[ April 30, 2026 ]
“World Hijab Day trivialises the suffering of those who have tried to be free of the oppressive veil. All those right-on liberals celebrating it ought to be ashamed.”
In a contemptuous display virtue signalling, non-Muslim women are once again being 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 the women who are forced to wear the hijab, and 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 their choice of the sharia-promoting, forced marriage advocate Linda Sarsour for their leader. The real “feminists” are those women in Iran who are risking imprisonment and torture for taking off their hijabs. They are fighting for a fraction, a sliver of the freedoms their Western “sisters” enjoy.
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World Hijab Day is nothing to celebrate
The headscarf is a tool of women’s oppression.
By: Khadija Khan, Spiked, 1st February 2024
The hijab, a type of head covering, is used by Islamic regimes around the world as a tool to subjugate women. From Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to Afghanistan and Iran, the hijab symbolises women’s oppression. It represents a misogynistic ideology in which women are conceived as sexual objects to be concealed from men.
So you might think that Western progressives would be more than a little critical of the hijab. But incredibly, that isn’t the case. On the contrary, today many are eagerly celebrating World Hijab Day. No doubt they will even present wearing the hijab as a form of female ‘empowerment’.
ADVERTISEMENTThis is liberal hypocrisy at its cruellest. Hijab laws and customs sustain a gender-based hierarchy. That’s why so many brave women in Iran have been trying to challenge their own nation’s hijab law. But rather than support their struggle for freedom, Western liberals have largely kept quiet.
Do they not see what’s happening in much of the Islamic world, where the hijab is mandatory? In Iran, women are whipped, tortured, incarcerated and sometimes killed for violating the hijab rules. Just this month, an Iranian woman called Roya Heshmati was incarcerated for 11 days, flogged 74 times and fined the equivalent of $300 after she was pictured on social media without a headscarf. Nearly a year and half after Mahsa Amini was killed by Iran’s religious police after failing to wear the veil properly, Iran is continuing to punish women for offending ‘religious morality’.
Afghanistan’s hijab laws are similarly oppressive. Since the Taliban seized power in August 2021, women and girls can be arrested, detained and lashed for not complying with the government’s hijab rules. This month, the Guardian told the grim story of one 16-year-old Afghan girl who was arrested for wearing ‘improper’ attire. She was detained for two days, beaten severely and forced to sign a document promising not to leave her house without the compulsory head covering.
