Under the hashtag #StrongInHijab, Islamic supremacists and their willing gophers on the left — middle-class Western feminists — instituted “World Hijab Day” yesterday. In one of the most pathetic and destructive displays of virtue signalling, non-Muslim women were urged to wear the garment of oppression, subjugation and misogyny. While women are fighting and dying for their most basic rights, left-wing goons are working to impose the misogyny of the sharia.
No cares if you wear the hijab. No one cares if you wear purple hair, for that matter. The real world recognition day should be in tribute to women who are forced to wear the hijab, beaten and/or arrested if they don’t. World Hijab Day is a stunning indictment of the hypocrisy of the evil left as much as choosing the sharia-promoting, forced marriage advocate Linda Sarsour for their leader. The real “feminists” are fighting for a fraction, a sliver of the freedoms their Western “sisters” enjoy. One campaign fighting against the enforced hijab in Iran set up by Ms Alinejad is My Stealthy Freedom. It is “dedicated to Iranian women inside the country who want to share their ‘stealthily’ taken photos without the veil,” and aims to be a “living archive” of their fight.
As David Kurten points out, punishments for removing a hijab can be brutal – Islamic regimes are known to physically beat women for non-compliance with their dress codes. This is true not only in the Middle East, but increasingly on a local level in the West.
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A brave headteacher in a London primary school recently took action to ban children under 8 from wearing hijabs in her school. The school is in an area of east London which has undergone almost total population replacement from white working-class 50 years ago to mostly people of Bangladeshi and Pakistani Muslim origin today. The response of the local community was to organize a campaign of intimidation against her until she backed down.
Remember: this is the country the Democrats are fighting for, opposing President Trump’s efforts to stop them from nuclear arming.
Tehran cracks down on hijab protesters: Police arrest 29 women for appearing in public without a headscarf and accuse ‘foreigners’ of inciting calls to ban the compulsory Islamic dress code
Some 29 women arrested for taking off their hijab in public in Tehran, Iran
Police are cracking down on protests, imposing large bails on women arrested
Vida Movahed, whose protest went viral, was held in a Tehran jail for a month
Women are protesting the compulsory headscarf, which is religious law in Iran
By Sara Malm For Mailonline, 2 February 2018:
Tehran police have arrested 29 women for appearing in public without a headscarf as protests against the dress code in force since the Islamic revolution of 1979 intensify, Iranian media reported Friday.
Those arrested were accused of public order offences and referred to the state prosecutor’s office, Iranian nnews agencies reported without elaborating.
Chief prosecutor Mohammad Jafar Montazeri had played down the escalating protests on Wednesday, saying they were ‘trivial’ and ‘childish’ moves possibly incited by foreigners.
The original: Vida Movahed, 31, was arrested after taking off her hijab in public and standing on a telecoms box in Tehran in December – inspiring others to do the same
Unprecedented images more than a dozen women of protesting the same way had been widely shared on social media.
Montazeri said those flouting ‘hijab’ rules – which require headscarves and modest clothing – must have been encouraged by outsiders.
But even religiously conservative Iranians have voiced support for the protests, with many saying that religious rules should be a personal choice.
At least two photos shared on Twitter on Wednesday showed women in traditional black chador robes, standing on pillar box with signs supporting freedom of choice for women.
One held a sign reading: ‘I love my hijab but I’m against compulsory hijab.
On Monday, a woman named locally as Nargess Hosseini, was arrested after standing on an electricity box in central Tehran, waving her head scarf in front of her.
Journalist and campaigner Masih Alinejad, the founder of the White Wednesdays and My Stealthy Freedom movements, which fights the compulsory hijab in Iran, has claimed that Ms Hosseini’s bail has been set at a record-high level to detain others from protesting.
‘While the law imposes a maximum of $12 or two months of jail time, the court has recently asked for a bail of $125,000 to release one of the newly detained women,’ Ms Alinejad tweeted Thursday.
A prominent human rights lawyer told AFP on Tuesday that one of the detained women had her bail set at more than $100,000 (80,000 euros).
Ms Hosseini was copying the brave stance of Vida Movahed, a 31-year-old mother-of-one whose protest and subsequent arrest a month ago is thought to have started the movement.
A video showing her calmly waving her white hijab tied to a stick above the crowds in the Iranian capital, went viral on social media.
Ms Movahed, who became known as The Girl In Enghelab Street, was released over the weekend, after spending a month in custody with her 20-month-daughter.
eing brave: Another Iranian woman with bright turquoise hair has taken off her head scarf and holds it out while standing in silence
A young woman filmed during her protest revealed that she was encouraged by passersby, who later helped her and stopped police from arresting her
Two for one: Two young women are seen holding out their headscarves at an unknown location in Iran this week
Copying: A woman as an unidentified street in Iran holds her white hijab out on a stick, mimicking the stance of Ms Movahed in solidarity and to protest enforced headscarves
Thousands of social media users shared messages of support after her disappearance, dubbing her the ‘Girl of Enghelab Street’ after the area in central Tehran where she staged the protest.
Iranian activists started a Twitter campaign using the hashtag #WhereIsShe, demanding that the government reveal what happened to her.
The campaign eventually went global both on and offline, with protesters at the recent Women’s March in the U.S. waving placards with the slogan.
Ms Movahed was protesting Iran’s Islamic law, which requires women to wear a headscarf and long clothes that cover the arms and legs.
The Islamic dress code, in place since the 1979 revolution, considers veiling obligatory for any female above 13 in Iran and says they should cover themselves from head to toe while disavowing any figure-hugging dress.
Breaking the rules can result in fines of up to 500,000 rials (£17) and up to two months in prison.
An unidentified woman stands on a snowy street holding her headscarf in the air using a stick
All for one: A woman stands on a concrete bench holding out her hijab as other women, with their heads covered, walk past behind her
The 31-year-old was praised after a video of her protest went viral on social media, but she was reportedly arrested shortly afterwards
A young woman filmed during her protest revealed that she was encouraged by passersby, who later helped her and stopped police from arresting her
Two for one: Two young women are seen holding out their headscarves at an unknown location in Iran this week
Copying: A woman as an unidentified street in Iran holds her white hijab out on a stick, mimicking the stance of Ms Movahed in solidarity and to protest enforced headscarves
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Join the force: After initially being shared by human rights campaigners in Iran, the fight to find out the fate of the Girl of Enghelab Street went global
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Support: Two participants in the Women’s March in Boston, US hold up placards with the campaign slogan
Reformist lawmaker Soheila Jelodarzadeh said the protests were a reaction to the harsh policies of the past.
‘Once upon a time we imposed restriction on women and put them under unnecessary pressure and that provoked these protests with women taking off their headscarves in the streets,’ she told ILNA.
‘It’s the result of our mistakes.’
President Hassan Rouhani, who came to power in 2013 promising a more moderate stance, has previously said it is not the job of police to enforce religious rules such as those forcing women to cover their hair.
But in April 2016, officials said there were 7,000 undercover morality police reporting on things like ‘bad hijab’ – a blanket term usually referring to un-Islamic dress by women.
Figures are rarely given, but Tehran’s traffic police said in late 2015 they had dealt with 40,000 cases of bad hijab in cars, where women often let their headscarves drop around their necks.
These cases generally led to fines and a temporary impounding of the vehicle.
The Girl of Enghelab Street: What she stood for
The woman who took her hijab off in public and waved it like a white flag in central Tehran, was protesting the Islamic dress code enforced on women in Iran.
The woman, reportedly a 31-year-old mother, broke the law by exposing her hair in public, risking arrest and fines.
The Girl of Enghelab Street, nicknamed so because of the name of the road where she took her head-scarf off in protest, has spurred many other women in Iran to do the same.
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Missing: The unnamed woman was taking part in a women’s movement called White Wednesdays, which protests the enforcing of strict Islamic dress codes in Iran
Since her protest on December 27, she has become a symbol for Iranian women’s fight against compulsory hijab, with many sharing the video of her protest on social media and illustrations of her brave stand.
She has become the ‘poster child’ for the White Wednesdays movement, which encourages Iranian women and those who support their plight to take off their hijab, and was started by journalist and campaigner Masih Alinejad.
White is one of the most common colours of headscarves in Iran, which only allows ‘modest’ shades such as white, brown or black.
Another campaign fighting against the enforced hijab in Iran set up by Ms Alinejad is My Stealthy Freedom.
It is ‘dedicated to Iranian women inside the country who want to share their “stealthily” taken photos without the veil’, and aim to be a ‘living archive’ of their fight.
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Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
western feminists are on the wrong side of history, as is the case with these gynosaurs who are trying to keep women under control and oppression. The primitive feminists who are supporting islamic patriarchy through their supports of the hijab are a disgrace to the concept of women rights. Real feminists are found in iran, submissive grovelling snivelling hand maids to patriarchy are found all over wester europe and the United States.
Thorsten
6 years ago
… so-called Western ‘feminists’ … as the big & well known sweet company (germoney) & fascists Katjes
… which has blocked me today on FB (only for quoting fascist allah) in causa: new marketing video of its PRAISED hijab woman & “All(!!) Veggie’ (no pork gelatin also for UNbelievers – with gelatin taste better to me – good for the joints – Veggie no.1 Steve Jobs died on cancer!!) https://www.instagram.com/p/BesW-UoncoS/
caliroxanne
6 years ago
And Western feminists will call Pam Geller “racist” (yes, I know Islam is not a race). Then they’ll march at some rally chanting, “Free free Palestine”
the veil is real women liberation. women say they want a “kind” man who “respect” her. but that’s no true. according to mohammad women need muslim men who take control and tell them what to do
Attractive notion, however hell is an invention of Christianity to frighten people into compliance with the church and take up by Moham. I believe Judaism has no concept of Hell. Moham was a criminal by any definition, a brigand, mass murderer and advocate of eternal warfare against non Muslims, he even made war on other Muslims. Prophets are just people who hear voices (or say they do) it is all in their heads. We regularly get people (mostly men) today who claim to be prophets, only disturbed people follow them. How the foolish pope can see an equivalence between Christianity and Islam is an indication he lacks knowledge of history and
very likely Christianity as well!
Take a cursory glance through the pages of Isaiah, around the last ten or so chapters. You’ll be amazed how wrong you might turn out to be. Do also keep in mind, when the Lord Jesus spoke of eternal fire for those who chose to oppose Him, He was speaking to Jews and gentiles alike. He never started a cult or a sect or a religion. The Jews chose to ban any who proclaimed that Jesus Christ was the Messiah. Christianity is not a different religion. It is what Judaism would’ve been, if the Jews accepted their Messiah.
The Christian concept of hell comes from Judaism. You are not the first person that is ignorant, on that subject. However, it doesn’t take a trip to a Chabad House (I’ve always been fond of Lubavitchers). It is drawn from scripture ….
There are several biblical references to a place called Sheol (cf. Numbers 30, 33). It is described as a region “dark and deep,” “the Pit,” and “the Land of Forgetfulness,” where human beings descend after death. The suggestion is that in the netherworld of Sheol, the deceased, although cut off from God and humankind, live on in some shadowy state of existence.
While this vision of Sheol is rather bleak (setting precedents for later Jewish and Christian ideas of an underground hell) there is generally no concept of judgment or reward and punishment attached to it. In fact, the more pessimistic books of the Bible, such as Ecclesiastes and Job, insist that all of the dead go down to Sheol, whether good or evil, rich or poor, slave or free man (Job 3:11-19).
I had someone explain to me that it’s like a “washing machine”.
The Jewish mystics described a spiritual place called “Gehinnom.” This is usually translated as “Hell”. Your soul is cleansed in Gehinnom is similar to the way our clothes are cleansed in a washing machine.
It’s the Stepford wives in real time. A true case of art imitating life, seeing how islam has been putrefying from day one, 1400 years ago. What a great way to appeal to the base mind by presenting a platform that encourages the man to disregard a womans’ individuality and treat her like a possession. This guys’ assessment of muttandjeffmad is accurate and yet the ” feminists ” and all the ” nasty women ” are gathering behind this crap as though they’ve already undergone the Stepford transformation. I’m so glad that I didn’t major in mathematics, because I can barely keep my head from exploding as it is.
If she deny ‘beat them’ 4:34 … till ‘honor’ killing to allah’SS‘divine law’ (o2.4) 5:48
-> shame on you! The same as praising the swastika!! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v1j4sSl7Gog
Poppey
6 years ago
One of these group of ladies is brave beyond belief, because of what can and does happen to them while being “questioned” in prison. Each is a heroin.
The other group of indulged left wing SJW types are protesting against the freedoms the others would love to have.
The spoilt daughters of the west, are not fit to kiss the feet of the others.
Phil McDonald
6 years ago
SPLC supports putting women in all black and a bag over their head. They are silent on oppressors of women in Islamic regimes. SPLC are partners with Islamic states in their attacks against women who choose freedom over oppression, education over ignorance and self determination over slavery.
I love how the enemedia applies the word “conservative” to muslums — as if Pat Robertson and the mad mullahs, asinine ayatrollahs and insane imams of the world have anything in common.
0349 JAT
6 years ago
Could this be the start of the spring of freedom for the people of iran?
azgirl
6 years ago
It wouldn’t suprise me if Western feminists could easily be faked into celebrating Non-Muslim Cleansing Day… “Have You Been Cleansed Today? Regardless of your religion, if you aren’t a Muslim, then take a shower in a gas chamber today in order to show your support for Islam!”
R. Arandas
6 years ago
The hijab is like cancer to ALL woman around the world. It is both shameful and repulsive that some younger Western women seem to defend it.
If someone, male or female, wants to wear a headscarf .. fine, that’s their business. Forcing someone to wear one, that’s a totally different thing.
Midnattsol
6 years ago
These are the real feminists.
The “feminists” in Europe and the USA are either self hating misogynists (supporting Sharia and even wearing hijabs) or spoiled brats the “metoo” crybabies).
DemocracyRules
6 years ago
How about World Niqab Day
– it could be a relief to see those horrible phony feminists
– covered up
It is a good thing these hijab protests are in Iran and not Canada because those ladies would be chased around by mustached Asian men with scissors.
Jim Austin
6 years ago
Feminism is leftist bait and switch.
The bait is women’s rights, equality, safety, all righteous goals, truly “a standard to which the wise and honest can repair,” to quote George Washington, with opposition largely confined to the ignorant, the bigoted, the malevolent, the incredibly stupid.
Then the left switches 180 degrees to support the very opposite. They ally themselves with a death cult that legitimizes and validates abuse and oppression of women, where the areas they dominate are scenes of female genital mutilations, honor killings, rape, sex slavery, child marriages, wife beating and murder of assertive women. Feminists end up defending and supporting, as in, aiding and abetting, the worst misogynist faction ever to infest this planet.
DemocracyRules
6 years ago
According to Aristotle
– the cycle of tyranny, overthrow, tyranny, overthrow
– is continuous and never-ending
– and it was, until the Framers showed up
The evil iran Regime has been satanic since 1979 when Extreme Left-wing Liberal democrat Jimmy Carter unseated the Shah!!
The evil iran Regime is Anti-Christian and Jewish People / Anti-Israel-Yisrael / Anti-Zionism / Antisemitism / Anti-USA Capitalism and Constitution!!
United We Stand with Israel-Yisrael and our Judeo-Christian Nation United States of America, Divided We FALL!!
Please Pray for the Holy Land of Israel-Yisrael and our Judeo-Christian Nation United States of America and our Christian Earth Everyday!! “Pray Without Ceasing.” ( 1 Thessalonians 5:17 KJV )!!
There is a theory that the pope created islam to capture Jerusalem, so he could take if from them peacefully and then proclaim himself to be the messiah. You know, the guy who comes to save Israel from their enemies. When one looks at Francis’ statement concerning Trump’s Wall (compared to his citadel with guards who are free to kill anyone who climbs over the walls), and the muslims he freely entertained in his house while leaving the christians in the camps, this seems to be a quite plausible theory.
Liberals are special kind of stupid. They don’t see the irony. Our local college held their 2nd annual hajib day on campus this week encouraging all women to wear one in support of oppression I guess. Meanwhile, in Iran, the women that stand up against it are probably going to be beaten and raped daily as part of their re-education for not wearing the hajib.
Stephen Honig
6 years ago
Why can’t men have a Jock Strap Day? I would love to hang mine on a stick.
Thanks for your posting. It is not PC to show how Islam is predatory against women. They are 2nd class in every aspect of Islamic life. Even within Transgender issues. It is legal for a man to have a sex change.. but ILLEGAL for a women to become a man.
Andrew Sears
6 years ago
fems have shown they will never support oppressed women. fems are too chickenshit to support their sisters fighting for their life
hopespringseternal
6 years ago
These Iranian women are the true heroes. The Western countries feminists are uninformed and fake. While there is real misery and oppression suffered in so many Middle Eastern countries,
it must be a slap in the face for the true heroes of Iran and elsewhere when these idiots
“support” hijabs.
It pains me to see all the failures due to incompetent women in so many industrialized,
developed countries. Sweden is now a failure, so is Germany, United Kingdom and here
in the United States the democratic party is not doing well. It has become corrupt and
with a female sociopath as the former leader, hillary “poisoned-the-well” with ease.
I have read and studied up on the democratic party and it is not pretty. The ONLY thing they
have been good at is lying, betraying, fleecing-the-country, using political correctness
to harass citizens/politicians that tries to put our country back to it’s former “glory”.
In short democrats are ANTI-AMERICAN.
Logic PrObe
6 years ago
Brave women indeed.
Not like these Western fools!
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
6 years ago
Did anyone in Iran (spit) protest when a Iranian convert to Christianity and pastor was imprisoned and tortured? I’m not even sure if the man was ever released as the news story disappeared from the enemedia.
D
ed
6 years ago
As usual, the femi-NAZI’s in the US have everything WRONG again….
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
6 years ago
There is no good islum, it’s allah the same Jew hating, fascist, totalitarian bullshit, your attempt to obfuscate that fact is disgusting.
Jackie Puppet
6 years ago
In a related story:
WGN anchor told a Muslim blogger that she didn’t ‘sound like an American.’ Her response went viral.
The controversy started in late January, when Katebi, 23, and author of the 2016 book “Tehran Streetstyle,” was interviewed by WGN Morning News anchors Larry Potash and Robin Baumgarten for a segment on Iranian fashion.
When Katebi, who wears a hijab, or Muslim headscarf, pushed back against the idea that Western dress in 1970s Iran connoted more freedom for women, the interview got political. Potash asked her whether Iran can be trusted when it comes to nuclear weapons, and Katebi responded with a critique of U.S. “imperialism” in the Middle East, citing “all of the violence that (the U.S.) hasn’t only created, but created the capacity for.”
“A lot of Americans might take offense to that,” Baumgarten responded. “You’re an American. You don’t sound like an American when you say things.”
“That’s because I read, you know?” Katebi said, laughing as she cut off Baumgarten with a line that would become a meme.
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