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Australia’s ABC Radio touts hijab as allowing a woman to be known for “who she is, not the way she looks”

May 26, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Zahra Fielding’s Muslim friend told her that the hijab wasn’t oppressive, but liberating, and as one thing led to another, Fielding ultimately converted to Islam. This lengthy article details her journey, and is clearly intended to be a heartwarming, inspiring tale of uplift.

Just a couple of questions: when is ABC Radio National planning to publish a lengthy puff piece about a woman who discovered that what feminists told her about Christianity being oppressive was false, and converted to Christianity?

And when is ABC Radio National’s piece scheduled on the many women who have been brutalized or even killed for refusing to wear the hijab?

Finally, another friend of Zahra a few years ago began dating a “Muslim Afghan gentleman.” He turned out to be “very controlling of her, very oppressive.” Now, “as soon as travel restrictions lift,” Zahra is “moving to Malaysia to get married.”

What could possibly go wrong?

“When Zahra downloaded a game with ‘sexist’ ads, she didn’t expect to find friendship or discover Islam,” by Siobhan Hegarty, ABC Radio National, May 23, 2020:

When Zahra Fielding downloaded an Ottoman-inspired phone game, she didn’t expect it would introduce her to new friends, let alone Islam.

In fact, the game caught her attention because of its suggestive nature.

“When I first downloaded the game, it was out of curiosity, coming across on Facebook ads — and really, intensely wrong ads,” she recalls.

“I’m like, ‘Surely there can’t be a game like this that would do that or talk about women in that way.'”

The app in question, Game of Sultans, is an empire simulation role-playing game. Players strive to become — and remain — the ruler of the Ottoman Empire, so much of the game is about forging alliances and fighting rivals.

Gamers are also encouraged to assemble their harem, choose wives and consorts, and foster heirs. But Zahra says the game isn’t as sexist as its publicity suggests.

Once she started playing, she joined a team with female players from Australia and Asia.

“The game came at such an important time in my life, perhaps. I was really lonely and feeling lost,” she recalls.

“Like, not happy in my career, not happy in my personal life … I’d been single for a very long time.

“And I just met like a wonderful group of people from different countries that I never would have an opportunity to connect with here.”…

As Zahra became closer with her Muslim friend, she broached the topic of religion. At the time Zahra was atheist, and her perspective on Islam had been clouded by an experience in the past.

“My only prior exposure to Islam was [that] a few years ago, one of my best friends started dating a Muslim Afghan gentleman,” she recalls.

“He was, at the time, saying he was practising, but now knowing more about the faith, I see he wasn’t really. He was very controlling of her, very oppressive.”

For Zahra, the experience of her friend — who had started wearing the hijab — and negative portrayals of Islam in the media made her feel wary about women covering for faith.

“I thought that the hijab was a sign of oppression, but I’d never really had an opportunity to talk to anyone about it,” she says.

“So I asked Kim and … I just was blown away with how wrong I was.

“When a woman covers it becomes about people getting to know her for who she is, not the way she looks.

“I really felt very aligned with that because, in my upbringing, I’d always been judged on my physical appearance.”…

Just as Zahra formed an unexpected international friendship with Kim on a mobile phone game, she’s now met her fiance online, too….

A “halal relationship” is one that’s permissible under Islamic law. Generally the couple’s families must meet early on, to ensure the relationship isn’t hidden.

In Zahra’s case, geographical distance didn’t stop this ritual. She and her fiancé introduced their mums via video chat and, she says, “the rest has been history”.

As soon as travel restrictions lift, she’s moving to Malaysia to get married….

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  1. tedh754 says

    May 26, 2020 at 3:08 pm

    I’m sure she could get work with Boko Haram if she wanted to move to the African continent.

  2. Rachele Raanan says

    May 26, 2020 at 3:38 pm

    The article states that Zahra converted to Islam. In order to do so, she would only have had to recite the ‘Shehada’, or profession of faith, no study of the Koran or other Islamic writings/interpretations/beliefs being necessary. Instant spiritual uplift – no knowledge or understanding required – well suited to a world with an ever-contracting attention span and the expectation to be fed predigested ‘learning’.

    • PRCS says

      May 27, 2020 at 9:50 am

      Very true.

      I sometimes troll Muslim themed Youtube videos–for the fun of it.

      Of all those who comment on them, it is Muslims who know the least about Islam. And, oh, the excuses!

    • H. VanCuren says

      May 27, 2020 at 10:44 am

      I shall be the proverbial “skunk at the garden party”. Far too many of those supposed “christians” who get “saved” are also told by their ministers and preachers that one only needs to confess belief in Jesus to be saved. In both cases we see hypocrasy and false religion run amik.

      • gravenimage says

        May 27, 2020 at 5:55 pm

        Wait–so you think being told that you need to confess to Jesus is the same as being told you have to support the slaughter unbelievers as Islam teaches?

  3. Wellington says

    May 26, 2020 at 3:42 pm

    Demonstrating yet again that the excuse making for evil is what so very often gives evil longer life. Thus, profound shame on the ABC. It is a facilitator of a belief system that mandates female subordination to men.

    Anyone doubting this need only consider in how many Islamic nations, or Islamic communities in Western nations, does a Muslim woman need not fear not wearing an hijab (or some other article of Muslim clothing like the burqa). Will the ABC, BBC, CBC, America’s MSM, et al. ever cover this? Highly, highly doubtful.

    Islam should be opposed for many reasons. One of them is that explicitly or implicitly the burden is entirely on the female to make sure the male does not desire her. And this is not only wrong-headed but disgusting and as sexist as you can get (and I am one who most definitely is of the conviction that many charges of sexism are bogus and rooted in antipathy to males, overall gross ignorance and a victim-oriented mentality).

    Ah yes, what a bitter irony it is that Western leftists in the media, academia and in the political realm keep defending an inherently misogynistic religion, all the while asserting they are for women’s rights. The hypocrisy here is as rank and bitterly risible as one can find anywhere.

    • Aussie Infidel says

      May 26, 2020 at 7:49 pm

      Wellington, You are quite correct in assuming that the ABC is full of leftists, radical feminists and apologists for Islam. I once worked at the ABC and belonged to ‘Friends of the ABC’, before I woke to their politically correct leftist attitudes.

      I can guarantee that the ABC would never broadcast anything critical of the Islamic hijab, or why or where a woman might fear not wearing one. That would be Islamophobic – and totally against the ethos of the ABC; or ‘Auntie’ as it is known to us locals.

      Like many other similar organisations around the world, the ABC was set up with good intentions as a radio broadcaster back in the 1930s to provide national coverage of the news – which would have been well nigh impossible for most private companies. However, all these organisations have been infiltrated by extreme leftists, and many news stories now have a definite socialist bias. It’s time to sell them off to private operators – but have a rigid code of compliance to stick with the truth.

      • Wellington says

        May 26, 2020 at 8:46 pm

        I believe, Aussie Infidel, any good that public broadcasting did is long gone. In your country, mine (America), in the UK, in Canada, et al. the publicly funded networks are no longer conveyors of truth but rather purveyors of leftist propaganda, rather like what has happened to the public educational systems in one Western nation after another.

        • concerned citizen says

          May 27, 2020 at 4:22 am

          +1

      • John de los Angeles says

        May 27, 2020 at 5:59 am

        Every thing you say applies to our BBC in the UK.

      • LB says

        May 27, 2020 at 7:05 am

        Yes, the news agencies were once objective broadcasters of news. Now they are corporations who are driven by MONEY. And the reporters who were once seekers of truth no matter what are now corporate wage slaves who obey without question. It’s either report as your boss (the paymaster on top) tells you or kiss your well-paying job goodbye.

        I imagine most TV people (reporters, news casters, etc.) today went to school with the naive hope of becoming big news-busting snoops, but were then faced with the cruel reality of having to report what their bosses tell them or be fired. So most just caved and went with it because they didn’t want to lose their lucrative jobs. The few people with integrity who did not want to corrupt their soul, like yourself, all left those cesspools of lies.

        Here’s a good example of this. Just at the end of last year, Project Veritas (the ONLY real investigative undercover journalist group on the planet Earth today) exposed a clip of ABC’s Amy Robach complaining off-camera that they could nail Jeffery Epstein YEARS BEFORE he actually got accused. When she talks about it, you can SEE and HEAR her soul tearing apart as she is forced to NOT PUBLISH THE STORY! Here’s the full video:

      • PRCS says

        May 27, 2020 at 9:56 am

        +1 AI.

        ‘Auntie’ sounds so much nicer than ‘Big Brother’.

  4. mortimer says

    May 26, 2020 at 3:53 pm

    The Islamic veil allows a woman to be the absolute property of the patriarch.

    The Islamic veil is the ultimate symbol of misogyny and patriarchy … those are ‘good’ values for the 21st century … aren’t they?

    • Westman says

      May 26, 2020 at 10:13 pm

      Yes, great values – where are the feminists? Oh, they can’t get past PC to call out the abuse. They are cowards when it comes to Muslim males because they have seen what happens to women in Islam and know they would get immediate pushback from Islam and the MSM. They are frightened of Islam.

      Like bright colors in the animal world, the hijab says, “Warning, lethal danger!”

      • gravenimage says

        May 27, 2020 at 12:22 am

        I believe in equal rights for women, and I condemn this vicious stupidity.

        • Westman says

          May 27, 2020 at 1:23 am

          Yes, don’t most believers in equality for the sexes find Islam reprehensible? You are among the few brave. Where are the feminists?

          It seems so obvious that Islam designed the garb for women to make them chattel, baby machines, bereft of real love by their husbands, and inaccessible to unbelievers. They are left with only the real love of their children until the male children start exercising their “superiority”. Of course, if that’s the only life they have experienced, perhaps they think it’s normal and what, “Allah”, wants.

          The only advice I can suggest when some book says a “god” created you only for you to worship him is – run! Any extremely intelligent being who demands worship is an evil narcissistic psychopath.

        • gravenimage says

          May 27, 2020 at 5:56 pm

          Westman, you are quite right that so many supposed feminists give Islam a pass. Nothing could be more perverse.

      • Peter35 says

        May 27, 2020 at 9:51 pm

        “They are frightened of islam”. As are ALL western governments.
        Absolutely terrified of a lot of semi-literate Arabs and low I.Q. Africans

        running around in bedsheets.

        Bloody hell….

    • PRCS says

      May 27, 2020 at 10:27 am

      “The Islamic veil allows a woman to be the absolute property of the patriarch.”

      Qur’an’ 33:59–which mandates it–is an expression of a Muslim woman’s alleged superiority over ‘filthy unbelieving women’.

      “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. (By Muslim men).

      e.g., abuse them, not us.

      IMO, Muslim men want others to believe ‘their women’ really are superior to the kuffar.

      • gravenimage says

        May 27, 2020 at 5:58 pm

        Exactly. PRCS–the main message of the Hijab is “don’t rape me; rape those uncovered whores over there instead”.

  5. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    May 26, 2020 at 3:55 pm

    Another senseless idiot celebrated.
    These shameless attention whores
    used to be pitied.

  6. mortimer says

    May 26, 2020 at 4:00 pm

    Most converts to Islam studied by an American imam had left Islam within a year and a half. They stopped practicing.

    It takes several months for a new convert to learn many things that dawagandists hide from them.

    I encourage all converts to Islam to view all the videos of David Wood, Jay Smith, Robert Spencer and Al Fadi, as well as those of Dan Gibson. Very converts will remain in Islam after discovering all that their Muslim handlers have concealed about the immoral character of Mohammed and the textual and historical problems of the Koran and hadiths.

    Converts to Islam should re-possess their brains and look deeply at the foundations of Islam in the original books.

    • gravenimage says

      May 26, 2020 at 6:23 pm

      +1

  7. Honest Ali says

    May 26, 2020 at 4:04 pm

    And now you know why the Feminists support the Hijab. They want all women wearing it as a shield against the “male gaze”. Madness.

    • Honest Ali says

      May 26, 2020 at 4:07 pm

      “As soon as travel restrictions lift, she’s moving to Malaysia to get married.”

      Oh boy, she is going to learn the hard way… Oof!

      • JMB says

        May 26, 2020 at 7:11 pm

        And while you are there Ms Zahra, please do us all a favour and renounce your Australian citizenship, after all, why would you ever want to come back to white racist islamophobic Australia?

  8. DHazard says

    May 26, 2020 at 4:15 pm

    “When a woman covers it becomes about people getting to know her for who she is, not the way she looks.”
    Except for makeup.

    • gravenimage says

      May 26, 2020 at 6:26 pm

      Yes–this alone renders this claim ridiculous.

    • Giacomo Latta says

      May 27, 2020 at 9:19 am

      And a hijab that is not exactly basic black.

      • gravenimage says

        May 27, 2020 at 5:59 pm

        Depends. In some places it has to be or the woman can be arrested. There have been crackdowns like this in places like Iran.

  9. Old Fat Bald Socially Inept Ron says

    May 26, 2020 at 4:31 pm

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/pR2O3327FITV/
    Please don’t equate Islam to how this, or any other irrelevant Muslim may appear, or how friendly they may seem.

    Only the words and deeds of Muhammad can express the true nature and intent of Islam.

    The link above narrated by Usama Dakdok is one of the most comprehensive, connect the dots explanations of Islam’s true nature and intent.

  10. James Lincoln says

    May 26, 2020 at 4:39 pm

    Notice how the hijab is being betrayed by Western mainstream media as looking “hip and glamorous”…

    • gravenimage says

      May 26, 2020 at 6:32 pm

      Yes, James–this is grotesque.

      (And I assume you meant “portrayed”, not “betrayed”–although such a portrayal is certainly a betrayal, intentional or not)

      • James Lincoln says

        May 26, 2020 at 7:01 pm

        Correct, gravenimage.

        DragonDictate always spells correctly, however it’s sometimes chooses the wrong words.

        I proofread but I occasionally I miss something…

        • gravenimage says

          May 26, 2020 at 7:48 pm

          Not a problem, James–I knew what you meant. I certainly miss things, myself–I’m pretty typo prone. And it would likely be much worse if I had some kind of “autocorrect”.

  11. AleX says

    May 26, 2020 at 5:43 pm

    “Australia’s ABC Radio touts hijab as allowing a woman to be known for “who she is, not the way she looks”.
    Indeed: the hijab turns women in Islamic enforcers, mohamedan supremacists. Aesthetic looks are irrelevant in Shari’a.

  12. mortimer says

    May 26, 2020 at 5:45 pm

    Message to Miss Fielding: DON’T DO IT. Don’t marry a Muslim. You will eventually repent the error of your misguided decision.

    I hope instead of getting married, Miss Fielding will read Bukhari, the Sira and the Truth about Mohammed by Robert Spencer. The reading of those books will help her to avoid wasting her life as a slave of manmade Sharia.

    Miss Fielding, Mohammed is the most obvious false prophet in history.

  13. tim gallagher says

    May 26, 2020 at 5:59 pm

    Oh. what an idiot this woman is. Just the other day, here at Jihad watch there was the report about the teenage girl who was beheaded by her Muslim boyfriend and there are endless reports of how women are beaten and murdered by their Muslim husbands and boyfriends. If this naïve Pollyanna does go to Malaysia, she’ll probably be enslaved and beaten by this Muslim fiancé. Robert Spencer rightly describes this as a puff piece by the far left ABC. Like the BBC, (from what I hear), the ABC, all funded tot the tune of $1 billion each year by the Australian taxpayer, is totally committed to all of the leftie agenda on all issues, whether climate change or sucking up to Islam. It is always trying to crap on most of our western values and always trying to drag such values down. So this puff piece for Islam is no surprise. Many conservatives here in Australia want the ABC to be closed down or, at least, told to raise its own money through having its left wing audience pay subscriptions if they really want the traitorous outfit to continue to exist. As for the naïve fool of a woman in this report, she is very likely going to end up in big trouble because of her Pollyanna-ish view of Islam, which, no doubt, her Muslim “friends” are fostering by lying to her.

    • gravenimage says

      May 27, 2020 at 12:25 am

      Good post, Tim.

      • tim gallagher says

        May 27, 2020 at 5:50 am

        Thanks, gravenimage. The ABC is a left wing propaganda outfit, even though it actually has some kind of charter that insists that its coverage of issues be balanced. It continually ignores this and it is a pretty big issue here in Australia that successive governments won’t go after this outfit.

        • gravenimage says

          May 27, 2020 at 6:00 pm

          Grimly, this is almost the norm with most MSM these days.

  14. spiro says

    May 26, 2020 at 6:19 pm

    Does she really. want to be known for who she is
    No Muslim wants to be known for who they really are so they
    Or for what islam really is

  15. FYI says

    May 26, 2020 at 6:59 pm

    The silly female convert to islam…

    To allah: the misogynistic ARAB god who HATES women.

    To allah: the ARAB god who sends women to hell for the terrible ‘sin’ of being ungrateful[TAKFURNA]sahih muslim 241

    To allah: who insists women are HALF the value of men{koran 2:282} due to what muhammed, a woman-beating polygamist with a child bride said was “the deficiency of the woman’s mind”{Sahih Bukhari 2658}

    If you are female and a convert to islam you are now HALF the value in islamic law of a man..

    “Her muslim ‘friend’ told her the hijab was not oppressive”:it looks like her muslim ‘friend’ is like many of that perverse immoral creed ,a taqqiya-tongued LIAR.

    Ask Iranian women in JAIL for not wearing the veil, is it oppressive?

    “If they do that{i.e wear the veil}it will be known that they are free and that they are not servants or whores”
    TAFSIR IBN KATHIR 33:59

    You see?Nothing to do with modesty.

    Wear veil=Not a whore or a servant or an infidel woman
    Don’t wear veil=whore or servant or infidel woman

    But look at all those nice colorful hijabs sponsored by the fashion houses;so feminine,so empowering……

    • gravenimage says

      May 27, 2020 at 12:25 am

      +1

  16. FYI says

    May 26, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    “At the time zahra was an atheist”:she should have stayed an atheist.

    If some member of my family came to me and said:”I want to be an atheist/hare krishna/buddhist/christian”?
    “Ok:but do some serious background research first”

    If some member of my family came to me and said:”I want to convert to islam..”?
    {Given all we know about this religious cult and all the warnings to Stay Away from islam}
    “You are a moron:if you don’t know by now”

  17. OTTER says

    May 26, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    This is for gravenimage,

    You had strenuously objected the other day when I pointed out the role of white women in succumbing willingly to Islam. This seems to be yet another example of the same phenomenon to me.

    Again I am not commenting on you nor can your example be considered germane to the issue.

    When white women convert willingly convert to Islam, their children automatically follow. You must have read the depressing news that the daughter of Bill Gates has been engaged to a Egyptian Muslim. Reading how she raced about her future husband makes it clear that she will not only convert to Islam but will be a convinced propagandist herself.

    Do you have any examples of Muslim women becoming Christians and being so openly expressive about it?

    Grateful for your views.

    • gravenimage says

      May 27, 2020 at 1:42 am

      Hi, OTTER. You wrote:

      This is for gravenimage,

      You had strenuously objected the other day when I pointed out the role of white women in succumbing willingly to Islam. This seems to be yet another example of the same phenomenon to me.
      ………………….

      OTTER, I never said that there are not foolish women–including foolish white women–who have converted to Islam. Of course there are.

      I objected to your calling for white men to control white women and strip them of their freedoms, as well as blaming white men not controlling white women for some of them having low testosterone–despite you yourself linking to articles largely tracing this to obesity and lack of sufficient exercise, not their not controlling white women.

      Here’s your post from that thread:

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/05/norway-state-broadcaster-nrk-promotes-hijab-wearing-woman-in-promo-ad-for-constitution-day#comment-2238522

      More comments and replies on the thread follow, including a couple of my own.

      More:

      Again I am not commenting on you nor can your example be considered germane to the issue.
      ………………….

      The implication that if white men were to strip white women of the vote and an education and their other rights, that this would somehow have no effect on myself is mistaken.

      Moreover, I am not so single-mindedly self-centered that I would be fine with the enslavement of all other white women, just so long as it did not affect me directly, even if this were possible.

      More:

      When white women convert willingly convert to Islam, their children automatically follow.
      ………………….

      This is not just true of white women–this is the way Muslims look at any children they father. Women have no parental rights to their children at all–as this sorry fool will sadly likely learn if she marries some Muslim thug in Malaysia.

      More:

      You must have read the depressing news that the daughter of Bill Gates has been engaged to a Egyptian Muslim. Reading how she raced about her future husband makes it clear that she will not only convert to Islam but will be a convinced propagandist herself.
      ………………….

      Jennifer Gates is another silly idiot. Like Zahra Fielding, I hope she wakes up in time. I doubt that her famous parents know enough about Islam to warn her.

      I note that while you have called for white men to control white women on at least two separate stories now, that you have never–that I can recall–said anything negative about white men or any other Western men converting to Islam, even when they go on to commit acts of Jihad terror.

      Here is just one recent story:

      “Australia: Man converts to Islam, threatens to behead Christians, walks free”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/05/australia-man-converts-to-islam-threatens-to-behead-christians-walks-free

      Do you think that white men should be “controlled” by someone in order to prevent this sort of thing? Or do you believe–as Muslims do–that it is just women who must be controlled?

      More:

      Do you have any examples of Muslim women becoming Christians and being so openly expressive about it?
      ………………….

      Of course, Muslim women–just like Muslim men–are not allowed to leave Islam, to convert to Christianity or any other faith or none, and are subject to be murdered by their former coreligionists if they do so. So most of those who have left Islam are very quiet about it.

      There are a few brave exceptions, like Nonie Darwish. I was able to hear her speak in Berkeley some years ago, although she was almost drowned out by dhimmi tools in the audience.

      And while she is not a Christian, there is also courageous apostate from Islam Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I heard her speak in San Francisco.

      More:

      Grateful for your views.
      ………………….

      Any time, OTTER.

  18. James Lincoln says

    May 26, 2020 at 9:02 pm

    OTTER says,

    “The daughter of Bill Gates has been engaged to a Egyptian Muslim.”

    Correct, I read about that. His name is Nayel Nassar, who is 28 years old.

    Very sad – and potentially very dangerous for Mr. Gates’s 23 year old daughter, Jennifer Katharine Gates.

    Celebrity Net Worth estimates that Bill Gates is worth $110 billion.

    And in this case, it means nothing…

    https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/richest-billionaires/bill-gates-net-worth/

  19. Naram-Sin says

    May 27, 2020 at 12:14 am

    hijab allows a woman to be known for “who she is, not the way she looks”

    In other words “property.”

    • gravenimage says

      May 27, 2020 at 12:21 am

      Spot on. Naram-Sin.

  20. gravenimage says

    May 27, 2020 at 12:15 am

    Australia’s ABC Radio touts hijab as allowing a woman to be known for “who she is, not the way she looks”
    ……………..

    We hear this dishonest claptrap all the time–as though any woman allowed to show her hair is considered nothing but a whore. This is how *Muslims* think, not civilized Infidels.

    Then, there is the idea that Islam is all about individualism–especially for women. Of course, nothing could be more grotesquely false. Are these idiots *really* claiming that the Niqab and Burqa are all about knowing women for who they are?

    That so many Infidels–including the media–are flogging these falsehoods is disgusting, as well as dangerous.

    What will happen when Zahra Fielding is dragged off to Malaysia? One can only hope she becomes disenchanted with this sick creed before that.

  21. PRCS says

    May 27, 2020 at 1:34 am

    Per Qur’an, here’s what she is:

    Superior–in her mind–to ‘filthy kuffar women’.

    Qur’an 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.

    *abused by Muslim men

    Essentially: abuse them, not us.

    On, and BTW: Qur’an is the reason Muslim women in Iran are ‘forced to cover’.

  22. Ronald Lorette says

    May 27, 2020 at 4:16 am

    Its sad,but many women LOVE (THE MALE GAZE) as they Believe that they have just the THING that will take advantage of that MALE GAZE!!! Sad surprise when God,s most cherished Gift to mankind is abused,rather than used for its proper purpose.

    • gravenimage says

      May 27, 2020 at 6:13 pm

      Women enjoying attention from men is not necessarily ungodly. Do you agree that women should be immured in Burqas instead?

  23. Jake2169 says

    May 27, 2020 at 5:56 am

    “Liberating” is letting your hair down and having the breeze flow through your locks, letting fresh air get to it. Enjoying the freedom instead of all this religious nonsense along with the excuses some women come up with. If having a hair covering on all day is liberating then I suggest they seek medical help within a secure unit!!

  24. Phil Copson says

    May 27, 2020 at 8:58 am

    “…“The game came at such an important time in my life, perhaps. I was really lonely and feeling lost,” she recalls….”
    —————————————————————————————————–
    The vacant look on her face is that of someone who is totally out of their depth – knowing they’ve done something wrong, having no idea what to do about it, and just hoping that things will work out ok if they stay quiet and submissive.

    As a Western female, rather than being “lost”, she had a near endless variety of choices regarding the way in which she could have spent her life, but was evidently unable to run her own life.

    Now she has elected to let another – anti-female – culture dictate her future, and may be truly lost.

    • gravenimage says

      May 27, 2020 at 6:15 pm

      A lot of clueless people have fallen victim to cults when they are feeling overwhelmed by the choices a free society offers them. Terribly sad.

  25. Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

    May 27, 2020 at 10:03 am

    “When a woman covers it becomes about people getting to know her for who she is, not the way she looks.

    …and what “she is,” is a woman who has submitted to islam’s misogynist mindset that she should be ashamed of her femininity and cover up. She has just taken her first step to 2nd class status in a world dominated by male bullies who think sexual mutilation is a good way to keep women under control. You can hit ’em, but not to hard, unless they really p*ss you off, then you can honor kill them. They are an integral part of the family, women are, but not when it comes to inheritance, divorce, choosing their own religion, or non-muslim boyfriends. Then the acid comes out or their nose gets cut off. That’s the way islam rolls for women, they love them death, literally, like a farmer loves their cows before the slaughter. Welcome to islam little lady, call us when you get tired of islam’s bigoted, gangster style of human relations. Your testimony will go far in preventing others from making the same mistake.

    • gravenimage says

      May 27, 2020 at 6:16 pm

      Powerful post, Agostino.

      • Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

        May 27, 2020 at 7:00 pm

        Thanks, and while I’m here, two corrections. I meant, “not TOO hard,” and “they love them TO death.” I gotta slow down and review my rants before posting, lol.

        • gravenimage says

          May 27, 2020 at 8:44 pm

          I knew what you meant, Agostino. Pretty much everyone here makes minor typos once in a while. 🙂

  26. OLD GUY says

    May 27, 2020 at 11:03 am

    A blue eyed follower of islam who feels liberated and has found who she is. Who she is now is a women who has put herself in a position of being used and abused by the male dominated islamic sharia laws. Maybe she likes the idea of females being sex slaves, wife beatings for disobedience, and honor killings. Yes she no longer has to worry about going to the mall alone, she now has to have a male family member with her. Can’t see why any women would willingly join islam where they are considered low level property.

  27. jca reid says

    May 27, 2020 at 11:11 am

    & women in Iran, Iraq, etc. are being beaten up for removing this repressive garb. It beggars belief that countries are bending over backwards to accommodate this hypocritical, dystopian, dipsh*t of an ideology! The time will come when these crawling, snivelling, obsequious excuses as LEADERS are summarily dealt with , by their respective Peoples.

  28. MrKiffy says

    May 27, 2020 at 1:35 pm

    Having trouble posting. This is a test comment.

    • gravenimage says

      May 27, 2020 at 6:17 pm

      Are you new to Jihad Watch, MrKiffy? Welcome.

  29. grandpahalfdime says

    May 27, 2020 at 4:23 pm

    Hajib, today’s chain of slavery.

  30. Leonard Feinman says

    May 27, 2020 at 5:08 pm

    Any way you change your appearance is a way of disguising who you “really” are. It could be seen as “Virtue Signaling,” and that is disingenuous.
    I have seen unattractive women and some very pretty ones too, but when it comes down to romance, that is when looks start to become important. I don’t really care what people look like if relationships are out of the question. A head covering does not make a diffence in the way Linda Sarsour looks or what I think of her.
    Get real!

  31. sidney penny says

    May 28, 2020 at 7:22 am

    What could possibly go wrong? says Robert Spencer.

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/959471.Once_I_Was_a_Princess

    Once I Was a Princess by Jacqueline Pascarl

    Can you imagine what it would be like to be swept off your feet by a royal prince to live a charmed life in the marble palaces of an oil-rich nation – and then to watch your fairy-tale romance turn into a nightmare of Islamic superstition, isolation, betrayal and abuse? What would you do if you managed to escape your life of torment – and then your children were kidnapped by their own father? This is what happened to Jacqueline Pascarl.

    In Once I Was a Princess, Jacqueline recounts her part in this controversial, headline-grabbing international drama with heart-rending honesty. (less)./

    In Melbourne Australia , in the spring of 1980, Jacqueline Pascarl, then a trusting 17-year-old, met a young architecture student called Bahrin. they fell in love, made plans to marry and travelled to Bahrin’s home, the oil-rich Islamic State of terengganu, where they prepared for life as a royal couple – he as a Malaysian Prince, and she as his wife, Lady Yasmin. And then, things began to go horribly wrong

  32. Robert McMillan says

    May 28, 2020 at 10:00 am

    To become a Christian, one must “confess with your mouth and believe in your heart” that Jesus is the Son of God and rose from the dead. Christianity is a faith of the heart, not outward appearances. Jesus accepts us as we are when we accept his offer of salvation. Then the Holy Spirit enters us and begins to change is from inside. Growing in faith is a process. With some people it might cause an instantaneous change, but with many, it’s more gradual.

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