“That hat represents the denial of the freedom of beliefs. That hat represents the denial of minority voices. That hat represents the vitriol that has been harming that nation and has been harming the world for the last four years.”
Aliya Danzeisen sounds as if she is angling for a spot as Biden’s vice presidential candidate, or maybe as a CNN commentator. In any case, where in the US since January 20, 2017 has any Muslim been denied the “freedom of beliefs”? Nowhere, of course. But hysterical claims of victimhood are currency these days, and Aliya Danzeisen is Diamond Jim.
“Muller defends MAGA cap despite criticism from Muslim community,” by Amelia Wade, NZ Herald, May 24, 2020:
National Party leader Todd Muller has doubled-down on his decision to take a controversial Make America Great Again cap to his new office in Parliament.
A Muslim community leader said today the cap should be left at home as it represents something very different from when Muller bought it as a souvenir in 2016, as well as two Hillary Clinton pins.
Aliya Danzeisen of the Islamic Women’s Council said the MAGA cap had no place being displayed in a Parliamentary office.
“That hat represents the denial of the freedom of beliefs. That hat represents the denial of minority voices. That hat represents the vitriol that has been harming that nation and has been harming the world for the last four years,” Danzeisen said.
“If he wants to be the Prime Minister of New Zealand it would be nice if he’d choose to display objects that represent the values of New Zealand.”
But Muller today doubled-down on his decision to display the hat, saying he feels “very comfortable” including it in his collection of political paraphernalia.
Muller, a US politics nut, got the MAGA hat in 2016 when he went to watch the Democratic and Republican campaigns.
Muller said he hoped people could understand he displayed the cap in the context of a number of other political souvenirs.
“I would hope that they could understand the context in which it was there because I think context is important for a lot of things, actually. Clearly he’s a very divisive individual and a lot of people are reacting because they’re assuming that it means something which clearly it doesn’t.”
She invited Muller to sit down with her so they could have a conversation about what the MAGA hat now represents.
“It doesn’t just mean a trip to America it now means a lot more for a lot of people.”
Danzeisen said she didn’t think Muller “fully thought it through” and asked him to reconsider his decision to take it with him to Parliament.
She said if it was just a personal memento of his travels, then it shouldn’t be put on a prominent shelf and should instead stay at home. There were “more productive” things he could display….
terry sullivan says
ttfo
william carr says
The simple fact there is an Islamic Women’s Council and it is allowed to say what it wants defeats her argument completely. It is ridiculous like most Muslim claims of victimhood.
Plus no religion denies other religions’ freedom like Islam does
Dude says
Haha. Pot-kettle-black paradox to the n-th degree.
gravenimage says
I think this is more projection, Dude.
Shovington says
It’s a MAGA hat. It doesnt say down with Muslims, or anything of the sort. The meaning behind it is simple, it’s a call to Americans to change the United States for the better, and to focus on domestic issues before foreign issues. If your bending those words to suit your narrative, then your not focused on bettering your situation at home in the country you live in, but instead concerning yourself with making trouble.
GreekEmpress says
I’ve had people get in my face for wearing my “Make Greece Great Again” hat. I will just say “So you’re racist against Greeks?” That seems to make them quiet.
Dave from San Antonio says
“denial of the freedom of beliefs”
OK. Now…what about the ‘problem’ islam has with people of other faiths?
eur says
“denial of the freedom of beliefs”
Madam, can you tell me some Islamic country where a Muslim can convert to another religion?
Madam, can you tell me any Islamic country that has formed the universal declaration of human rights where the universal rights of every human being are collected?
Thank you.
gravenimage says
+1
PRCS says
Islam is so incompatible with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the OIC created the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam—which limits human rights to those permitted by Islamic law (the sharia).
gravenimage says
Good point, PRCS. “Human Rights in Islam” actually crush all human rights,
Chrissie01 says
I am so sick of all this immaturity. Whenever someone takes an opposing view, they feel threatened. Whenever there is a hint of critcism, they feel threatened and have to stir up emotions. No factual exchange possible.
I personally, I do not like Muslims. I do not like their way of functioning or reasoning. I find it primitive. Am I free to do so? Of course. Am I free to express that view? I should be.There are many who don’t like them and their alla and their rapist profete. Well. deal with it.
Do Muslims like the kuffar? No. Are they free to do so? Yes, of course, Are they free to express it? also, of course.
We have to deal with it.
We don’t like each other.
Maybe it is better for both parties to stay in their corners.
As for me, I would like to.
Just the other side is trailing behind to partake in all that we create and produce.
This is altogether wrong.
And to say so is MAGA!
Swallow it.
Chrissie01 says
and I also love the passage about the “minority voices”…like 1.3 billion of the world. I also like the way “minority voices” are treated in Pakistan, and all other Muslim countries…
Seriously, I am really, really asking myself: How far can anyone stretch and take hypocrisy and double standards without his skull bursting open in the middle.
mortimer says
Many Muslims condemned Pres. Obama just as strongly for attacking jihad groups.
Just remember this, everyone: SHARIA LAW DOESN’T DEFEND THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION or FREEDOM TO DISSENT.
Punishment of Blasphemers from Sharia manual Reliance of the Traveller’:
“The (DHIMMI) agreement is also violated (A: with respect to the offender alone) if the state has stipulated that any of the following things break it, and one of the subjects does so anyway, though if the state has not stipulated that these break the agreement, then they do not; namely, if one of the subject people:
-5- mentions something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam.” – Reliance of the Traveller’ Chapter ‘O’ 11.10.05.
Sharia permits anyone to kill those who verbally oppose Islam, since they are at war with Islam:
“There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-Muslim (harbi) at war with Muslims.” -Reliance of the Traveller, o4.17, p.593
David says
Alia is wrong, a hat cannot stop your cult doing FGM, Child sexual exploitation, Gang rapes, Grooming white, young children, arranged marriages, honour killings, so whats your problem, really, do let us know.
mortimer says
Supremacist Aliya Danzeisen implies that no one may wish Americans success.
MAGA is a slogan that wishes Americans to succeed in making their country a great place to live.
Does Aliya Danzeisen want Americans to fail? Does she want the USA to be a horrible place to live?
That’s how I interpret her complaint.
mortimer says
WHAT ??? The ‘FREEDOM OF BELIEFS’???
Oh, I get it … Aliya Danzeisen means ‘Freedom for me, but not for thee.’
In other words, Aliya Danzeisen has freedom to express Islam, but you do not have freedom to criticize her supremacism.
One of the things that makes America great is the first amendment right to differ and dissent with other points of view.
Aliya Danzeisen wants freedom but just if you share her point of view. She wants to CENSOR EVERYONE who disagrees with her!
David says
Which means she is a bigot. Plus she is a bloke, lookin at her pic.
mortimer says
Reply to Chrissie : re ‘double standards’.
Double standards are hard-wired into Islam with its dualistic ethics.
Mount Zion says
There are more productive things he could display .. …… Really ? maybe like the headscarf she is diaplaying , that thing on her head has caused the death of innumerable women for refusing to wear it.
Wellington says
100% ass backwards because America at its greatest is the single most powerful guarantor and preserver of freedom. This pathetic woman could not have gotten things more wrong, but then Islam, as with other totalitarian ideologies, Nazism and Marxism as examples with the newest example being Western Leftism (which is really just Marxism Light), has been opposed to liberty from its inception in the 7th century.
James Lincoln says
“Heat” (1995)
I wonder if, today, Neil would still want to escape with Eady to New Zealand…
James Lincoln says
Please, someone in New Zealand tell Aliya Danzeisen:
“That HIJAB represents the denial of the freedom of beliefs. That HIJAB represents the denial of minority voices. That HIJAB represents the vitriol that has been harming that nation and has been harming the world…”
Merri-joy says
I’ve just emailed the Opposition leader in NZ to encourage him to wear the MAGA hat and not cower to the threats!
simpleton1 says
This has been taken up by the social justice warriors, that swarm in the media, academia and relentlessly pursue their agendas in the name of …….. using every angle and aspect.
Academics [media] have argued that the MAGA cap has come to symbolize racism in the US, and some have compared it to the white hood of the KKK or the Confederate flag in terms of its symbolic power.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/new-national-leader-todd-muller-doubles-down-over-maga-cap-in-office-display
Unfortunately the leader of the Opposition in NZ has acquiesced to the tumult, saying it is a distraction, to setting economic policies for recovery after the CCP virus pandemic.
Elections coming up within 4 months.
tim gallagher says
Now what would something that represents the “values of New Zealand” be to this supremacist Muslim woman? I’m sure they would be things like the hijab and, say, Sharia law. I’m pretty sure that’s what she’d have in mind for New Zealand’s future. It is always what Muslim are aiming for. I’d say that nothing Islamic should have anything to do with New Zealand values, because New Zealand is a civilised, western country, although, no doubt, under threat from the Muslim invaders, who bring their barbaric ideology to all countries that let them in. This Muslim woman wouldn’t know New Zealand values if they bit her on the bum. She would only be interested in trying to destroy civilised western, New Zealand values.
Phil Copson says
“…Whenever someone takes an opposing view, they feel threatened. Whenever there is a hint of criticism, they feel threatened….”
——————————————————————————————-
No – they don’t remotely feel threatened; how could anyone in their right mind feel threatened by a baseball cap ?
They are delighted to have found another opportunity to shout and wail, play the victim, spread lies, make threats, demand privileges, and push islam.
“Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
gravenimage says
New Zealand: Muslim leader enraged at politician’s MAGA hat, says it represents “denial of the freedom of beliefs”
……………..
Actually it is Aliya Danzeisen, not Todd Muller, who is trying to crush freedom of conscience here. In other words, this is just more projection.
And there has been. of course, no denial of freedom of beliefs in the United States–unless, of course, she means the freedom to murder Americans in the name of Islam.
David M says
Is that photo Aliya Danzeisen? That’s a woman? Looks like one of the Monty Python lads doing a sketch. Lots of generations of inbreeding there.
David says
They were funny in their day, she/he aint.
AleX says
The hijabi touch makes him look more photogenous. Uh, wait!
PRCS says
Islam’s goal is the subjugation of all mankind under the hegemony of Islamic law–which epitomizes denial of freedom of belief.
Unlike a MAGA hat, the ‘veil’ she’s wearing is a non-verbal expression of Islam’s supposed superiority of all other faiths.
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.
*abused by Muslim men.
Essentially: abuse them, not us.
Aunty Podes says
It would never enter the thick head of Aliya Danzeisen that the “hat” she wears tells us all about what a repressive and barbaric code for life (or rather code for death, because that is what they worship) she chooses to follow – as a result of the nonsensical fear inculcated in her by the Quran and her imams.
If she doesn’t like the way NZ is governed (albeit disastrously by an avowed Communist) she has the remedy – go back to an Islamic country – she wasn’t asked to come here.
David says
I fully support your suggestion to her. NZ will be fine without him/her.
Jan Disher says
She??? There is absolutely no way she is a she!
Mark says
Their “beliefs” are intolerant and hatred
Islam’s founder Muhammad proclaimed “I have been victorious thru terror”
Quran teachings:
Quran 2:191 “kill them wherever you overtake them……such is the recompense of the disbelievers”
Quran 47:4 “when you meet disbelievers strike their necks”
Quran 4:89 “if they turn away (from islam) seize them & kill them”
Quran 5:51 ” take no Jew or Christian as an ally”
Quran 8:12 “cast TERROR into the hearts of those who disbelieve, so strike their necks”
Quran 8:60 “prepare whatever steeds of war you are able that you may TERRIFY the enemies of allah”
Quran 8:67 “it is not for a prophet to have captives of war until he inflicts a slaughter upon the land”
Quran 9:5 “when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists”
Quran 8:39 “fight til all religion is for allah”
Hadith 6985 “the last hour will not come until muslims will fight against the Jews, and muslims will kill the Jews….”
There are 109 verses of persecution & murder against non-muslims (aka disbelievers)
islam is a cult of bullying, aggression, intolerance and yes murdering simply for being a disbeliever
……islam has no place in civilized society
Prison psychologist Nicholai Sennels wrote “mind numbing repetition of Islam’s exceedingly violent verses makes many muslims ticking time bombs wherever they live”
#WalkAwayFromIslam
#WalkAwayFromDemocrats (promoters & defenders of Islam)
OLD GUY says
This poor islamic mislead women supporting the dictatorship style islamic “religion” that takes most civil rights away from women and men. One thing she is missing, Islamic rule makes everyone except a few elites minorities and non-islamics slaves or dead and she is worried about a MAGA hat. Open your mind lady and see the light, islam is a DICTATORSHIP!
Rowena Haldane says
Correct me if I got this wrong. The “lady” is an import. From the USA. She is reported as being a lawyer. I also noted she was photographed standing in a Maori meeting place.
gravenimage says
I can find nothing that says that Aliya Danzeisen is from the United States. Citations?
Rowena Haldane says
I checked my source. Olivia Pierson.org Free thought Advocate wrote on 25/05/21 in her blog, “MAGA hats and Muslimas Downunder”. She names this individual as a former corporate lawyer from USA.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Rowena–I found the article here:
https://www.oliviapierson.org/blog/maga-hats-and-muslimas-downunder
I hadn’t found this information anywhere else, but Olivia Pierson–who I was not familiar with before–seems quite solid, so I imagine this is correct. Sorry to hear that we are exporting some of our aggressive losers to New Zealand.
Here’s Pierson’s blog, for any here who want to read more:
https://www.oliviapierson.org/blog
Pierson seems like a brave voice.
Rowena Haldane says
Thank you Graven Image. Olivia Pierson is indeed a brave voice. Long may she continue to be a brave voice.
gravenimage says
Agreed.
Steve Meikle says
how can anyone believe ANY musliom when their religion permits the telling of lies in its service? ie Taqiyya.
and why do we let muslims moan about “freedom” when we would not hestiate to ban any cult which practiced suttee or thugee.