My latest in PJ Media:
Hardly anyone seems particularly concerned about the possibility that many of the tens of thousands of Afghan refugees that Old Joe Biden’s handlers have brought into the United States might not assimilate readily or well. One reason for this lack of concern may be that many Muslim spokesmen in the United States already openly endorse Sharia principles that are at variance with Constitutional freedoms, and no immediate difficulties ensue. So what could possibly go wrong with bringing in so many Afghans?
And so it was that an imam in Aurora, Colorado, Karim AbuZaid, recently published a video on his YouTube channel hailing the Taliban’s victory and praising their imposition of Islamic law. The video is entitled “Taliban forcing women to wear Hijab (Oh Nooooo),” and AbuZaid spends much of it mocking the idea that there is anything wrong with forcing this Islamic headgear upon women.
According to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), AbuZaid asked: “Why is there so much hypocrisy in the world now? Why not accept the Taliban as conquering rulers? You know, why don’t you raise any flags when France’s [President] Macron decided to force Muslim women out of hijab?” As far as AbuZaid was concerned, what Macron did was absolutely unacceptable, because “the hijab is an element of Islam, of the shari’a. Now, you should love for the law of Allah to be established, through the legal lawful channels, without violating the laws of the land.”
Many in the U.S. right now are working toward exactly that goal. It is, of course, a long way off, but that doesn’t mean no one is working toward it. And as far as AbuZaid was concerned, the Taliban had every right, as the rulers of Afghanistan, to impose the mandatory hijab: “Now, the Taliban happen to be the ruling authority in Afghanistan. Don’t they have the right to at least, show their women the Islamic dress code, like France – Macron is the ruling force in France – they are giving the right to tell the people what to wear and what not to wear.”
The Taliban can indeed force Afghan women to wear the hijab. Who can possibly stop them? However, remember that Karim AbuZaid is in Colorado. When he speaks about how the Taliban are perfectly within their rights to force women to wear the hijab, it is important to remember what that means. The hijab symbolizes the subjugation of women in Islam. Women are required to wear the hijab according to Islamic law because it is their responsibility to remove temptation from men. If men are tempted anyway and they end up being sexually assaulted or raped, it’s their fault.
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gravenimage says
Colorado Imam Thinks It’s Great for Taliban to Force Women to Wear Hijab
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How many more just like Imam Karim AbuZaid here in the west? How many are working to impose just this sort of savagery here?
bill says
This goes all the way back to the Adam and Eve myth which was ‘acquired’ or culturally appropriated (as the woke view now says) by Mohammad from Judaism. Mohammad was not intelligent enough to invent his own religion so he borrowed and blended mainly from Judaism to make his own. The Jews could clearly see that he was mangling their ancient religion for his own ends and that is why they rejected him. Eve tempted Adam (allegedly) and caused his downfall, so all women in the Abrahamic religions are subject to this same myth. Judaism and Christianity have modified this down the centuries, but Islam clings to it hook line and sinker, because it fits their tribal culture and misogyny perfectly.
It is ironic that while many Muslim nations are very slowly becoming more liberal, the rest are going backwards and become more bigoted.
I believe it is true that Saudi Arabia has many women university graduates, I think it will be a long time before there are any such in Afghanistan.
Wellington says
The backward-thinking and even evil which is Islam is making more and more inroads into the civilization which pioneered all sorts of freedom to a far greater extent than any other civilization in history. It represents one of many negatives of Islam, in this particular instance its parasitism (yes, to all willing adult Muslims, I say to you that your religion is a giant parasite; it has been for some 1400 years and you have no excuse for this).
Unless matters change drastically, and soon, the longest-lived and best disguised evil ideology of all time, i.e., Islam, will continue to slowly but inexorably do its best to do away with the best of the West, the very civilization that pioneered liberty as no other civilization remotely has.
P.S. Just want to note once again what a total useful idiot Joe Biden has been, even when he was in possession, “in full measure,” of his mediocre mind. This doofus, this monumental nothing, years ago wanted to lecture Ayaan Hirsi Ali about Islam, a sterling person and one who realizes what Islam intends for all the world and who personally suffered its horrible dictates. But Biden, the Giant Nothing, the Present Puppet, wanted to educate Ayaan Hirsi Ali about Islam. This in microcosm represents what a miserable wretch Biden is. He is a sociopath, and a stupid sociopath at that, and now he is all of this with dementia added to the list.
gravenimage says
+1
Eleanor says
Your words make frightening reading Wellington, but they are so true. I like your parasite analogy – Islam and it’s sidekick, the Woke worshipper, are slowly but surely sucking all the goodness from Western countries, and therefore Western civilisation as a whole.
sidney penny says
Colorado Imam Thinks It’s Great for Taliban to Force Women to Wear Hijab
Should not it be
Colorado Imam Thinks It’s Great for Taliban to Force Women to Wear Burka.
This is what the Taliban did and is doing.
Why aren’t all Muslim women in Colorado not wearing the burka?
Kashyap says
Civilization has taught us to be tolerant. However many of us sane/ ethical humans are responsible for letting these Imams/Mullas flood the world with primitive, anti-humanity idealogy. Letting this continue without a confederated effort from civilized humanity would bring about the ruin of ” human civilization.
James Lincoln says
Kashyap,
You allude to the concept “The Paradox of Tolerance”.
This was a concept advanced by the philosopher Karl Popper which claims that “unlimited tolerance necessarily results in the destruction of the tolerant by the intolerant, resulting in a society in which tolerance is no longer possible.”
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
gravenimage says
Grimly spot on, Kashyap and James.
PRCS says
“The hijab symbolizes the subjugation of women in Islam. Women are required to wear the hijab according to Islamic law because it is their responsibility to remove temptatIion from men. If men are tempted anyway and they end up being sexually assaulted or raped, it’s their fault.”
I disagree with that.
1. Yes, Qur’an 24:31 (the “modesty” verse) does delineate who may see uncovered Muslim women (parents, sons, etc.). But it also permits them to be seen–uncovered–by their slaves and eunuchs, which isn’t exactly subjugation of Muslim women.
2. Qur’an 33:59’s purpose is to distinguish “free, chaste” Muslim women from unbelievers in order to avoid being abused by Muslim men, making that garb an overtly non-verbal expression of Islamic supremacism.
Our “leaders” and so-called journalists must focus on those hateful aspects of hijab and make clear why it deserves no respect here.
gravenimage says
It’s both, PRCS. The veil both marks Muslim women as superior to Infidel women and not subject to being raped by Muslim men, *and* their subjugation to Muslim men in Islam.
Only in Islam could these two ugly but in many ways contradictory aspects exist side by side.
James Lincoln says
I never looked at it quite that way, gravenimage.
Thanks.
gravenimage says
Thank you so much, James.
I have found valuable new perspectives from you, as well, especially re the military and medical issues.
Dumbledore’s Army called the Jihad Watch comments section a valuable “hedge school”, and I think this is a good description. I have learned as much from savvy and experienced posters as from the articles themselves many times.
Liz H. says
The Hijab divides the pristine and elevated muslim woman and the rest of us women. The Hijabi women honestly believes they are superior to us uncovered Kuffar women.
For that reason I refuse any contact with Hijabies, be it at the Hospital or in the Supermarket Check out.
I place great value on The Golden Rule, and respect all who respect me.
revereridesagain says
“If men are tempted anyway and they end up being sexually assaulted or raped, it’s their fault.”
Starting to sound like Texas…
OLD GUY says
Well Colorado has legal weed. Maybe we should provide free weed to muslim migrants to mellow them out. We’ll be giving them everything else they need.
gravenimage says
I don’t think this will work. In France a Muslim blamed his murdering his elderly Jewish neighbor on his smoking weed:
“French judge rules Jewish woman’s killer not responsible because he smoked weed”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/french-judge-rules-jewish-womans-killer-not-responsible-because-he-smoked-weed/
Of course, he murdered because of Islam, not because he was toking up.
Walter Sieruk says
About the Taliban with their vicious Islamic misogyny forcing women to wear the hijab is rather “mild” when compared to the other Qu ‘ran and hadith teachings and practices which are every anti-female.
Such as FGM and “honor killing.” Talk about terribly contradicting terms , the term that’s the most outrageous one of them all.
For example, back just before the Taliban lost power a mullah raped a three year old girl and the Taliban intended to put to death the three year old child who was raped in a so called “honor killing ” but they didn’t even consider to putting to death that vile mullah who raped her.
That unjust ,unfair evil and madness all in one. The Bible informs its reader that “Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent—the Lord detests them both. Proverbs 17 : 15. [N.I.V.]
Just think about the horror and demonic wickedness of it all. This is the same Taliban that had just taken over Afghanistan last month. All because of the evil man, Joe Biden.