My latest in PJ Media:
Tuesday, Feb. 1 is No Hijab Day. The courageous Iranian-American human rights activist Masih Alinejad tweeted a video of a woman in Iran with the comment: “She has a message for World Hijab Day: ‘We don’t want hijab day, we want #NoHijabDay. Hijab is a weapon used to arrest women and throw them in jail. To punish them for no reason.’ Walking unveiled in Iran, women can get arrested, lashed and imprisoned. #LetUsTalk #FreeFromHijab”
This is true: women in Iran for years now have been protesting against the Islamic regime by daring to take off their hijabs, despite the fact that they face heavy prison sentences for doing so. In the U.S., feminists have been donning hijabs in solidarity with Muslim women who are supposedly oppressed (by those fictional but omnipresent MAGA-hat-wearing thugs) for wearing the headscarf here; World Hijab Day, which has been going on for several years now, is celebrated on Tuesday, Feb. 1. But now on the same day, Alinejad and others are making a genuine stand for freedom and proclaiming No Hijab Day.
The irony behind the feminists’ virtue-signaling is that many, if not most, of the most celebrated cases claiming the harassment of women and girls wearing hijab turned out to have been faked by the victims themselves. In one such incident, an eleven-year-old girl in Toronto made international headlines with her claim that a man had followed her and cut her hijab with scissors. After an investigation, police concluded that the attack never happened. Likewise, Yasmin Seweid, a Muslim teen who claimed in Dec. 2016 that Trump supporters on a New York subway tore off her hijab and no one in the packed subway car helped her. She, too, gained international media attention, and she, too, made up the whole thing.
Shortly before that, a hijab-wearing Muslim student at San Diego State University also falsely claimed that she was assaulted by Trump supporters. In July 2017, a Muslim in Britain falsely claimed that a man had pulled off her hijab in a “race hate attack.” In Nov. 2016, a University of Michigan Muslim student claimed she was “accosted by a white man who told her to remove her hijab or he would set her ablaze with a cigarette lighter.” She also fabricated the whole event. And there are many others of this kind, but the World Hijab Day feminists, of course, have taken no notice.
Nor have they ever acknowledged the manifest fact that 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. Because the hijab is an important part of a woman’s responsibility under Sharia, many women have been brutalized and even killed for not wearing it.
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Barbara says
Everyone who thinks wearing a hijab should wear one for a week. Find out what it is like to wear a prison cell. Find out how it feels to disappear and feel like you do not exist.
gravenimage says
Strike A Blow For Freedom: Celebrate No Hijab Day
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It’s No Hijab Day! I am celebrating by wearing my waist-length hair free of any scarf, Hijab, Chador, Niqab, or Burqa.
As I do every day, in fact.
James Lincoln says
Good for you, gravenimage!
gravenimage says
🙂
Alfredo says
Just like Islamophobia. It is so rare that they have to invent cases. That despite the narrative propagated by the Brotherhood linked associations like CAIR and that obnoxious woman, Ilham Omar.
The real elephant in the room is the rampant and too often murderous Anti-semitic and Anti-Cristian attacks in Muslim countries such as Pakistan, Iran, Nigeria, Bengladesh, and the list is very long indeed.
And last but not list is the rampant mysogeny in Muslim countries. Where women are second class citizens countries like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan etc. All Muslim countries.
Where are those Feminists then? They are nowhere to be found. Because they are more interested in virtue signalling that real virtue. That, they’re not interested in, because that demands real, honest effort.
Therefore we don’t see much of the real virtue from the noisy Feminoids.
Instead we see phony Islamophobia, phony HijabDay. That is called progressive by the virtue signallers.
But in reality phony virtue signalling such as HijabDay, is another attempt by the purveyors of lies to shove down people’s throats the so-called religion of peace. All phoney baloney.
abu taleb says
There must be a lot more cases of women are forced to wear hijab than women are not allowed to wear hijab. Those who are “supporting” only one side are hypocrites.
Hank says
I hear through the grapevine that many Muslim women hate the hijab and want to throw it away. The problem is that Muslims spy on each other. Even in a classroom setting a Muslim girl who does not wear it will be reported to parents by Muslim classmates or cousins in the classroom that are deliberately placed there at the request of Muslim parents to keep them in check.
I am 100 percent sure that Islam would have collapsed a long time ago if Mr. Mohammed had not dictated the murder of Muslims who want to convert out of the darkness of Islam.
European pagan says
For me every day is no hijab day 😁
James Lincoln says
So will all muslimas in Western nations take off their hijab – for a least one day – in order to prove that it is a choice?
Will Ilhan Omar start the process?
somehistory says
James,
I will not be holding my breath, waiting to see. How about you? She may be bald by now.
Ever see a man who wears a ballcap all of his life? it rubs the hair right off after some time.
Perhaps, i.elmi has no hair.
libertyORdeath says
Just watched a tv segment about a sign posted by Colorado State University that offered “counseling” options for students “hurt” by the first amendment. In it, freedom of speech is categorized as a “bug, not a feature” if our democracy.
The indoctrination and brainwashing has reached epic proportions. If we don’t fight back with EVERYTHING we have, we will lose the most important freedom we have, the one that gives us every other freedom we take for granted.
somehistory says
The sign utilized “the First Amendment” to say this nonsense. If not for the “feature” they would not have had the freedom to claim it is a “bug.”
There is no logic in islam and those who promote it, are twisted in their brains.