My latest in PJ Media:
Rob Lowe’s 9-1-1: Lone Star is apparently a TV show that, according to the description here, “follows a sophisticated New York firefigter [sic] who, along with his son, relocates to Austin and must try to balance the duties of saving those who are at their most vulnerable and solving the problems in his own life.” It features a character named Marjan Marwani, who is apparently a hijab-wearing Muslim firefighter.
In this video clip, Marjan loses her hijab, and her respectful male colleagues shield her from the lustful gaze of one of their loutish colleagues, and maybe more than one, so that she can put it back on.
One should always be respectful and kind to others, both those who wear the hijab and those who do not. That is not, however, the only lesson that 9-1-1: Lone Star wishes to impart. Another is that Muslims in the U.S., even those who are Sharia-adherent, are patriotic Americans. And that women who wear the hijab are smoking hot.
marjan loosing her hijab in the rescue and the boys hiding her while she’s fixes it omg ? #911LoneStar pic.twitter.com/pOc0zfXgPD
— yas (@suprstores) January 28, 2020
Those propositions are all true in some cases. In other cases, they are not. Television has never been and could never be a fully accurate presentation of reality. It is important to note, however, that this series is proceeding from the assumption that women who wear hijabs in the U.S. are routinely subjected to discrimination and harassment, and that Americans consequently need this reminder that decent folk treat hijabis with respect. Hijabis should indeed be treated with respect, like everyone else, but it is false that they are routinely disrespected in this country.
In fact, many of the most celebrated of the cases claiming this turned out to have been faked by the victims themselves. In one such incident, an eleven-year-old girl in Toronto made international headlines with her claim that a man had followed her and cut her hijab with scissors. After an investigation, police concluded that the attack never happened. Likewise, Yasmin Seweid, a Muslim teen who claimed in December 2016 that Trump supporters on a New York subway tore off her hijab and no one in the packed subway car helped her. She, too, gained international media attention, and she, too, made up the whole thing. Shortly before that, a hijab-wearing Muslim student at San Diego State University also falsely claimed that she was assaulted by Trump supporters. In July 2017, a Muslim in Britain falsely claimed that a man had pulled off her hijab in a “race hate attack.” In November 2016, a University of Michigan Muslim student claimed she was “accosted by a white man who told her to remove her hijab or he would set her ablaze with a cigarette lighter.” She also fabricated the whole event. And there are many others of this kind.
There is much more. Read the rest here.
Walter Sieruk says
The harshly brutal cruel oppression over and against females, both girls and women ,who are trapped in this vicious “mullah regime”of Iran is as despicable as it’s demonic .
This misogyny of that Islamic tyranny is a reflection of that evil mullah “president” tyrant of Iran,Hassan Rouhani.
This evil man Rouhani ,who rules Iran may well be described in the Bible.
Which reads Like a roaring lion and a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.”
Proverbs 28:15. [N.K.J.V.]
mortimer says
The mullahocracy is despicable. And Fox news writers are despicable for not standing up for freedom of conscience.
Doyourresearch says
Question: Who, as a participant on a CAAM (Center for “Asian” American Media) panel, co-wrote this episode of 911- Lone Star?? Answer: Do your research!
Terry Gain says
This is off-topic but of concern to all who visit Jihad Watch. The worm has finally started to turn.
CASE AGAINST MICHAEL FLYNN DROPPED. Hallelujah.
The malicious prosecution of General Michael Flynn by Obama’s DOJ was not only an attack upon a patriot, but a fraud upon the Court and the first step in the continuing effort of the Democrat Party to remove a duly elected President. Justice requires the prosecution of all of the conspirators, beginning with Comey, McCabe and Strzok.
James Lincoln says
Yes, Terry, that is certainly great news.
I hope that Pres. Trump brings the “Good General” back on his team…
Westman says
Finally getting the details of how the Special Extortionist made Flynn sign a statement.
As a youth I never imagined that agencies of the US and half of Congress would behave like actors of a Bananna Republic and attempt a coup of a US President; trampling upon the sacred rights of the citizens that were enshrined by the nation’s founders. I fear they have opened a Pandora’s Box of accepted corruption that cannot be closed. The FBI involvement(“Tear up Texas”) with the terrorists in Garland, TX, is another indication that the corruption runs deep.
gravenimage says
Yes–good news!
rubiconcrest says
I recall what Aayan Hirsi Ali said about first going without the hijab in Holland. If I remember correctly, she was very self conscious at first and then realized no one noticed. It demonstrates even in very intelligent women how conditioned they become.
gravenimage says
Yes–at first Ayaan Hirsi Ali was sure that all Dutch men would go insane seeing her with her hair uncovered (even though this obviously had not been the case with other women without Hijab–but she had drunk deep of the Islamic kool aid at that point). Then she realized that Dutch men were actually *far* more civilized than were Muslim men, even when she was wearing a full-body cover. This was one of the main realizations on her way out of Islam.
Wellington says
“…way out of Islam.”
Four beautiful words, gravenimage.
James Lincoln says
Yes, Wellington.
For beautiful words – like a string quartet!
For your listening pleasure…
Mendelssohn, String Quartet in E-flat-major, Op. 12, II. Canzonetta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B0lnOyNr_w
gravenimage says
Yes indeed, Wellington and James. And thanks for that link, James.
Laura says
*far?’
gravenimage says
As Women in Iran Face Prison for Taking Off the Hijab, Fox TV Series Glamorizes It
…………………..
Just ludicrous propaganda.
mortimer says
This is a feminist issue.
The veil is the ultimate symbol of patriarchy and misogyny. A veiled woman is the chattel of the patriarch and his absolute person property to be sold for hire for the patriarch’s benefit and ‘honor’.
The purpose of the Islamic veil is to keep money in the family of the patriarch.
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer.
revereridesagain says
Firefighters. And how would these American firefighters have reacted to that terrible fire in Sharia-compliant Saudi Arabia years ago in which little girls were allowed to burn to death because they were not wearing hijab? Would they have “shielded them from the loutish gaze of their colleagues”? Why would “their colleagues” be ogling little girls? Oh no, wait, those were colleagues of Saudi Arabian Slaves of Allah obeying the commands of the “holy men” to cover up their women so their “brothers” would know they are not to be raped unlike the women of the filthy kafir such as American firefighters.
No firefighter in the United States of America or anywhere else in the non-Muslim West should be permitted to wear the hijab while on duty. Period.
gravenimage says
Damn good points.
Laura says
Are there hijabi firefighters is the USA?
gravenimage says
There’s one in Virginia. She may be the only one–for now, at least. She’s a volunteer firefighter–I don’t know that she has actually been involved in putting out a single fire.
She has lots of time to whine about how supposedly hard being a Hijab-wearin’ firefighter is, though.
PRCS says
So, what message do typical, Western kuffar take away from this?
Likely, subconsciously, that ‘hijab’ (not just a headscarf, btw) is meant to prevent men from seeing a Muslim woman’s hair, just her hair, and that ‘good people’ of all faiths and none, everywhere, should respect, defend and comply with other people’s ‘religious’ laws.
Left out of the script: would they so steadfastly avoid looking at Muslim women who’ve chosen NOT to wear that garb? Would those ‘good people’ be compelled to cover her up, too?
Sun says
As long as women are punished for not wearing the hijab, it should not have a place in our Western society.
The glamorizing of the hijab is disgusting. Why does our modern and enlightened world bow to a backward cult and forgets all about human rights and Western values, as soon as somebody whispers the magic word ‘Islamophobia’???
mortimer says
Years in prison for not wearing a head covering is very harsh.
James Lincoln says
Do you really think so?
Sorry, mortimer – you set yourself up for that one…
TruthHonestReality says
Unfortunately there are tens of millions of Americans that think tv is real. There are entire groups of people that think tv shows and movies are real. The people running hollywood know this and that’s why they have always used it as programming and they are attempting to destroy America through this method.
grandpahalfdime says
MORE HOLLYWOOD BULLSHIT I WON’T BE WATCHING.
OLD GUY says
It’s not just Iran that brutalizes women and girls, all islamic countries and even in western countries where no go muslim/islamic neighborhoods exists it takes place. Islam is barbaric and totally discriminatory to women and many other groups, including almost all non muslims.