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Muslims enraged at Banana Republic over models in hijabs wearing clothes “not in line with Islamic dress codes”

Aug 6, 2019 5:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

The Banana Republic retail chain has now joined Macy’s and Nike in selling the hijab, a garment that is intended to cover up women, who are deemed to be of inferior in Islam, and responsible for preventing men to be tempted by covering themselves. And although Banana Republic decided to be “inclusive,” (not to mention to try to boost profit margins), its managers are being treated as dhimmis; i.e. inferiors and servants. The company now faces a dressing down, no pun intended. Banana Republic “faces backlash from the Islamic community for showing models in hijabs dressed in short-sleeved t-shirts and other clothing not in line with Islamic dress codes.” How dare they! Banana Republic was expected to wise up and adhere to Islamic rules for women’s coverings, which it did. In a slap in the face to all female victims of Islamic supremacism, Banana Republic has now “removed images that were deemed offensive” to the Western “mullahs.”

Aside from the folly of marketing sharia-wear, where is Banana Republic’s concern for:

“Aqsa Parvez, whose Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it? Or Aqsa and Amina Muse Ali, a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab? Or the 40 women who were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab; or Alya Al-Safar, whose Muslim cousin threatened to kill herand harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain; or Amira Osman Hamid, who faced whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab; or the Egyptian girl, also named Amira, who committed suicide after being brutalized for her family for refusing to wear the hijab; or the Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South Australia who were told that they had to wear the hijab or be fired; or the women in Chechnya whom police shot with paintballsbecause they weren’t wearing hijab; or the women also in Chechnya who were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab; or the elementary school teachers in Tunisia who were threatened with death for not wearing hijab; or the Syrian schoolgirls who were forbidden to go to school unless they wore hijab; or the women in Gaza whom Hamas has forced to wear hijab; or the women in Iran who protested against the regime by daring to take off their legally-required hijab; or the women in London whom Muslim thugs threatened to murder if they didn’t wear hijab; or the anonymous young Muslim woman who doffed her hijab outside her home and started living a double life in fear of her parents; or 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 all the other women and girls who have been killed or threatened, or who live in fear for daring not to wear the hijab?”

The answer about Banana Republic’s concern for these and other female victims of sharia is apparent.

“Banana Republic Starts Selling Hijabs, Joining Nike and Macy’s,” by David Ng, Breitbart, August 5, 2019:

Banana Republic is the latest major retailer to sell hijabs, the Islamic head covering for women. Although the company has been praised for its new products by CAIR, it also faces backlash from the Islamic community for showing models in hijabs dressed in short-sleeved t-shirts and other clothing not in line with Islamic dress codes.

The clothing company began selling hijabs in late July, following in the footsteps of Nike and Macy’s. Banana Republic’s site currently features four hijabs in solid colors as well as leopard and floral prints, ranging in price from $39.50 to $49.50.

Banana Republic is owned by Gap, which also owns the Old Navy brand.

The new line of hijabs has already sparked backlash from some members of the Islamic community, who have faulted Banana Republic for showing hijab models wearing a short-sleeved t-shirt and a side-slit dress, neither of which conforms to the Islamic dress code, according to an article in Vogue Arabia.

The report said Banana Republic has since removed images that were deemed offensive…..

 

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  1. mortimer says

    Aug 6, 2019 at 5:13 pm

    Many Muslim women already have rebelled against Sharia clothing rules and they will continue to rebel until they are out of Islam. The mullahs are fighting a rearguard action. Their complaints will only draw attention to their impotence.

    Islam is now in full retreat. In 15-20 years, Islam will be completely routed by Muslim women who by then, will mostly have opted out.

    Islam’s women are leaving it, because they are not afraid anymore. Honor-killing will no longer be tolerated to keep Muslim women in line. Now they see they can leave.

    • James says

      Aug 6, 2019 at 5:39 pm

      This seems a bit optimistic. It is a bit hard to believe that feminists would take over Islam from men. Islam is a rather violent religion when it comes to deviant behavior, and men are physically stronger and more aggressive than women. Muslim leaders and the Muslim brotherhood are forcing Western legislatures and authorities to become Islam-conforming and compliant. Also, the Democrat party and other leftists want women in Hijabs, because it makes the Muslims an identiy group with a grievance. As Linda Sarsour insists, she is not in America to assimilate but to work for the community. Women must be protected in the right to wear the hijab, according to her. So there is this pressure from even so-called feminist muslims and the leftist authorities in the West to keep the hijab custom going and power in male hands.

    • FYI says

      Aug 6, 2019 at 5:52 pm

      “islam’s women are leaving it”

      Yes,and ex-muslim women should leave islam , marry infidels and have infidel kids:leave allah the misogynistic god behind ,an Arab god who teaches that women are inferior and are stupid{“Women have a deficiency of the mind” said muhammed (Sahih Bukhari #2658}which is why the koran teaches that the testimony of a woman is HALF that of a man k2:282;Did you know that muhammed was exposed as a false prophet and killed by a woman who outsmarted him?Zaynab bint al harith,a Jewish woman whose husband and family muhammed had murdered:she was cunning enough to use the Poison Test to expose muhammed as a false prophet{ibn sa’ad pg 252}And muhammed was clearly too chauvinistic and misogynistic to imagine a WOMAN..and worse,A JEWISH woman -would outwit him.

      Of course ex-muslim women are welcome to find the Judeo-christian God,the Actual God who is not so pathetic as to tell women what they have to wear..

      • CRUSADER says

        Aug 6, 2019 at 6:33 pm

        Iranian activist and author Masih Alinejad on Trump, treatment of women in Iran and her memoir, “Wind In My Hair”

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hJpQdHjRYsA

        • FYI says

          Aug 6, 2019 at 6:44 pm

          The Apostate Prophet on You Tube..

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

          Sahih bukhari 6:60:318

          Umar meets Sauda*
          “Oh Sauda!by allah,You cannot HIDE FROM US{MEN}so think of a way you should not be recognized when you go out”

          That is where the hijab actually comes from;it has nothing to do with any god.

          *note that this encounter appears to take place……. in the ladies toilet area.
          What was umar doing there?Watching the women undress it seems, as he recognized Sauda and commented to her about her need to “HIDE FROM US”[ MEN}

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 6, 2019 at 6:41 pm

      Mortimer, do you rally believe that Islam will cease to exist in 15 years–especially given growing appeasement in the West, which is a sign that Islam is in fact spreading?

      • CRUSADER says

        Aug 7, 2019 at 2:09 am

        It’s like what Daniel Pipes has said about the diminishment of Islamism…

        Rather a pipe dream!

        Dangerous thinking as it leads us to:

        What’s the point of Jihad Watch ?????

    • Leslie Fish says

      Aug 7, 2019 at 3:57 am

      Well, so much for the well-named Banana Republic’s attempt to be politically correct. Let’s write to the managers and remind them that giving in to a bigot doesn’t make him like you any better.

      • Sherry says

        Aug 7, 2019 at 6:37 pm

        Right on !!!

  2. Barb says

    Aug 6, 2019 at 5:16 pm

    Banana Republic needs to defend Western values not be puppets to Islam!
    I won’t be buying their products while they pander to Islam!
    BR and Nike should be boycotted by all of us until they stop their nonsense – also Petition them!

  3. James says

    Aug 6, 2019 at 5:23 pm

    Well, wearing a headscarf sometimes is not so bad. During exam week at college girls often wear a scarf, because they do not have time to do their hair. But to wear it as a uniform is a political act, an in your face imposition of a religious ideology on society. Christians do not go around dressed as medieval monks or nuns, except in cloisters or Catholic schools. Jews do not shove their religion in people’s counsciousness in America. This is just to tell people, we are here and we can do what you do not like. One of my friends told me of some friend who uses the headscarf as a fashion accessory, and of course Banana Republic would like you to think this is all this is. But it is not when this is required clothing and women do not dare to take it off. Or if they believe they do not have to assimilate to the surrounding society. But of course it is hard to see how one can really forbid this sort of clothing. It might work in a school, but probably not on public transport. So we are stuck with this foreign culture imposing itself on us. Perhaps immigration quotas with low numbers for Muslims is the answer.

    • Rufolino says

      Aug 7, 2019 at 3:31 am

      James. What defeatism !

      • CRUSADER says

        Aug 7, 2019 at 5:33 am

        Rufolino, what would you suggest?

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 8, 2019 at 6:54 pm

          We should *not* give up. We can still prevail and remain free.

  4. Kesselman says

    Aug 6, 2019 at 5:25 pm

    It’s a totally wrong signal to deliver. But profit is always tempting even if dealing with Satan/Allah himself. Not surprisingly Swedish H&M has joined in long ago. Seemingly, big companies will do whatever it takes to maximize profit and pleasing the new masters. Bon appetit!

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 6, 2019 at 6:39 pm

      Wealthy Muslims as merchants of death and ill influence are continually investing in such firms….

      Just as Michael Corleone did!

  5. GreekEmpress says

    Aug 6, 2019 at 5:37 pm

    No more GAP, BR, Old Navy, Nike, etc for this household!
    The more they get, the more they demand. ENOUGH!

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 6, 2019 at 6:41 pm

      Go with Salvation Army and Goodwill.

      And/Or go with 5.11 and LLBean…?

      • GreekEmpress says

        Aug 6, 2019 at 6:53 pm

        Thrift shops and yard sales rule!!!!

  6. Mr. Cohen says

    Aug 6, 2019 at 5:39 pm

    Uzi Baruch wrote:

    Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed
    Has banned the wearing of the niqab
    [Islamic] face-veil in public institutions
    “for security reasons.”

    SOURCE:
    Tunisia bans the niqab Muslim face cover in public
    by Uzi Baruch, 5/7/2019 for Israel National News
    http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com/News/News.aspx/265566

    QUESTION: When will Europe and North America
    follow their wise example, and ban the niqab?

  7. Angemon says

    Aug 6, 2019 at 5:48 pm

    Although the company has been praised for its new products by CAIR, it also faces backlash from the Islamic community for showing models in hijabs dressed in short-sleeved t-shirts and other clothing not in line with Islamic dress codes.

    That’s something you won’t hear from Ilhan Omar. That, or her explaining the offended party why they’re wrong and that the relevant clothing articles are, in fact, halal…

  8. Wellington says

    Aug 6, 2019 at 6:28 pm

    “Muslims enraged…”

    A regular “event,” no?

  9. CRUSADER says

    Aug 6, 2019 at 6:29 pm

    Hijab and Nisan and Burqa and Chador are all symbols of slavery to a FABRICated belief system spawn by Shaytan.

    American authoress Toni Morrison died. “Beloved”, her 1987 book, has a dedication in it which reads “Sixty Million and more”, referring to the Africans and their descendants who died as a result of the Atlantic slave trade. The book’s epigraph is Romans 9:25.

  10. E T says

    Aug 6, 2019 at 6:40 pm

    I will not step foot in any of the Shari’ah loving stores. What a bloody disgraceful lot—hoping to sell to women and promoting oppression— great marketing skills me thinks not. We in the West should be enraged with this constant crap being presented to us. I say to the collaborators, “Stick your hijab”.

  11. Lydia Church says

    Aug 6, 2019 at 6:44 pm

    Banana Republic should be called Camel’s dung regime now.

  12. gravenimage says

    Aug 6, 2019 at 6:45 pm

    Muslims enraged at Banana Republic over models in hijabs wearing clothes “not in line with Islamic dress codes”
    …………………

    More proof that no amount of appesaement is *ever* enough.

  13. elee says

    Aug 6, 2019 at 9:00 pm

    In our world we wear what we please. This includes women.

  14. sheliak says

    Aug 6, 2019 at 10:41 pm

    Love this story! Ignorant kafirs attempting to meet muslims halfway and subsequently being punched in the mouth as is always the case.

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 7, 2019 at 1:33 pm

      Islam is so silly.

  15. Robert.kriegsman@cox.net says

    Aug 7, 2019 at 12:13 am

    Glad Banana corrected their mistake. It was sort of like posing nude models in Hijabs.

    Can you imagine that?

    • Robert_k says

      Aug 7, 2019 at 12:22 am

      They may even have posed in Playboy. Come to think of it, a hijabi has already posed in Playboy. It was Noor Tagouri.

  16. Trick_or_Treat says

    Aug 7, 2019 at 1:26 am

    @FYI:
    A very interesting revelation for me, the story about this Jewish woman [Zaynab bint al harith] and the actual demise of this swine, called Mr Mohhamed. I will be trying to read up and do a little more research on this this woman. Surely she seems like a bit of an unsung hero of history.
    If this story is correct, I feel she needs a hell of a lot more recognition as far as school history classes goes.
    I reckon that she deserves to be highly honored in some way of solemn remembrance – perhaps even a public holiday being dedicated to her name – for taking this filthy piece of pig-shit off the scene not a moment too soon!
    Cheers, and here’s to the name of Zaynab bint al harith ! [cracks the top off a coldie and raises his bottle].

  17. PRCS says

    Aug 7, 2019 at 2:05 am

    The hijab problem:

    1. It’s not just a headscarf.
    2. Commanded by Big Al: https://quran.com/33/59: (i.e., it’s NOT just a suggestion).

    O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves [part] of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.

    **known from ‘uncovered, unbelieving women’; making them off-limits to abuse by Muslim men

    See also: https://quran.com/24/31:

    And tell the believing women to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment.

    **For those who don’t already know: it is slaves which their right hands possess.

    If Muslims in the West–who, as Bill Warner notes “don’t know sunna from tuna”–seem not to know what hijab’s true purpose is, it’s not likely The Gap/Banana Republic advertising department knows either.

  18. joydbrower says

    Aug 7, 2019 at 5:31 am

    Speaking of Macy’s, I have a part-time job at a Macy’s in CA – and there’s one middle manager, a very nice person, who wears the hijab – and it looks SO out of place in our SoCal Macy’s! Whenever I see her, I can”t help but feeling a certain amount of disdain for that unpleasant headgear!

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 7, 2019 at 5:35 am

      Imagine how HOT she feels — in both senses of the word!

    • winoceros says

      Aug 7, 2019 at 8:10 am

      I work with a large Somali population in my job. I do not make eye contact with anyone who covers her face (fewer of these).
      If they want to be invisible and identity-less I oblige them.

  19. No Muzzies Here says

    Aug 7, 2019 at 8:02 am

    Two disturbing things. 1, that major companies are all rushing to sell Islamic clothing, and 2, that they quickly fall into submission.

    Obviously corporate boardrooms see Islam expanding rapidly, and creating sales opportunities. They believe that the future is Islamic, and that is horrible.

    Their rapid willingness to bow down in submission is worrying. After this apology and rush to conformity, others, of a more serious nature, will soon follow.

  20. Billy Chickens says

    Aug 7, 2019 at 10:49 am

    Mortimer, after 1400 years you think Islam will disappear within 15 years. This shows your lack of understanding of the supernatural religion that Islam is. Hence, you must be an atheist since atheists have no understanding of God – not that God had anything to do with Islam’s beginnings. No, Islam was the brainchild of Lucifer, and Lucifer will not let his religion go gentle into the good night.

  21. patriotliz says

    Aug 7, 2019 at 2:06 pm

    The whole Islamopandering by the Western corporate dhimmis was not to be Sharia-compliant per se…like the hijab wearing sexy models in Sports Illustrated or those wearing form fitting sport outfits on the hijabed Nike models or the heavily made-up Western Muslim hijabed women wearing tons of eye makeup and lipstick with big mouths like Linda Sarsour or Ilhan Omar with all her gaudy jewelry….BUT…the Islamic stealth jihad agenda was supposed to just get the Hijab ACCEPTED in the West…the nose under the tent…the rest of the stinky camel will follow in due time. So these mullahs kind of jumped the gun by chastising Banana Republic when they should have just let the “hijab” become common place before hitting the dumb dhimmis with the hard cold reality that there’s much more to come then just wearing the hijab when it comes to Sharia compliant dress code for women.

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