorism spoke with Mohammed to get her thoughts on the movement, and the passion that inspired it.
(Note: the interview has been edited for length.)
Abigail R. Esman: Explain to me how this all came about.
Yasmine Mohammed: NoHijab started as a counter-protest to World Hijab Day, which is supported by 180 countries. To be honest, when I got onto social media I didn’t know what this day was – it shocked me, I wasn’t prepared for it. I was floored to see all of these women all over the Western world putting hijabs on, and I was so frustrated and enraged, so angered at what seemed like the indoctrination of the entire Western hemisphere.
So the next year, it was creeping up and I thought, I’m going to fight back this time. And so just a few days before World Hijab Day I announced that I was going to be burning a hijab and I wanted people to join me in protest of this idea that hijab is this completely innocuous piece of cloth. I wanted to stand in solidarity with the women who can be harassed and abused and imprisoned and even killed for not wearing it. Because that’s what we should talk about.
So I burned a hijab with three other women. My video got 3 million views. All of us are coming from Islamic backgrounds, and one is still Muslim. And people started to see that it’s insane that a 16-year-old girl can be killed in Canada and girls and women are killed all over the planet, for not dressing the way their family and government say they should dress.
This Jan. 1, they announced World Hijab Day and they announced their hashtag as #FreeinHijab, which made it so easy for us – we turned it into #FreeFromHijab and it has turned into an onslaught, with pictures from Saudi, Turkey, Kuwait, Canada, Sweden, France – all over the world, people posting. Some are in hijab, some are posting before and after pictures of hijab that they used to wear and the fact that they are now free from hijab. It gave women a chance to celebrate not only the mental constraints from the ideology behind wearing a hijab, but the physical constraint of wearing a cloth over their heads.
ARE: What do you say to those who say “it’s just a scarf?”
YM (laughs): A lot of people say it’s just a cloth, why are you worrying about a piece of cloth? Obviously we are not fighting about a piece of fabric. We are fighting about the mindset behind people wearing a piece of fabric. If it is just a piece of fabric, why are people being killed for not wearing it? Because it’s a tool of modesty culture, it’s a tool of subjugation, it dehumanizes her, it turns her into just another Muslim- looking thing where you can’t have an individual thought or individual action.
Recently a Muslim woman in the UK, Dina Torkia, decided she wasn’t going to wear a hijab anymore. Only when she felt like it. The amount of backlash she received – she was getting death threats on herself and her family, and rape threats. There is a video almost an hour of her reading all the hate she gets. This is how they treat their own when they decide not to wear a hijab, so how can you tell me it’s just a piece of cloth? It’s like saying a slave just has pieces of metal on his wrist. If a woman is able to free herself from wearing a hijab, she is freeing herself from so much more.
So with this campaign now I have the support of so many women. So when you are fighting the hijab you will have a lot of support of even fellow Muslims because it is a truth that women are forced to wear it. This is new news for the Western world because the Muslim world has tried so hard to hide that fact.
ARE: Do Westerners understand it this way?
YM: If you try fighting it specifically highlighting the fact that hijab comes from Islam, people shy away. They’d rather criticize the misogyny [behind it], but they don’t want to criticize the root of it, which is Islam. And we have to do that. We have to hone in on the specific problem. If we talk just about misogyny, that’s a huge story. Hijab is one piece.
But if that gives people the mental ability or excuse to work past that misogyny, tell yourself whatever you need to tell yourself, tell yourself that it’s not Islamic – whatever it is you want to tell yourself. I lived that life before and after, and I have paid an extremely high price. And a lot of people I know have paid extremely high prices for their freedom. But they will tell you that the cost of freedom, no matter what you have to pay, is worth it. That is the message I want to give to these women who are fighting, whether it is their husbands or their fathers or their communities or their government or even their best friends – whatever entity you have to fight for your freedom it will be absolutely worth it. I can promise them that. I can guarantee it. And I don’t want them to waste their lives. I was almost 30 when I took off my hijab. I was so scared of making that move.
ARE: Have you had people contact you and say they want to, but they don’t dare?
Oh, yes. Some will post, “oh, you’re so lucky, I can’t wait to feel that freedom you’re talking about,” and then someone will respond and say “why don’t you?” And she’ll say, “because my father will kill me,” and Muslims will answer and say well, you deserve to die. So they can’t theoretically daydream about freedom without having people heartlessly attacking them.
It’s really shocking to be the recipient of that. You’re still the same person, you just don’t want to wear this thing on your head anymore. And suddenly you go from being their daughter whom they love and adore to being someone they want to kill.
ARE: Hijabs have become very politicized now. I know many women who wear it not for religious reasons, but to assert themselves as Muslims. Has that changed the environment at all?
YM: Yes. And it has been exacerbated by the fact that Western society feeds into that, because how do they show a Muslim woman? Wrapped in hijab. So they are supporting that stereotype that Muslim girls wear hijab. Girls these days are getting that message both from home and media – they’re seeing girls on the runway, in GAP ads, in fashion magazines, all in hijab – and they’re seeing it as something to be proud of, something to define them and make them stand out.
Whereas there is nothing a man has to do to constantly put himself front and center as just a symbol of this, and nothing else. When a Muslim woman puts on a hijab, she is nothing else. She’s just a Muslim. That’s why I say it’s dehumanizing,
ARE: Many people will defend the wearing of hijab as a religious expression. How do you get across that wearing that a hijab is not like wearing a cross?
YM: I’m not a fan of banning it, because I know there will be a backlash that will only encourage people to wear it even more. I think it’s more important to educate the women themselves, to see that they are indoctrinated. We will be on the sidelines cheering them on, but we can’t be on the sidelines forcing them to take it off. It has to be a decision they make because they have come to that conclusion. That said, It’s easy to convince a woman all this. The hard part is getting her to pay the price of making that decision.
ARE: Can we help make non-Muslim women understand what you’re trying to make Muslim women understand, so they support them rather than enable them?
I would love that. Whenever I talk about this, the only thing that stops Westerners from completely agreeing with me is that there is religion involved. But if they are able to look at it objectively with all the things they understand about women’s equality then they understand why the hijab is a dangerous tool of misogyny. In the Muslim community I find that harder, because in Arabic, the word “feminism” doesn’t even exist. These are topics that have not even been broached before. So it’s a much bigger battle on that side, because they have from birth accepted this indoctrination that they are lesser-than. So to come to someone who already believes that she is lesser-than, and believes it because the idea of defying the word of the creator means spending eternity in hell, it’s hard to talk to her and tell her you are equal, and you deserve freedom, and you deserve rights. These are concepts that are totally foreign to her. Those are options for the non-Muslim women. When it is something you can never even attain because it is too far from your world, you don’t even think about it – you just find a way to survive in your own world, whether it’s cognitive dissonance or whatever. You find a way to survive in the world that you are in. So that’s where the bigger fight is.
ARE: There seems to be more and more interest in, even support for, the whole “modesty” thing among Westerners. You see it, as you mentioned, in fashion, but also other areas.
YM: I think Western people getting on the train with modesty culture is a very new phenomenon and I think it can be swatted away effectively if Muslim women start to show them what they’re saying is not true. Mine is just one voice – but I want them to see and hear voices from all over the world, saying this in unison. And if you are a human being, then this is not difficult to understand. If you are a human being, then you know, someone telling you, whether it is your god, your government, your father or brother or husband, someone telling you what you’re going to wear every day, is not something any human being desires or appreciates or wants.
ARE: I’m not entirely sure. Many women, especially converts, have talked about how much they prefer having these rules, these guidelines. They make them paradoxically feel even more free.
YM: But we have to fight that. Because I feel like that human need for freedom is in there. It might have been completely stifled out, but I feel like the pilot light is still burning, that the basic humanity that we all have, that basic need to be an individual, to be free, is in there.
Having said all that, I’m sure there are some people that really would make the choice to cover themselves head to toe. There are people who will kill themselves and their families for the sake of a cult. But we should not be celebrating that. So who are the women I will support and celebrate? The women who are fighting back and aligning with enlightenment values and these basic ideas of personal autonomy and freedom.
And even these women who spit back poison at me, I still know you’re spitting back poison because you’re trying to convince yourself and you’re trying to convince your god, but I know, that deep down, the spark of humanity is still in there.
European pagan says
For me every day is no hijab day ;P
gravenimage says
Me too. I have waist-length hair, and let the sun shine on it and the wind blow through it every day.
J D S says
MORE STUPIDITY IN ISLAM…, HOW STUPID And ABSURD!
is it to loose ones life for not wearing a piece of clothing…….Islam has to go…law makers…Wake up…pay attention to what’s happening in our once sane world.
abad says
Me too! I did get a hair trim though a few days ago, eliminate split ends. Right now I have a nice perm that I got right before Christmas.
gravenimage says
🙂
mortimer says
The Islamic veil is the ultimate symbol of misogyny and patriarchy in the world today.
thebigW says
the hijab is also a military uniform, in one of the slave armies of Islam for all those Muslimas who defend it. This lady is making it sound like most Muslimas oppose it but I highly doubt that
Ashley says
This IS refreshing! These brave women deserve Nike Air Max sneakers for shedding their hijab.
Sadly, I fully expect a spike in honor killings as a consequence. I’m sure many women can only dream of being free of the hijab. For many participating, the backlash could be severe.
I stand in awe of their courage.
I worry for their safety.
mortimer says
Agree… ‘refreshing’ … because this is another sign that the world is gradually FIGURING OUT how to respond to the threats of Islam.
Eventually, all the answers to and all the critiques of Islam will produce an irrefutable case against Islam and Muslims will suddenly drop out of Islam en masse. This sort of sudden collapse happened in the communist world in the 1990s as symbolized in the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1991.
observer says
I second everything you say Ashley.
They. are. so. brave !
As is Robert Spencer who takes flak from all sides and who could also pay the ultimate price for his stand for truth.
Here’s remembering everyone who has died from the inception of this demonic ideology.
PRCS says
Hijab is NOT just covering one’s head. It’s loose fitting clothing from head to toe. Note that, whenever you see a hijabi in tight clothing.
The true purpose of a woman’s hijab consists of three messages–to Muslim men.
(1) When out and about, it identifies the wearer as “a free and respectable” Muslim woman.
(2) Muslim men are not supposed to harass or abuse them.
And this. Especially this:
(3) That “unbelieving women and slaves” are, however, fair game to Muslim men.
In other words, molest them–not me.
https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/39109/is-hijab-wajib-obligatory-for-a-slave-woman
“That they will be known” This is more suitable that the free women are distinctly identified so they are not confused with the slave women. When they are known, people will show reverence and respect to them and will not come in their way due to their status. It is narrated about Umar that when he saw a slave woman in hijab he punished her, indeed he did that to protect the [sanctity?] of the clothes of the free women.”
gravenimage says
*Spot on*, PRCS. It is a message to molest and rape *other women*.
It is also a gang sign, and a sign of Muslim supremacy.
Or Else! says
What a great ideology, huh!
“You must dress this way to protect yourself from divinely-ordained rape and murder.”
observer says
Rape and murder are *not* divinely ordained Or Else. This is a misperception on the part of those who think this way. Whether within islam or not.
mortimer says
Response to Or Else and observer:
Actually, the murder of APOSTATES is 100% MANDATED in Islam if the apostate does not REPENT, so observer’s understanding is not correct.
“The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-‘ashriyyah, Al-Ja’fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.” – Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi
mortimer says
Response to observer … re … ‘Is rape mandated’???
Answer: Rape of married captives is ‘DECREED’ by Allah in K.4.23-24
Sahih Muslim, Book 008, Number 3432:Abu Sa’id al-Khudri (Allah her pleased with him) reported that at the Battle of Hanain Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) sent an army to Autas and encountered the enemy and fought with them. Having overcome them and taken them captives, the Companions of Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) seemed to refrain from having intercourse with captive women because of their husbands being polytheists. Then Allah, Most High, sent down regarding that:” And women already married, except those whom your right hands possess. This is the DECREE OF ALLAH.” (K. 4.23-24)
Or Else! says
Thanks, mortimer.
@ observer. I should have put sarcastic quotes around “divinely-ordained”, as that’s how I meant it.
There is absolutely no way that any “god” of peace, justice, and equality would produce a barbaric, misogynistic, homophobic, supremacist ideology which claims to be perfect….and orders death (and other atrocities) to apostates and unbelievers.
And the Left has the feeble-mindedness to point the finger at “white privilege” and “Euro patriarchy” as being the biggest problems with our world.
gravenimage says
I knew what you meant, Or Else!.
Ashley says
I rarely post videos as I know they are usually not viewed but I sure could use some clarification, guidance and understanding on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYykIgZj70M
Why is this woman, clearly critical of the hijab, a self-proclaimed Muslim?
Am I being gas-lighted?
I am so utterly confused. My head is spinning…
Linda Prince Johnson says
It’s like complaining about the ways the catholic church keeps changing and then insisting you are catholic. Ridiculous.
gravenimage says
This is quite common, Ashley. Some of these Muslims are just lying, and still have an agenda of Muslim supremacism.
Some are sincere, but think that Islam can somehow be moderated. Certainly, many Muslims are terrified at the idea of leaving Islam–not least since this carries the death penalty.
Asra Nomani *may* be sincere, but is still terribly confused:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/tag/asra-nomani
the hermit says
I would be interested what the two islamic dog whistles in Congress have to say about “No hijab Day”
Surely this is an issue msm should run with.
This would be their first test..but I suppose msm would be too gutless to pursue
it…
mortimer says
Ashley, Asra Nomani is a ‘modernizing’ Muslim woman who doesn’t want to leave Islam, so she is inventing her own modernized version of Islam. She doesn’t accept that the Doors of Exegesis (“ijtihad”) have been closed in the year 1111AD. Asra Nomani is asking for “PROGRESS”. She rejects the CONSENSUS of Islam. She is trying to change Islam, but I personally don’t believe that is permissible.
In an Islamic country, Asra Nomani would be severely punished, imprisoned, whipped or killed. She says these things freely in the freedom of the United States. I doubt she will visit Indonesia or Saudi Arabia and share her views in a public meeting or on TV there!!! Impossible.
Asra Nomani is basically kidding herself.
Ashley says
Thank you, Linda, Graven and Mortimer.
I feel beguiled by the likes of Ms. Nomani. She is clearly intelligent. She presents well. She’s articulate. I sense an aura of sincerity in her words.
I’m thoroughly confused that she has not renounced Islam. Nathan Lean is at least transparent as an a-hole. Asra Nomani is a challenge to my feeble mind.
I find her to be an anomaly.
She must be severely conflicted and confused.
PRCS says
Of note, the uncovered Nomani and the snotty “hijabi fashion blogger” are both saying the same thing: that hijab (which is NOT just a head covering) is a choice.
If we are to accept that Islam is open to interpretation, then we must also accept that the strictest interpretation is as valid as the least.
Both are arguing for the least: Nomani–who surely knows what Islam’s texts say about hijab, but–like Zhudi Jasser–is promoting a “kinder and gentler” version of Islam, and the HFB who, as Bill Warner might say, doesn’t know sunna from tuna.
gravenimage says
True, PRCS.
Thanks, Ashley.
thebigW says
Ashley being confused is exactly what Asra Nomani wants. And mortimer thinking she really wants to leave Islam but has to invent a fantasy Islam is ALSO exactly what Asra Nomani wants. She wants people in the Counter-Jihad to start doubting their knowledge that should have made them CONDEMN ALL FREAKING MUSLIMS by now, but you guys just can’t, can ya….? Pavin’ the way for the future when Muslims will be able to slaughter all our great grandchildren’s grandchildren who don’t submit.
thebigW says
If what I wrote ain’t clear let me help ya out: Any Muslim who seems to be not following Islam but is still promoting it in one way or another, is doing taqiyya. ANY DAMN MUSLIM. ANY AND ALL MUSLIMS. And by the way, Asra ain’t just foolin’ a couple of people on Jihad Watch; she’s been foolin’ major people, like Bill Maher and Sam Harris, just to name a couple.
Ashley says
I hear you, thebigW.
Asra spooks me. I don’t understand why she is so vocally critical of Islam and yet will not renounce the filthy cult. It makes no sense to me.
Yes, she’s been fooling some major players:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/opinion/ayaan-hirsi-ali-and-asra-q-nomani-respond-to-readers.html
Anyway, thank you. My head is no longer spinning. Asra has an agenda. She cannot genuinely be disgusted with Islam while identifying herself as a Muslim.
I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer but I’m gradually honing my blade.
thebigW says
Yeah Ashley. Also Asra is smart and grew up as a Muslim and studies the problem of Islam so she can appear on all these shows and write these articles for the New York Times, so she has even LESS excuse
gravenimage says
thebigW, you are right that much of this talk of “reforming” Islam is nothing more than Taqiyya. Actual support for this in the Muslim community is close to zero.
Often the audience for this stuff is not other Muslims, but just credulous and hopeful Infidels.
In any case, it is essentially irrelevant, except as a whitewash of Islam.
Linda Prince Johnson says
There is freedom in the Bible — yes it contains rules that make society a better place and keep everyone safe but there is great freedom. The Bible teaches you that you must do such and such but then leaves the freedom to choose good or bad to the individual. Islam is like a prison — your actions are controlled so you are being forced to do something not doing it because you choose it. The New Testament tells us that a woman’s HAIR is her covering. I think I would rather die than be forced to live that way.
Lydia Church says
The hair is not the covering.
“But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.”
1 Corinthians 11; 5-6
It can’t be the hair since he is saying if there is no covering she should shave her hair off. If the covering was the hair he would not be telling women to shave it off. And save all the railings about ‘works’ and ‘legalism.’ That is not legalism. That is a mandate for the New Testament church and obedience is not legalism nor disobedience a lack of it. Legalism is misapplying old testament law to the church, such as circumcision (Judaizers that Paul refuted heavily) and things like saying you have to go to church every Sunday or you will go to hell. You can be circumcised but you can’t be saved by it, and you don’t have to be under the new covenant, there is no spiritual benefit.
Note that this head covering is regarding exercising spiritual gifts and public praying. (ALL for today and none of it being outdated.) It was not for just anytime everyday wherever. I know many revival churches that have done this, even Catholics have the practice. It was in Biblical times, hence the reason all nativity scenes have the virgin Mary in a head covering. And why brides wear wedding veils. The whole thing in this chapter is all about the beautiful mystery between Christ, His bride the church, and His covering for her.
Note that I am NOT advocating for the hijab. That is a separate issue. I advocate against islam all the time.
On Friday I will wear a cross and nothing on my head besides my beautiful, long blonde hair!
More of the ‘Joan of Arc’ fashion statement…
Anyway that is in the Bible, love it or hate it…
: D
gravenimage says
#NoHijabDay campaign fights against Sharia propaganda, stands for women who are brutalized for not wearing hijab
……………………..
Glad that this exists to stand against the propaganda of the hideous head-bag.
PRCS says
Note: too many have bought into the idea that hijab is just a head bag.
gravenimage says
All too true, PRCS. The Hijab is just an article of clothing in the same way that the Swastika is just an emblem…
Bee says
I learned as a child that a woman’s hair is her crowning glory, hence muslimes cannot bear a woman to expose her hair making her look as ugly as is possible with a head bag and loads of cosmetics to make up the difference.
FYI says
Please see..
The Apostate Prophet on You Tube..
The origins of the Hijab-allah takes orders from a man
Apparently it was an advisor to muhammed, Umar,who insisted muhammed’s wives cover up.
Sahih Bukhari 1:4:148
“Umar used to say to the prophet “let your wives be veiled” but allah’s apostle would not do so”.When you read about Umar you might notice that he seems to be …stalking and watching Sauda: “I have recognized you Sauda”.*ugh*
It seems allah got the idea from Umar the Creep and muhammed.
Of course we all know allah is muhammed’s sock-puppet so it comes as no surprise to see that allah agrees with Umar’s insistence on covering up.
Let’s not think the Hijab has anything to do with God.
Wellington says
Fine post, gravenimage.
Bee says
Also, take a look at these series of videos on Youtube – CIRA International revealing the lies about this unfounded ideology, muslimes have been well and truly conned, poor souls. https://youtu.be/QfyGZO-J7q4
gravenimage says
The post above is by FYI, Wellington. I agree–a good post.
PRCS says
Apostate Prophet is an interesting and informative guy and his videos are REALLY informative.
Wellington says
For me, and for me always, the hijab is an Islamic equivalent of the swastika.
Will gladly and enthusiastically take on all “comers” who wish to disagree with me here. Give it a shot since my natural argumentative self needs regular “refreshment” from time to time.
gravenimage says
No argument from me. Yes, the Hijab is a vicious gang sign.
Rufolino says
There are peripheral differences, Wellington.
The hijab is a piece of clothing; the swastika is not.
Photographed on a beautiful young woman, a coloured hijab (if you ignore its malignant connotations), can appear elegant, flattering.
The swastika can never look attractive, wherever it is used, because (apart from its malignant connotations) it is inherently ugly, graceless, harsh and mechanical in form.
The swastika was employed everywhere and on anything. The hijab can only be used on a woman’s head.
Ashley says
Photographed on a beautiful young woman, a coloured hijab (if you ignore its malignant connotations), can appear elegant, flattering.
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No.
I think Wellington comparing the hijab to the swastika is spot on.
And I think your assessment of a beautiful young woman donning a colored hijab as “elegant, flattering” nothing short of creepy.
Wellington says
With you, Ashley. Both the swastika and hijab are sartorial symbols of totalitarian ideologies—and exclusive to these ideologies.
gravenimage says
Actually, Rufolino, if you can look at it without its hideous meaning–difficult at this point, I know–the Swastika can actually be quite attractive.
The Nazis were evil, but actually had excellent design sense (I am an artist and designer, so I have experience with this).
But in the end, though, both the Hijab and Swastika are symbols of evil, and need to be regarded as such.
gravenimage says
As Pumbar notes below, I should have specified the *Nazi* Swastika.
pumbar says
‘The hijab is an Islamic equivalent of the swastika’.
The swastika is used by the majority of people as a symbol of good fortune and divinity. It is only a minority that consider it an ill sigil.
I am not aware of any young people that have been honour killed for refusing to wear a swastika, even in Nazi Germany.
I am not aware that any authority figures in any Nazi families or societies forced their membership to wear the swastika, as far as I know, (and I am obviously not as erudite and illumined as yourself) it was wholly voluntary.
As far as the many poor women that have to wear this slave rag upon their heads, I’d say the accursed thing was far from being a gang symbol or some sign of supremacy. We know that lots of women consider it a mark of humiliation and subjugation.
‘Will gladly and enthusiastically take on all “comers” who wish to disagree with me here.’
I’m glad someone’s glad about it but is it just you, or is it we or they?
gravenimage says
Pumbar, the Swastika is actually found all over the world, and has variants facing both right and left. It is especially prominent in India, as a “wheel of life” symbol, but is also used by Native Americans and even Christians (see Byzantine Churches in Anatolia). You are right that pre-Nazi it was mostly considered a positive symbol.
The Nazi Swastika was adapted from the Teutonic symbol of the Hammer of Thor.
And the Hijab is *both*–it is often forced on women, on pain of beatings or even death, and is indeed used to keep women in line.
But it is *also* worn as a symbol of Muslim supremacy by many Muslimahs–just look at someone like Linda Sarsour or Ilhan Omar. They make it quite clear that they think the Hijab marks them out as “special”.
pumbar says
Indeed Gravenimage. As far as I know the swastika is still considered a positive symbol in many parts of Asia, having never received the negative impact of the ‘bent cross’ version as we in the West did.
Hijab is both, I agree. I am sure there are other muslimahs that wear the tea towel on their head out of simple habit too, inured to the nagging and threats of violence they have had throughout their lives.
They probably don’t even think about it any more; like how you wouldn’t think about the existence of flying donkeys and talking asses called Ya’fur unless you were as credulous as hell to start with.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Pumbar.
Max says
It is so easy for the petals of the West to don a hijab once a year. In fact, they see it as a fun activity. The petals have a choice to wear it or not, and it makes feel that they are doing something good. That they are being so compassionated. Well petals, you are doing the exact opposite. By donning a hijab, you are saying to the male Muslims that they are absolutely right to enforce their women to use this demeaning middle-age thing, to show their submission to them, as Allah told them that they are superior to their women.
Raja says
Let’s hope there will be a day the Muslims will be ashamed of Islam (that is hate and war mongering and blatantly supremacist will all kinds of lies and deceit etc, hegemonic, bully so on and so forth)
There is lot of ground work to be done and hopefully this is a step in that direction.
Shame Muslims for all the immoral and liberty-sapping practices of Islam. Islamic lies and propaganda is just sick.
abad says
What is so ironic about hijab, Moslem males force their women and girls to wear hijab yet at the same time demand the females depilate their public hair.
Very sick and kinky.
sidney penny says
Australia’s first Muslim Member of Parliament does not wear the hijab. Why did Congress change the law?
There are million of Muslim women who do not wear the hijab. There is no religious law that mandates that Muslim women have to wear.wear the hijab.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/australia-muslim-prof-claims-she-got-hate-mail-after-her-deceptions-exposed
“The idea is that you cover your modesty but what’s interpreted as modesty is different, some cover their hair with a hijab, some extend that to their face and hands,” Dr Aly said.
…
“I don’t wear it,” she said (Dr Aly is a Muslim).
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/03/australias-first-muslim-female-mp-skillfully-plays-the-racism-and-victimhood-cards
gravenimage says
Many Muslims murder those who resist wearing the Hijab.
somehistory says
The resident idiots on the campus of UF are having “islam appreciation”…as if there is anything to appreciate about islam, and a “he jab a thon’ by those who wish to hide the fact that “he jab” means “if I don’t wear it, i might get a jab or punch to my face or body.”
So very sick of this evil and its constant lies. For all of the females in my family, every day is a day to let their hair show its beauty and glory to any who might happen to be nearby.
Anyone recall The Cowsills?
Gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen
Give me down to there hair
Shoulder length or longer
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair
Let it fly in the breeze
And get caught in the trees
Give a home to the fleas in my hair
A home for fleas
A hive for bees
A nest for birds
There ain’t no words
For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder
Of my…
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair
I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy
Shining, gleaming, streaming
Flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka-dotted
Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied!
Oh say can you see
My eyes if you can
Then my hair’s too short
Down to here
Down to there
Down to where
It stops by itself
They’ll be ga ga at the go go
When they see me in my toga
My toga made of blond
Brilliantined
Biblical hair
My hair like Jesus wore it
Hallelujah I adore it
Hallelujah Mary loved her son
Why don’t my mother love me?
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
somehistory says
Of course, the thing he jabs her with might be a sharp knife. Every time I venture out in my town, I see at least one of these creatures and every one of them has a sad expression if a male is also close by.
No reason to smile, but on the news program when it shows the “islam appreciation” moslims wearing their ugly scarves and trying to indoctrinate other women, they all have the same “smile”…showing their teeth. Much like the “gators’ recognized as a part of Florida and UF.
David M says
This is very interesting. Judge in Australia calls on Muslims to publicly disavow violent verses of the Quran:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/judge-calls-on-muslims-to-publicly-disavow-violence-in-koran-20190131-p50uvy.html
Or Else! says
@David M. Thanks for posting that article.
Always the same argument from Islam’s leaders.
1. Read the Qur’an’s peaceful verses! They stand alone as exemplars of our religion!
2. The multitude of violent verses? Oh, they must be understood “in context”. They are often “misinterpreted”.
As duplicitous as it gets.
Islamists have been doing a lot of “misinterpretation” for 1400+ years….starting with the “perfect” prophet in Medina.
the hermit says
Kaysir Trad represents the scum of the earth in Australia…note that no-one asked him about the abrogation of peaceful koranic verses by the violent verses..no-one seems to have the guts in Australia to really take the bastards on..they all just dance around to ensure no-one is offended..gutless..just plain gutless..
PRCS says
Same tactic everywhere.
thebigW says
Judge Fagan still don’t get it:
“”Relying upon the parts of the Koran which they cite and upon the example set by the prophet, the ideology espoused in the online jihadi literature embraces never-ending war against non-believers as an inherent and central element of belief.”
This ain’t an online “jihadi” problem. It’s the same damn Islam of all Muslims that’s the problem.
gravenimage says
Good analysis.
observer says
To Mortimer and Or Else
___________________________
Thanks to both of you.
I get what both of you are saying.
Thanks for your explanation mortimer – I always pay close attention to your contributions on this site.
Ja, Or Else, “sarc” might’ve had me react somewhat more measuredly or….even better, not at all.
The madness of this ideology and too many of its followers has me leap onto my Speakers’ Corner box to yell, “A loving God would never behave this way!!!” (Don’t take me literally – I’m not from the UK.)
I can see how my intention could be misconstrued. It is all so utterly crazy and life-denying that it is taking me a while to settle down and acquire Robert Spencer’s remarkable calm in the face of the storm.
I am so thankful for this website.
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
As for the specific part of this above top article which the reader is informed that the “Courageous woman in the Islamic Republic of Iran are taking off their hi-jabs 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.”
Further information about is anti-female oppressive that ruthless cruel brutal tyrannical regime of Iran is that it even has a very the unfitting word “Republic” in its title ,for its called “ The Islamic Republic of Iran” [ I R I]. On the topic of this Islamic tyranny a former Muslim revealed that “The IRI system recognizes women as dependent upon men and incomplete human beings who need to be supervised and controlled by men and the State. This author further exposed that “Women are created for the purposes of giving pleasure to men and child bearing – functions that confine them to the home” This is a male Chauvinistic as can possibly be. In addition this writer further makes it known that “The IRI legal system still retains traditional patriarchal bias that can be described as nothing but systemic subordination of women , which is undoubtedly a human rights violation .” This author further reveals that “Iran is of what Islamic fundamentalists desire, an Islamic State, and the consequence of achieving it “State Terror. Instead of utopia, Iran is an Islamic totalitarian nightmare…” and “the Islamic Republic of Iran exists and operates as what every Islamic fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by Sharia …What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premises; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1] This heinous Islamic has been also exposed by another author who was born and lived in a Middle Eastern nation for many years. She wrote “Female freedom and independence is one of the greatest sins in Islam…” and “Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [2] All this is wicked, unjust and misogynistic to the extreme. Islam had not regard for human life, regardless of what the apologists for this religion will claim.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM BY Ibn Warraq. pages 345-347.
[2] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel pages 62, 172