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Swedish Swimming Federation chair resigns after backlash to her statement that veil is “symbol of repression”

Feb 19, 2019 6:00 pm By Robert Spencer

As I’ve pointed out ad infinitum, any opposition to jihad mass murder and/or Sharia oppression of women is now immediately branded as “hate,” “bigotry,” and “Islamophobia,” and leads to public disgrace and career ruin. People who think I’m exaggerating, and that this treatment is only meted out to genuine bigots, should ponder this story very carefully.

For the question must be asked, although no one in the establishment media in Sweden or anywhere else will ask it: is the veil a symbol of repression, or isn’t it? Do the people who forced Ulla Gustavsson to resign 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 people who made sure Ulla Gustavsson was punished for speaking out about this repression.

“Swedish Swimming Federation chair resigns after backlash to claiming veil is ‘symbol of repression,'” by Michael Pavitt, Inside the Games, February 18, 2019 (thanks to Bob):

Swedish Swimming Federation (SSF) chair Ulla Gustavsson has resigned following a backlash to her comments that a veil was a “symbol of repression”.

Gustavsson’s made the comment in an interview, where she criticised an advert that showed a boy and a Muslim girl participating in shooting competitions, with the latter wearing a veil.

“Everything should not be shown,” Gustavsson said, according to Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.

“If they want to show girls with an immigrant background, it can be done without them having a veil.

“Now, [it] shows that they like and encourage honour repression: genital mutilation, child marriage, honour violence.

“That upset me.

“The veil is a religious, political and sexist garment.

“In the Swedish National Sports Association’s values, gender equality is important and the veil stands for something else.

“When such images are displayed, they normalise repression.”

The Swedish Swimming Federation have distance themselves from Gustavsson’s comments, with reports in the country that the official had been dismissed from her position.

The Federation later claimed that Gustavsson had chosen to resign following the controversy.

“Ulla Gustavsson has a big heart for Swedish swimming, and we are grateful for the work she has put into the movement, both nationally and internationally,” Stefan Persson, the Federation’s vice-chair, said.

“But the Swedish Swimming Federation board takes the recent debate very seriously, and has come to the conclusion that there are no longer conditions for Ulla Gustavsson to successfully lead the Swedish Swim Association.

“Ulla Gustavsson has, therefore, chosen to resign as chairman of the Board.

“Her personal perceptions and statements contrast with the Swedish Swim Federation’s strategy and basic view that all children should fit in our activities on equal terms.”…

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  1. Huh!?! says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 6:31 pm

    Here it is again. islam is a tolerant “religion ” accepting of all people in the “religion” of peace.. Let me think here. Acceptance of different religions such as Jews or Christians or Buddhists. islam has zero tolerance for someone else’s faith. Freedom to express views based on what a person disagrees with about islam. Until of course a person actually disagrees with islam. Respects women’s rights to…I am listening to the grass grow.

    The examples of the “freedom” of the hijab, in this article, clearly points to the respect of women in islam. islam is terrified of anyone that might be able to think.

    Sweden is broken. I believe Sweden still has enough of Sweden left to turn this ship around. Will Sweden do it? The magic word is now. Seven more years and Sweden will no longer exist as a western, democratic society.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 5:36 am

      “And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him.”
      Koran 3:85
      Part of Islamic Law.

  2. mortimer says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 6:37 pm

    Ulla Gustavsson said, “When such images are displayed, they normalise repression.”

    Hear, hear.

    The Leftards in Sweden and in other countries are NORMALISING REPRESSION OF WOMEN and the ISLAMISTS LAUGH AT THEM BEHIND THEIR BACKS!

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 19, 2019 at 7:55 pm

      +1

  3. gravenimage says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 7:14 pm

    Swedish Swimming Federation chair resigns after backlash to her statement that veil is “symbol of repression”
    ……………………

    Ulla Gustavsson was right. She never should have resigned.

    • eduardo odraude says

      Feb 19, 2019 at 10:12 pm

      Imagine if she had at her fingertips all the facts Robert Spencer listed in the post above. Then she could have fought back. She probably would have been fired, but perhaps she would have been able to hold on, or at least to make a serious dent in the absolutely insane and suicidal political culture of Sweden.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 21, 2019 at 10:05 pm

        Agreed, Eduardo.

  4. James says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 7:34 pm

    Well this article was so detailed that I did not read much of it. But in general I do not think that people in the West need to bow down to the Muslims and their despicable religion. If they want to live in the West, they should be the ones who make concessions. If they do not like things in the West they should move to a Mulsim majority country. They have no right to demand any concessions from the West. Islam is a religion with no moral justification at all. It is primitive, evil and simply contemptible. There is no reason to let people who believe in it to enter a Western country and make demands.

  5. Or Else! says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 9:36 pm

    How in the world does a bully with the 1400-year pedigree of Islam warrant protection from Western democracies?

    Shows you either how craven the Western Left is or how desperately it wants votes/power.

    Unforgivable ignorance/cowardice.

  6. somehistory says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 10:29 pm

    She was speaking for “equality” for the girls. She was saying that these girls are “repressed,” and not being treated “equally.”
    However…the “federation” has the same dictionary used by moslims and said, “Her personal perceptions and statements contrast with the Swedish Swim Federation’s strategy and basic view that all children should fit in our activities on equal terms.”

    So they booted her out…and then claimed that she “Chose” to resign. It’s their loss. And they’ll pay for submitting to the “repression” for which the veil stands.

    • Kay says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 1:01 am

      Yes, everyone will pay as repression becomes more and more normalized.

      • Carol the 1st says

        Feb 22, 2019 at 10:28 pm

        Why aren’t more ‘normal’ women running around hollering and trying to escape the chopping block a la Margaret Pole (1541)? Our heads ARE the first on the chopping block and yet we seem to act and remain silent and apathetic.

  7. dan christensen says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 2:22 am

    “any opposition to jihad mass murder and/or Sharia oppression of women is now immediately branded as “hate,” “bigotry,” and “Islamophobia,” and leads to public disgrace and career ruin.”

    It is worse than that. Any oppostion to the muslim calls for prayer from a minaret is racist, fascist and islamophobic, and it can lead to public prosecution for the crime of “Hatred against citizens groups”, as recently happened in Karlskrona in southern Sweden.
    The Swedish pc Elite likes to pretend that all muslims (even illegal residents) are “citizens” of Sweden, with more than equal rights to the wellfare system in Sweden. Migrant “citizens” receive free medical and dental care, are first in line for any apartment with everything paid for by the stupid Swedish taxpayers.
    Neighbouring Denmark are seriously contemplating to close the borders to Sweden, because Swedish muslim criminals are crossing those borders uninhibited.
    Poor Swedish innocent lambs, doomed to be masticated by violent primitive biped scavengers.

    • IanB says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 6:09 am

      That being the case, the Danish people have more gumption than the Swedes. The don’t even need a “Trump Wall” between the two countries, just army road blocks and prepared explosive charges on that long bridge plus a massive coast guard force.

  8. Gail kenney says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 3:21 am

    The hijab is a disgusting way of cowardly islamist men having power over their female family. The idea that women belong to men is modern day slavery, and until we get rid of the hijab the female slavery will persist. Gail Kenney

  9. RobertM says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 3:25 am

    I hate to say it, but the Muslims are winning. I shudder to think what this world will look like in 50 to 100 years. The world will either be Muslim or there will be a world war between Islam and everyone else.

    Thank God I will be dead…and I hope that there is no such thing as reincarnation.

    • IanB says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 6:00 am

      Do you, like me, have grandchildren? I cannot take solace in my own death before the full horror strikes.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 20, 2019 at 9:29 pm

        Agreed. I *care* about the future, whether I will be here to personally witness it or not.

  10. WPM says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 4:57 am

    I think there will be WWIII in the next decade because Islam has gain so much ground in the Western world in the last three decades. It will be a giant civil war fought on many fronts, every civilized country will be going though what Israel has gone though for the last 60 years. Every group of Moslems will soon be demanding “a separate country” inside of the country they occupy like we see in Israel, the Philippines today, and what happen to India in the 1940s.As what happen to India when Pakistan was form civil war has been going at the borders on of both countries for over 60 years with many jihad terrorist attack further inside heartland India .Islam is expanding its hold on the non-Moslem world by unchecked immigration and appeasement of “Islam culture” by Western leaders of Moslems demands of accepting Islam,s sharia law and voiding western laws in the process .

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 9:32 pm

      We should not cede an inch to these Muslim thugs.

  11. Michael Copeland says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 5:42 am

    There was a politician in England in the 1930s who was warning that Hitler was a danger and a threat. Nobody wanted to know. They said it was just a German matter, none of their business, and they were busy with other things anyway. The politician was marginalised and ignored. He was Winston Churchill.

    • Lauren Hermann says

      Feb 22, 2019 at 5:29 pm

      Churchill saw this curse of islam coming so long before most others did. Here is a quote from his book, The River War (1899):

      How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apa­thy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property—either as a child, a wife, or a concubine—must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

  12. IanB says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 5:57 am

    If you find yourself in her position NEVER apologise, DO NOT resign, NEVER weaken. Hold your head high. You are a hero.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 9:34 pm

      Hear, hear!

  13. ivan says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 7:56 am

    I love when they say they wear the veil out of choice and that we cannot tell them how to dress, they dont tell us!! but they do (no short skirts, etc.) and the women cannot wear what they want, thy have to wear what the koran tells them

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 9:36 pm

      Yes–this all goes one way with Islam.

  14. FYI says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 8:28 am

    For the origin of the Hijab..

    see{on You Tube The Apostate Prophet}

    The origin of the Hijab-allah takes orders from a man

    It seems Umar,muhammed’s creepy,pervy, advisor ,liked to stalk women and watch them..

    Lusty, pervy, creepy, umar gets this idea that women should cover up and then lo and behold “allah” gets the same idea!What are the odds of allah thinking EXACTLY the same as Umar and muhammed[two lusty illiterate MEN]?

    Sahih Bukhari 1:4:148 “I have recognized you o Sauda”{ a wife of muhamed}

    So Umar comes up with the idea and later claimed “allah agrees with me on 3 things”
    {Sahih muslim 31:5903},one of those things being the Hijab.In effect,Umar knew what allah’s next move was going to be…so Umar inspired allah to come up with the idea of the hijab…{it’s funny if you think about it..}

    Sahih bukhari 6:60:318 {..It seems Umar liked to watch women in the ladies toilet area..}
    ..
    “Sauda went out to answer the call of nature…….Umar SAW* her”
    “Oh Sauda!By allah,you cannot hide yourself from us so think of a way by which you should not be recognized on going out”

    “Think of a way by which you should not be recognized on going out”.

    {hmmm.Think of a way…how about the..Hijab?A burqa’s even better:Surely Sauda would love to wear a Hijab to prevent lusty males like Umar and Mo from seeing her hair wouldn’t she?}

    Why?Why should a woman have to hide herself if she is out and about?
    To protect her from lusty perverts like Umar and Mo,that is why.

    “You cannot hide yourself from us”{MEN}

    Is that not proof that the hijab etc is for keeping women in their place and a chauvinist SYMBOL OF REPRESSION?Let’s not pretend it has anything to do with any God:it is a man-made rule.

    So Sauda must cover up to avoid being stared at by lusty males:The Hijab is born.

    Questions islamic scholars should ponder..

    *Now,why is creepy Umar ALWAYS loitering in the Ladies toilet area?
    Why is he following Sauda around,pestering her, and it seems watching her undress?
    If the koran contains 40+Scientific errors why should anything in the koran be taken seriously?This hijab nonsense for starters..it is obviously made-up …

    • Carol the 1st says

      Feb 22, 2019 at 10:50 pm

      Credible Historical rewrite:
      The muslimas complained that creepy Umar was hanging around the defecation grounds and acting aroused. They demanded Moe do something about it. He called in Umar and together they decided to whitewash the obvious and claim that Umar’s agitation was due to his sanctity and because of same he had suggested to Moe that muslimas be bagged. Moe thus decided to sanctify the bagging and in all likelihood co-bagged the story about the women complaining at the same time. Typical Islamic sanctimonious form.

  15. Warmac9999 says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 12:39 pm

    One should never resign from the truth as it emboldens the lies.

  16. No Muzzies Here says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 1:14 pm

    The veil IS the subjugation of women in Muslim countries. For stating the truth, she had to be eliminated.

  17. Giacomo Latta says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 11:29 pm

    All is for the better if the gutless bozos who govern competitive swimming in Sweden are so worried about their wives and daughters getting raped that they enforce the wearing of the hijab, or even better, the burqa, anytime a muslima gets in a pool.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 11:40 pm

      Why would it be “for the better” for Sweden to start enforcing Shari’ah law?

  18. Dr. Doom says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 11:03 am

    WTH is the matter with these spineless Europeans? Haven’t they learned anything from their own history about appeasing their enemies?

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