Muslim women’s rights activist condemns Western feminists for wearing the hijab in “solidarity,” saying: “Calling the compulsory headscarf my country’s culture is INSULTING”

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Iranian women’s rights activist condemns Western feminists for wearing the hijab in ‘solidarity’, saying: ‘Calling the compulsory headscarf my country’s culture is INSULTING’

• Masih Alinejad said female visitors to Iran were leaving activists ‘on their own’
• She rejected the argument that visitors should wear the hijab ‘out of respect’
• The issue has been thrown into new focus in the wake of the Christchurch attack

By Tim Stickings for Mail Online, 1 April 2019

A women’s rights activist in Iran has said it is ‘insulting’ for Western visitors to wear the hijab in an attempt at solidarity.

Masih Alinejad, who has spearheaded Iranian women’s struggle against the head covering, said female dignitaries from Europe had left her fellow campaigners ‘on their own’ by choosing to wear the hijab when they visited Iran.

Rejecting the argument that visitors should wear the hijab out of ‘respect for the culture of Iran’, she said they were ‘sending a message that men are more equal than women’.

Ms Alinejad, the founder of the White Wednesdays movement which saw many women remove their headscarves in protest, said she was battling against a ‘discriminatory law’.
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Masih Alinejad, pictured, said it was ‘insulting’ for Western visitors to wear the hijab in an attempt at solidarity
She said: ‘Iranian women, they fight against the compulsory hijab and they are alone, they are on their own.
‘There were three female politicians from the Netherlands – they went to Iran the same day when one of the women of the White Wednesdays movement put her headscarf on a stick and waved it in public, she got arrested.
‘The same day there were three female politicians from the Netherlands in Iran obeying compulsory hijab law without challenging it.
‘The female politicians from Sweden – they were very well-known when they started to publish a picture to mock President Trump’s Cabinet.
‘I was like, I love this picture, it’s a good way to criticise a male-dominated Cabinet.
‘But what happened, the same feminists went to Iran. The same ministers in Iran, they obeyed compulsory hijab laws in front of the President.
‘I said to myself, when it comes to America, they are trying to say men and women are equal. But when it comes to [Iran] they are trying to send another message, that men are more equal than women.

Swedish deputy PM Isabella Lovin signs a climate change bill flanked by seven other women in February 2017 in a picture seen as a rebuke to Donald Trump’s male-heavy Cabinet

Swedish minister Ann Linde faced criticism when she subsequently went to Iran and wore a headscarf (pictured)
‘So the female politicians who go and visit Iran, the tourists, athletes, actresses – all of them, when they go to my beautiful country they say that this is a cultural issue, we wear it out of respect to the culture of Iran.
‘Let me be clear with you: calling a discriminatory law a part of our culture – this is an insult to a nation.’

Ms Alinejad (pictured) said she was battling against a ‘discriminatory law’
The issue was thrown into fresh focus last month when New Zealand women including PM Jacinda Ardern wore the headscarf in the wake of the Christchurch terror attack.
The New Zealand women earned applause in some quarters but others voiced concern, saying it was not ’empowering’ to wear the hijab.
Ms Alinejad said she admired Ms Ardern’s ‘compassion’ for the Muslim community but said it ‘broke her heart’ to see her wearing the hijab.
‘I also felt that you are using one of the most visible symbols of oppression for Muslim women in many countries for solidarity,’ she said.
The Swedish picture she mentioned showed eight women at the signing of a climate change law, mocking a similar photo of Trump’s male-heavy administration.

Trade minister Ann Linde faced a backlash just weeks later when she wore a headscarf on a visit to Iran.
Her ‘My Stealthy Freedom’ movement is fighting Iran’s Islamic law, which requires women to wear a headscarf and long clothes that cover the arms and legs.

She also launched the social media hashtag White Wednesdays, encouraging women to flout regulations posting pictures and videos of themselves without the hijabs online on the third day of the week.

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.

Earlier this year Ms Alinejad shared footage which appeared to show Iranian an being sprayed in the face with tear gas after going outside without a hijab.

Iran arrested more than 7,000 people in 2018 after launching a wide-scale crackdown on protests during what is being called ‘a year of shame’ for the country.

Students, journalists, environmental activists, factory workers, lawyers, women’s rights activists, minority rights activists and trade unionists were all cuffed during the campaign of repression, according to Amnesty International.

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Bradley Lexvold

5 years ago

There is no humor in Islam, but looking at it from the outside has its hilarious moments.

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Navy_Vet

5 years ago

Masih Alinejad will probably be arrested, imprisoned, and sexually mutilated, for speaking out. Most female Muslim rights activists end up up that way.

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felix1999

5 years ago

Reply to  Navy_Vet

I don’t understand it. feminism has done a selective 180 on rights.
FGM, hijab being less equal than a male… are a few things that come to mind…

You already know this … just venting some frustration…

Quran (4:11) – (Inheritance) “The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females”
(see also verse 4:176). In Islam, sexism is mathematically established.

Quran (2:282) – (Court testimony) “And call to witness, from among your men, two witnesses. And if two men be not found then a man and two women.” Muslim apologists offer creative explanations to explain why Allah felt that a man’s testimony in court should be valued twice as highly as a woman’s, but studies consistently show that women are actually less likely to tell lies than men, meaning that they make more reliable witnesses.

Quran (2:228) – “and the men are a degree above them [women]” This is often taken to mean authority or responsibility – although it is not literally in the Arabic text.

Quran (5:6) – “And if ye are unclean, purify yourselves. And if ye are sick or on a journey, or one of you cometh from the closet, or ye have had contact with women, and ye find not water, then go to clean, high ground and rub your faces and your hands with some of it” Men are to rub dirt or water on their hands to purify themselves, following casual contact with a woman (such as shaking hands).

Quran (2:223) – “Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will…” A man has dominion over his wives’ bodies as he does his land. This verse is overtly sexual. There is some dispute as to whether it is referring to the practice of anal intercourse. If this is what Muhammad meant, then it would appear to contradict what he said in Muslim (8:3365).

Quran (4:3) – (Wife-to-husband ratio) “Marry women of your choice, Two or three or four” Inequality by numbers.

Quran (53:27) – “Those who believe not in the Hereafter, name the angels with female names.” Angels are sublime beings, and would therefore be male.

Quran (4:24) and Quran (33:50) – A man is permitted to take women as sex slaves outside of marriage. Note that the verse distinguishes wives from captives (those whom they right hand possesses).

https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/women-worth-less.aspx

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Suresh

5 years ago

Reply to  Navy_Vet

They do it in UKistan too ! In True Islam , women are no different then cattle as per allah in Koran

And the clown Left/liberal Pope wants christians to take in more of these Islamic wolves http://tinyurl.com/ydy8fkhl

Insane or stupid ?

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felix1999

5 years ago

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justmewhoelse12

5 years ago

“women rights” in the Muslim world? Funny if it wasn’t so tragic for women.

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Great Idea

5 years ago

Let mooSlime women suffer, they are the ones who give birth to future terrorists and murderers of tralAlla. I really do not care what happens to them!

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MAS

5 years ago

“Muslim wonan’s rights activist”???

If that isn’t an oxymoron I don’t know what is…

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GoodScienceFYou

5 years ago

Good comments below! Today we have some willfully ignorant women in the USA, in the Democrat party. Liberal Socialist stupidity. But this is just going to get worse. Look at other countries that are destroying themselves with this human garbage.

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effgee

5 years ago

All religions are prisons for the minds of the people. Some are worse than others but humanity needs to leave the ghosts of ancient times behind and move into an untainted future. However, given the brainwashing & indoctrination that goes on world wide from generation to generation its going to be a slow process because the manipulators are petrified of losing their ‘power’ over others and that’s all it really amounts to, just power over others!

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MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet

5 years ago

Reply to  effgee

Yeah and atheists slaughtered tens of millions of people in the name of Communism.

“Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.” – Vladimir Lenin

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Roma Mikhasev

5 years ago

islam = plague

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Rob Porter

5 years ago

Liberal Western women are unsurpassed for stupidity that emanates from mindlessly stupid political correctness. Of Sweden’s prime minister no one should expect an ounce of common sense. I applaud Donald Trump’s “male heavy cabinet” because in it and from it comes some wisdom whereas from Sweden’s ‘female heavy cabinet” we see little but stupidity, grovelling imbeciles who wear Muslim clothing when visiting a Muslim country, but do not expect Muslim women in Sweden to conform with Swedish norm.

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Stephen Honig

5 years ago

These asshole woman deserve it. They go further than irrational progressives.

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leonore35

5 years ago

If you look at pictures taken in Iran before the Revolution (ie Nazi takeover) it is clear it was a very liberal country women wore two piece suits at the beach and the there were no laws to stop them. All that changed in 1979 and the new ‘government’ of religious fanatics inflicted the Head covering and worse on the women of Iran

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R. Arandas

5 years ago

The fact that so many Western feminists embrace the hijab and things like abortion so freely shows how unbalanced their movement has truly become. 🙁

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