Real feminism, or, if you prefer, real respect for the human dignity and rights of women, will never accept the hijab, which is a manifestation of a belief system that regards women as inferior to men and entirely responsible for male self-control, such that women are subject to being brutalized and even killed if they wear it and men find themselves lacking self-control anyway. It is a garment of dehumanization and an implied threat to women in its very essence. Masih Alinejad is 100% correct, and it is she, not the virtue-signaling Leftists who don it in supposed solidarity with Muslim women who are supposedly being menaced by MAGA-hat-wearing thugs in the West, who is the genuine feminist.
It will be difficult for Western women who wore hijab on Hijab Day, at the Women’s March, or in NZ to watch this and not feel shame
Listen as @AlinejadMasih explains how you’ve betrayed women
We all deserve freedom…not just you
STOP supporting our subjugation#FreeFromHijab pic.twitter.com/fzN5u5KfrO
— Yasmine Mohammed (@ConfessionsExMu) March 24, 2019
“WATCH: Iranian women’s rights activist slams Western women for wearing Islamic headscarves: ‘This is an insult to our nation,’” Caldron Pool, March 29, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Iranian activist and journalist, Masih Alinejad, has slammed Western women for donning Islamic headscarves, calling them a symbol of inequality and discrimination….
“The female politicians who visit Iran, the tourists, the athletes, the actresses, all of them – when they go to my beautiful country, they say, ‘This is a cultural issue. We wear it out of respect to the culture of Iran.’ Let me be clear with you, calling a discriminatory law part of our culture – this is an insult to a nation.”
andra says
I am not willing to call left women who admire the hijab feminists. A true feminist fights for women rights and not against them. A true feminist is not able to stand on Islam´s side, as Islam is dangerous for the women of the world.
These women celebrating the hijab are simply insane. They have not yet realized that the hijab in the West is a marker for male Muslims which women they are allowed to rape and kill and which they are not allowed. I confess I do not care what the hijab means for Muslim women in the West, it is their free choice. But the Iranian women who fight against it are those who should be supported by feminism.
No, these stupid women like the New Zealand premier are lefties who are plotting the humiliation of the western thinking peoples and no feminists.
PRCS says
What will those feminists say when they finally realize hijab’s primary message is to Muslim men: rape her, not me (the “her” being unbelieving and slave women”.
Mel says
Exactly, Andra, no self-respecting woman would wear such a garment if they truly understood what it meant. If they don’t know what it means, then shame on them for not researching before playing follow the leader. Folks have no will to think for themselves anymore. They just go along with the crowd no matter how outrageous or ridiculous they look. I find myself worrying more and more about our future when I think about how weak, ignorant, lazy and easily misled the young people are today. We are in for a world of trouble.
gravenimage says
Good exchange.
Fritz says
Fourth wave feminism is not about female emancipation or the improvement of women’s rights in the world. It’s about splitting the Western society, twisting liberalism into leftist totalitarianism and grabbing power along the way.
Just watch those hateful women on their “marches”, how they pander to extremists and “ally” with muslims.
And then you have female politicians wear the hijab out of “solidarity”. These are the worst hipocrites and liars. The idiot from NZ is only the most shameful example, but there are MANY others. All around the world.
Herman says
may and merkel to just name other examples of stupid women in power!!
andra says
These so-called feminists are no feminists at all. They just call themselves feminists in order to generate female followers and by that – as you say – split society.
These People are genderists who by eliminating male an female try to destroy All this gender-stuff only exists in order to destroy our grown societies so that the vacuum can be filled by totalitarian systems.
Save Europe says
I’m not trying to be facetious whatsoever, as I didn’t study sociology. I still thought we’re seeing Third Wave Feminazism rather than Fourth. If I’m inaccurate, and I could well be, then please can you tell me what Fourth is. Cheers 👍
CogitoErgoSum says
Wouldn’t it be great if all women wore a flower in their hair. That is so lovely.
Ashley says
+1
Yes Cogito…she is beautiful inside and out. And I do love the flower in her beautiful hair.
gravenimage says
🙂
Ashley says
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/hijab-tube-attack-muslim-woman-turnpike-lane-tfl-london-a8849446.html
I call BS on this story.
If the “friend” tweeted an image of the perp, why wasn’t it posted so the public could assist?
I doubt there were any onlookers because I question the alleged “assault” took place.
I’m highly offended by the hijab. That said, I would certainly come forward if I witnessed this “hate crime.”
The UK practically fawns over their Muslims. Hard to believe nary a witness with the exception of her “friend” has come forward to validate this account.
PRCS says
Given the impossibility that no one there took a cellphone picture/vid of the event: yes, B.S.
Raja says
Shame on the feminists of the West who don’t even know what they stand for and how much Islam hates and enslaves their own in Muslim nations…
Sun says
+
gravenimage says
I believe in equal rights for women and I am disgusted by these fools wearing the slave rag.
Wellington says
With you again, gravenimage.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Wellington.
Rufolino says
Absolutely gravenimage. Whenever I see the hijab in S.Italy, I cringe at its implications…
Seth says
Arrogantly ignorant Jacinda Ardern could not be reached for comment.
Walter Sieruk says
This article of this site has revealed that an “Iranian activist and journalist, Masih Alinejad, has slammed Western women for donning Islamic headscarves, calling them a symbol of inequality and discrimination….”
Masih had well-spoken and has made a good and valid point by her statement.
Also about the oppression of females trap in that Islamic tyranny of Iran the following might be of some interest to some people.
To imprison women for not wearing the hijab is but one part of the anti-female tyranny of this tyrannical “mullah regime” of Iran.
For that ruthless cruel brutal heinous l regime of Iran that is so unfittingly has the 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
Walter Sieruk says
In that misogynistic tyrannical regime of Iran the brutal oppression of girls and women is ,many times, is more heinous and severe than forcing females to wear Islamic headscarves.
For human rights in that vicious “mullah regime “ of Iran don’t actually exist. . For that heinously cruel and murderous Islamic tyranny is very brutal and vicious to the Iranian people. Especially regarding females. Both girls and women. For example a teenage girl in Iran was talking to her boyfriend on the phone and then the Islamic state “police” walked over to her and shot her dead. They did that wicked and malicious thing to her because she was talking to her boyfriend and they also didn’t like her clothing. [1] That was a clear cut case of murder and vicious Islamic madness by Iran’s Islamic state “ police”, who call themselves the “Revolutionary Guards”, they got away with their hideous and malice –filled evil because the mullahs as well as other villains in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime .
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili page 240
Walter Sieruk says
On Tuesday, 2/5/ 19 in his second State on the Union a speech President Trump spoke of that Islamic tyranny of Iran as well as those in total power and complete of that tyrannical rogue state. For the President declared “It is a radical regime, they do bad, bad things.”
The many very “bad , bad things” which those in power in this “Mullah regime” do I goes even further than forcing girls and women to wears the hijab against their will. This Islamic police state of Iran brutally oppressive and even murderous its own citizens as well as funds and supports murderous jihad terror entities as Hezbollah and Hamas.
Moreover, an author of an article on a Freedom Site, Dariush Afshar, had explained the reality of the situation well when he wrote that the “People of Iran who fight for freedom in Iran and abroad put a huge gap and draw a prominent line between Iran and the Islamic regime in Tehran.”
Ric says
Here is a courageous lady who unlike her Western counterparts is a real feminist; a woman fighting for the rights of not only her gender but all who are underfoot of a despotic, chauvinistic and faux-religion. The Western faux-feminists are self-serving bending to the vile likes of Linda Sarsour, Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and a myriad of left-wing-fascists bleating hatred for all that is not Islam; antisemitism, anti-Christian and anti-American vitriol.
These Western feminists alongside emasculated men who profess FGM and other heinous perversities are not inhumane but cultural diversity. A faux-religion, Islam whose misogynistic tenets should be appalled not applauded, as it is by the cretinous Western feminist movement. Islam’s exploitation of women and young girls is indicative of its deeming the feminine gender as no more than a mindless and soulless organism to which Muslim men can do as they please. One would think this dehumanization of Muslim women would anger the Western variety of feminists. No, they are much too smug, gormless, amoral and self-serving to see beyond the pale, the slavery, rape, and debauchery that is Isl
FYI says
There is nothing more pathetic than silly western women wearing the hijab in the mistaken belief that it is fashionable or liberating:it certainly isn’t ,to Iranian or Saudi women or Yazidi women forced to wear it.
That NZ P.M jacinda ardern was pathetic:by all means show solidarity to the victims of an atrocity but do not pander to islam.
It isn’t even for the sake of Al-Lah{the muslim moon god},who must never be associated with the Judeo-Christain God:it is worn because Umar and muhammed decided women needed to cover up.
If you look at the origins of the Hijab..
Sahih Bukhari 1:4:148 After seeing Sauda uncovered,Umar got the idea she needed to cover up and told muhammed…and then amazingly…allah got the EXACT same idea..for the hijab.
Sahih Bukhari 6:60:318 “Sauda went out to answer a call of nature and… UMAR SAW her”Oh Sauda you cannot hide from US”{Note ..i.e MEN}”So think of a way you should not be recognized on going out”
“hmmm.Oh I know!how about a Hijab..” Sauda must have thought sarcastically.
Interesting fact about both these quotations is that if you read them carefully you will note that Umar appears to be stalking Sauda and ..he always seems to like hanging around the Ladies Toilet area…
islam is a misogynistic,racist and intolerant religion.
In islam a woman’s testimony is HALF that of a man k2:282
Why should the hijab teachings in the koran be taken seriously anyway given that allah has TALKING ANTS k27:17-18 ,A TALKING INFANT k19:29-30 and over 40 Scientific mistakes{the sun sets in a muddy pool,the moon is a lamp,the stars are missiles to ward off devils..}?
Remember the REAL reason for the hijab “Oh sauda!You cannot hide from us{MEN}”
James Lincoln says
Why do I love REAL feminists – like Masih Alinejad ???
Demsci says
Maybe real feminists can adopt flowers in hair as the positive alternative to hijab. Then point out it empowers THEM. That it is forbidden in Iran and Saudi A. And this is discrimination. And have hair flower day instead of hijab day.
gravenimage says
Video: Iranian women’s rights activist slams Western feminists for wearing hijab — “This is an insult”
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This is so true.
na says
Look at her hair that flower flourished because flower got water and wind. Many Iranian women have the same boon if they open their scarf there are different flowers waiting to flourish. If you plant a tree if tree gets water, mud and wind you can enjoy the beauty of that tree. But mullahs have covered their head with turban , they do not want others enjoying their flowers.
Donna says
I said the exact think when that stupid Jacinda Adern proudly and naively wore it thinking she was being included by the Muslim world. Very ignorant decision and an insult to all those brave women standing up for humanity and dignity, respect and equality! She has shown them exactly which side she is on and has caused anger and distrust so reap what you stupidly sow Jacinda
Carol the 1st says
How can one feel like a cowboy without an Indian to chase around?
https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/03/10/russia-chechnya-enforcing-islamic-dress-code
Fritz says
Instead of helping Iran’s women against islamic suppression Western feminists stab them in the back.
But the most shameful moment in recent years was the German president congratulating Iran on its “40th anniversary”. It was beyond hipocrisy!
And it wasn’t done because German politics is run by complete idiots. It’s run by shameless and utterly corrupt opportunists – and Anti-Trumpists. And this was just done to anger Trump and show off how “independent” the EU and Germany “act”.
Kay says
What an amazing and articulate woman! What group was she speaking to?
Anjuli Pandavar says
Will Western feminists at least have the courage of their conviction to criticise this Iranian woman for her “Islamophobia”? I shan’t be holding my breath.
Alice W. says
I have been trying to compare how when the Apostle Paul wrote about covering your head in church compares to the hijab. One is done to show how women should submit to the authority of Christ and the other to the authority of Islam whereas if you do not wear it you can get raped by any man. Another example of the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of satan at war with one another. Guess who wins?