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Wednesday, Feb. 1, is No Hijab Day, a Western feminist expression of solidarity with Muslim women in the United States who are supposedly oppressed and discriminated against (by those fictional but omnipresent MAGA-hat-wearing thugs) because they wear the hijab. Accordingly, Newark, N.J. city council President LaMonica McIver is set to introduce a resolution declaring Wednesday World Hijab Day in the City of Newark. McIver, of course, has all the proper Leftist intentions: celebrating “diversity,” standing against “hatred,” and all that. But this year in particular, her gesture is nothing short of grotesque. In Iran, women are dying for the freedom not to wear the hijab. And in Newark, witless Leftists are celebrating the symbol of their oppression.
Back on Sept. 16, 2022, in Tehran, the Iranian morality police arrested Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, for not wearing her hijab properly. Amini later died in a hospital in Tehran, and numerous Iranians charged that she had been tortured to death while in custody. All over the country, protesters took to the streets to protest not against the hijab laws, but against the repressive and brutal Islamic Republic itself. Other women, and male protesters as well, were killed as the Iranian regime ruthlessly applied the Qur’anic injunction to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (8:60). The protests went on for months until the regime began summarily executing protesters, and even then some indomitably courageous Iranians continued to take to the streets to demand their freedom.
It is against that backdrop that the Newark World Hijab Day resolution will be introduced. For innumerable women in Iran, the hijab is the most visible sign of their second-class status, and of the brutality of the regime that will imprison them for years or even kill them outright for daring to venture out in public without wearing it. The Iranian authorities call their morality police the “Guidance Patrol,” an Orwellian name that makes them sound like a bunch of benign, avuncular individuals selflessly dedicated to helping young Iranians avoid moral pitfalls and stay on the straight and narrow. A more accurate name, however, would be the Terror Patrol, for the morality that these officials enforce is not the virtuous person’s free choice of the good, but the enforced obedience of those who are frightened into submission.
Is that really what the city of Newark wants to celebrate? It’s likely that LaMonica McIver didn’t consider what has been happening in Iran even for one second before deciding to introduce her resolution. She was just upholding the Left’s mythology about rampant “Islamophobia” in the United States. Actual incidents of Muslim women being harassed or discriminated against for wearing the hijab, however, are extraordinarily hard to find. It’s much easier to find examples of Muslim women in America who falsely claimed that they were being harassed or discriminated against in order to score points on the Left’s insane scale of victimhood worship.
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Hoi Polloi says
Well, LaMonica, what a great way to see that I never use a Newark flight connection. As Mr. Spencer says, the timing is especially grotesque. And that’s hard to manage when dealing with an ideology that considers even the hair of children to be so sexually alluring to old men that the fault when raped lies with the child. You are sick, Newark. So very, very sick.
somehistory says
I agree, Hoi Polloi, it is especially grotesque….*respusivly ugly and distorted.*
Much like celebrating…as mozlums do…with candy, ululating, and dancing in the streets when there is a mass murder of innocent people.
The iranian ghouls murdered a lot of innocent women…and some men…because they didn’t wish to live under the tyranny any longer and protested the murder of the young woman, Ms Amini, because she didn’t quite get the scarf on correctly.
And the requirement for baby girls, as you say, to wear the scarf so old hideous, lusty male beasts. won’t…maybe…feel free to rape them. ..Unless they can buy them for a fake ‘marriage,’. i.s especially evil.
Hoi Polloi says
One might hope these supposed American women would have mirrors so they can see just how grotesque they have become with their support for sharia. Apparently not.
somehistory says
They are just too steeped in stupid to see anything in the correct light. and none of those champing at the bit for celebrating this tyranny, would wish to be made to live that way.
Hoi Polloi says
+1
PRCS says
(NEWARK, NJ) — Newark Council President LaMonica McIver will introduce a resolution declaring February 1st #WorldHijabDay in the City of Newark.
Thank you, @LamonicaMciver, for standing up for Muslim women’s right to cover!
Source: https://t.co/4XWakkIX5k pic.twitter.com/sFCTC5pAbD
— World HijabDay (@WorldHijabDay) January 31, 2023
With few exceptions, Muslim women in the U.S. have that right because we are governed by secular, man-made law.
Muslim women in Afghanistan, Aceh, Saudi Arabia, and Iran–as examples–do not have that right because they are governed by a totalitarian theocracy.
These idiotic, out-of-touch proclamations happen every year now on February 1.
Here’s New York’s clueless Governor Hochul recognizing World Hijab Day last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI78QE3D6Lc&t=3s
Hoi Polloi says
I vote for a bill that sends all these women to Iran permanently to enjoy hijabbing all day, every day. Along with all the rest of that culture. Enjoy!
Scotsman48 says
I hope there were a few actual Iranian women at this event telling these American ”women” just uneducated they are about the hijab and what it means.
I have seen 4 and 5 year old girls covered from head to toe in Malaysia because I guess they need to cover their ”modesty” from any male adult who may get excited when seeing a wee girl in a dress.
These people are sexually uptight pigs and these American ”women” are seriously misinformed morons.
OLD GUY says
Just when will we have a MAGA-HAT day, so that oppressed Make America Great Again Americans can wear their MAGA hats with the pride these women ware the HIJAB. Hate to tell these people SHARIA/Islamic law won’t make their lives better or give them freedom.