“Together with authorities, we recognized that there were non-Muslims and badly intentioned people making use of the veil to carry out unauthorized acts.” Oh, and Islamic jihad mass murderers. “Congo Republic bans full-face veil for security reasons,” Reuters, May 2, 2015: (Reuters) – Authorities in Congo Republic will impose a ban on wearing the full-face […]
Islamic State disfigures 15 women with acid for not wearing niqab
The Qur’an directs men to beat women from whom they “fear disobedience.” We have seen women who don’t abide by Sharia restrictions disfigured with acid in Pakistan and elsewhere. This is just one more manifestation of the empire of fear that Sharia creates: virtue is enforced by terror, which means that it isn’t really virtue […]
Muslim cleric gets death threats after wife appears with him on TV without face veil
Al-Ghamdi is actually correct when he says: “No one is saying that it is not allowed for a woman to cover her face, but I am saying that it is not obligatory and I have evidence in jurisprudence of this.” A hadith has Aisha recount that Muhammad said to a woman: “‘O Asma’, when a […]
Yemen kills ‘al-Qaeda militants disguised as veiled women’
It’s blazingly obvious that this garb can be and has been used to conceal wanted criminals and commit crimes. But to ban it in the West would be “Islamophobic.” “Yemen kills ‘al-Qaeda militants disguised as veiled women,’” BBC, December 13, 2014 (thanks to Ali): Several suspected al-Qaeda militants, disguised as fully veiled women, have reportedly […]
Islamophobes urge Canadian government to ban burqas, niqabs in public — no, wait…
Actually it was a Canadian Muslim group — a group that knows full well what these garments mean for the subjugation of women. But our enlightened multicultural Western governments know better, of course. “Muslim group urges gov’t to ban burkas, niqabs in public,” from The Canadian Press, October 7 (thanks to Maxwell): TORONTO — Middle […]