Australian Senator Pauline Hanson “slammed feminists as ‘pathetic’ for not supporting a ban on the burqa.” The burqa has been banned in various countries on security grounds, or because it is inconsistent with Western values; sometimes it’s banned for both reasons. These countries have banned the burqa: France, Austria, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria, China, Tajikistan, […]
Muslim blogger: Western democracies “trying to disempower Muslim women”
The American founder of the world’s most popular online magazine for Muslim women says Pauline Hanson’s recent burka “stunt” is symptomatic of Western democracies trying to disempower Muslim women and “look at them in an inferior lens”. A little background on Pauline Hanson’s “stunt”: Senator Hanson shocked her colleagues when she entered Question Time wearing […]
Australia: Muslim leader likens counterjihad Senator to ISIS, blames her for pig’s head at Islamic college
This is a common tactic. Anytime an “anti-Muslim hate crime” is committed, real or fake, Muslim and Leftist leaders place the blame on foes of jihad terror and their supposed “demonization of Muslims.” The goal is to silence all criticism of Islam and Muslims, including examination of how jihadis use Islamic texts and teachings to […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: One Minute and 33 Seconds, Or Pauline Hanson Ill-Prepared
Pauline Hanson, the Australian politician and leader of the One Nation Party, two days ago called for a referendum to change her country’s Constitution, so that section 116 of that document, which prohibits banning a religion, might be scrapped, in order that Islam might then be prohibited. For Hanson claimed, as she has so many […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: What’s Up Down Under
Pauline Hanson is a well-known political figure in Australia whose general anti-immigrant stance has recently become much more focused on Muslim immigration. After years in the political wilderness, on July 2 Hanson was elected, as a Senator, to the Australian Parliament. This has greatly alarmed Muslims and their apologists. The comments on her unexpected victory […]