[ April 19, 2024 ]
Masih Alinejad is right, and it’s even worse than she says. Middle-class Western feminists have instituted “World Hijab Day” as an increasingly common annual feature of the cultural landscape in the West. In one of the most pathetic and destructive displays of virtue signalling, non-Muslim women are 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 in Iran, 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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Remember: this is the country the Democrats are fighting for, opposing President Trump’s efforts to stop them from nuclear arming.
“Iranian Feminist on How Western Liberals Are Making Women’s Lives Worse in Her Country (Video),” by Jon Levine, The Wrap, June 14, 2018:
Masih Alinejad has a blunt message for Western feminists trying to help her country’s women: You’re making it worse.
“I keep hearing in the West especially, Western feminists who go to my country — the female politicians — we don’t want to break the country’s law,” Alinejad said at TheWrap’s Power Women Breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, noting that many well-intentioned foreigners choose to wear veils when traveling in Islamic-dominated countries like Iran.
“Women of Iran don’t want to be slaves,” she said. “They don’t want to be told by men or the law of the Islamic Republic of Iran what to wear.”
Too often, Alinejad said, women seeking to be culturally sensitive in fact manage to exacerbate the problem.
“In America when I talk about compulsory hijab, I often get this question that, ‘You know, this is a cultural issue.’ It’s not,” Alinejad said. “Before the revolution we had the right to choose what we wanted to wear in Iran. Compulsion was never part of Iranian culture.”
In addition, Alinejad said some Western feminists resisted legitimate criticism of the regime out of a desire not to appear in line with the policies of President Donald Trump. This too, she said, was a mistake.
Alinejad, an activist and author of the new book “The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran,” has launched a social media campaign against the compulsory head covering, which has often put her on the wrong side of the nation’s ruling clerics.
But her prolific use of social media to connect women in the country has nevertheless made her a powerful force to be reckoned with. She currently lives in exile in Brooklyn, New York….
Michèle Flournoy, a former Under Secretary of Defense also on the panel, shared her own story of being a woman in the Middle East.
“A lot of Western women who go to the Middle East think that they’re being culturally respectful — that’s what you’re told — to put on a scarf, not a hijab necessarily, to cover your hair in some way,” Floournoy said. “I think there is a misunderstanding.
“When I would go to Saudi Arabia, I would not put on a hijab and I would not put on a scarf,” she said, adding she was once told she was able to get away with it because she was an “honorary man.”
“It was supposed to be a great compliment,” said Flournoy….
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26 Comments
5 years ago
western Left/Libs/Feminists are top class useful idiots of Islamic jihad.
Left/Liberal are also making ISIS / jihadis happy by making beheading fashionable https://tinyurl.com/y7k93bs9
Insane ?
5 years ago
There is nothing else which better exposes the modern Left’s rank hypocrisy, their disregard for the facts, and their hatred for the West and all it stands for than their attitude to Islam.
Every principle the Left claims to uphold, from rights for women and homosexuals , even diversity itself, dies on the altar of its sycophantic defense of Islam.
5 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Indeed.
Whenever gay movement come into conflict with Islamists then the left always suports the latter.
5 years ago
Reply to
Jan-Magnus Waldemar Skuggvarg
The Left also supports shredding the privacy, dignity and boundaries of women by imposing biological males onto them in bathrooms, showers, locker rooms etc.
5 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Feminism is poison to our ideals of liberty and justice, it is ridiculous that they pretend to champion women’s rights while glorifying a symbol of oppression.
5 years ago
Isn’t non-Muslims wearing a hijab Cultural Appropriation, something Liberals consider a crime against humanity?
5 years ago
Reply to
ConanKong
We used to just call it a headscarf. It was no big deal. The very fact that Westerner’s refer to it as a “hijab”, speaks volumes. I’m just glad to be on the back nine of life.
5 years ago
Reply to
ConanKong
Well, some Western women (including some of these “feminists”) actually convert to Islam, so I guess that makes it okay in their eyes. It says much that they are attracted to such a religion.
5 years ago
While it may be true of the majority of non muslims in the west that “nobody cares if you wear a hijab”, that in my experience is a consequence of ignorance as to its meaning to other muslims.
Any devout muslim male will insist on the thing being worn by the female under his command in order to show that the person under it has submitted to sharia {and his wishes} and considers herself bound to it. A KKK hood and cloak also bears a silent testimony to the person inside and their beliefs, however both beliefs are political in essence but one is older, more dangerous and far more powerful and widespread in its potential.
Any western female walking through an Islamified district being seen without one can court unwelcome attention, this can involve shouted insults, rude gestures, threats of a physical nature or assault directly of a sexual nature or even an acid attack, this happened to two English girls in East Africa a few years back while out seeing the sites, they were teaching assistants on a day off and one was Jewish.
The fact remains, IF and when Western society is ready to stand up for itself by defending OUR values against all Islamic cultural pressures to “conform” for the sake of “tolerance and diversity” no accommodation for muslim women wearing the thing in western society can or should be be allowed, it signals clearly WHICH female can be “left alone”.
A degree of anonymity in this regard can be protection for the truly vulnerable – OUR female relatives.
5 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
Islam’s norms are holding back this world…I’ve been to China and Japan, and most of their women would not view the hijab favorably, let me tell you.
5 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
In that sense, turning young boys into transgender “girls” (or vice versa for the opposite sex) symbolizes their ultimate submission to LGBT ideology, likewise forcing people to use phony and artificial pronouns that have no basis in reality, nature, biology or genetics, and to address so-called “trans” people by their “preferred” names, is also about enforcing submission to radical fringe Greenwich Village-San Francisco-Fire Island “values.”
5 years ago
Lieberals instigating their policy of bringing HUMAN MISERY AND SUFFERING on everyone. I suppose it’s squared when done in Moslem countries.
5 years ago
Good luck to her … but the Left is about destroying the West, and if that means forcing women into Hijabs and FGM so be it. The Left hates women just as much as they hate men, and women with brains know that.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
You have described some of the Left’s war against God – destroying all those in Hrs image who disagree with the Left’s politics of destruction and their doctrines (ideologies) of the devil or demons.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
And part of their war against G-d involves transgenderizing boys into girls or vice versa – and subjecting them to extremely harmful “hormone treatments” and irreversible reassignment surgery that leaves them permanently mutilated, disfigured and deformed – and for what?! To advance an insidious agenda?
5 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
All while ignoring science, and psychologist’s warnings of the inherent dangers of pushing these notions onto children and adults. As much as society has moved away from God, they have embraced proportionally, the deceptions and practices of humanism.
5 years ago
She says, “In America when I talk about compulsory hijab, I often get this question that, ‘You know, this is a cultural issue.’
How can your right to chose what clothes you want to wear be a cultural issue? They don’t have that choice. They cover themselves up in ninja clothing because there is a man hovering over them, threatening them with consequences if they do not cover up. And that cannot be classified as ‘culture’. That’s pure subhuman barbarism and sheer oppression.
5 years ago
Reply to
minted
Increasingly, it’s a similar situation with children in schools being turned homosexual – and laws ensuring they remain trapped in that lifestyle for eternity with no way out.
5 years ago
This modern form of Western “feminism” is poisoning human civilization enough as it is. Is Islam the only religion they truly care about?
In the Baha’i Faith, you know, the hijab is actually forbidden for most intents and purposes, apparently their prophet viewed it as an outdated symbol of the past holding back society.
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
That is the leftist feminists agenda in the West.
They pretend to be blind to the fact that hijab burqa and whatever are symbols of oppression against women…
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
I find it quite telling, that having rejected just about every brand of religion, the Left suddenly cares so much about islam and the plight of one muslim group after another, all while ignoring history, the koran, and the character of mohammed, a misogynist beyond compare. How can they believe such a lie, it is as though they have been blinded.
5 years ago
Western Fake Feminists are basically Leftist Globalist Socialists….and their version of women’s rights activism is used ONLY to attack the West. Islam gets a pass w/ all the Leftists because it is anti-West and anti-Christian.
5 years ago
That Western “feminists” would turn a blind eye to this is not exactly a surprise – given that in the U.S., the #MeToo movement was tainted from the start by leftist politics, founded by women(sic) who were gung-ho, dyed-in-the-wool, frothing-at-the-mouth Hillary supporters who have been seething with resentment from the moment Trump won the election.
5 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
Which is why it is more and more difficult to sympathize with them these days.
