In Iran, women are dying for the freedom not to wear the hijab. And in the Smethwick area of Birmingham, witless Leftists are celebrating the symbol of their oppression.
Back on Sept. 16, 2022, in Tehran, the Iranian morality police arrested Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, for not wearing her hijab properly. Amini later died in a hospital in Tehran, and numerous Iranians charged that she had been tortured to death while in custody. All over the country, protesters took to the streets to protest not against the hijab laws, but against the repressive and brutal Islamic Republic itself. Other women, and male protesters as well, were killed as the Iranian regime ruthlessly applied the Qur’anic injunction to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (8:60). The protests went on for months until the regime began summarily executing protesters, and even then some indomitably courageous Iranians continued to take to the streets to demand their freedom.
It is against that backdrop that this statue will be set in place. For innumerable women in Iran, the hijab is the most visible sign of their second-class status, and of the brutality of the regime that will imprison them for years or even kill them outright for daring to venture out in public without wearing it. And now that symbol of oppression is being celebrated in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain.
Meanwhile, none of the women who have been brutalized or even killed for not wearing the hijab are getting a statue in Smethwick. Aqsa Parvez’s Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it. Amina Muse Ali was a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab. Forty women were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab. Alya Al-Safar’s Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain. Amira Osman Hamid faced whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab.
An Egyptian girl, also named Amira, committed suicide after being brutalized by her family for refusing to wear the hijab. Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South Australia were told they had to wear the hijab or be fired. Police shot women in Chechnya with paintballs because they weren’t wearing hijab. Other women in Chechnya were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab.
Elementary school teachers in Tunisia were threatened with death for not wearing hijab. Syrian schoolgirls were forbidden to go to school unless they wore hijab. Women in Gaza were forced by Hamas to wear hijab. Women in London were threatened with murder by Muslim thugs if they didn’t wear hijab. An anonymous young Muslim woman doffed her hijab outside her home and started living a double life in fear of her parents. Fifteen girls in Saudi Arabia were killed when the religious police wouldn’t let them leave their burning school building because they had taken off their hijabs in their all-female environment. A girl in Italy had her head shaved by her mother for not wearing hijab. Other women and girls have been killed or threatened, or live in fear for daring not to wear the hijab. And now Britain is celebrating the symbol of their oppression.
“Sculpture celebrating women who wear hijab to be installed,” by Callum Parke, Independent, September 18, 2023:
A new sculpture believed to be the first of its kind in the world will be unveiled next month to celebrate women who wear hijabs.
The Strength of the Hijab was designed by renowned sculptor Luke Perry and will be installed in the Smethwick area of Birmingham in October.
It is believed to be the first sculpture in the world of a woman wearing the head covering, worn by many Muslim women.
The sculpture is five metres tall and weighs around a tonne.
Mr Perry said: “The Strength of the Hijab is a piece which represents women who wear hijabs of the Islamic faith, and it’s really there because it’s such an underrepresented part of our community, but such an important one….
Goofy says
I suppose that the statue comes with Quranic information about the dignity of women, including that they are destined to hell (or if they are lucky to become sex slaves for a devout Muslim male in his paradise) because they bleed every month and are intellectually inferior to men!
It must be added that women are the property of men demonstrated by the Islamic interpretation of the Old ‘I “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” principle.
If a Muslim causes the death of one of another Muslim’s wives there is no punishment of the killer apart from the economic loss that he will incur when the “widower” as compensation will kill one of his wives who of course has nothing to do with the initial death!
Surely the post Christian politically correct world finds it appropriate to celebrate this “Abrahamic religion” which has nothing to do with Abraham.
somehistory says
All True, Goofy, but those Truths won’t be included with the statue.
Hindu American says
The ultimate low for a nation that had once set out to conquer and dominate the world. But, to be honest, I do not feel sorry for the British. You reap what you sow. Karmic justice.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I see where you’re coming from, but in all fairness, White working-class girls in England who were serially raped over decades had nothing to do w/ the likes of William Bentinck or Lord Minto (the 2 EIC governor-generals who destroyed the Sikh & the Maratha empires in the 19th century). If anything, the successive failures of “Indo”-Brits like Priti Patel, Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman makes Indo-Brits look like they are incredibly incompetent. Combine that w/ Modi’s failure, or refusal (depending on how you look at it), and Indians look very poorly equipped for the job of confronting islamic supremacy anywhere, be it in UK or India
Hoi Polloi says
Exactly; if only those who initiated the confrontations paid. Instead, it’s untold young UK girls thrown as raw meat to those savages, all by the same government gangsters a century later.
Michael Copeland says
Memo to the sculptor, Luke Perry:
Muslims are instructed in the mosques that they are NOT “part of our community”.
Muslims are separate, instructed to bear “between us and you enmity and hatred forever” (K. 60:4)
Hindu American says
Islam specifically prohibits drawing images and erecting statues of humans, especially of peace-loving muslimas. There are many hadiths that testify to this. I fear for the sculptor’s well-being.
This is Britain’s another D’oh! moment.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
You beat me to it! Sculptures are idols, and haram in islam!
Keith O says
I had basically the same thought.
Simply one more statue that has to be destroyed when sharia fully takes over.
somehistory says
True, Michael, as they have their own “mozlum community,” which they whine about being afraid when some one of their “community” commits terror.
Kevin B says
Sadomasochist dhimmi Perry overwhelmed by a strange sens of artistic righteousness!
somehistory says
Why didn’t he just go whole-hog and make her wear the all-covering thingy…only the eyes showing behind a screen, so they aren’t really seen?
“Underrepresented”….only if the U.K. is a mozlum nation such as afghanistan, pakistan, iran, etc. Not to worry, mr idiot; it will be there soon…..very soon.
Then even the baby girls whose parents are of another faith, will be required to cover-up from head to toe.
Jimbo says
I thought representational art in Islam is Haram. I’m going to tell everyone that the Labour Party put up a statue of Allah the moon god.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
You can do better: tell them that Labour has put up a statue of Muhammad. It’ll be fun watching Labour politicians hunted down like animals
Hudders. says
What an eyesore and a silly waste of money & space.
Why not sculptures of goats, or little made up boys for example Mr Perry if you really want to represent islam?
Pehaps a woman having the skin flogged off her back?
Or maybe someone with their head being chopped off?
This statue is yet another example, that the islamic infestation continues to gain ground at an ever increasing poisonous pace, in many towns & cities of the UK today.
This off the back of 5 councils accepting blasphemy law definitions recently.
(Which has been so scarecly reported it’s criminal!)
Like islam, this statue is a giant pille of dung; so maybe it is a good representation after all?
somehistory says
Re: blasphemy law
https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2023/09/eleven-countries-have-introduced-blasphemy-laws-since-2020
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/09/20/britains-hidden-blasphemy-laws/
Ms. Braverman says there is ‘no place’ for these in Great Britain. she says ‘no one has a right not to be offended.”
the former blasphemy laws in that nation were abolished in ’08
The Telegraph, for which I would have to pay to read, has an article on the fact that ‘islam is protected while Christians are chased from public life.’
If a statue offends mozlums, it will be torn down by these people who are appeasing them.
somehistory says
As a side note, 95 countries have blasphemy laws.
Goofy says
If any of the 95 countries with blasphemy laws are not Muslim, have they ever tried Islamic Scripture for being blasphemous of Christianity and our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I’m fine w/ blasphemy laws existing. After all, muslims have ensured that they de-facto exist in that anybody who dares say anything negative about Muhammad would be intimidated, threatened, get cancelled & so on, w/ the result that no one dares “blaspheme” Muhammad*. End result is that people feel free to mock Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, et al, but don’t dare say a word against islam
So it makes sense to have blasphemy laws against all the mainstream recognized religions. Heck, I’ll even toss in Rastafarianism and Scientology into that protected pile. Now, that way, when muslims come out denouncing Christ or mocking Hindu deities, the book can be thrown at them. And should be!
*Blasphemy only applies to adherents of a faith. If you were to hypothetically say that you didn’t believe in Christ, that would be blasphemy since you are a Christian. If I said the same thing, it would not be, since I’m not one. Similarly, if either of us say that we don’t believe in Muhammad, it’s not blasphemy, since neither of us follow islam
somehistory says
The un has a resolution that says freedom of expression includes speaking about religion, but mozlums want that to change and eliminate speech they don’t like and they are winning in a lot of places.
And they will still say anything they want about others, while demanding death for us.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s horrible and ignorante foolish of those specfic British who feel that it’s a good idea to erect sculpture to celebrate girls and women who wear the hijab .
For the hijab is not just a garment symble of the brutal cruel opressive misogyny of Islam
Many women in Islamic nations wear in only under the pressure of extreme duress., as wanting not being brutally killed As absurd in some lands as Afghanistan and the Islamic terror state of Iran.
A terrible number of Muslim men , because of the malicious and vicious misogyny even have murdered daughters and sisters for not wearing the hijab in what they so inappropriately call and ‘honor killing.”
Furthermore, Sharia supports and upholds the female, both girls and women wear the hijab.
Related to this , 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.
Therefore Sharia is of no value or worth
Aum says
Birmingham council has this week been declared bankrupt – shows its priorities!.
Hoi Polloi says
Maybe it will crumble under the weight of its own hypocrisy, like the Merkel equestrian lunacy.
SB1234 says
Isn’t Birmingham bankrupt who is paying for this statue, if it the government, then the tax payers must stop this.
If it is private good luck UK, you are well on your way to becoming an Islamic kingdom (IK) instead of UK
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I still call it the UK, as in Ummah Kalifate
M. J. Tysoe says
This is perfect…as a war memorial. What it’s missing is the plaque listing the names of all the women who have been denied an education, locked in a burning building and left to die, been beaten up, had acid thrown in their faces, been mutilated and imprisoned and tortured and strangled and killed, for refusing to wear hijab or even because their hijab wasn’t just exactly rightly worn to cover up every strand of that evil hair the sight of which turns strong brave Muslim men into puerile, licentious you-know-whats. Trouble is, that plaque would of necessity be far, far taller than Perry’s monstrous hunk of misused metal.