The report Friday about the new Islamic propaganda billboard in Dallas recalled the billboard that propagandists for Islam put up in the same city last February by the same organization, beside a well-trafficked highway. It was up for six weeks. This one was all about the hijab, what it means for Muslim women, why they are so enthusiastic about wearing it, and why non-Muslims are so wrong in thinking it is a form of repression.
Ruman Sadiq, a local Muslim activist, says the current political climate has led to misperceptions of Muslim women.
That’s why she hopes a new six-week billboard campaign will encourage people to call and ask questions about the hijab, or head scarf.
Could those misperceptions of Muslim women be the result of learning about women who have been arrested and imprisoned in Iran for taking off their hijabs in protest at being forced to wear them? Could those misperceptions have something to do with the morality police in Iran beating women for wearing an “insufficient” head covering? Or did the news about the arrest of a Saudi woman who merely tweeted a picture of herself at home without a hijab make an impression? What else might have led to “misperceptions of Muslim women”? Possibly Aqsa Parvez’s Muslim father, who choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it. Or the story of Amina Muse Al, a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab. Or the forty women who were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab? Or the tale of Amira, an Egyptian girl who committed suicide after being brutalized by her family for refusing to wear the hijab. There is Alya Al-Safar, whose Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain. Amira Osman Hamid was whipped in the Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab. Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South Australia were told that they had to wear the hijab or be fired. Women in Chechnya were shot with paintballs by the police because they weren’t wearing hijab; other women in Chechnya were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab; elementary school teachers in Tunisia were threatened with death for not wearing hijab; Syrian schoolgirls were forbidden to go to school unless they wore hijab; women in Gaza were forced by Hamas to wear hijab; women in London whom Muslim enforcers threatened to murder if they didn’t wear hijab; the anonymous young Muslim woman who removeded her hijab outside her home and started living a double life in fear of her parents, and all the other women and girls who have been killed or threatened, or who live in fear for daring not to wear the hijab. Perhaps these cases, and thousands more less widely reported on in the Western world, have resulted in the “misperception” many in the West have about Muslim women and the hijab.
“It’s very difficult at times for Muslim women to go out in public wearing a veil,” said Sadiq, an outreach volunteer with the Dallas Chapter of the Islamic Circle of North America. “We face a lot of discrimination in educational institutions, in the supermarkets and public arenas.”
Vague allusions to “discrimination” against Muslim women wearing a veil does not constitute proof, and we have many examples of claims of victimhood by Muslims involving the hijab that later proved false. What kind of “discrimination” does Sadiq have in mind? In the current climate of hypersensitivity about appearing to be “Islamophobic” in the slightest, and the determination to uphold “diversity” as the highest value, surely we are entitled to be skeptical about these claims of widespread discrimination against women wearing hijabs.
The billboard – at Interstate 35 and Northwest Highway in Dallas – features a woman wearing a hijab, along with a 1-800 number and the words: respect, honor and strength. The Islamic Circle partnered with a Chicago-area based group GainPeace to place the billboard in Dallas. Other billboards have gone up across the country, including Houston and Chicago.
Members of the Dallas chapter of the Islamic Council of North America and Chicago-based GainPeace spoke Thursday during a press conference about a new billboard campaign.
The groups want to show that the hijab is a sign of empowerment and that women of other religions also cover their heads. They point to Mary, the mother of Jesus, who wore a veil, and nuns.
“It is also a form of liberation from strangers who dictate how women should dress in the society to be successful,” Sadiq said. “It’s to free us ourselves from being judged by our physical beauty, but rather our intellect and our character. It’s to preserve our modesty.”
Hijab is a “form of liberation”? Not to everyone, and certainly not to those many Muslim women and girls who do not wish to wear it, and have been threatened, or killed, for refusing to wear it. See the compilation above. Sadiq describes wearing hijab as freely chosen, to “preserve our modesty.” But how can it be “freely chosen” when it is required by the Quran, at 24:31 and 33:58-59. and both the morality police, where they exist (as in Iran and Saudi Arabia), and Muslim menfolk, make sure it is worn by Muslim women and girls, whatever their private preference?
Members of the Islamic Council of North America displayed information about Islam, women and the hijab during a press conference in Dallas. Female visitors were encouraged to try on a hijab.
This “trying on of the hijab” is meant to acclimatize non-Muslim women to the hijab, by having them wear it — first learning from their Muslim sisters how to properly tie it — and playing at what seems to be merely innocuous make-believe. And what fun to capture oneself wearing a hijab on a selfie to later show friends and family: “Yes, that’s me in the hijab! They even let me keep one. I think I might wear it for a while, just to show solidarity with my new Muslim sisters.” The real significance of the hijab, as one more requirement imposed on Muslim women, whether they want it or not, is not understood.
The billboard is already drawing attention and phone calls. Sadiq talked about an hour-long phone call the group received from an angry caller, who was upset about the billboard.
“It was a 62-minute dialogue that we had with her and it ended on a very positive note,” Sadiq said. “She was very happy to clarify the misconceptions she had about the veil.”
One of those “misconceptions” was undoubtedly the belief that Muslim girls and women are forced to wear hijab. But that is no “misconception”; it’s the dismal truth. Of course some girls and women willingly wear the hijab. But the point being made by the billboard and the propagandists behind it, who are just a phone call away, is that wearing the hijab, or other forms of cover, is always a voluntary act. And that is not true. We know that many girls have been severely punished, or even killed, for refusing to wear the hijab. This is not mentioned, of course, on the billboard, or by those Muslim women manning the 1-800 phones, who are prepared — well-versed as they are in taqiyya — to answer any questions from curious Unbelievers.
Earlier this month, local Muslim women set up a table with information about Islam and the hijab at Clyde Warren Park. They also had various hijabs in different colors that women could try on.
Nahela Morales, also with the Islamic Circle, said women have a choice to wear a hijab and some choose the cover their entire face, except for their eyes.
What fun to try on the hijab! And there are so many colors to choose from! Why would any woman object to that?
“There’s no oppression on both as the Koran tells us there’s no compulsion in religion,” she said. “So, we do choose to even wear the head scarf. There’s women that do not wear the head scarf and that’s an individual process.”
What a strange sentence at the end — “There’s women that do not wear the head scarf and that’s an individual process.” Not “individual choice,” but rather, “individual process,” and that might imply that someone is going through a “process” of coming to understand the rightness of hijab, after having first rejected it.
Yes, according to 2:256, the favorite Qur’anic verse of the propagandists, “there is no compulsion in religion.” But we know that, taken literally, it isn’t true. Muslims who apostatize can be killed, as Muhammad says in the Hadith (Sahih Bukhari 9.57): “Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him.” Surely that constitutes “compulsion in religion” for disaffected Muslims. And non-Muslims, too, endure “compulsion” when, having been conquered by Muslims, they are faced with the three options of death, conversion to Islam, or life as a “dhimmi,” subject to many onerous conditions, of which the best known is the Jizyah tax. The only way for non-Muslims to escape the dhimmi condition is to convert to Islam. Millions have done so. Does this not also constitute “compulsion in religion”?
When Nahela Morales, of the Islamic Circle, claims with a straight face that there is “no compulsion in religion,” she should be asked why Muslims who leave the faith are not allowed to freely choose another belief, or no belief at all, but instead face death. And she should also be asked whether she is willing to admit that many of the non-Muslims who converted to Islam over the past 1,400 years did so not out of belief, but out of the desire to avoid the dhimmi condition that has been made so onerous for non-Muslims?
Morales and Sadiq said people should appreciate the similarities in all religions, rather than be bothered by the differences.
Of course those differences shouldn’t bother anyone. The misogyny, homophobia, antisemitism of Islam are trivial. What counts is that Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are the three great monotheisms and abrahamic faiths, and besides, aren’t “people basically the same the whole world over”? Who cares if it says in the Qur’an that Muslims are “the best of peoples” (3:110) and Unbelievers “the most vile of created beings” (98:6)? The propagandists explain: “Those verses must be put in context; they don’t really mean what they seem to say. These verses refer only to a particular place (the Hejaz, in western Arabia) and time (the early 7th century). They have no relevance today.” Gosh, that’s good to know. And why should we worry about the 109 verses in the Qur’an that command Believers to wage violent Jihad against the Unbelievers, and among them, the several verses that specify the need “to strike terror in the hearts of the Unbelievers”? Ignore that stuff; it’s what the islamophobes like to focus on; they’re always trying to divide us. We’re trying to focus on what unites us. That’s the only way forward.
So take in the mendacious message of that billboard in Dallas. There’s bound to be one put up near you.
Stanton Lore says
Billboard message destroyed by truth.
Emilie Green says
Here’s another one,
https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2017/06/anti-muslim_billboard_fb.jpg?resize=865,452
Muslims didn’t like that one.
Okay, but everything stated is true. The billboard’s not the problem. The facts about Islam and Islam’s Perfect Man, Mohammad himself, are the problems.
gravenimage says
Everything on that billboard is true. Muslims hate the truth where it warns the Infidels what they have in store for us.
will says
the muhammadans are a backward satanic tribe who have never made any progress or contributed to the growth, well being or intelligence of the world. They are still living in the stone ages and acting like brutal cave men, We do not want them to come to the U S and force their pagan rituals of chanting in the streets and public places all over the US. if they want to do that they rare free to practice their annoying in your face crap back in iran The rags they wear on their heds and faces are just a way to cover their identity and hide from the law,
Susan Smith says
Well said; total agreement
Marya Harb says
The sad fact is that Islamic women are told that women who don’t wear hijabs are constantly raped and assaulted. So of course they think it’s a “gift.” Lying and terror.
PRCS says
“The sad fact is that Islamic women are told that women who don’t wear hijabs are constantly raped and assaulted.”
This 14 Muslim refugee girl from Iraq lives in Utah and makes that quite clear.
The problem for us: will she still believe that as an adult, having been educated in our country?
https://fox13now.com/2018/11/15/letter-encourages-schools-to-adopt-religious-clothing-guidelines-after-boy-rips-girls-hijab-off-during-recess/
mortimer says
I second many of the comments here exposing the true agenda of the hijab: to justify the exploitation and disempowerment of women.
The Islamic scarf is the ULTIMATE SYMBOL of the DISEMPOWERMENT of women by Islam.
barbaracvm1 says
The hijab is a sign of being enslaved. It excuses the men for being weak willed.
gravenimage says
It’s worse than Muslim men being weak willed, barbaracvm1–the rape of Infidel women–or of those who are considered insufficiently Islamic–is a deliberate tactic.
gravenimage says
Here’s Islamic Cleric Muhammad al-Isibali: “By the age of ten, it becomes an obligation on us to force her to wear Hijab, and if she doesn’t wear Hijab, we hit her”.
So much for “no compulsion”…
andra says
The sad fact is that western women in the West who do not wear hijabs get more and more raped by Muslims because they are tagged by the hijab-wearing women. If these women would stop wearing the hijab their fellow believers might stop raping as they could not distinguish any longer between the infidel and Muslim women.
gravenimage says
I doubt that Muslims would stop raping unveiled women, Andra. But there is no doubt that veiled Muslim women are also enabling this. One of the main messages of the veil is “don’t rape me. Rape that unveiled slut over there”.
mortimer says
Reply to MH: The veil in Saudi Arabia doesn’t even stop rape. KSA has a very high rate of rapes.
gravenimage says
Also true, Mortimer.
Chrissie says
To sum it up in one phrase:
Do not demand from others what you are not willing to grant yourself.
If there is not religious pluralism in your societies, dont ask it from others.
If you do not grant the freedom of chosing your dresscode, don’t go wrapping on someone else’s door to get it!
So simple.
gravenimage says
Chrissie, Muslims are not asking for religious pluralism–they are trying to impose Shari’ah on us. With Islam, it is always about Muslim supremacism.
mortimer says
Chrissie, Islamic societies don’t offer the veil as a choice. Thousands of women are in Iranian jails for not wearing the veil. Hundreds of Muslim women are killed every year for refusing to wear the veil and other Islamic clothing.
FYI says
Yes,let’s any dispel misconceptions about the hijab…
1}Yes,it is mandated by allah the Arab god of the muslims in the koran 24:31
But what else is in the koran?
Talking feet {koran 24:24},in the SAME surah:someday allah says your feet and hands will testify against you{note AGAINST you}as to what they use to do.So if you like to play chess or go jogging allah will cut your limbs off:Your hands and feet will be complaining to allah and speaking against you.
A Talking infant speaking like an adult {muslim dawa claim this is Jesus}koran 19 v 29-30
k2:282 the Testimony of a woman in islam is HALF that of a man due to what muhammed said was “the deficiency of a woman’s mind”
2]”If they do that{i.e wear hijab} it will be known that they are free and that they are not servants or whores”
Tafsir ibn Kathir 33:59
So,not wearing that hijab means you are either a servant or a whore{I don’t like using the word but it is in the translation..}and are thus subject to the advances of MUSLIM men.
Muslim men need not worry as there is no requirement for them .The hijab is a man made ARAB invention,invented{like their koran} by muhammed and umar
3]An excellent video that looks at the origins of the hijab on YT
Apostate Prophet Origin of the hijab-allah takes orders from a man
Note from the islamic sources how the idea actually comes about through muhammed and umar{a man you may note from the hadiths,who appears to be in the habit of loitering around the ladies toilet area}
sahih bukhari 1:4:148
sahih bukhari 6:60:318
“Sauda went out to answer a call of nature….umar saw her..”
“Oh sauda by allah!you cannot hide yourself from us,so think of a way by which you should not be recognized on going out”
Think of a way….how about…the hijab….?
The hijab is an ARAB invention, for ARABS, with their ARAB god al LAH{“the BEST of deceivers” k3:54}
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
“k2:282 the Testimony of a woman in islam is HALF that of a man due to what muhammed said was “the deficiency of a woman’s mind””
No, that is not what is said in
http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=2&verse=282 .
It says, in relevant part, “And bring to witness two witnesses from among your men. And if there are not two men [available], then a man and two women from those whom you accept as witnesses – so that if one of the women errs, then the other can remind her.”
And if the testimony of one woman is worth half that of one man, then the consistent testimony of three women always outweighs the testimony of one man. Do they really teach than in qadi school in Qom? I’d like to look this up in the textbook “How to Be a Sharia Judge”. Where can I find a copy?
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Maybe I should take back what I said.
The New York Times agrees with Muhammad (pbuh) that 2 women = 1 man:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/19/opinion/amy-klobuchar-elizabeth-warren-nytimes-endorsement.html
PRCS says
Funny.
gravenimage says
Mark, the Hadiths do indeed cite the worth of woman’s testimony in Islam being half that of men as proof of her supposed deficiency of intelligence:
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
Once Allah’s Apostle went out to the Musalla (to offer the prayer) o ‘Id-al-Adha or Al-Fitr prayer. Then he passed by the women and said, “O women! Give alms, as I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of Hell-fire were you (women).” They asked, “Why is it so, O Allah’s Apostle ?” He replied, “You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you.” The women asked, “O Allah’s Apostle! What is deficient in our intelligence and religion?” He said, “Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?” They replied in the affirmative. He said, “This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Isn’t it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?” The women replied in the affirmative. He said, “This is the deficiency in her religion.”
–Sahih Bukhari 1:6:301
Nothing but circular reasoning.
Jim says
An honest billboard would also talk about the fact that women who don’t wear the hijab are considered to be fair game for rape by Muslim men, and that a woman who has been raped is considered an adulteress by Muslim society.
Michael Copeland says
“Any woman without a headscarf is asking to be raped”
Imam Shahid Mehdi, Copenhagen
gravenimage says
“Australian Muslim leader compares uncovered women to exposed meat”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/oct/26/australia.marktran
Sheik Hilali was quoted as saying: “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside … without cover, and the cats come to eat it … whose fault is it, the cats’ or the uncovered meat’s? The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab [the headdress worn by some Muslim women], no problem would have occurred.”
PRCS says
Yes, indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loZexr7Wdog
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, PRCS.
Ade Fegan says
Let’s call the number .. they seem a little misguided
gravenimage says
I’m going to call them tomorrow.
FYI says
The billboard says you can call and ask questions about islam and women..
1]Do you agree with muhammed’s teachings that most muslimas go to hell{Sahih Muslim 241}?
Is it a sin to be TAKFURNA{“ungrateful”}?
{well it is to allah,that’s why the vast majority of muslim women go to hell}
2]”Aisha said to muhammed “you have made us equal to the dogs and asses”
SAHIH MUSLIM 4:1039 and in ABU DAWUD 2155 it says “women are compared to slaves and camels in regard to the EVIL in them”.
Given that muhammed{pbuh,poison be the undoing of him} was a polygamist,woman beater who said “women have a deficiency of the mind”{Sahih Bukhari #2658}and who deflowered a 9 year old “woman” Aisha..does it look like muhammed respected women?
Linda Sarsour said muhammed was a feminist:does it look like muhammed was a FEMINIST?
3]Modesty ?
Explain this..
“Omar ibn al khatab saw a SLAVE woman wearing the hijab so he BEAT her screaming “you should not clothe yourself like a muslima”
Book of Kanes al umal fee suanan al a’qwal hadith 41925
The billboard says:respect-honor -strength..the dress of modesty
But not for a non-muslima or an enslaved infidel woman eh?
mortimer says
Very good. The hadiths DEBUNK all the nonsense on the billboard. In fact, the Islamic culture reserves all the respect-honor-strength for the ALPHA MUSLIM MALES !
The veil is the ultimate symbol of DISEMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN by Islam.
Ashley says
Why does this story make me grin from ear-to-ear?
https://www.fox4news.com/news/muslim-call-center-gets-hundreds-of-hate-calls-after-hijab-billboard-put-up-in-dallas
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, Ashley. They are probably saying that any calls questioning this blatant Taqiyya are “hate calls”.
They also claim that Muslims have been living in the United States for “around 500 years”–now *that’s* a mean trick.
Wellington says
That billboard is total BS. Fitting though since Islam is total BS.
mortimer says
Agree with the generalization of Wellington. Islam is systemically deceptive. Allah is the best of deceivers (K.3.54). The method of Islam is bait-and-switch. Islamic proselytism uses the same bait-and-switch methods, proposing whitewashed versions of Islam at first to entice people to join, then switching it to the true, vicious version of Islam after the fish is hooked. That’s why most new converts to Islam leave it in under 20 months. It takes that long for the new converts to realize how many times they have been lied to by the Islamic recruiters.
Chris D says
I was in Costco on a hot summer day last summer and an obvious middle eastern family was in my aisle. The man was dressed in extremely casual clothes and an Adidas tshirt. I presume it was his wife that was head to toe covered in a tent like black robe – with only the tiniest slit to see through. I felt like I was watching a slave in shackles being lead around Costco.
I wanted to pull her aside and tell her that she’s in America now, not some 3rd world country living in the dark ages. That she could cast off her shackles and be free of oppresssion. I stood in disbelief that in our times and in the United States, that women can be Oppressed and held down like slaves like this.
This is NOT acceptable here.
I felt like it was 1856 and I was watching a man shop with a slave in shackles. It’s like she was in chains. I kept asking myself – wouldn’t I do everything I could to free the slave? What kind of a freedom loving man would I be if I let slavery and oppression like this exist in my presence?
Walter Sieruk says
What a hoax and total falsehood that in on the Islamic propaganda billboard in Dallas, Texas.
In reality the Hijab is not about “respect ,honor or strength “ but oppression, dishonor and misogyny
For example, to imprison women for not wearing the hijab is but one part of the anti-female tyranny of this tyrannical “mullah regime” of Iran.
For that ruthless cruel brutal heinous l regime of Iran that is so unfittingly has the word “Republic” in its title ,for its called “ The Islamic Republic of Iran” [ I R I].
On the topic of this Islamic tyranny a former Muslim revealed that “The IRI system recognizes women as dependent upon men and incomplete human beings who need to be supervised and controlled by men and the State. This author further exposed that “Women are created for the purposes of giving pleasure to men and child bearing – functions that confine them to the home” This is a male Chauvinistic as can possibly be. In addition this writer further makes it known that “The IRI legal system still retains traditional patriarchal bias that can be described as nothing but systemic subordination of women , which is undoubtedly a human rights violation .” This author further reveals that “Iran is of what Islamic fundamentalists desire, an Islamic State, and the consequence of achieving it “State Terror. Instead of utopia, Iran is an Islamic totalitarian nightmare…” and “the Islamic Republic of Iran exists and operates as what every Islamic fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by Sharia …What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premises; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1]
This heinous Islamic has been also exposed by another author who was born and lived in a Middle Eastern nation for many years. She wrote “Female freedom and independence is one of the greatest sins in Islam…” and “Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [2]
All this is wicked, unjust and misogynistic to the extreme. Islam had not regard for human life, regardless of what the apologists for this religion will claim.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM BY Ibn Warraq. pages 345-347.
[2] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel pages 62, 172
gravenimage says
Good post.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s a complete fraud of a claim that’s on this billboard that that the Hijab stands for “respect, honor and strength for the reality of the truth is the hijab is a symbol of Islamic bondage, deadly oppression and murderous misogyny.
An example, on March 11, 2002 in Saudi Arabia a girls dorm caught of fire, the girls naturally rushed out of that dorm that was on fire . In their hast to escape the flames they forgot to take and put on their face veils. Those Islamic state police of Saudi Arabia with this totally unreasonable and heartless Islamic mindset forced all the girls back into the dorm that was on fire. Only because they didn’t have their face veils. So all those girls did a horrible painful death .This is worse than tragic and sad, this is the murderous misogyny of the Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
RCCA says
Excellent post. In the USA women deserve “Respect Honor Strength” — without hijabs.
b.a. freeman says
“We face a lot of discrimination in educational institutions, in the supermarkets and public arenas.”
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i call bulls**t. i’m a nobody, so nobody is ever trying to fool me with a fake display (except for the lying leftist legacy media, but they don’t know that i exist), and when i’m in a local sam’s club, there is almost always a young lady with a hijab handing out samples; i think she’s a student or something. i buy a lot of stuff there, and i have *never* seen any such misbehavior by we kuffar. of course, this guy is a pious muslim, which is a more-polite way of saying that he is a f***ing liar.
The unexpected voice says
No the Qur’an said if women doesn’t cover herself she’ll be raped.
gravenimage says
Yep.
PRCS says
What Qur’an says about ‘the veil’ (what that billboard does NOT want the kufar to know):
Qur’an 33:59
https://quran.com/33/59
Sahih International
O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves [part] of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.
As Qur’an applies only to Muslims, their dhimmis, their slaves, and to kufar traveling through Muslim lands: said abuse is from Muslim men.
As we do not adhere to Islamic law here–if a Muslim woman is ‘abused’ by a Muslim man: the perp is prosecuted in accordance with U.S. law: making ‘the veil’ irrelevant here.
Qur’an 24:31
https://quran.com/24/31
Sahih International
And tell the believing women to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.
Yes, their slaves are permitted to see Muslimas ‘uncovered’.
gravenimage says
+1
fearPlz says
The hijab only enforces the view that women are ready to subjugated by men out of their own free will. And in their senseless endeavour they make sure other women are forced to adhere to their senseless laws. Most of the muslim population is brainwashed into believing some of the ruthless versus as the ultimate truth. The only role for women in islam is for pleasure & child birth. Some of the women are lucky to be born in countries that give them opportunity to realise their complete potential. Otherwise they are confined to their homes & not even allowed to see the open sky unless their male guardians allow them. How can a hijab be so liberating is hard to understand.
Simon Platt says
In my town there’s a driving instructor – or, presumably, instructrix – who drives around under the sign “Hijaab School of Motoring”. It’s like sticking up two fingers to the English.
gravenimage says
Billboard in Dallas “Aims to Dispel Misconceptions About Hijab”
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Will they tell you about Qur’an 33:59, which reads, “O Prophet! Tell thy wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their persons (when abroad): that is most convenient, that they should be known (as such) and not molested. And Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”?
This is saying that all non-veiled women are fair game for being raped by Muslims.
More:
The groups want to show that the hijab is a sign of empowerment and that women of other religions also cover their heads. They point to Mary, the mother of Jesus, who wore a veil, and nuns.
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This is misleading, for many reasons. Not all women are compelled to be nuns–not even all Christian women. Then, few nuns wear wimples these days on a regular basis. Even a nun would have to seek out a particularly conservative order for this.
Then, any woman may leave the nuns at any point–she has the freedom to do this, and *certainly* will not be arrested, harassed, imprisoned, flogged, or murdered if she does so. Would that you could say the same with Muslims.
More:
“It is also a form of liberation from strangers who dictate how women should dress in the society to be successful,” Sadiq said. “It’s to free us ourselves from being judged by our physical beauty, but rather our intellect and our character. It’s to preserve our modesty.”
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This has nothing to do with modesty where it is forced. And note that all of this “modesty” places the onus on the woman and even little girl–Muslim men may engage in rape against unveiled females.
More:
“There’s no oppression on both as the Koran tells us there’s no compulsion in religion,” she said. “So, we do choose to even wear the head scarf.
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If these Muslim thugs *really* believed this, why wouldn’t they be taking it up with places like Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Islamic State, rather than bothering the good Infidels of Dallas?>
More:
There’s women that do not wear the head scarf and that’s an individual process.”
What a strange sentence at the end — “There’s women that do not wear the head scarf and that’s an individual process.” Not “individual choice,” but rather, “individual process,” and that might imply that someone is going through a “process” of coming to understand the rightness of hijab, after having first rejected it.
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Good point. This is just more Islamizing of the West–and we all know what lies at the end of *that* “process”–the brutality of Shari’ah law.
mortimer says
GI raises excellent arguments against the veil: NUNS can leave their vows and abandon the veil without being honor-killed! Furthermore, Muslim women are being beaten and honor-killed every week for refusing to wear Islamic dress. Moreover, the Islamic veil is a DIVINE COMMANDMENT which is not a matter of choice. The veil is imposed by the Islamic patriarchy. Women have no say in the matter of the veil. There is no democracy in Islam. The headdress and habit of Christian religious orders is determined by democratic votes by the members of the orders. They are not commanded in the Bible.
The supposed parallel of the Islamic scarf with convent habits falls apart for a number of reasons when it is carefully examined.
PRCS says
“Moreover, the Islamic veil is a DIVINE COMMANDMENT which is not a matter of choice.”
True.
Qur’an 33:59 and 24:31 make clear that it’s NOT a choice>/b>.
And it’s NOT applicable here.
https://quran.com/33/59
“that they will be known and not be abused”
Despite what Muslims think, no matter what Qur’an says, they are not ‘the best of people’, Islamic law does not reign here, and abuses inflicted upon Muslim women here are prosecuted in accordance with U.S .law.
https://quran.com/24/31
“that which their right hands possess”
Yes, a slave can view an ‘unveiled’ Muslima.
Much to their dismay, I hope, slavery is illegal here.
And those Qur’an verses have NOT been abrogated.
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer and PRCS.
elee says
Wearing that s**t constitutes a public endorsement of an ideology that is openly and explicitly dedicated to the destruction of our ideals, our liberties, and our institutions. I dont suggest we practise taharrush on hijabi women like they do to conventionally-dressed women in their countries because……….we arent like them .
libertyORdeath says
It’s only “the dress of modesty” if you choose to wear it yourself, otherwise it is a form of subjugation.
OLD GUY says
Answer with Christian billboards and what happens to women in muslim countries that don’t ware the hijab. This is radical islam trying to justify it sharia laws. NO SHARIA in America!
PRCS says
One old guy to another: normal Islam.
Not ‘radical’ Islam, as that term is typically understood.
Valkyrie Ziege says
; If you need to advertise your religion, you’re not living your religion. If you need to legislate against people hating your religion, then you’ve failed at your one job in life, being a decent person.
Matthew says
Nothing but a diaper for shit for brains