Witless Western feminists now have an annual event, World Hijab Day, in which they don hijabs in order to show solidarity with Muslim women in the West who supposedly experience abuse for wearing the hijab, although a great many of these incidents have been found to have been faked by the alleged victims. The real victims of abuse over wearing the hijab are much more often girls and women who don’t wear it, such as Youness Moussaid’s stepdaughter. Aqsa Parvez’s Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it. Amina Muse Ali was a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab. 40 women were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab. Alya Al-Safar’s Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain. Amira Osman Hamid faced whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab. An Egyptian girl, also named Amira, committed suicide after being brutalized by her family for refusing to wear the hijab. Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South Australia were told they had to wear the hijab or be fired. Women in Chechnya were police shot with paintballs because they weren’t wearing hijab. Other women in Chechnya were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab. Elementary school teachers in Tunisia were threatened with death for not wearing hijab. Syrian schoolgirls were forbidden to go to school unless they wore hijab. Women in Gaza were forced by Hamas to wear hijab. Women in Iran protested against the regime by daring to take off their hijabs. Women in London were threatened with murder by Muslim thugs if they didn’t wear hijab. An anonymous young Muslim woman doffed her hijab outside her home and started living a double life in fear of her parents. Fifteen girls in Saudi Arabia 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. A girl in Italy had her head shaved by her mother for not wearing hijab. Other women and girls have been killed or threatened, or live in fear for daring not to wear the hijab. But where are the feminists standing in solidarity with them?
Note also that Margaret Smykla of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette gets Ibrahim “Honest Ibe” Hooper to tell her readers about Hamas-linked CAIR, but doesn’t bother to inform them that CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush in 2017 called for the overthrow of the U.S. government. CAIR’s national outreach manager is an open supporter of Hamas.
Would Margaret Smykla be similarly favorable toward an organization that opposed jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women? Of course not.
“Hijab confusion to be unwrapped at CAIR event,” by Margaret Smykla, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 30, 2020 (thanks to David):
Christine Mohamed, new executive director of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said that one of the biggest misconceptions about her faith involves the hijab, or the head scarf worn by Muslim women.
“It is viewed as oppressive to women. But it is a feminist statement because we are telling society you will not dictate to me what beauty is — I have a mind and a heart,’’ Mrs. Mohamed explained of the practice used by some Muslim women.
“It is a way to put a barrier and say you will not see my beauty as both men and women are called to modesty.’’
The West Mifflin woman, who was raised as a Catholic in Hazelwood, said the first production in her new role will be a Hijab event at 12:45 p.m. on Feb. 1 at the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh, 4100 Bigelow Blvd., Oakland. It is designed to coincide with World Hijab Day.
Everyone is welcome. Women of all religions and backgrounds may wear and experience the hijab, usually pronounced ‘’hee-jaab.” A panel will explain its history and purpose and point out that wearing it is not mandatory for a Muslim woman. Rather some choose to wear it because of tradition and others as a way to show self-control, power and agency.
Mrs. Mohamed is the first woman to hold the post at CAIR-Pittsburgh, located at 801 N. Negley Ave., East Liberty.
CAIR is the nation’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. The nonprofit organization has 31 offices nationwide, and a national headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
“CAIR was founded [1994] because of the need for an American Muslim voice in the public sphere,” said Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR’s national communications director. “CAIR is supported by the Muslim community and the larger society because we offer a mainstream perspective on issues impacting Muslims and defend the civil and constitutional rights of Americans of all faiths and backgrounds.”…
Then, in 2007, she began the yearlong conversion to Islam.
“I was studying theology and reading books on comparative religions. I loved my Catholic faith, but I had authenticity issues, like how the New Testaments were collected to be in the Bible.
“I believe there is good in the Bible, but it has gone through hundreds of translations and political agendas. Islam is very simplistic. There is no middle man between me and my creator. It encompasses your whole life, and gave me a sense of purpose and peace. I am a firm believer that everyone has their own right to choose their faith system, even if that is none at all.’’…
Over the next decade, her devotion to serving the Muslim and interfaith communities led to speaking at “Strong Women, Strong Girls Pittsburgh,’’ serving as a panelist at “Jewish Voice for Peace” and managing a “Help for the Convert” support group at her mosque.
For two years she taught an Osher Lifelong Learning Institute class at Carnegie Mellon University entitled “Lions, Tigers and Muslims … Oh My,” designed to dispel misconceptions about Islam.
Today, the mother of three children is committed to CAIR’s mission to enhance the understanding of Islam, protect civil rights, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.
To that end, CAIR-Pittsburgh last July called for the resignation of a local Republican committee chairman over hate-filled social media posts about Muslims. He subsequently stepped down.
“We try to build bridges, so if we see Islamophobia we stand up against it,” Mrs. Mohamed said….
As for terror attacks by those professing allegiance to Allah, she said the Koran is “very clear” that it is not permitted, except in self-defense, to take an innocent life.
“If an extremist tries to use God for the loss of life, it is not about Islam but about a political agenda and money. Scholars of Islam come out and condemn terror attacks,” she said….
She would also like to present her “Lions, Tigers and Muslims … Oh My” instruction at CAIR-Pittsburgh, as she said she feels it is her responsibility in her role to educate about the faith “so people are not so scared.”…
Michael Copeland says
Mrs. M.:“I have a mind and a heart,’’
Mohammed explained that women are “deficient in mind”.
Mrs. M.: “I am a firm believer that everyone has their own right to choose their faith system.”
This topic was raised with Egyptian sheikh Yassir al-Burhani in an interview:
“For example, is it the right of the Muslim to convert to Christianity or another religion?”
“Of course this is not a right.”
Mrs. M: “It encompasses your whole life.”
Yes, “all-encompassing” is the term favoured by Tariq Ramadan for describing Islam. Translation: totalitarian.
Mrs. M.: Islam “gave me a sense of purpose and peace”.
Yes, Mohammed said most women are destined for hell.
Mrs. M.: “A terror attack …. is not about Islam but about a political agenda.”
Mullah Krekar explains: “Islam is not like Christianity. Our Islam is political.”
Mrs. M. “ it is not permitted, except in self-defense, to take an innocent life.”
Yes, and filthy kuffar are not innocent. They have turned away from the one true religion and are hated by Allah. Muslims, as a result, have the right to kill them, Jews especially, to please Allah.
One last question. Why is it that Islam has event after event devoted, in their words, to dispelling misunderstandings, to correcting misconsceptions?
No other religion has events devoted to dispelling misunderstandings.
Tony Naim says
There is one and only one REASON that whole
Hee-Jab idea was created. Part and parcel of an ideology that perceives women as SEX objects.
Soulless beings belonging to men, not autonomous
free individuals owning their own lives for their own merit. An ideology that views men as SEX objects as well, primarily driven by their sexual desires, ultimately responding to the whims of their instincts rather than the call of their spirits.
mortimer says
Tony, many scholars now believe that the original purpose of the Islamic veil is to KEEP MONEY IN THE FAMILY AND CLAN. A veiled woman is sequestered and reserved for the ‘right of first refusal’ that her first male cousin has in the matter of marriage. The patriarch arranges and approves of these marriages, since it will be HIS money that is inherited by the young couple.
The veil is the SIGN of FAMILY WEALTH … the marriageable woman is owned as property by the patriarch.
The Islamic veil is thus the ultimate symbol of patriarchy and no authentic feminist should be unaware of that.
PRCS says
Qur’an 33:59 is not about money and clan.
its 1400 year old purpose (another ‘revelation’ dont’cha know) was to distinguish (to identify) Muslim women on their way to the loo (especially at night) from ‘filthy unbelieving women’ in order to ‘protect’ them from abuse by Muslim men.
Essentially: abuse the kuffar women, not us.
https://quran.com/33/59
Sahih International
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.
Tony Naim says
👍
I agree.
Islam is the religious cloth tribalism hides with.
FYI says
This Christine muhammed in the article:she says she studied Theology
Obviously not.
“I believe there is good in the Bible”:does she not know as someone who claims to have studied Theology that..
The Golden rule,the two chief commandments of God,the Holy Spirit of God’s wisdom all of which are in the Bible are MISSING in islam and the koran?
That the koran gives permission to violate every one of God’s Exodus 20 laws listed in the Bible but not listed in the koran{conveniently)?
How about that for comparative Theology?
Did the former “catholic” not know any of that?
Can the muslima explain how and why?No
The koran has an EPIC theology error in koran 5:116 where allah insists Mary{!!} is in the Trinity:that is Theologically ludicrous.
As for the hijab,so feminine and pretty and modest?
That’s not how it came about!
“It will be known that if they do that{i.e wear the hijab}that they are free and that they are NOT servants or whores”
TAFSIR IBN KATHIR 33:59
So any woman without a hijab must be considered a whore/servant/subject to being molested by those devout muslim males; it has nothing to do with being feminine.
Stupid naive Western women who were once Christian who join the cult of islam:you wear a bag on your head in honor of a pagan Arab god who hates women!How dumb is that?Why not wear the full burqa and remain silent since you have a “deficiency of the mind” according to your child-raping “prophet” muhammed which is why the koran insists a woman’s value is HALF that of a man k2:282
And go ask those iranian women in jail about the hijab..
“islam is very simplistic” says Christine muhammed:it is also a religion for simpletons and fools who don’t get Irony or logic,especially idiotic converts who don’t understand the
concept of “Look before you leap”:Enjoy wearing that bag on your head..ooh it is so feminine isn’t it?
Donna Martin says
“Scholars of Islam come out and condemn terror attacks,” she said…”
It is a shame that there are no links to those scholars condemning terror attacks. There are millions upon millions of muslims who simply remained silent in the face of the 36,000+ terror attacks that have occurred since 9/11. and many who celebrate them openly.
gravenimage says
Usually Muslims who say they “condemn terrorism”: actually are condemning the US and Israel for defending against Jihad terror attacks.
Jaladhi says
It is so delusional on part of Muslims that we don’t understand Muslims. Don’t they know that their actions through he history and now tells us everything about them – we don’t need any bal face lies lectures from them!!
Moshe says
The viewpoint expressed by Mr. Spencer is outside of the American political mainstream. The major Jewish organizations in Cleveland support Senator Sherrod Brown and Rep. Marcia Fudge in their inter-faith efforts, including a recent letter of support to CAIR as a civil-rights organization. Similar letters were sent by >100 outstanding progressive political leaders in Congress to affirm the values of diversity and inclusion.
The event in Pittsburgh is a model of inclusive inter-faith dialogue: “Everyone is welcome. Women of all religions and backgrounds may wear and experience the hijab…”
That this event will be open to trans women provides particularly eloquent testimony to multicultural Western values. Indeed, trans women may wear the hijab to show self-control, power and agency as a woke symbol of liberation. Surely this says it all.
FYI says
“the major Jewish organisations in Cleveland support….in their inter-faith efforts”
Ah that sounds nice but you see …..allah himself doesn’t approve of “interfaith” efforts.
I don’t want to throw a spanner in the works or anything but regarding “inter-faith” efforts,it won’t be sincerely and honestly coming from the islamic side..
1]”Oh ye who believe!Take not the Jews or Christians for friends.They are friends to one another.He among you who taketh them for friends is one of THEM”
koran 5:51
Does that sound like “inclusive interfaith dialog”?
According to allah the Arab,any muslim who befriends a Jew or Christian is a defacto INFIDEL!
2}It is unlikely the muslims will be bringing up for discussion SAHIH MUSLIM #6985 islam’s plan for a war against the Jews.I suggest the Jews look that one up{especially naive lefty Jews}
3}The Jews and Christians are “the Worst of created beings” koran 98:6
So great is al lah the Arab god’s antisemitism that he insists “Abraham was not a Jew” k3:67 because if Abraham was a JEW then he would have to be ….”{be ye apes} despised and hated” k2:65
So obviously by allah the Arab’s koranic logic ,Abraham was ..a muslim.
Jesus Christ,who is definitely JEWISH{John 4 v22}by the same islamic logic couldn’t possibly have been JEWISH since he was…. a muslim.
islam really loves the Jews.
4}”Everyone is welcome”
Really?
Does that include those dreaded ex-muslim “Apostates”?
Atheists?Satirists?Cartoonists with pics of perfect mo?
Can a T-shirt with an Israeli Defense Forces logo be worn?
{What?Too soon after 1948..1967…1973?}
Former muslim women protesting the hijab with a guest speaker from IRAN telling the TRUTH about women being oppressed in iran?
“Everbody is welcome”?
That’s not true is it?
5} islam’s concept of “diversity”
the koran CURSES Jews and Christians {koran 9:30},is hostile to Hindus,Buddhists,Atheists etc and has a Doctrine of Hatred{al walaa wal baraa} and an APARTHEID system..
muslims{superior to everybody}{“The best community” k3:110}
non-muslims{the KUFFAR,inferior to muslims}{“the Worst of created beings k98:6
islam has such a great love of “diversity” doesn’t it?
6} Remember when you try on that hijab{ooh it’s so exciting and multicult isn’t it?} that it is worn in honor of a misogynistic pagan ARAB god al lah,a god who
insists women have HALF the value of a man due to what muhammed insisted was “the deficiency of a woman’s mind”:just remember that
It may look pretty and all but the god who insists it should be worn is the same god who says women are stupid.
Michael Copeland says
Interfaith?
“It is unbelief (kufr) to hold that the remnant cults now bearing the names of formerly valid religions such as “Christianity” and “Judaism” are acceptable to Allah….”
Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller”, w4.
Wellington says
“The viewpoint expressed by Mr. Spencer is outside of the American political mainstream.”
Even assuming this is true, and I think there is much reason to doubt it, so what? What matters is whether Mr. Spencer is correct in his assessment of Islam as being the only major religion that calls for war to be made upon mankind “until all religion is with Allah.” {Sura 8:39} That Islam poses all kinds of dangers to liberty that no other major religion does and that it is a faith of tremendous intolerance and with a decided proclivity for violence (e.g., just since 9/11 there have been over 36,000 documented Islamic terrorist attacks worldwide). Damn chauvinistic too (let’s face it, the burden in Islam is placed on women not to arouse men so incapable men are, per Islamthink, of controlling themselves—and this is the woman’s fault). What matters is whether Robert Spencer is correct when he states things about Islam and I would argue that he is eminently correct time and time again.
The American political mainstream, you know, offers gets things dead wrong (e.g., a majority of Americans still believe there was a conspiracy to kill JFK). Consensus does not by any means equate to truth. Ponder this—if you can, Moshe. And I would close here by mentioning what I have before here at JW and that is I have a difficult time deciding whether you are sincere or, in the alternative, are a very smug, sarcastic individual. Either way, you don’t help things.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“Consensus does not by any means equate to truth.”
100% true, but for some strange reason this is the very first time that I have ever seen it stated.
Bravo Zulu, as they say in the Navy…
And enjoy your evening!
Wellington says
Thank you, James. Did enjoy my evening because I wanted the Chiefs to win. California doesn’t deserve anything good until the Democratic loons running that state are voted out of office. Right now, the weakest link among all 50 states is California (New York is second).
gravenimage says
I see that “Moshe” is shilling for oppression again…
Bob Builder says
Hopefully the bill that Ted Cruz introduced to place CAIR on the State Depts list of terrorist organizations happens very soon.
Then we can finally deport or jail these Jihadist.
Meanwhile, everyone should denounce them and comment on there Google Review and Yelp.
James Lincoln says
Bob Builder,
Strongly agree. I have provided a link to a Jihad Watch feature article addressing Ted Cruz’s bill:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/01/hamas-linked-cair-smears-ted-cruz-in-frantic-efforts-to-block-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-designation-bill
Wellington says
Every non-Muslim woman who dons an hijab on World Hijab Day is facilitating massive mistreatment of females by the Islamic sphere of mankind. They are enablers of misogyny and profound shame on them for this.
In short, they are fools, every last one of them.
gravenimage says
So true.
somehistory says
With the use of many words, she shows the fool that she is.
“you will not see my beauty”…supposedly shows “modesty” which she said she must show.
The first definition of modesty according to Merriam-Webster: “Definition of modesty. 1 : the quality of not being too proud or confident about yourself or your abilities ”
You, with your bragging about your ‘knowledge’ of the Bible, islam, and probably a whole host of other things you know not, are far from being “modest.” One who refers to their own “beauty” is not even modest in words, much less the feelings behind the word.
“New Testaments” Sorry to have to tell you this, but there is only One “New Testament.” If you had really “studied” the Bible, you might not have uttered something so stupid.
“There is no middle man between me and my creator. ” Truthfully, there is, “The One, Christ Jesus.” But, since you have uttered another lie, you should know that to say this as a moslim, you are now calling your filthy, evil, raper of children, mass-murdering creep, the so-called “prophet”…your “creator.” In other words, “god.’ And the filthy creep of the desert was supposed to be a “perfect man,” not your “creator.” Question: what role does he play in your life?
““so people are not so scared.”…Only a little bit “scared.” That’s why she needs the ugly headwear…for the “others as a way to show self-control, …***power*** and agency.”
Another question: Just how much “power” and “agency” do the females of afghanistan and iran have? All of them are made to wear the headgear. And yet, they are all under the thumbs of their male moslim masters.
Foolish woman, who didn’t really “love” her Catholic…”faith”…and shows by her very words and actions as a stupid moslim, she had no “faith.” None whatsoever.
gravenimage says
Good points, Somehistory.
E T says
Iranian chess master, Mitra Hejazipour, 27, removed her oppressive hijab during a tournament and was immediately removed from the National team, while playing in Russia.
Elle look of the year, what a disgraceful lot of ignoramuses, for peddling such horse pucky.
Iranian, Olympic Medalist, Kimia Alizadeh, defected on January 20, said: “I am one of the millions of OPPRESSED women in Iran they have been playing for years”.
FOR DEFENDING SEVEN WOMEN IN IRAN FOR REMOVING THEIR HEAD SCARVES, LAWYER, 55 YEAR OLD, NASRIN SOTOUDEH, WAS SENTENCED TO 38 YEARS IN PRISON AND 148 LASHES.
E T says
When I type in capitals I am yelling, is anybody listening?
somehistory says
Probably only the choir, whose members already know the song.
RichardL says
You want to bet that the local dynamic duo, the head of the Jewish community and the rabbi of the Tree of Life, will support her? I despair at those reform Jews sometimes
No Muzzies Here says
They call it “World Hijab Day” but they really should call it “You Infidels Better Love the Hijab Day” because it’s designed to send the message that Islam is here to stay, to expand, and thus we must submit to our new overlords.
unbeliever1 says
This is from a woman who was once covered head to toe and was married to a member of Al- Qaeda.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/world-hijab-day-irony-hypocrisy/
https://www.yasminemohammed.com/unveiled
Mark Berlinger says
On Celebrating World Hijab Day
Please realize what witless leftists coverup, excuse or ignore.
The veil is the ever present reminder of the second class status of women in the Islamic world.
gravenimage says
Pittsburgh: Hamas-linked CAIR to present hijab event to dispel “misconceptions” for World Hijab Day
……………………..
In other words, they’re slinging Taqiyya…