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There’s tone-deaf, and then there’s far-Left Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson. Women are putting their lives on the line for the freedom not to wear hijab in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Fernandes Anderson has come up with a novel way to honor them. She has proposed that Boston observe the birthday of Mahsa Amini, who was killed by Iranian security forces for not wearing her hijab properly, as Hijab Day. Yes, really.
According to a Sunday report in The Jerusalem Post, Fernandes Anderson, who is a hijab-wearing Sunni Muslim herself, “put forward a resolution … late last week, suggesting that Mahsa Amini’s birthday, September 23, should be recognized as Boston’s official Hijab Day, according to the official City of Boston.” Not surprisingly, Anderson’s proposal “has sparked considerable outrage.”
But Fernandes Anderson explains that it’s all about — what else? — “her worries regarding the rise of Islamophobia that surrounds hijab-wearing women in the US.” On Thursday, she explained before Boston’s City Council that she was actually in favor of the protestors: “For the past few weeks, people of good conscience a month or so from around the world have joined in the protest, the thousands across Iran demanding justice for Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died after three days in custody of Iran’s notorious morality police after being accused of not properly covering her hair.” Yet despite admitting this, Anderson decided that the best way to honor these “people of conscience” was to celebrate the very symbol of their oppression that they’re rebelling against.
“These protests in the heart of Iran,” Fernandes Anderson continued, “have featured brave women burning their scarves and cutting their hair in the face of arrest, abuse, and in some cases, even death to show their solidarity with Amini’s family and their will for freedoms and access to a joyful life absence of suppression from an oppressive state.” That’s where Anderson came to her central point. It’s all about fighting against suppression from an oppressive state, you see. Apparently, she would have us believe that women who wear hijab in the United States are just as persecuted and oppressed as women who don’t wear hijab in Iran, and so the best way to honor Mahsa Amini is to celebrate what she died trying to get away from.
Fernandes Anderson emphasized that what she had in common with Mahsa Amini was that both were exercising their free choice: “I, an African woman, wear my scarf and put it in a bun. It’s simple. Mahsa Amini said, ‘I’ll just wrap it around. It’s not a big deal, it’s just a scarf.’ You see, whether I wear it or I don’t, it’s my choice.”
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mg says
Why is it that Leftists always gravitate to projection, and the unbearably fixed, tenaciously stupid position demonstrating what bottom feeding represents.
mg says
It is instructive to note that she cares not a whit about what the torture and death actually meant. To not care, to not have the sense and sensibility to even understand this tyranny and to invert it into her own self deception shows how vapid and uncaring she is capable of being, and becoming.
notoislam says
The leftists gravitate because the moslems are very proficient at projection!
they are Nazisilamists and at the bottom of the heap. Noone cares a whit about them either!Why we allow islam (Nazi-islam ) in the USA I do not know but hate their ideas just as much.
CogitoErgoSum says
I think it must be true that you just can’t fix stupid.
Raja says
Just ignore stupid,
Proverbs 26:8 Like one who binds a stone in a sling, So is he who gives honor to a fool.
Mark Spahn says
Hi, Raja. The slogan you quote says, “Someone who gives honor to a fool is like someone who binds a stone in a sling.” Please explain what this means. Even literally, I don’t understand it. A sling is a loop with a pouch for holding a projectile (stone) to be flung at a target when the sling is whirled around the thrower’s head and is then released. What does it mean to “bind” a stone in a sling?
mg says
“…He who gives honor to a fool is as binding a stone in a slingshot.
in a slingshot: Heb. במרגמה fronde in French, Schleuder in German, in which the stone tied will not remain, for it is destined to be thrown, so is it with one who gives honor to a fool-it is not permanent…..” It is as if the honor is worthless, as it will fly away and be bound to nothing…..
Raja says
Mark Spahn,
Please give me about 15 minutes, I will get back with the answer…
Thank you
Raja says
Mark Spahn,
This proverb under consideration has to be read with verses 6-9 of the same chapter.
I think the answer of mg is self-explanatory. Nevertheless, it can be summed up as:
Fools are not fit to be trusted, nor to have any honor. Wise sayings, as a foolish man delivers and applies them, lose their usefulness.
Hope this answers your query.
The book of Proverbs in the bible is pretty interesting, as it shows us how God deals with man without affecting his freedom and the Laws of nature or how God operates in this fallen world.
Thank you,
gravenimage says
Alas, Raja, those like Tania Anderson cannot just be ignored–as a member of the Boston City Council she has quite a bit of power. I’m glad she was challenged here and not ignored.
Rarely says
Yup. It’s Fall — the nuts are beginning to fall from the trees.
Wellington says
Yup, and they are almost all Democrats.
somehistory says
Okay, it must be stated: the so-called “hee job” is a sign of submission to slavery to a false god and a fake, maybe never having existed except in the putrid brains of thugs a so-called ‘prophet.’ ..This head rag is saying, ‘don’t rape me, rape her.’ this ugly piece of cloth is saying “I’m better than the rest of you, you filthy infidels.”
An increase in the females who put it on in the U.S. is an increase in telling the rest of us that they wish us all dead. A corresponding level of “fear” of being killed by some shouting creepy slime for not other reason than being alive and breathing air, should be no surprise.
If only there could be an increase in the knowledge that mozlums want us dead, and they practice evil things on their own familes.
Raja says
These Leftists cannot tolerate any good that happens around the globe. Sanity, order, tolerance, human rights, resistance to evil and similar such virtues are nauseating for Leftists.
James Lincoln says
Raja,
Yes, Leftists love chaos.
Raja says
Thank you, James Lincoln for the reply. May I add a word to your apt reply? They also thrive on chaos.
Fitna says
Anderson’s pulling a “Me Too” by appropriating the victimhood status of women who are actually being beaten, tortured and killed for refusing to wear the dreaded head rag and inverting it’s meaning to imply hijab wearers are victims too.
Right, western cops have been beating/killing hijabed women by the thousands or millions right? What a joke. The sad thing is that there are women in Islamic states who despite being covered up, still get attacked, beaten and killed by sex-starved Muslim men.
The West should help these women in Iran get freedom and the ones who want to live under a rag their whole lives, send them to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Somalia, etc. Actually bring freedom to all these countries and send the Muslims to Antarctica.
Hank says
Where do all these idiots come from? How does a fool like this end up as a City Councilor? The way is now paved for a horse to be installed as a Mayor or even Senator.
The problem these days is that the electorate just votes for the biggest talking-head on the scene without doing due diligence before casting their precious votes. Adding to this is the import of Muslims combined with a post-Judeo-Christian society. The Founding Fathers must be turning in their graves.
somehistory says
In my opinion, some people vote for people such as this idiot because they don’t want the flak that comes if they vote for a sensible person, esp if the sensible person is White.
Some others do because they believe the hogwash the candidate and the crowd of left-leaners, spew.
VictorMc says
You must never ever forget that people ie: in this case Americans VOTE for these brainless morons. (yes, I know they are all over the world.) Including the WH.
PRCS says
“far-Left Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson”
**Islam is NOT a liberal, progressive ideology.
Qur’an 9:29
Sahih International: Fight those who…… do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful
No “practicing” Muslim (which she claims to be) would even consider serving in a system of governance which does exactly that unless that individual is (a) grossly ignorant about sharia or who–like so many of them do–is (b) trying to infuse Islamic law into that system.
To date, have any of these people been asked any question re: Islamic laws which clearly conflict with secular U.S. laws (anti-discrimination laws for example)?
Have they ever been asked during their election campaigns to state why hijab’s hateful primary purpose (Islamic supremacy) should have any place whatsoever in overwhelmingly kafir 21st century America?
gravenimage says
I’d go for (b) in Tania Anderson’s case–trying to spread the horrors of Islam.
Here she is, talking about her Jihad–and claiming that Westerners are wrong that this has anything to do with Jihad terror:
https://sojo.net/articles/tania-fernandes-anderson-s-spiritual-struggle
She ludicrously said she was “scared” of her opponent for bringing up Shari’ah law–and of course sidesteps the question of whether she supports it or not. But this bit of stealth Jihad here shows that she does.
PRCS says
Yes, I had read that weepy Sojourners article, too.
Some other things:
Wants Boston to include Islamic holidays its calendar
Hired her sister and her brother to work at her government office (till busted)
Married a man serving a life sentence for murdering an immigrant
B.S.’d Boston’s City Council with the ‘no compulsion in Islam’ line without noting (a) that means no forced ‘reversion’s (b) leaving ‘the faith’ is punishable by death (c) she’s supposed to FIGHT those who permit what Muhammad and his sock puppet Big Al have prohibited (like making laws which promote gay rights).
Wears hijab because Qur’an commands it, but hides behind U.S. law (it’s my right to wear it or not) while Iranian women have no such protection
Truly not surprised the Bostonions voted her into office. What’s not to like!
gravenimage says
Thanks for all that additional information, PRCS. Appalling stuff.
gershompesach says
Tania is the perfect 1984 denizen—she not only can say 2+2=5—but she believes!!!
Walter Sieruk says
First, that leftist hijab wearing politician is a other people in left-wing .Islamic alliance is in a state of mental denial that the hijab is a symbol of Islam’s brutal and harsh oppression of women.
Second, this called for a reiteration of the cruel oppressive misogynistic as well as murderous tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran is based on Sharia denies basic human rights is viciously harsh on all people, especially girls and women.
Furthermore, it should be made known that the actual origin of Sharia is revealed in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995. The point is this what an outright liar Rasis is, for he said that he is “a defender of human rights.” For that future history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” . page 150.
There are the above and other references imply that such pagan teachings were incorporated into the religion that Muhammad manufactured and then started. Thus, this further reveal that a lot of ancient paganism is part of the whole religion of Islam.
In other words, ancient paganism makes up much of Islam and it’s a hoax. Therefore, the Islamic “republic” of Iran is based in Islam and Sharia has its entire foundation build on a hoax.
gravenimage says
Leftist Hijab-Wearing Boston Politician Tries to Hijack Iran’s Anti-Hijab Protests
There’s tone-deaf, and then there’s far-Left Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson. Women are putting their lives on the line for the freedom not to wear hijab in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Fernandes Anderson has come up with a novel way to honor them. She has proposed that Boston observe the birthday of Mahsa Amini, who was killed by Iranian security forces for not wearing her hijab properly, as Hijab Day. Yes, really.
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With all respect, I don’t think this is tone deaf–I think this is *brazen*, and she wants to push the spread of Isla any way she can. Tania Anderson–I wonder what her Muslim name is?–assumed she could get this by the woke Boston City Council. But this was, thankfully, recognized as a step too far
Really, this is *so* perverse–like naming Sophie Scholl’s birthday “Swastika Day”.
Walter Sieruk says
Not actually wanting to get too far off the main topic if the jihadwatch article , Nevertheless, just today !0/26 /22 I have been banned from posting of Facebook for three days because looking at a picture of John Fetterman I keyboard a three word commit about him . It was “What acoon !”
Facebook labeled it “hate speech” therefore it was in violation of their “Community Standards ”
My comment wasn’t so real “hate speech” but a rather a fitting choice of words based a clear observation of him. Come on , just look at that guy.
gravenimage says
Walter, this is a bit odd. The term “coon” is usually used as a racial slur against black people. I’m not sure what you were going for using the term here.
gravenimage says
Walter, I saw on another thread that you actually called Fetterman a “goon”, not a “coon”. This makes a lot more sense.
I think calling him a goon is pretty accurate.