MORE OPPRESSION CHIC:
FACEBOOK MARKS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY WITH IMAGE OF GIRL IN HIJAB
BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/03/more-oppression-chic-facebook-marks-international-womens-day-with-image-of-girl-in-hijab;
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
This is great. Facebook hereby signals its virtue: it is standing
with Muslim women and presumably against Donald Trump and racist,
redneck yahoos everywhere. But where is Facebook’s concern for Aqsa
Parvez, whose Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it? Or Aqsa and Amina Muse Ali, a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab? Or the 40 women who were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab; or Alya Al-Safar, whose Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain; or Amira Osman Hamid, who faced whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab; or the Egyptian girl, also named Amira, who committed suicide
after being brutalized for her family for refusing to wear the hijab;
or the Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South
Australia who were told that they had to wear the hijab or be fired; or the women in Chechnya whom police shot with paintballs because they weren’t wearing hijab; or the women also in Chechnya who were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab; or the elementary school teachers in Tunisia who were threatened with death for not wearing hijab; or the Syrian schoolgirls who were forbidden to go to school unless they wore hijab; or the women in Gaza whom Hamas has forced to wear hijab; or the women in Iran who protested against the regime by daring to take off their legally-required hijab; or the women in London whom Muslim thugs threatened to murder if they didn’t wear hijab; or the anonymous young Muslim woman who doffed her hijab outside her home and started living a double life in fear of her parents; or the fifteen girls in Saudi Arabia who were killed
when the religious police wouldn’t let them leave their burning school
building because they had taken off their hijabs in their all-female
environment; or all the other women and girls who have been killed or
threatened, or who live in fear for daring not to wear the hijab?Who is standing in solidarity with them? Do they have any place in International Women’s Day? Those who taunt or brutalize hijab-wearing women are louts and creeps, and should be prosecuted if they commit any acts of violence. At the same time, the women who don’t wear hijab in Muslim countries are far more likely to be victims of violence than hijabis in the West. Who stands with them?
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ALL THE BETTER TO MAKE A QUICKER HIT AND RUN, PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE STYLE
Oppression chic: Nike offers “Pro Hijab”
for athletic Muslimas
BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/03/oppression-chic-nike-offers-pro-hijab-for-athletic-muslimas;
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Will Nike offer stoning supplies for adulterous Muslimas? Will Nike offer a series of blades suitable for slitting the throats of Muslimas who dare not to wear the hijab? Will Nike offer Klan hoods for racist athletes?
“Nike Has A New Product For Muslim Women: The ‘Pro Hijab,’” by Zahraa Alkhalisi, CNN, March 7, 2017:
PHILADELPHIA (CNN) — Nike will soon begin selling a performance hijab for Muslim women athletes.
The head cover, called the “Nike Pro Hijab,” boasts a single-layer pull-on design made from lightweight polyester in dark, neutral colors. The fabric’s tiny holes will make it breathable while remaining opaque, a requirement for hijab-wearing women.
Nike said it began developing the hijab after some Muslim athletes complained about wearing a traditional head scarf during competition.
The design process took 13 months, and the final product will be available for sale in the company’s Spring 2018 season.
Nike said the hijab is already being worn by Emirati figure skater Zahra Lari.
“I was thrilled and a bit emotional to see Nike prototyping a Hijab,” Lari said in a statement. “I’ve tried so many different hijabs for performance, and … so few of them actually work for me. But once I put it on and took it for a spin on the ice, I was blown away by the fit and the light weight.”…