Yesterday, Wednesday, Feb. 1, was No Hijab Day, a Western feminist expression of solidarity with Muslim women in the United States who are supposedly oppressed and discriminated against (by those fictional but omnipresent MAGA-hat-wearing thugs) because they wear the hijab. Accordingly, Newark, N.J. city council President LaMonica McIver is set to introduce a resolution declaring Wednesday World Hijab Day in the City of Newark. McIver, of course, has all the proper Leftist intentions: celebrating “diversity,” standing against “hatred,” and all that. But this year in particular, her gesture is nothing short of grotesque. In Iran, women are dying for the freedom not to wear the hijab. And in Newark, witless Leftists are celebrating the symbol of their oppression.
(NEWARK, NJ) — Newark Council President LaMonica McIver will introduce a resolution declaring February 1st #WorldHijabDay in the City of Newark.
Thank you, @LamonicaMciver, for standing up for Muslim women’s right to cover!
Source: https://t.co/4XWakkIX5k pic.twitter.com/sFCTC5pAbD
— World HijabDay (@WorldHijabDay) January 31, 2023
Back on Sept. 16, 2022, in Tehran, the Iranian morality police arrested Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, for not wearing her hijab properly. Amini later died in a hospital in Tehran, and numerous Iranians charged that she had been tortured to death while in custody. All over the country, protesters took to the streets to protest not against the hijab laws, but against the repressive and brutal Islamic Republic itself. Other women, and male protesters as well, were killed as the Iranian regime ruthlessly applied the Qur’anic injunction to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (8:60). The protests went on for months until the regime began summarily executing protesters, and even then some indomitably courageous Iranians continued to take to the streets to demand their freedom.
It is against that backdrop that the Newark World Hijab Day resolution will be introduced. For innumerable women in Iran, the hijab is the most visible sign of their second-class status, and of the brutality of the regime that will imprison them for years or even kill them outright for daring to venture out in public without wearing it. The Iranian authorities call their morality police the “Guidance Patrol,” an Orwellian name that makes them sound like a bunch of benign, avuncular individuals selflessly dedicated to helping young Iranians avoid moral pitfalls and stay on the straight and narrow. A more accurate name, however, would be the Terror Patrol, for the morality that these officials enforce is not the virtuous person’s free choice of the good, but the enforced obedience of those who are frightened into submission.
Is that really what the city of Newark wants to celebrate? It’s likely that LaMonica McIver didn’t consider what has been happening in Iran even for one second before deciding to introduce her resolution. She was just upholding the Left’s mythology about rampant “Islamophobia” in the United States. Actual incidents of Muslim women being harassed or discriminated against for wearing the hijab, however, are extraordinarily hard to find. It’s much easier to find examples of Muslim women in America who falsely claimed that they were being harassed or discriminated against in order to score points on the Left’s insane scale of victimhood worship.
In one such incident, an eleven-year-old girl in Toronto made international headlines with her claim that a man had followed her and cut her hijab with scissors. After an investigation, police concluded that the attack never happened. Likewise, Yasmin Seweid, a Muslim teen, claimed in December 2016 that Trump supporters on a New York subway tore off her hijab and no one in the packed subway car helped her. She, too, gained international media attention, and she, too, made up the whole thing. Shortly before that, a hijab-wearing Muslim student at San Diego State University also falsely claimed that she was assaulted by Trump supporters. In July 2017, a Muslim in Britain falsely claimed that a man had pulled off her hijab in a “race hate attack.” In November 2016, a University of Michigan Muslim student claimed she was “accosted by a white man who told her to remove her hijab or he would set her ablaze with a cigarette lighter.” She also fabricated the whole event. And there are many others of this kind, but the World Hijab Day feminists, of course, have taken no notice.
Nor have they ever acknowledged the fact that women are far more likely to be oppressed for not wearing the hijab than for wearing it, and not just in Iran. In Mississauga, Ontario, a few years back, 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. Alya Al-Safar’s Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain. Amira Osman Hamid faced whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab. An Egyptian girl, also named Amira, committed suicide after being brutalized by her family for refusing to wear the hijab. Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South Australia were told they had to wear the hijab or be fired. Women in Chechnya were shot with paintballs by police because they weren’t wearing hijab. Other women in Chechnya were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab.
Such examples could be multiplied endlessly. When is LaMonica McIver going to introduce a resolution recognizing the women who have been brutalized and killed for not wearing the hijab? I won’t be watching the news feeds for any word of that.
And so, the destruction of the free world and imposing the barbaric sharia law continues.
In Montana we just declared, “Newark, New Jersey is as Garbage Dump Day!!”
Well, after all they DID enact Worldwide Rosary Day. Oh. They didn’t? Never mind.
How about a world burqa day? We could all walk around in large, shapeless black bags. Talk about a triumph of (theocratic) collectivism.
Burkas are even more demeaning. However; wearing that potato sack helps keep the one in bondage from getting gang raped – maybe.
A foolish Italian pole-dancing feminist, named Pippa Bacca, doned a wedding dress and attempted to trek to Beirut to demonstrate a “marriage between different peoples and nations” in 2008.
It predictably didn’t end well. Her dead body was found in Gabze, Turkey.
Maybe B. Hussein should admonish the religion of peace that activist feminist fools have a right to wear wedding dresses, just the same as feminist activist fools have the right to wear hijabs
(BTW; MAGA hats are stolen off heads constantly; hijabs never are.)
I almost took a very well paying job at a power plant in Newark. Man, did I make the right choice. But, in all honesty, Anytown U.S.A. isn’t far behind.
Damn, did I miss World Hijab Day? Again?
Honestly I wouldn’t set foot in that sewer of a state to save my life.
For the last 50 years I have missed Black History Month which started yesterday as well.
B.H.Month runs before Evil White European Male month on the month of . . . Oh wait; there isn’t one.
That bullshit fiction called “the 1619 Project” is being aired on Hulu to help brainwash liberal idiots at home.
What’s worse is that my crushing “school” taxes are aiding & abetting to make that propaganda required learning in high school.
Hulu does have a lot of Woke propaganda which I don’t watch. Mainly watch Tucker and Gutfeld and the occasional football game and a monie.
I know….I have also missed it again damn it.!…But don’t worry we have all this month to celebrate black history month….lol. A whole month can you believe it???? But, if you forget that we have JUNETEENTH coming up….so no excuses….lol
Juneteenth, Kwanzaa, MLK Day, Ramadan/Eid. When is National Pride Day for the Gaystapo?
Some years ago the US fashion industry tried to introduce the idea that wearing hajibs was “fashionable.”
Thankfully that fad never got off the ground.
That sick “joke’ of a “World Hijab Day” might as well be called “World Islamic Misogyny Day”
An example of this was on March 11, 2002 in Saudi Arabia a girls dorm caught on fire, the girls naturally rushed out of that dorm that was on fire. In their hast to escape the flames they forgot to take and put on their face veils. Those Islamic state police of Saudi Arabia with this totally unreasonable and heartless Islamic mindset forced all the girls back into the dorm that was on fire. Only because they didn’t have their face veils. So all those girls did a horrible painful death .This is worse than tragic and sad, this is the murderous misogyny of the Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Furthermore that tragedy of the terrible burning to death of those young girls because of the cruel oppression of Islam’s “values” is a brutal reminder of the harsh reality is a reflection of the information revealed in the book by Brigitte Gabriel entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED.
Which informs the reader on page 171 “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islamic ideology.”
Sharia which denies basic human rights is viciously harsh oppressive to girls and women. For Sharia supports forcing females to wear the hijab which is symbol of the misogyny of Islam with its Sharia.
So it should be made known that the actual origin of Sharia is revealed in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995 ” For that future history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” .page 150.
Therefore Sharia has no value or worth.
Go soak your hijab in gasoline
and play with matches.
it seems everyone missed land rights for gay whales day !! I’m shocked , truly shocked .
I was hoping some females from Iran that lived in America would turn up and call these ”feminists” nothing more than useful idiots of the mullahs in Iran and other islamic Nations.
This alliance with The Left, ”feminists” and islamic teachings has to be THE weirdest alliance in the history of Planet Earth as they don’t seem to know these two ideologies are 100% in opposition to each other.
It would like a Rabbi holding open the Gates of a Nazi Concentration Camp and pushing the Jews inside… Weird..
Hijab is a symbol of hate, oppression and fascism. It insults all of 250 million victims of islamic genocides.
It’s way passed time to burn all hijabs.
Invite the Iranian morality police to enforce the decree.
How about MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN day.