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		<title>Hatred of Women on the March in Iran</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Majid Rafizadeh]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/iran_female_ninjas.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247600" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/iran_female_ninjas-392x350.jpg" alt="iran_female_ninjas" width="320" height="286" /></a>The hatred, misogyny and injustice against Iranian women has continued to ratchet up under the office of the so-called moderate president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani.</p>
<p>After a series of acid attacks against young women in the city of Esfahan, the Iranian parliament (Majlis) has passed a new bill, which would <a href="http://archive.radiozamaneh.com/english/content/basij-forces-given-go-ahead-enforce-hijab-compliance"><span style="color: #0433ff;">allow</span></a> Basij, the governmental volunteer militia, to go around in the streets and give verbal warning to those Iranian women who do not comply with the government’s Islamic dress code.</p>
<p>More recently, stabbing women has become another sign of increased violence. A suspect was recently arrested for stabbing six women in city of Fars in Iran, reportedly for wearing an improper hijab. One of the women was stabbed in the stomach. According to <a href="http://sahamnews.org/1393/09/271250/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Saham News</span></a>, the suspect is the son of a Basij Commander from the village of Ghotbabad.</p>
<p>The Basij, which is supervised by the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, intervenes in the day to day activities of ordinary people, spying on individuals, and attempting to impose the ideological and Islamist doctrine of the Iranian government.</p>
<p>When I used to live in Iran, I, like many Iranian people, witnessed how young girls would be dragged into police cars by the moral police for not complying with the government’s religious dress code. Showing some strands of hair or some part of the body in public can lead to arrest, imprisonment, and fines.</p>
<p><b>The Vigilante Law to Impose Hijab and Dress Code</b></p>
<p>Under the presidency of Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian parliament has also <a href="http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2014/10/sotoudeh-on-acid-attacks/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">introduced</span></a> a bill referred to as the “Plan to Promote Virtue and Prevent Vice.”  Apparently, all of these human rights abuses and discrimination against women are part of promoting virtue in the perception of the ruling clerics in power.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, what is crucial to point out is that discrimination against Iranian women and the egregious human rights abuses against them are at the core of the cleric political power. In other words, these human rights abuses &#8212; such as restricting women’s freedoms, imposing the hijab on them, encouraging them to stay at home and raise children, forbidding them from participating in sports or even watching some sports events such as volleyball &#8212; are cemented in the state’s institutional structure as well as in the Islamic Republic’s constitution.</p>
<p>Secondly, women are being utilized as a crucial tool and platform to define the country as Islamic. Imposing dress codes and the hijab on women gives the clerical political institution unique character ideologically.  Walking in public and watching millions of women across the country being forced to wear the hijab and cover their hair strengthens the image of the country as being Islamic.  It also makes it stands out immediately in comparison to other Muslim countries, and it significantly ratchets up the ideological foundation and Shiite agenda of the Islamic Republic.</p>
<p>Third, forcing women to comply with a dress code is the manifestation of the state’s power. Technically, this is referred to as biopower of the state, which is applied in order to homogenize the population, immediately find those who dissent, make women compliant, subservient, and remind women everyday that the state is in power of even their basic activities such as wearing clothes, listening to music, and watching sports. As Michel Foucault <a href="http://www.generation-online.org/p/fp_foucault14.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">states</span></a>, biopower is a political strategy. “By this I mean a number of phenomena that seem to me to be quite significant, namely, the set of mechanisms through which the basic biological features of the human species became the object of a political strategy, of a general strategy of power.”</p>
<p>Fourth, marginalization of Iranian women by the state and depriving them of their basic and fundamental rights is a method to treat almost half of the population as second-class citizens.  Subduing women, repressing them, and ensuring that women are controlled by their male guardians and state apparatuses, promotes the patriarchal character of the system.</p>
<p>Fifth, the increasing misogynistic laws and hatred against Iranian women will continue whether the president of the Islamic Republic is a reformist, moderate, hardliner, etc. This is due to the fact, all Iranian presidents believe in the fundamental institution of the Islamic Republic and they totally accept the superiority of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, misogyny and hatred against women has not halted courageous and brave Iranian women from fighting inequality and the repression against them. Several female leaders and formidable women&#8217;s movements in Iran continue to resist the repressive apparatuses even though they face imprisonment, execution, and torture. Their efforts have produced powerful women such as Shirin Ebadi, the Noble Prize Laureate, and Maryam Rajavi, the human rights and political activist, and the president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).</p>
<p>As the repression against women continue in the Islamic Republic, their resistance grows deeper, and their stance firmer. Our responsibility is to chart efficient approaches in order to give a voice to these women and assist them in their struggle for combating extremism carried out under the name of religion, the ruling cleric&#8217;s version and the manipulation of Shia Islam.</p>
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		<title>Beyoncé Stands with Rioters in New Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world’s biggest pop star incites violence.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/beyonce.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246622" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/beyonce-450x299.jpg" alt="beyonce" width="274" height="182" /></a>Just in time to add fuel to the Ferguson fire, superstar singer Beyoncé has re-released a <a href="https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/beyonce-sports-niqab-in-new-ferguson-like-rioting-video/">video</a> for her dirge-like, 2013 single “Superpower,” in which she makes rioting against law enforcement look hip and romantic.</p>
<p>The overlong video opens with an image of the Black Power fist – a hint of things to come. Then the camera finds Beyoncé striding in super slo-mo down a stretch of urban Los Angeles devastation in a flesh-baring outfit that is difficult to describe; suffice it to say that, like too much fashion today, it is runway-fabulous but no one would wear it outside of a Beyoncé video. The salient point is that her getup inexplicably pairs this semi-nudity with a niqab, which she draws up over her face, exposing only her eyes.</p>
<p>This apparently displeased some Muslims. Twitter lit up with <a href="https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/beyonce-sports-niqab-in-new-ferguson-like-rioting-video/">complaints</a> such as, “Dear Beyoncé: Do you think you’re going to get away with wearing a version of Islamic head-dress, niqab, while promoting your Demonic music?” Another tweet: “Quoting our holy Quran and dressing in a niqab isn’t a fashion statement you dumb beyonce.” In the video’s context, it’s possible that Beyoncé intended for the look to be more Occupy Wall Street than Islamic. Or perhaps she was wearing a niqab to make Muslim head coverings sexier and more culturally acceptable. If so, it failed to convince at least one feminist, who lashed out on Twitter: “Sorry, Beyonce. Probably not in the best interest for women’s rights to make the niqab fashionable. Just sayin’.”</p>
<p>Back to the video. Beyoncé is gradually joined by a growing crowd of chic, wannabe revolutionaries sporting edgy hairstyles and clothing that looks like a privileged designer’s ridiculous fantasy of how urban youth dress. Some of them conceal their identities with gas masks and scarves, Occupy-style, because they know they’re about to commit crimes.</p>
<p>The dirge drags on as Beyoncé pouts, scowls, and growls. Her mob smashes car windows with baseball bats, hurls Molotov cocktails, and burns cop cars while Beyoncé sings: “The laws of the world never stopped us once/’Cause together we got plenty super power.” Except for the music and the ultrachic posturing, it suggests the real-life “sensitive urban zones” of Paris, where immigrant “youth” go on nightly, car-immolating rampages and challenge the police in territorial skirmishes.</p>
<p>As the song draws mercifully to a close, the privileged Beyoncé – having peeled off the niqab and donned a camouflage jacket that costs probably $3000 – faces off with her defiant, multicultural mob of chiseled cheekbones against a line of cops in riot gear. She stands next to a man in a balaclava reminiscent of her niqab. The two of them clasp hands <em>Thelma and Louise</em>-style in anticipation of the confrontation to come. The message: rioting, property destruction, anarchy, and attacking cops are cool – and nothing influences youth more than the aura of cool.</p>
<p>Who cares, you ask? She’s just another left-leaning celebrity exposing her own political ignorance. Why is her video important? It’s important because Beyoncé is arguably the biggest entertainer in the world now. With over 118 million albums sold, she is the top artist of the 2000s, with 17 Grammy awards, a Golden Globe nomination, and untold millions of fans worldwide. Her pop culture influence is incalculable, and pop culture – not politics – is where the progressive control takes root. When Beyoncé weighs in on an issue like the Ferguson tinderbox, her fans absorb the message and pump their fists along with her.</p>
<p>The video was actually first released last December, long before the August 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. Why would Beyoncé believe that this is an appropriate time to put it back in the public eye?</p>
<p>Keep in mind that she is married to rapper Jay-Z, who has none of Beyoncé’s talent but all of her racial supremacism and political radicalism.* His song lyrics are replete with profanity, racial slurs, misogyny, glorification of violence, and expressions of racial grievance – not to mention anti-police hatred. “Dirt Off Your Shoulder”<em> </em>boasts of giving “a middle finger to the law.” A music video titled “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJt7gNi3Nr4">No Church in the Wild</a>,” which “Superpower” resembles, celebrates anarchy and depicts police trying to quell a violent riot. And “<a href="http://www.mrc.org/articles/obama-welcomes-jay-z-support-violent-misogynistic-lyrics-and-all">99 Problems</a>” features a verse about blacks being racially profiled by the “motherfu**ing law.” In 2009 he released a <a href="http://www.mrc.org/articles/obama-welcomes-jay-z-support-violent-misogynistic-lyrics-and-all">song</a> in honor of the newly-elected Obama entitled “My President is Black” (imagine if a country singer back in 2005 had performed a song called “My President is White”). The massively wealthy Jay-Z (he and his wife have a net worth of $1 billion) has also been a <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jay-z-occupy-wall-street-shirt-rocawear-260334">supporter</a>, or at least an exploiter, of the Occupy movement.</p>
<p>The two are arguably Obama’s closest, and certainly most famous, friends in the entertainment industry. MTV even <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/1694108/jay-z-obama-bromance/">described</a> their relationship with the President as “a mutual affection society” and Jay-Z’s friendship with him a “bromance.” In September 2012, Jay-Z and Beyoncé hosted a $40,000-per-person <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/18/obama-jay-z-beyonce-fundraiser_n_1895494.html">fundraising</a>reception which <a href="http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/lapdog-abc-trip-cuba-obama-donors-beyonce-and-jay-z-much-ado-about-nothing">took in</a> more than <a href="http://theybf.com/2012/09/18/beyonce-jay-z-raise-4-million-parties-with-president-obama-at-4040-club">$4 million</a> for Obama’s re-election campaign. Subsequently the dynamic duo were given State Department permission for a grand, whitewashed <a href="http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/lapdog-abc-trip-cuba-obama-donors-beyonce-and-jay-z-much-ado-about-nothing">tour</a> of the Communist utopia in Cuba, where Jay-Z appeared <a href="http://colorlines.com/archives/2013/04/who_needs_to_get_informed_on_che_guevara_jay-z_or_marco_rubio.html">wearing</a> a Ché T-shirt (in solidarity with a murdering coward who held musicians and <a href="http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3657/che_guevara_was_no_hero_he_was_a_racist">blacks</a> in contempt).</p>
<p>Music entertainers have a long tradition of anti-establishment, anti-authoritarian lyrics aimed at a rebellious youth audience. I don’t expect Beyoncé to come out with a pro-police anthem or an ode to Darren Wilson. But to <em>re-release</em> a video that openly advocates violent conflict with the police at this time of heightened tension between blacks and law enforcement is irresponsible at best, and incitement to violence at worst. The fact that Beyoncé is so closely linked to the President of the United States makes it all the more unconscionable, albeit unsurprising, since the “post-racial” Obama, who <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/17/obama-told-civil-rights-activists-keep-ferguson-staying-on-course/">urged</a> protesters to “stay the course,” hasn’t lifted a finger to quell the violent animus over Ferguson.</p>
<p>* Some of what followed was excerpted and paraphrased from the Horowitz Freedom Center’s <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2588">Discover the Networks</a> resource site about Jay-Z.</p>
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		<title>Wave of Acid Attacks in Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2014 04:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrorized women live in fear. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #1a1a1a;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bbbunnamed.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243506" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bbbunnamed-450x324.png" alt="bbbunnamed" width="346" height="249" /></a>“I was never more scared than I am now. I am scared of going to class, doing normal chores, driving a car, and even walking in the street. I am really afraid of motorcycles. Do you know what will happen to my life if one of these people throw acid in my face?” Azita, a university student in Isfahan, anxiously told me. Her neighborhood, Jolfa, has become a target of a new wave of acid attacks against young girls. Women are not even safe in their cars, as the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) has <a href="http://freethinker.co.uk/2014/10/20/immodest-hijab-wearers-under-threat/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reported</span></a> that in October 15, witnesses saw an incident of an acid assault by a motorcyclist on a 27-year-old woman who was in the car with her car window left open.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">I was born in this neighborhood &#8212; to be more specific, in Hakim Nezami &#8212; and lived in this area of Isfahan for two years of my youth. Although the issue of acid attacks against women has been prevalent, and on the rise, particularly in countries such as India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, I have never heard of acid being a threat or an issue targeting women in the Islamic Republic until these recent developments.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/bad-hijab-acid-attacks-iranian-women-142736305.html">Reportedly</a></span>, a series of acid attacks mainly by motorcyclists has been carried out against Iranian women because they were badly veiled and their hijabs did not meet the Islamic dress code of the Islamic Republic. The acid assaults in countries such as India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan have been more aimed at female victims, who, according to the aggressors, cause their family to lose honor due to premarital sex or &#8220;indecent behavior&#8221; with the opposite sex.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">According to the imposed dress code of the Islamic Republic of Iran, women are supposed to wear a complete hijab, preferably a black chador, which covers their heads, necks, and bodies. The cloth should be loose in order to not expose the frame of the body. As a result, anything beside this criteria is marked as a bad hijab. The punishment for not wearing the hijab has ranged from arrests to lashings, fines, torture, and imprisonment. In the beginning years of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and 1980 when the hijab was imposed, secular female movements protested but many women were stabbed as a result. The fear and use of brutal force centralized the dress code imposed by the Iranian regime.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">The overwhelming majority of Iranian women opposed this forceful theocratic law by pushing the boundaries set by the state. Over the years, they have slightly changed the dress code by wearing colorful, small, and thin veils, which hardly cover the hair and exposes some hair in the front and back. In addition, young girls have been slightly exposing some skin (ankles, arms, etc.), along with wearing tight coats, shirts, and clothing that reaches mid-thigh.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Since millions of girls across the country have been resisting the theocratic and Islamic social order, the government has found it impossible to arrest all these women and put them in jail. Notwithstanding this fact, the Iranian regime has had moral and Islamic vigilantes in the streets, who randomly arrest and drag women to the police station and the “Amre Be Maroof va Nahi az Monkar” office: the Center for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">The major question to address is why and who these abusers are who are attacking innocent women with acid for not wearing the hijab properly? From my perspective, and having lived in the Islamic Republic, I do not think that ordinary Iranian people, even the religious ones who are not connected to the government, would commit such acts. Culturally, socially, and historically speaking, acid attacks have never been a method of torturing innocent women for not complying with dress code in the Iranian society. Iranian citizens are well educated and many of them favor Western secular ways of living to the status quo and theocratic, authoritarian Islamic rule.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">One speculation and presumption behind these egregious human rights abuses can be traced to the Iranian regime itself. Under the presidency of the “moderate” cleric, Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian parliament has recently given more power to moral police, vigilante Islamic groups, and moral patrols in the streets, by <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/1549693/iranian-women-attacked-with-acid-for-bad-hijab-attackers-may-be-enforcing-law-not-breaking-it/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">passing</span></a> laws that grant freer rein to these groups to monitor and spy on the society. Some of these powerful moral and militant groups, which have gained more power from the Iranian parliament, are Basij and Ansar e Hezbollah (the Supporters of the Party of God).</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Some motorcyclists have been <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/18/acid-attacks-on-women-spread-terror-in-iran.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">noted</span></a> to ride large bikes and have conservative appearances. Some motorcyclists are also causing women to believe their faces are being burned by throwing water and cleansers into their faces. This is more a method of imposing fear in the society. Outrageously, militant and fundamentalist groups such as the Basij, Ansar e Hezbollah, intelligence, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, view women’s improper dress as the underlying reason behind these acts against them. As a result, for them these kind of egregious abuses are totally justified.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Since the Islamic Republic is incapable of controlling and imprisoning millions of women who are challenging the Islamic power structures of the regime, the acid attacks might be a new method employed by governmental vigilante groups to impose fear in the society, particularly in women, and coerce women to comply with the Islamic dress code of the Islamic Republic.</p>
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		<title>The Smearing of Robin Williams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2014 04:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the late comedian's Emmy tribute montage about Islamic veiling was far from "racist." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Robin-Williams.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239831" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Robin-Williams.jpg" alt="Robin-Williams" width="283" height="192" /></a>Recently, comedian Billy Crystal presented a tribute to the late Robin Williams at the 2014 Primetime Emmy Awards. During the tribute, Crystal said:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is very hard to talk about him in the past because he was so present in all of our lives…..For almost 40 years he was the brightest star in the comedy galaxy…. . He made us laugh. Hard. Every time you saw him &#8211; on television, movies, nightclubs, arenas, hospitals, homeless shelters for our troops overseas. And even in a dying girl&#8217;s living room for her last wish, he made us laugh. Big time.</p></blockquote>
<p>After Crystal’s message, a montage of some of Williams’ performances was played. The tribute ignited a firestorm on social media due to the inclusion of a clip of a Williams sketch involving the hijab in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the clip, Williams borrows a scarf from an audience members, wears it covering his head mimicking a hijab and says, &#8220;I would like to welcome you to Iran. Help me!&#8221;</p>
<p>A frenzy of <a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/65599"><span style="color: #0433ff;">commenters</span></a> on Twitter quickly <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/billy-crystal-leads-robin-williams-emmys-tribute-awards-show-criticised-for-choosing-racist-joke-about-iranian-woman-9690355.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">criticized</span></a> Williams&#8217; performance and his joke as “<span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/08/27/more-liberal-emmy-freak-out-billy-crystals-tribute-to-robin-williams-bashed-as-racist-141586">racist</a>,</span>” according to the <em>Independent</em> and other outlets. “The person putting together the Robin Williams segment for the Emmys decided to use his racist material,” Hannah Story (@hannamstory) tweeted. Another person wrote, “I&#8217;m still so shocked that the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Emmys?src=hash"><span style="color: #0433ff;">#Emmys</span></a> would include such a racist bit in Robin Williams tribute. Out of all his great work, really?” Another disgruntled commenter said, &#8220;I love Robin Williams but he really had some not okay racist jokes and they even put it in the tribute tonight.&#8221;</p>
<p>Leftists have quickly jumped to conclusions, unfairly viewing and labeling Williams&#8217; criticism of Iran&#8217;s oppression of women as completely “racist.” To shed light more on this issue, several points need to be addressed.</p>
<p>Not only have I studied the Islamic Republic of Iran, its politics, and Islam for many years, but unlike the leftists who are quick to condemn and label Robin William’s hijab joke as racist, I have also lived in this repressive and authoritarian Islamist country that views women as instruments, slaves, and second-class citizens.</p>
<p>From my perspective, it is critical to point out that Williams&#8217; stand-up performance did not have any links to racial or even to religious issues. His words were more aimed at the repressive government of the Islamic Republic, giving voice to women, exercising freedom of speech, as well as bringing a smile to the faces of many.</p>
<p>If you live in the Islamic Republic and if you are a girl, you will be forced to wear a veil when you reach nine years old. Among the millions of Iranian girls &#8212; who are coerced against their will to wear a hijab &#8212; was my younger sister. After she was forced to wear a scarf at school and in public, she began having nightmares, waking up frightened in the middle of the night at her young age because she was told at school that Allah (God) would hang girls from their hair for eternity if they showed even a strand of hair to a stranger, according to the Hadith.</p>
<p>If a woman dares to take off her veil in public, she will be arrested, jailed, and lashed. I personally have seen girls be humiliated, beaten, and dragged into the street to a police car by the morality religious police because they did not wear the veil according to the Iranian regime&#8217;s Islamic code. In my previous articles <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/majid-rafizadeh/women-fight-for-freedom-from-the-hijab/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">here</span></a> and <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/majid-rafizadeh/irans-crackdown-on-women/">here</a>, I illustrated the details of the repression of Iranian women by the Iranian regime and their dreams for freedoms. One of their simple but seemingly impossible dream is to have the freedom to wear what they like, and to have the option to choose whether they want to wear a hijab or not. Polls have repeatedly shown, and I have encountered many Iranian women, who would take off their scarf if allowed.</p>
<p>As I mentioned before this simple individual freedom might be taken for granted by women in the Western democratic world. And some might find it comical, ridiculous, or bizarre to have such a simple dream. But this is truly a dream for millions of Iranian women.</p>
<p>From a political perspective, the purpose of these repressive Islamic laws in Iran is evident. These laws are aimed at dehumanizing and subjugating women, treating them as second-class citizens by taking away their power over basic daily activities and even their bodies through this mechanism of control. In order to achieve this goal, the Iranian regime employs Islamic Sharia laws, Shiite codes, and sovereign power (i.e. hard power, police, judiciary system, etc).</p>
<p>The second topic to tackle is connected to freedom of speech.  The leftists, who portray themselves as advocates of freedom of expression, are displaying a significant contradiction in their statements by condemning a Robin Williams joke. Are the leftists prescribing that people should not be allowed to criticize or even make a satire about dictatorships, authoritarian and vicious regimes, which are torturing, suppressing, and killing thousands of their own people?</p>
<p>There is a double standard when it comes to political correctness, and the left is perpetuating that idea. The “politically correct” left is suggesting that criticisms of tyrannical, autocratic and undemocratic regimes by comedians and other individuals should not be allowed. This is a risky approach due to the fact that it undermines those who are attempting to give a voice to oppressed and subjugated citizens, including women who live under repressive laws. I believe any individual, including leftists, should refrain from stamping every statement as racist and quickly demonizing and condemning people.</p>
<p style="color: #003b0b;"><span style="color: #000000;">As Robert Spencer articulately points out regarding the condemnation of Williams and the crucial impact that leftists and Islamists have had on our society and culture, </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000;">[A]</span>ny reference, even a joke, to Sharia-related oppression or jihad violence is immediately denounced by the programmed and dutiful as &#8220;racist.&#8221; This is the same impulse that led the teenager who stumbled upon the Fort Dix jihad plot to hesitate about reporting it to police — he was afraid it might be &#8220;racist&#8221; to do so. The comfortable, self-righteous Leftists who are denouncing the Emmys today will be congratulating themselves on not being “racist” right up to the moment that the knife sawing through their throat brings an abrupt end to their conscious thoughts.</p></blockquote>
<p>During his life, Robin Williams attempted to bring laughter to millions of people around the world. We should contemplate more whether it is genuinely fair to completely and quickly label him as a “racist,” for this stand-up comedy performance and joke did not have anything to do with race, but was aimed at giving a voice to women in Iran and comically criticizing the Iranian regime.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islamic Supremacism’s totalitarian presence on the streets of L.A.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["A difference of opinion about headscarves ends in someone being killed."]]></description>
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<p>Obama bombed Libya to protect the people of Benghazi. That seems to have worked out really well for the Islamic militias he wanted to aid and<a href="http://blogs.channel4.com/lindsey-hilsum-on-international-affairs/libyan-rights-lawyer-salwa-bugaighis-killed-benghazi/3943"> badly for anyone wasn&#8217;t in an Islamic militia</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Salwa Bugaighis was one of small group of lawyers who protested outside the north courthouse in Benghazi in February 2011. She was the most prominent female revolutionary and we all interviewed her many times.</p>
<p>She has been described as one of the bravest women in Libya and not even death threats could stop her from voting in Wednesday&#8217;s elections.</p>
<p>The lawyer was shot and stabbed on the day of the general election, an exercise in democracy. A group of five masked men, carrying Kalashnikovs, burst into the house in the eastern city of Benghazi, shooting a guard at the gate. Ms Bugaighis was taken to hospital where she died from her injuries.</p>
<p>The ceaseless campaign Salwa Bugaighis carried out for women&#8217;s rights led to her being condemned by jihadist groups, as well as by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Grand Mufti, Al-Sadiq al-Gharyani. She repeatedly stressed that she was a follower of Islam, but spoke out against the hijab, arguing there was nothing in the faith demanding that women should cover themselves entirely, and rarely even wore a headscarf herself.</p>
<p>Iman Bugaighis, an orthodontist by profession, said, &#8220;They say it&#8217;s about religion, but we are Muslims ourselves as you know. How have we reached this place where a difference of opinion about headscarves ends in someone being killed?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s Islam. It was always in this place.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2014 04:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>For 35 years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has forced millions of Iranian women and young girls to wear a chador, hijab, or other form covering to hide their bodies and hair. Girls are ordered to wear a hijab at the age of eight or nine.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The moral police have been deployed to crack down on those women who do not fully comply with this Islamic rule. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Growing up in the Islamic Republic, I saw how many women and girls felt it intolerable to wear a hijab, not only because it breached the personal freedoms of each citizen, but also because they found it difficult to wear a hijab on hot desert days throughout the year. One of my university friends, Sahar, dreamt to one day be able to walk freely down the street, wearing whatever she liked, feeling the breeze, the wind blowing through her hair, and not having to wear this mandatory covering that had been part of her public life since she was eight years old. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">One day, I attempted to help Sahar fulfill her dream and I took her to a field far from the eyes of the Islamic moral police, and she walked, ran, and jumped around without a scarf like a child. It felt as if she had been released from prison, like she was capable of feeling this simple pleasure of freedom for the first time.  Nevertheless, we were still afraid that there might be a governmental observer or a spy hiding somewhere. It was not a totally liberating experience. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This simple individual freedom might be taken for granted by women in the Western democratic world. And some might find it comical, ridiculous, or bizarre to have such a simple dream. But this is truly a dream for millions of Iranian women. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The summer is coming and the heat reaches over 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in Iran.  Working a full day with a thick hijab around your head and body can also cause serious health problems. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The battle between the Iranian regime, its moral Islamic police and women continues even after 35 years. When the summer comes, women attempt to push the boundaries of the religion and law by sliding their scarves a little bit back, making it looser in order to divert the heat or feel some breeze and wind. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Islamic moral police though, ratchet up their crack down in the summer. The parliament is currently passing a new law that would work to enforce this dress code more strictly in the summer. They fine women, arrest them, detain them, jail them or even torture them if they keep resisting the Sharia and Islamic law of the land. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">I believe that the Islamic law of Iran that forces and orders women to wear a mandatory hijab, and the Sharia law that punishes women who defy this rule, are not only ideological and religious, but are a means of control over women. These are legal, political, and judiciary instruments to control women’s bodies, subjugate them and humiliate them. </span></p>
<p>As a woman, if one would like to be promoted in a career, the regime imposes a much stricter dress code regarding the hijab, where no part of the body should be shown. Many people have lost their jobs due to this Islamic law.</p>
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<p>Intriguingly, one of the ways that Iranian women have started to fight back is through Facebook and other social media platforms. A Persian Facebook page has recently been created called “Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian Women.” On this page, Iranian women post their photos flaunting their hair, taking their hijabs off secretly in public spheres such as in streets, parks, mountains, and even in front of religious institutions.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A young Iranian girl posted a picture of herself without her scarf in front of one of the Grand Ayatollah’s offices. </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/StealthyFreedom">She wrote</a>,<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> “We will move faster until you comprehend what we can do, whatever you say, we will do the opposite, hoping for freedom.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p>Another Iranian women posted a picture of herself, standing in water in one of the governmental fields. She said, “Freedom is a right of every human being. Freedom&#8230; happiness&#8230; colorfulness&#8230; is the right of every Iranian woman. Freedom is a right, and rights are to be fought for and obtained! They will not give it to you. So we will attain our rights ourselves.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A husband takes a photo of his wife in Masooleh, in the north of Iran. It is posted on the Facebook page with almost 3000 likes in one day. She is jumping in the air spreading her hands and feeling the breeze through her hair. She writes, “Here is Masooleh. We searched and searched until we found a place devoid of any observer! It was us… and the sun and the spring breeze! We jumped and pranced until we got tired and then lay down on the grass and slept a few hours without having to worry. If you cannot bear to see these stealthy freedoms we breed for ourselves, then see it and burn. Taken by my dear husband.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yes, having a dream that one day they could walk through the streets or university dormitories with the wind blowing through their hair is something many women think of every day.  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">I totally agree that some women wear the hijab of their own volition (or to be more precise, I truly believe that they have been indoctrinated by the religion, Imams, fear of Islam, fear of Allah’s punishment, or empty promises of comfort in this life and afterlife), but this does not mean all women should be forced and ordered to wear this thick cloth over their bodies, which does not have any other purpose other than hurting oneself. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">I remember my youngest sister, when she was 9 years old, would wake up almost everyday for several months in the middle of night having nightmares because her teacher and school’s Imam said that if they take of their hijab, that God has said they will be hung from their hair and tongue infinitely in </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Jahanam</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> (hell) and that they will be burned over and over again for millions of years. What a merciful and lovely God (Allah) who does such things!</span></p>
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		<title>Leftist Dons Hijab, Disproves Existence of Islamophobia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA['There was this excess (of niceness) that I would experience."]]></description>
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<p>The indoctrination has worked quite well. Many Westerners now work hard to prove that they aren&#8217;t Islamophobic. And this once again demonstrates <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2603480/Canadian-college-student-experiments-wearing-hijab-finds-people-NICER-her.html">that the Muslim hysteria over Islamophobia is a myth</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A Canadian college student recently conducted a social experiment to see if people treated her differently if she wore a hijab &#8211; a traditional Muslim veil that covers a woman&#8217;s head and chest &#8211; and what she discovered was a bit unexpected.</p>
<p>Anisa Rawhani, a third-year student at Queens University in Ontario, wore the traditional Muslim garb for 18 days in January as she worked at the university&#8217;s library, visited stores and restaurants near the campus and as she did volunteer work with local children. </p>
<p>According to Rawhani &#8211; who conducted the experiment to see if people in her community were racist towards minority groups &#8211; she noticed that people actually treated her more kindly and with more respect than when she didn&#8217;t wear the hijab.</p>
<p>&#8216;I went with my hijab and people were very nice, people were polite, parents would shake my hand, so the experience was all across the board in Kingston.&#8217;</p>
<p>In some cases, she says, she would go out with friends who weren&#8217;t wearing any identifying religious symbols and she was treated much nicer than they were. </p>
<p>&#8216;There was this excess (of niceness) that I would experience that I couldn&#8217;t account for,&#8217; she said. &#8216;Like really going the extra mile like smiling broadly and being so so polite, which I&#8217;ve never experienced before. It was a stark contrast that was going on that threw me for a loop.&#8217;</p></blockquote>
<p>Overall Americans and Canadians are fairly nice people and they&#8217;ve heard enough lectures about how excluded Muslims feel that they go the extra mile for them.</p>
<p>Also many people treat someone wearing a hijab as a foreigner and act more welcoming to them.</p>
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		<title>Video: The Political Side of Hijabs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Bill Warner unveils the dark message behind the symbol of Sharia. ]]></description>
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		<title>Sharia Court Rules that Women w/o Hijab are &#8220;Sluts&#8221; and Can&#8217;t Testify</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Not wearing the hijab would affect the honesty of her testimony." ]]></description>
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<p>The<a href="http://www.albawaba.com/blog_roundup/wear-hijab-or-lose-your-job-jordan-dubai-islamic-banks-position-426672"> case appears </a>to involve an Arab Christian woman from the Jordan Dubai Islamic Bank for not wearing a Hijab. Now an Islamic Sharia Court h<a href="http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/jordan-women-hijab-563388">as ruled about what you expect from </a>an Islamic court.(via <a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/">Religion of Peace</a>)</p>
<p>Especially when it relies on the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<blockquote><p>The court announced late last week that it agreed with one lawyer&#8217;s statement &#8211; based on a fatwa &#8211; that says a woman who does not cover up or wear a hijab is considered a “slut” and shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to testify in court.</p>
<p>“The Amman Sharia Court of Appeal has accepted the lawyer’s objection to a female witness from testifying for not wearing the hijab, which the court said would affect the fairness and honesty in her testimony.</p>
<p>According to the fatwa, which the court’s decision was based on, women who aren’t covered up are “sluts,” and that gives those women a bad name. Furthermore, the court was unable to support this fatwa apart from with something written in the introduction of a book by Egyptian Islamic Theologian Sheikh Yusuf Al Qaradawi.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=822">Yusuf Al Qaradawi </a>is the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and when he isn&#8217;t calling for genocide, he&#8217;s calling for terrorism. Also he&#8217;s for burning gays to death, <a href="http://www.whatnextjournal.org.uk/Pages/Politics/Brettlock.html">beating women </a>and <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1466715/For-her-to-be-absolved-from-guilt-a-raped-woman-must-have-shown-good-conduct.html">has typically Islamic views on rape</a>.</p>
<p>When asked if female rape victims should be punished under Islam, Qaradawi replied: “To be absolved from guilt, the raped woman must have shown some sort of good conduct.&#8221;</p>
<p>You might get the idea that Qaradawi is some &#8216;whacko extremist&#8217;, but his Muslim Brotherhood dominates Muslim organizations in the US and Europe. The campus Muslim Students Association is another Brotherhood front. If you see a spokesman on television, the odds are that he agrees with Qaradawi.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the future of Islam in America.</p>
<p>The Hijab is not a choice. Islam is not a choice. They&#8217;re only choices in non-Muslim countries and not always then.</p>
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		<title>The Pentagon’s Bow to Islamic Extremism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 05:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the acceptance of Islamic dress codes may make the Pentagon more vulnerable. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Woman-wearing-Hijab.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218612" alt="Woman-wearing-Hijab" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Woman-wearing-Hijab-450x332.png" width="270" height="199" /></a></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Caving to pressure from Muslim groups, the Pentagon has relaxed uniform rules to allow Islamic beards, turbans and hijabs. It’s a major win for political correctness and a big loss for military unit cohesion,” said a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/012914-688132-pentagon-allows-islamic-beards-worn-by-jihadists.htm">recent report</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This new relaxation of rules for Muslims comes at a time when the FBI is tracking more than 100 suspected jihadi-infiltrators of the U.S. military.  Just last month, Craig Benedict Baxam, a former Army soldier and convert to Islam, was sentenced to seven years in prison due to his al-Qaeda/jihadi activities.   Also last month, Mozaffar Khazaee, an Iranian-American working for the Defense Department, was arrested for sending secret documents to America’s enemy, Iran.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to a Pentagon spokesperson, the new religious accommodations—to allow Islamic beards, turbans, and hijabs—which took effect very recently, would “reduce both the instances and perception of discrimination among those whose religious expressions are less familiar to the command.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The report concludes that, “Making special accommodations for Islam will only attract more Muslims into the military at a time when two recent terror cases highlight the ongoing danger of Muslims in uniform.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But it’s worse than that; for not only will it attract “more Muslims,” it will attract precisely the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">wrong</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> kinds of Muslims, AKA, “Islamists,” “radicals,” etc.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is easily demonstrated by connecting the dots and understanding that Muslims who adhere to visible, non-problematic aspects of Islam—growing beards and donning hijabs—often indicate their adherence to non-visible, problematic aspects of Islam.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Consider it this way: Why do some Muslim men wear the prescribed beard and why do some Muslim women wear the prescribed hijab? Most Muslims would say they do so because Islam’s prophet Muhammad commanded them to (whether via the Koran or Hadith).</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Regarding the Muslim beard, Muhammad wanted his followers to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/muslim/002.smt.html">look different</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> from “infidels,” namely Christians and Jews, so he ordered his followers to “trim closely the moustache and grow the beard.” Accordingly, all </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.islam.tc/beard/beard.html">Sunni schools of law</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> maintain that it is forbidden—a “</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://alfatihoun.edaama.org/Fatawas/English/Fatawas/V1/Fourteen.htm">major sin</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">”—for men to shave their beards (unless, of course, it is part of a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.meforum.org/2538/taqiyya-islam-rules-of-war">stratagem against the infidel</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, in which case it is permissible).</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The question begs itself: If such Muslims meticulously follow the minor, “outer” things of Islam simply because their prophet made some utterances concerning them in the Hadith, logically speaking, does that not indicate that they also follow, or at the very least accept as legitimate, the major, “inner” themes Muhammad constantly emphasized in both the Koran and Hadith—such as enmity for and deceit of the infidel, and, when capable, perpetual jihad?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Even in the Islamic world this connection between visible indicators of Islamic piety and jihadi tendencies are well known.  Back in 2011, when Islamists were dominating Egypt’s politics, secularist talk show host Amr Adib of </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuJ8TwkscSk&amp;feature=player_embedded">Cairo Today</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> mocked the then calls for a “million man beard” march with his trademark sarcasm: “This is a great endeavor! After all, a man with a beard can never be a thug, can never rape a woman in the street, can never set a church on fire, can never fight and quarrel, can never steal, and can never be dishonest!”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">His sarcasm was not missed on his Egyptian viewership which knew quite well that it is precisely those Muslims who most closely follow the minutia of Muhammad—for example, by growing a beard—that are most prone to violence, deceit, and anti-infidel sentiments, all of which were also advocated by Islam’s prophet.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Speaking more seriously, Adib had added that this issue is not about growing a beard, but rather, “once you grow your beard, you give proof of your commitment and fealty to everything in Islam.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Similarly, after Egypt’s June 30 Revolution ousted the Muslim Brotherhood, “</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/22/beards-niqab-become-liability-in-egypt-after-crackdown/">overt signs of piety</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> [beards and hijabs] have become all it takes to attract suspicion from security forces at Cairo checkpoints and vigilantes looking to attack Islamists.”  Clubs and restaurants </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egyptian-club-bans-beards-and-veils/">banned entrance</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to those wearing precisely these two “overt signs of piety.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While Egyptians instinctively understand how fealty to the Muslim beard evinces fealty, or at least acceptance, to all those </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">other</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> problematic things Muhammad commanded, even in fuzzy Western op-eds, the connection sometimes peeks out. Consider the following excerpt from a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/us/06beliefs.html?pagewanted=all"><i>New York Times</i></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> piece titled “Behold the Mighty Beard, a Badge of Piety and Religious Belonging”:</span></p>
<blockquote><p> <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">[A]ll over the Muslim world, the full beard has come to connote piety and spiritual fervor…. Of course, the beard is only a sign of righteousness. It is no guarantor, as Mr. Zulfiqar [a Muslim interviewee] reminds us: “I recall one gentleman who came back from a trip to Pakistan and remarked to me, </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">‘I learned one thing: the longer the beard, the bigger the crook.’ His anticipation was people with big beards would be really honest, but he kept meeting people lying to him.”</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The italicized portion speaks for itself. Whereas the Muslim beard ostensibly represents religious piety, some people, mostly Westerners, are shocked to find that those who wear it are often “crooks” and “liars.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In Islam, however, outer signs of religiosity on the one hand, and corruption and deceit on the other, are quite compatible. After all, the same source—Islam’s prophet Muhammad, as recorded in the Hadith—that tells Muslims to grow a beard </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">also</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/7343/islams-doctrines-of-deception">advocates deception</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, the plundering of infidels, the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-woman-seeks-to-revive-institution-of-sex-slavery/">keeping of sex slaves</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/islamic-adult-breastfeeding-fatwas-return/">adult “breast feeding,”</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and all sorts of other practices antithetical to Western notions of piety if not decency.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Incidentally, it’s the same with the hijab, or cloak that some Muslim women wear, also on Muhammad’s command. One reformed Islamic jihadi from Egypt </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/7334/inside-jihad">accurately observes</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that “the proliferation of the hijab is strongly correlated with increased terrorism…. Terrorism became much more frequent in such societies as Indonesia, Egypt, Algeria, and the U.K. </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">after</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the hijab became prevalent among Muslim women living in those communities.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And so, at a time when the U.S. should at the very least be wary of those who openly wear their Islamic radicalism around their face and head—beards for males, hijabs for females—the U.S. Pentagon (of all places) is embracing them in “celebration of multiculturalism.” Where loyalty to the U.S. is most needed, the Pentagon embraces those who show that their loyalty is elsewhere (among other things, the beard and hijab are meant to separate “pure believers” from “impure infidels”).</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Of course, none of this is surprising considering that the Pentagon also considers Evangelical Christians and Catholics as </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/pentagon-classifies-evangelical-christians-catholics-as-extremists.html">“extremists” on a par with al-Qaeda</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
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		<title>The Hijab has Nothing To Do with Modesty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2014 15:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[77 percent of the women who wear Hijabs did so because of threats by Islamist groups]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/robert-spencer/muslims-our-natural-allies/">Robert Spencer has replied at great length and depth</a> to Robert P. George of First Things and Michael Potemra of the National Review here, but I just want to zero in on one issue.</p>
<p>George writes, &#8220;I admire Muslim women and all women who practice the virtue of modesty, whether they choose to cover their hair or not. There are many ways to honor modesty and practices vary culturally in perfectly legitimate ways.&#8221;</p>
<p>Unfortunately he is operating under a misapprehension. The Hijab and the Burka and variations of mandatory female coverings have nothing to do with modesty.</p>
<p>The Koranic verse that mandates covering states, “O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks all over their bodies that they may thus be distinguished and not molested” (Koran 33:59)</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not modesty. The covering is being<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/muslim-rape-culture/"> worn to avoid rape</a>.</p>
<p>The key words here are &#8220;distinguished and not molested&#8221;. Whom are these women being distinguished from? Women who don&#8217;t cover up and can be molested. One Koranic commentator explicitly makes that very point as I discuss in <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/muslim-rape-culture/">Muslim Rape Culture</a>.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t modesty. It&#8217;s repression and fear. As Robert Spencer points out, the Hijab is accompanied by repression.</p>
<blockquote><p>Aqsa Parvez’s Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it. Amina Muse Ali was a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab. Forty women were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab.</p></blockquote>
<p>There&#8217;s an endless list of similar cases. Robert P. George might want to examine the religious freedom <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2010/03/02/opinion-why-france-is-right-about-the-burqa/">he is really defending</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A survey conducted in France in May 2003 found that 77 percent of girls wearing the hijab said they did so because of physical threats from Islamist groups. </p></blockquote>
<p>We can&#8217;t dismiss a number that large as the work of a handful of extremists. And this isn&#8217;t taking place in some Third World country. It&#8217;s happening in France.</p>
<blockquote><p>More often the girls were under orders from their fathers and uncles and brothers, and even their male classmates. For the boys, transforming a bluejeaned teen-age sister into a docile and observant &#8220;Muslim&#8221; virgin was a rite de passage into authority, the fast track to becoming a man, and more important, a Muslim man&#8230;. it was also a license for violence. </p>
<p>Girls who did not conform were excoriated, or chased, or beaten by fanatical young men meting out &#8220;Islamic justice.&#8221; Sometimes the girls were gang-raped. In 2002, an unveiled Muslim girl in the cite of Vitry-sur-Seine was burned alive by a boy she turned down.</p>
<p>Jane Kramer, Taking the Veil, New Yorker</p></blockquote>
<p>This isn&#8217;t modesty. It has nothing in common with modesty in the Jewish and Christian traditions which is about individual character.</p>
<p>Islamist activists and settlers in the West have learned how to phrase their arguments to tap into the worldviews and moral codes of indigenous cultures, but it would be a mistake to confuse the argument with the reality.</p>
<p>The Hijab and the Burka are not voluntary and they have nothing to do with modesty. The various Islamic coverings are motivated by fear, shame and abuse. </p>
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		<title>Does the Hijab Increase Academic Performance for Girls?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The overall literacy rate is 46 per cent, while only 26 per cent of girls are literate. ]]></description>
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<p>Loony Muslim convert Lauren Booth who is still desperately trying to get someone outside Gaza or Iran to pay attention to her has fastened onto the case of a Muslim school funded with tax monies which forced girls to sit in the back and forced them and female faculty to wear Hijabs.</p>
<p>I have no idea why the <a href="http://www.halalporkshop.blogspot.com/2013/10/brits-should-cover-up-their-daughters.html">Sunday Times had the poor judgement</a> to give her a platform&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Booth said Muslim schools in Manchester, where she now lives, had a “refreshingly modest dress code” which, she argued, could boost girls’ academic success and improve their emotional well-being.</p></blockquote>
<p>How well is that academic success working?</p>
<p>Muslim students in the <a href="http://www.let.osaka-u.ac.jp/seiyousi/vol_4/pdf/vol_4_article04.pdf">UK perform worse than</a> any other group.</p>
<blockquote><p>In his latest book, British Muslims and State Policies, published in 2003, he shows that the majority of Pakistani Muslims show lower educational achievement as compared to whites or Indians</p></blockquote>
<p>While Muslim girls do perform better than Muslim boys, that has little to do with Hijabs. It&#8217;s a common pattern among some minority groups, including African-Americans.</p>
<p>It simply means that the male half of the group is failing to even bother to make an effort.</p>
<p>But if this is in the UK. If we apply the actual cultural and religious practices of the Muslim world, the picture reverses itself with female illiteracy.</p>
<p>In the UK, Pakistanis do poorly academically, but Pakistani girls still do better than Pakistani boys. But now let&#8217;s look <a href="http://www.unesco.org/education/efa/know_sharing/grassroots_stories/pakistan_2.shtml">at how that would work living in a Muslim country</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Official statistics released by the Federal Education Ministry of Pakistan give a desperate picture of education for all, espcially for girls. The overall literacy rate is 46 per cent, while only 26 per cent of girls are literate. Independent sources and educational experts, however, are sceptical. They place the overall literacy rate at 26 per cent and the rate for girls and women at 12 per cent, contending that the higher figures include people who can handle little more than a signature</p></blockquote>
<p>This is girls education on Islam. And this is what Booth is really advocating.</p>
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		<title>Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Obama Inc&#8217;s Claim that Hijab Ban is Discriminatory</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama's EEOC used a Saudi agent to enforce Saudi Arabia's Hijab Jihad in America.]]></description>
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<p>Islamic activists have been making big inroads for in America for the repression of women by filing lawsuits that push the Hijab, one of the many Islamic headcoverings, as a human rights.</p>
<p>Obama Inc&#8217;s pet EEOC personnel have scored victories in their Hijab Jihad against Disney and Abercrombie and Fitch. But now <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2013/10/appeals-court-overrules-hijab-ban-not-discriminatory/">they have suffered a setback</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The woman, Samantha Elauf, applied for a job at an Abercrombie &amp; Fitch store in a Tulsa, Oklahoma mall in 2008. The company, which focuses on hip casual wear for consumers aged 18 to 22, has a policy against head covers of any kind for its employees. According to the EEOC it amounts to discrimination based on religion and that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Employers are required to accommodate the sincere religious beliefs or practices of employees, the agency says, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business.</p>
<p>A federal judge in Oklahoma agreed, ruling in 2011 that the law imposes an obligation on the employer to accommodate the religious practices of an employee or prospective employee unless it would result in undue hardship on the conduct of its business. In his order the U.S. Chief District judge, Gregory Frizzell, said the store violated Elauf’s civil rights when it didn’t hire her. Elauf was awarded $20,000 in damages and the EEOC bragged that the court sent a clear message to employers.</p>
<p>But the retailer appealed and this week the Denver-based Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling in favor of the EEOC, saying the store’s policy is not discriminatory, but rather intended to promote and showcase its brand, which “exemplifies a classic East Coast collegiate style of clothing.”</p>
<p>Additionally, the federal appellate court found that Elauf’s religious headscarf only became an issue after she was ruled out as a candidate. “Ms. Elauf never informed Abercrombie prior to its hiring decision that she wore her headscarf or `hijab’ for religious reasons.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Other Hijab Jihad victories have been scored, but this sets a contrary precedent that a business does have the right to control the look of employees who represent a brand.</p>
<p>The EEOC&#8217;s witness on behalf of the Hijab was apparently John Esposito, the director of <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/john_l_esposito_apologist_for_wahhabi_islam.html">Georgetown University&#8217;s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/john_l_esposito_apologist_for_wahhabi_islam.html">Esposito is funded by Saudi money</a> and Saudi Arabia has been aggressively pushing the Hijab Jihad against women abroad. He is notorious for<a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/john_l_esposito_apologist_for_wahhabi_islam.html"> his Islamist ties and support </a>for terrorists.</p>
<p>Saudi Arabia has been absolutely ruthless about enforcing its Jihad against women. At <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1874471.stm">the cost of women&#8217;s lives</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, according to Saudi newspapers.</p>
<p>According to the al-Eqtisadiah daily, firemen confronted police after they tried to keep the girls inside because they were not wearing the headscarves and abayas (black robes) required by the kingdom&#8217;s strict interpretation of Islam.</p>
<p>One witness said he saw three policemen &#8220;beating young girls to prevent them from leaving the school because they were not wearing the abaya&#8221;.</p>
<p>The father of one of the dead girls said that the school watchman even refused to open the gates to let the girls out.</p></blockquote>
<p>The <a href="http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&amp;contentid=2011010590642">Saudi enforcement of the Hijab </a>or other headcoverings are routine. Now Obama&#8217;s EEOC used a Saudi agent to enforce them in America. Is this really what equality means?</p>
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		<title>Saudi Woman in Hijab Robs 5 American Banks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 02:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“She has been charged with bank robbery [and] telling the teller that she had a gun. She took $2,300,” ]]></description>
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<p>The great thing about Hijabs and Burkas and Niqabs  and Abayas and Chadors and Jilbabs and the rest of the whole Dr. Seuss meets Islamic Misogyny forms of mobile purdah is that they double as disguises.</p>
<p>Which is <a href="http://www.halalporkshop.blogspot.com/2013/09/saudi-woman-charged-with-committing-5.html">handy when you&#8217;re robbing banks</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Ranya al-Huthaili, who was arrested earlier this month on charges of robbing the five banks, is now set to remain in custody out of fear she will flee to Saudi Arabia, U.S. newspaper Star Tribune reported on Friday.</p>
<p>“She has been charged with bank robbery [and] telling the teller that she had a gun. She took $2,300,” said Nadia Bilbassy-Charters, an Al Arabiya correspondent in Washington.</p>
<p>According to the newspaper, the FBI believes Huthaili robbed the Klein Bank in Minnesota on Aug. 15, the First State Bank of Wyoming in Minnesota on Aug. 23, the TCF Bank in the Cub Foods on Broadway Avenue W. in Forest Lake on Sept. 1 and the First State Bank and Trust in Wisconsin on Sept. 5.</p>
<p>Huthaili stole $2,300 from the Wisconsin bank. However, the money’s identification markings led police to a shopping mall in Minneapolis where she bought a computer, the correspondent confirmed.</p>
<p>Huthaili, a dual Saudi-U.S. citizen, is now deemed a flight risk as court documents state Saudi Arabia has no extradition pact with the United States.</p>
<p>Rau wrote that the defendant has acknowledged robbing four of the banks, while surveillance images from the robberies showed her wearing big black sunglasses.</p></blockquote>
<p>Oddly, or not so oddly, he failed to mention the Hijab.</p>
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		<title>Airport Security &amp; Double Standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 04:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At LAX, some head coverings are more equal than others. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/niqab-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203750" alt="niqab-2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/niqab-2.jpg" width="288" height="193" /></a>“Take off the cap!” barked the TSA official working security at Los Angeles International Airport.</p>
<p>The recipient of this curt order was my young son, Sean, who was brandishing a Batman baseball cap. News Flash: Apparently, 11-year-old Canadians are responsible for a disproportionate amount of terrorism. But I digress…</p>
<p>In any event, the kid complied and dad (for a change) kept his triple-XL mouth shut. When you have a flight to catch it’s seldom prudent to perturb those ever-so-pleasant folks working airport security.</p>
<p>Still, I felt compelled to return to the screening area once the family was safely seated in the departure lounge. And here’s what I observed: some Muslim women proceeded through the checkpoint without having to remove<i> their</i> headwear (hijabs.)</p>
<p>How odd. If one can presumably stash a box-cutter or a dollop of C4 underneath a baseball cap, surely an hijab can serve the same purpose?</p>
<p>I approached a policeman standing guard. I politely asked him: why the apparent double-standard?</p>
<p>He told me hijabs cannot be removed because “that would be against their religion.”</p>
<p>I corrected the officer, noting there’s nothing in the Koran that mandates the wearing of the hijab.</p>
<p>“OK,” he conceded. “But it’s a cultural thing or something.”</p>
<p>Or something.</p>
<p>Then he said in a tone reminiscent of how a principal would speak to a seven-year-old: “You see, sir, in America, Americans and people visiting America have rights.”</p>
<p>No argument there. Except for a small caveat: surely there’s a reasonable expectation that one’s “rights” will be curtailed somewhat when one enters an airport. That’s why we are prodded and poked and X-rayed when we proceed through security in the first place. That’s why one can’t waltz into a terminal brandishing a legal handgun.</p>
<p>The cop simply shrugged. I upped the ante: if those women had been wearing full-face coverings such as a burqa or niqab, would they have been forced to unveil to confirm their identities?</p>
<p>“Nope,” came the reply. “It’s because that’s a religion thing, too.”</p>
<p>My jaw was now resting on the linoleum.</p>
<p>Reminding him that the vast amount of terrorism in the world today emanates from those shouting “Allahu Akbar!” before pressing the detonator, the poor constable’s face contoured as though he had just bitten into a sour lemon. Our conversation was over.</p>
<p>Still, on reflection, perhaps I got off easy. After all, I wasn’t detained against my will and put through the wringer – which is precisely what happened to author David Jones at London’s Gatwick Airport last year.</p>
<p>According to an article in <i>The Telegraph</i>, Jones placed his belongings into a tray to pass through the X-ray scanner when he spotted a Muslim woman in a niqab breeze through the area without showing her face.</p>
<p>In a light-hearted aside to a security official who had been assisting him, the 67-year-old said: “If I was wearing this scarf over my face, I wonder what would happen?”</p>
<p>Oh dear. Red alert! Jones was promptly accused of racism and sequestered. An airport security guard, a British Airlines official, and even a policeman all agreed he had been “insensitive” with his comment and needed to apologize. After being detained for almost half-an-hour, Jones issued a <i>mea culpa</i>; otherwise, he risked missing his flight to Portugal.</p>
<p>But Jones also rightly noted: “I had not made a racist remark but purely an observation that we were in a maximum security situation being searched thoroughly whilst a woman with her face covered walked through. I made no reference to race or religion.”</p>
<p>Amazingly, Department for Transport rules don’t prevent people covering their faces at U.K. airports for – you got it – “religious reasons.”</p>
<p>Bottom line: Wednesday marks the 12<sup>th</sup> anniversary of 9/11. How sad that whatever lessons we supposedly learned on that dark day back in 2001 already seem to have been sacrificed upon the alter of political correctness.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swedish derangement syndrome reaches new heights.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hijabinstagram2.png"><img class=" wp-image-201734 alignleft" alt="hijabinstagram2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hijabinstagram2-450x324.png" width="270" height="194" /></a>Europe is awash in dhimmitude, but Sweden is a case unto itself. There&#8217;s something desperate and demented about the levels of dhimmitude on display in Ikea-land. In no other European country, moreover, is there so little pushback in the media.</p>
<p>As I wrote just <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/scandinavian-rape-scandinavian-blinders/">yesterday</a>, Sweden has the highest percentage of rapes in the Western world. And the problem is getting steadily worse. Given the progressive Swedish establishment&#8217;s fondness for earnest rhetoric about women&#8217;s rights, you might think this rape crisis would be a subject of deep concern in the nation&#8217;s media. But no – it&#8217;s a non-topic. It&#8217;s unmentionable. And for one reason: because everyone understands that the ever-increasing incidence of Swedish rapes is directly related to the ever-increasing number of Swedish Muslims. And in Sweden, you can&#8217;t talk critically about Islam. You just can&#8217;t – not publicly, anyway. When the subject is Islam, nothing is permitted other than the usual mindless multicultural mantras.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m deeply aware of all this. Even so, I was taken aback by one of the big news stories out of Sweden this week.</p>
<p>It started when a pregnant Muslim woman (one report put her age at 20; another identified her as a mother of three) claimed that she&#8217;d been attacked late Friday night. She was alone in a parking structure in the Stockholm suburb of Farsta, she said, when a man walked over to her, ripped off her hijab, and banged her head into a parked car, making her dizzy. He also growled something to the effect that people like her “don&#8217;t belong here.”</p>
<p>Now, if this actually happened, it&#8217;s repugnant. But there&#8217;s no evidence that it <i>did </i>happen – no eyewitnesses, no surveillance video – and it&#8217;s been suggested (although not, of course, in the Swedish media) that the woman&#8217;s story could be entirely bogus. In any case, it&#8217;s a man-bites-dog tale if there ever was one: Sweden is overrun with Muslim men who rape infidel women, not with infidels who pull headscarves off Muslim women.</p>
<p>Yet when the woman went public with her account, Swedish derangement syndrome kicked in – big time. On Sunday, <i>Aftonbladet </i>ran an <a href="http://www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/article17314519.ab">op-ed</a> signed by five persons: Bilan Osman, identified as an “anti-racist commentator”; Fatima Doubakil of the Muslim Human Rights Committee; Foujan Rouzbeh,  an “asylum rights activist”; Nabila Abdul Fattah, “commentator”; and Nachla Libre, “poet.”</p>
<p>The five authors asserted that “the woman in Farsta isn&#8217;t the only one who has been attacked in this way.” Many Muslim women, they maintained, have been subjected to similar mistreatment by “white Swedish men&#8230;on buses, in stores, and at restaurants.” The authors painted a picture of a country filled with white people who “harass, degrade, intimidate, and abuse others in public places because of their religious attire.” And they argued that such offenses have become increasingly common because – and, yes, they actually wrote the following – “Islam and Muslims are described in the media and by political parties as a problem and a threat to Swedish democracy.”</p>
<p>Yes, Islam <i>is </i>a threat to Swedish democracy; but no, the Swedish media virtually never dare to admit this fact, or to say anything that might remotely hint at it. And the only political party that addresses this issue is the Swedish Democratic Party, whose members are not only routinely condemned in the media, in the harshest of terms, but have been repeatedly harassed, degraded, intimidated, and abused by the Swedish government itself.</p>
<p>The op-ed authors went on to demand – and that&#8217;s the word they used, “demand” – that Justice Minister Beatrice Ask “appoint a commission to investigate, map, and come up with specific action plans to combat the widespread hate crimes against Muslims.” They called on the government “to stop the march of fascism” (as represented, apparently, by that lone man in the parking structure who allegedly pulled off the woman&#8217;s headscarf). And they proclaimed what they called a <i>“hijabupprop”</i> – a hijab action. “We encourage all of our sisters in Sweden – religious and non-religious – to veil themselves on the morning of August 19 to show solidarity with all Muslim women who, all too often, suffer harassment and violence.”</p>
<p>The five authors tweeted their call to action on Twitter. The tweet was shared over 65,000 times. The idea was brilliant, providing politically correct Swedes with an excellent opportunity to posture. And it proved a magnificent success. In “solidarity” with the purported victim, countless Swedish women – including a number of well-known actors, writers, journalists, artists, and politicians – wore headscarves on Monday. And took pictures of themselves doing so. Their photos flooded Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.</p>
<p>One of the women who proudly donned traditional Muslim headgear was Gudrun Schyman of the Feminist Initiative, a leading women&#8217;s rights group. Another was Social Democratic politician Veronica Palm, who announced on Facebook that she supported the hijab action “because nobody should feel threatened or harassed because of the way they choose to dress.” Sweden&#8217;s Humanist organization issued a statement in support of the campaign, declaring that all men and women have a right to dress as they wish.</p>
<p>Justice Minister Beatrice Ask, for her part, invited the hijab campaign&#8217;s organizers to meet with her on Tuesday. “I would love to hear what they have to say,” she told the media, “because I believe they have more to say than what they can write in an op-ed.” She underscored that the hijab-yanking incident “should be taken very seriously,” as should the views of the campaign organizers. As for the organizers, while they agreed to meet Ask, they didn&#8217;t hide the fact that they were sore at her for turning down a joint TV interview with them. “We&#8217;ll meet her, of course, but we won&#8217;t be satisfied with that,” one of them griped. “We want her to take action.”</p>
<p>The Swedish news media, notorious for the decorous silence they have long maintained about the country&#8217;s rape crisis, were all over this story. The newspapers were awash in stories about the hijab campaign and full of pictures of the famous Swedish women in Muslim headscarves. The hijab campaigners were interviewed repeatedly on TV and radio. One of them, Nabila Abdul Fattah, admitted that their goal was “to normalize the hijab.”</p>
<p>There were very few dissenting voices –  at least not in the public square. Muslim feminist Hanna Gadban was furious about the campaign, and tried to remind everyone that the hijab is a symbol of patriarchal oppression. But she was a voice crying in the wilderness. Like a chilled bottle of Dom Perignon to a dipsomaniac, the hijab action was just too irresistible to the Swedish mind.</p>
<p>Sitting at my computer and looking over all the pictures of Swedish women in headscarves, I pondered, more bemused than ever, the eternal question: what is it in the Swedish character that makes such foolishness possible? The zillions of photos of stupid, self-satisfied infidel women in veils symbolizing female subordination were ridiculous, deserving of mockery, of derisive laughter. But they were also scary. Seeing brainwashed people is always scary. “What&#8217;s wrong with these people?” I said aloud as I pored over the screwy selfies. “Whatever it is,” my partner said, “it should be in the DSM.”</p>
<p>Even as all this nonsense was underway, Sweden, which has the world&#8217;s second highest rape statistics – thanks to nothing more or less than the army of savage Muslim men within its borders who have no respect or mercy whatsoever for unveiled infidel women – was inexorably moving up toward the title of world&#8217;s #1 rape nation. And there was no sign of anyone doing anything whatsoever about it.</p>
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		<title>Turkish Female Journalist Receives Death Threats for Removing Hijab</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>According to Hijab, Burka and Niqab apologists, wearing one is purely a matter of choice for a woman. Except the only place that it&#8217;s really a matter of choice is in a non-Muslim country.</p>
<p>Rabia Kazan, a Turkish female journalist and author of a book about prostitution in Iran, <a href="http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/bestselling-turkish-writer-is-receiving-death-threats-after-she-took-her-veil-off/">describes the stifling experience of being forced to cover up</a> and the threats that came after she chose freedom.</p>
<blockquote><p>Arguing that there is no verse for wearing headscarves in the Quran, Kazan has faced heavy criticism also in her country due to her thoughts. Her own father attacked her house with stones.</p>
<p>I FELT FREEDOM WHEN I TOOK OFF MY HEADSCARF”</p>
<p>&#8220;During the first years of wearing a headscarf, I used to feel like my head was stuck up inside a nylon bag, and I heard humming. I had those fearful moments when the needles came loose, wondering if the needle would prick my throat. So I would at times take off the headscarf secretly when my mother was not watching. But one day when I got caught by my mother she subjected me to an unforgettably painful beating.</p>
<p>30 years later, when I decided to uncover my head, another battle started. It was very difficult. Radical Islamists got very furious when a covered and well-known writer decided to uncover her head. I heard harsh insults and received death threats.</p>
<p>When I came to America, first of all I started to swim to my heart’s content… It was such regret for me not to have done it for so long that I didn’t want to get out of the swimming pool before I swam for two hours every night…</p>
<p>I suffered from vitamin D deficiency since my skin didn’t get enough sunlight by then and this normally causes serious illnesses, weakness and mental fatigue. I sunbathed a lot. Then I tied my hair in a pony-tail and played tennis under the blue sky with my white tennis clothes on. I cannot tell you how good it felt. Then I fulfilled my dream of growing nails and putting on red nail polish, which was a personal remembrance to me. I had met a woman in my trip to Iran who was forced to put her hands into a bag full of insects just because she had put on red nail polish… Whenever I put on red nail polish, I still remember that woman with sadness…</p>
<p>Now I am free and believe that God has no problem with the hair on my head, He will not burn me in his Hell for this reason, He holds us with much more mercy and kindness than we think, and that being “a good person” is much more important than wearing a dark veil.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Norwegian Schools Preach the Wonders of Niqab</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Bawer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mysterious stealth Islamist emerges on the scene to promote keeping women out of sight and mind. ]]></description>
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<p>The <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/22/army-to-allow-hijabs-turbans-in-junior-rotc/%20">news</a> came three days before Christmas:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has announced that the Department of Defense will now allow Muslim and Sikh students participating in Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) to wear headscarves and turbans while in uniform.</p></blockquote>
<p>When I read this, the first thing I thought was: <em>What?!  </em>And the second was: Since when does CAIR make announcements on behalf of the Department of Defense?</p>
<p>The background was as follows: a Muslim girl in Tennessee was told by her JROTC commanding officer that she could not wear her headscarf, or hijab, in a homecoming parade.  She contacted CAIR, which in turn contacted Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, asking for a change in policy.  And instead of informing CAIR that the Department of Defense does not take its marching orders from fronts for terrorist organizations, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Larry Stubblefield fell right into line, writing a letter to CAIR assuring that henceforth JROTC policy would be different.</p>
<p>France and the Netherlands have banned the niqab, the face-covering veil, in public; the hijab is also prohibited in certain venues (such as classrooms and government offices) in a few European jurisdictions.  But in most of the Western world, there are no laws against any Muslim garments.  In many Western cities, there has been a visible increase in the number of women wearing these things in public.  And there has also been an increase in the number of Muslims who demand their right to wear them in institutions ranging from the armed forces and police to schools and universities.</p>
<p>Case in point: a twenty-year-old woman named Aisha Shezadi Kausar.  Kausar wears niqab.  Last year her name appeared on an essay, “You, Me, and Niqab,” which was included in <em>Utilslørt (Uncovered), </em>a collection of essays by and about Muslim women.  On December 20, she was featured in a <a href="http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/291229/">news report</a> on Norwegian public television (NRK) about a nationwide project aimed at Norwegian children and teenagers. Kausar, NRK reported, is making personal appearances at various schools around Norway, where she presents her use of the niqab as a feminist choice.  In the report, she was seen in front of an auditorium full of students, first praying, then talking about Allah, and then making her case.  She&#8217;s engaged in a “struggle for freedom” and “fighting against xenophobia.” The only reasons for opposition to niqab are “prejudice” and “fear of foreigners.” At the end of her talk the students gave her a big round of applause, and the kids interviewed by NRK said all the “right” things about diversity and tolerance.  Plainly they had not learned anything about Islam, the place of women in Islam, or what niqab actually represents.  Their teachers had taken them away from their studies to be propagandized.</p>
<p>Who&#8217;s sponsoring this promotional campaign for symbols of female submission and subordination?  The Muslim Students&#8217; Association?  The Norwegian Islamic Council?  No: the <a href="http://nffo.no/eng/default.aspx">Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Organisation</a> (NFF) and a group called <a href="http://www.foreningenles.no/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=88&amp;Itemid=87">Foreningen !les</a> (the exclamation point and the small “l” are part of the name) whose official goal is to promote reading and literature.  The premise of this sponsorship is that Kausar (the author, as far as I can determine, of exactly one essay) is an author and that they are sending her around to talk about her work.</p>
<p>In other words, Norwegian schools are setting aside time to allow their students to be fed pretty lies about Islam and niqab – and the country&#8217;s major organization for writers and translators is helping to foot the bill.</p>
<p>(If I were still an NFF member, I&#8217;d quit in protest.  Alas, I already quit in protest years ago over something else.)</p>
<p>Who is Aisha Shezadi Kausar?  Pretty much the only things I could find about her online were articles about hijab and niqab.  The author of a May 2009 <a href="http://www.nettavis.net/art.php?cat=17&amp;id=1587">article</a> on Nettavis, entitled “A hijab – is it really worth making so much of a fuss about?”, interviewed Kausar, then nineteen years old.  At the time, according to the article, Kausar was not a wearer of hijab.  Nettavis, which is a news website for young people, quoted Kausar:</p>
<p>“It speaks for itself that it&#8217;s wrong that my belief should put a stop to my career choice.  After all, we have religious freedom in this country,” she says with a certain bitterness in her voice.</p>
<p>A little over a year later, in August 2010, the newspaper <em>VG</em> ran an <a href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=10001288">interview</a> with Kausar<em>. </em>Though in the May 2009 article she had been represented as a Muslim girl who chose not to wear hijab, in the August 2010 <em>VG </em>interview she was described as a wearer of hijab and was quoted as saying she had begun wearing it three years earlier.  She said that her motivation for doing so was, in large part, “[t]o show the Islamophobes that Muslim girls can choose.” She insisted, moreover, that nobody had pressured her to wear hijab. On the contrary, she called herself a “feminist in a religious head covering” and said that she “identifies with the tough Muslim ladies who have fought for women in hijab to be accepted.”</p>
<p>And now, just over a year later, here she is wearing and promoting the niqab.   And she&#8217;s still presenting herself as a feminist, a believer in freedom and diversity, and as somebody who, aside from her faith and her fashion choices, is not really all that different from the young people whom she addresses in Norwegian schools.</p>
<p>In addition to the Nettavis and <em>VG </em>articles, I did find Kausar&#8217;s Facebook and Twitter pages.  Judge for yourself.  On her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100002953350954">Facebook</a> page, under “People who inspire Aisha,” there&#8217;s precisely one name – the Prophet Muhammed.  Her favorite books?  The Koran, Hadith, and Sunnah.  Under “Favorite Movies” there&#8217;s a single entry, “Bollywood is Haram,” which is not the title of a movie but a statement, meaning of course that Bollywood films are against Islamic law.  If you click on “Bollywood is Haram” on Kausar&#8217;s Facebook page, it&#8217;ll take you to another <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002953350954#!/pages/Bollywood-er-Haram/241960342493562">Facebook page</a> entitled “Bollywood is Haram,” at which you can read this explanation of the page by whoever set it up: “Bollywood is haram, people. We have to work against this beast that is spreading itself through our homes.  The filthy half-naked hags who dance on the TVs in our living rooms must be removed forever!”</p>
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		<title>Lessons on the Long Road to Hijab</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A snapshot of how Islamic Sharia worms its way into society.]]></description>
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<p>This caricature (above), which first appeared on CagleCartoons.com, has been making the rounds on the Arabic blogosphere, and points to how democratic elections are serving to Islamize Egypt:  average women enter the ballot box—“overseen” by the Muslim Brotherhood—only to emerge thoroughly veiled, thoroughly Islamized.</p>
<p>Speaking of veils and the Brotherhood, here’s an interesting <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=493ovK6bmJI&#038;feature=player_embedded">video</a> of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser (1956-1970), showing just how much times have changed.</p>
<p>Speaking before a large assembly, Nasser told of how back in 1953 he wanted to cooperate with the Muslim Brotherhood, and met with its leader. (Nasser eventually learned that <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/9966/muslim-brotherhood-impose-islamstep-by-step">the only response to the Brotherhood is suppression</a>, not cooperation, a lesson <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/10/senator-john-kerry-meets-with-egypts-muslim-brotherhood-in-cairo/">John Kerry</a> and others in the current administration would do well to consider.)</p>
<p>According to Nasser, the very first demand of the Brotherhood leader was for the hijab to return to Egypt, “for every woman walking in the street to wear a headscarf.”</p>
<p>The audience erupted in laughter at this, then, ludicrous demand; one person hollered “Let him wear it!” eliciting more laughter and applause.</p>
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