Billboard Coming to a Town Near You~ Hijab, the Dress of Modesty

[Deplorable Yankee]

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Now premiering in the Dallas area.

https://nypost.com/2019/03/07/musli...hate-calls-for-promoting-hijabs-on-billboard/
Home of the Holy Land Foundation convictions, and The Islamic Association of North Texas, one of the US’s most influential, and it’s affiliate. The Islamic Circle of North America

when the Hasidic part of Williamsburg got invaded by silly white girls from Ohio and Texas the yids asked them if they could refrain from walking home from brunch drunk and half naked because theirs women and children on the street...that didnt fly over to well with the feminazis and woke crowd.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Omar, who chooses to wear a hijab, believes differently, as do many American-Muslim women.

...or so they say.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Nothing more than if the kkk put up a billboard promoting slavery for blacks .

Of course that would be diffenent. Seriously, wtf is wrong with you? That would be a bigoted stunt promoting both racism and an illegal act.

But thanks for revealing for the class here that you view Muslims through the myopic lens of bigotry.

What is wrong with me is that I am an educated man who does not support misogyny.

You are an uneducated boy who does .

Oddly, you sound very uneducated. A hijab is no more a sign of misogyny than a yarmulke is misandristic.

So , that's why Islamic women cite the fact that wearing it protects them from rape.

It's because there is no misogyny involved.

Have you even finished high school, boy?

LOL

Lemme guess... you convinced yourself that riposte actually redeemed the blatant bigotry you just exhibited.

You live in a very strange little world, boy.

You support the degradation of women while calling those who don't support it bigots.

 

[Faun]

Of course that would be diffenent. Seriously, wtf is wrong with you? That would be a bigoted stunt promoting both racism and an illegal act.

But thanks for revealing for the class here that you view Muslims through the myopic lens of bigotry.

What is wrong with me is that I am an educated man who does not support misogyny.

You are an uneducated boy who does .

Oddly, you sound very uneducated. A hijab is no more a sign of misogyny than a yarmulke is misandristic.

So , that's why Islamic women cite the fact that wearing it protects them from rape.

It's because there is no misogyny involved.

Have you even finished high school, boy?

LOL

Lemme guess... you convinced yourself that riposte actually redeemed the blatant bigotry you just exhibited.

You live in a very strange little world, boy.

You support the degradation of women while calling those who don't support it bigots.

Now you’re simply lying about my position. I support no such thing as a hijab is no more degrading to women than a yarmulke is to men. A point I made eloquently which sadly sailed clear over your pointy little head.

 

[depotoo]

Makes me wonder as to your feelings about women, in general.
These women stated why the hijab is actually offensive, not due to an opinion, but due to tradition of Islam and its reasoning.
Let me ask you, would you be ok with women being encouraged to wear chastity belts, also, to keep from being raped? Or would you find it offense that

Here is what two Muslim women say about it, source is Washington Post. Maybe then you will understand-
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...idarity/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.47e48a77ac32
For us, as mainstream Muslim women, born in Egypt and India, the spectacle at the mosque was a painful reminder of the well-financed effort by conservative Muslims to dominate modern Muslim societies. This modern-day movement spreads an ideology of political Islam, called “Islamism,” enlisting well-intentioned interfaith do-gooders and the media into promoting the idea that “hijab” is a virtual “sixth pillar” of Islam, after the traditional “five pillars” of the shahada (or proclamation of faith), prayer, fasting, charity and pilgrimage.

We reject this interpretation that the “hijab” is merely a symbol of modesty and dignity adopted by faithful female followers of Islam.

This modern-day movement, codified by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Taliban Afghanistan and the Islamic State, has erroneously made the Arabic word hijab synonymous with “headscarf.” This conflation of hijab with the secular word headscarf is misleading. “Hijab” literally means “curtain” in Arabic. It also means “hiding,” ”obstructing” and “isolating” someone or something. It is never used in the Koran to mean headscarf.

In colloquial Arabic, the word for “headscarf” is tarha. In classical Arabic, “head” is al-ra’as and cover is gheta’a. No matter what formula you use, “hijab” never means headscarf. The media must stop spreading this misleading interpretation.

Born in the 1960s into conservative but open-minded families (Hala in Egypt and Asra in India), we grew up without an edict that we had to cover our hair. But, starting in the 1980s, following the 1979 Iranian revolution of the minority Shiite sect and the rise of well-funded Saudi clerics from the majority Sunni sect, we have been bullied in an attempt to get us to cover our hair from men and boys. Women and girls, who are sometimes called “enforce-hers” and “Muslim mean girls,” take it a step further by even making fun of women whom they perceive as wearing the hijab inappropriately, referring to “hijabis” in skinny jeans as “ho-jabis,” using the indelicate term for “whores.”

But in interpretations from the 7th century to today, theologians, from the late Moroccan scholar Fatima Mernissi to UCLA’s Khaled Abou El Fadl, and Harvard’s Leila Ahmed, Egypt’s Zaki Badawi, Iraq’s Abdullah al Judai and Pakistan’s Javaid Ghamidi, have clearly established that Muslim

Challenging the hijab

To us, the “hijab”is a symbol of an interpretation of Islam we reject that believes that women are a sexual distraction to men, who are weak, and thus must not be tempted by the sight of our hair. We don’t buy it. This ideology promotes a social attitude that absolves men of sexually harassing women and puts the onus on the victim to protect herself by covering up.

The new Muslim Reform Movement, a global network of leaders, advocating for human rights, peace and secular governance, supports the right of Muslim women to wear — or not wear — the headscarf.

Unfortunately, the idea of “hijab” as a mandatory headscarf is promulgated by naïve efforts such as “World Hijab Day,” started in 2013 by Nazma Khan, the Bangladeshi American owner of a Brooklyn-based headscarf company, and Ahlul Bayt, a Shiite-proselytizing TV station, that the University of Calgary, in southwest Canada, promotes as a resource for its participation in “World Hijab Day.” The TV station argues that wearing a “hijab” is necessary for women to avoid “unwanted attention.” World Hijab Day, Ahlul Bayt and the University of Calgary didn’t respond to requests for comment.

In its “resources,” Ahluly Bayt includes a link to the notion that “the woman is awrah,” or forbidden, an idea that leads to the confinement, subordination, silencing and subjugation of women’s voices and presence in public society. It also includes an article, “The top 10 excuses of Muslim women who don’t wear hijab and their obvious weaknesses,” with the argument, “Get on the train of repentance, my sister, before it passes by your station.”

The rush to cover women’s hair has reached a fever pitch with ultraconservative Muslim websites and organizations pushing this interpretation, such as VirtualMosque.com and Al-Islam.org, which even published a feature, “Hijab Jokes,” mocking Muslim women who don’t cover their hair “Islamically.”

View attachment 249619

Now premiering in the Dallas area.

https://nypost.com/2019/03/07/musli...hate-calls-for-promoting-hijabs-on-billboard/
Home of the Holy Land Foundation convictions, and The Islamic Association of North Texas, one of the US’s most influential, and it’s affiliate. The Islamic Circle of North America

So what’s wrong with that?

Nothing more than if the kkk put up a billboard promoting slavery for blacks .

Of course that would be diffenent. Seriously, wtf is wrong with you? That would be a bigoted stunt promoting both racism and an illegal act.

But thanks for revealing for the class here that you view Muslims through the myopic lens of bigotry.

So? That’s their opinion. Omar, who chooses to wear a hijab, believes differently, as do many American-Muslim women.

 

[depotoo]

Is a yarmulke used to cover up to protect a man from women? No.

What is wrong with me is that I am an educated man who does not support misogyny.

You are an uneducated boy who does .

Oddly, you sound very uneducated. A hijab is no more a sign of misogyny than a yarmulke is misandristic.

So , that's why Islamic women cite the fact that wearing it protects them from rape.

It's because there is no misogyny involved.

Have you even finished high school, boy?

LOL

Lemme guess... you convinced yourself that riposte actually redeemed the blatant bigotry you just exhibited.

You live in a very strange little world, boy.

You support the degradation of women while calling those who don't support it bigots.

Now you’re simply lying about my position. I support no such thing as a hijab is no more degrading to women than a yarmulke is to men. A point I made eloquently which sadly sailed clear over your pointy little head.

 

[Faun]

Makes me wonder as to your feelings about women, in general.
These women stated why the hijab is actually offensive, not due to an opinion, but due to tradition of Islam and its reasoning.
Let me ask you, would you be ok with women being encouraged to wear chastity belts, also, to keep from being raped? Or would you find it offense that

Here is what two Muslim women say about it, source is Washington Post. Maybe then you will understand-
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...idarity/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.47e48a77ac32
For us, as mainstream Muslim women, born in Egypt and India, the spectacle at the mosque was a painful reminder of the well-financed effort by conservative Muslims to dominate modern Muslim societies. This modern-day movement spreads an ideology of political Islam, called “Islamism,” enlisting well-intentioned interfaith do-gooders and the media into promoting the idea that “hijab” is a virtual “sixth pillar” of Islam, after the traditional “five pillars” of the shahada (or proclamation of faith), prayer, fasting, charity and pilgrimage.

We reject this interpretation that the “hijab” is merely a symbol of modesty and dignity adopted by faithful female followers of Islam.

This modern-day movement, codified by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Taliban Afghanistan and the Islamic State, has erroneously made the Arabic word hijab synonymous with “headscarf.” This conflation of hijab with the secular word headscarf is misleading. “Hijab” literally means “curtain” in Arabic. It also means “hiding,” ”obstructing” and “isolating” someone or something. It is never used in the Koran to mean headscarf.

In colloquial Arabic, the word for “headscarf” is tarha. In classical Arabic, “head” is al-ra’as and cover is gheta’a. No matter what formula you use, “hijab” never means headscarf. The media must stop spreading this misleading interpretation.

Born in the 1960s into conservative but open-minded families (Hala in Egypt and Asra in India), we grew up without an edict that we had to cover our hair. But, starting in the 1980s, following the 1979 Iranian revolution of the minority Shiite sect and the rise of well-funded Saudi clerics from the majority Sunni sect, we have been bullied in an attempt to get us to cover our hair from men and boys. Women and girls, who are sometimes called “enforce-hers” and “Muslim mean girls,” take it a step further by even making fun of women whom they perceive as wearing the hijab inappropriately, referring to “hijabis” in skinny jeans as “ho-jabis,” using the indelicate term for “whores.”

But in interpretations from the 7th century to today, theologians, from the late Moroccan scholar Fatima Mernissi to UCLA’s Khaled Abou El Fadl, and Harvard’s Leila Ahmed, Egypt’s Zaki Badawi, Iraq’s Abdullah al Judai and Pakistan’s Javaid Ghamidi, have clearly established that Muslim

Challenging the hijab

To us, the “hijab”is a symbol of an interpretation of Islam we reject that believes that women are a sexual distraction to men, who are weak, and thus must not be tempted by the sight of our hair. We don’t buy it. This ideology promotes a social attitude that absolves men of sexually harassing women and puts the onus on the victim to protect herself by covering up.

The new Muslim Reform Movement, a global network of leaders, advocating for human rights, peace and secular governance, supports the right of Muslim women to wear — or not wear — the headscarf.

Unfortunately, the idea of “hijab” as a mandatory headscarf is promulgated by naïve efforts such as “World Hijab Day,” started in 2013 by Nazma Khan, the Bangladeshi American owner of a Brooklyn-based headscarf company, and Ahlul Bayt, a Shiite-proselytizing TV station, that the University of Calgary, in southwest Canada, promotes as a resource for its participation in “World Hijab Day.” The TV station argues that wearing a “hijab” is necessary for women to avoid “unwanted attention.” World Hijab Day, Ahlul Bayt and the University of Calgary didn’t respond to requests for comment.

In its “resources,” Ahluly Bayt includes a link to the notion that “the woman is awrah,” or forbidden, an idea that leads to the confinement, subordination, silencing and subjugation of women’s voices and presence in public society. It also includes an article, “The top 10 excuses of Muslim women who don’t wear hijab and their obvious weaknesses,” with the argument, “Get on the train of repentance, my sister, before it passes by your station.”

The rush to cover women’s hair has reached a fever pitch with ultraconservative Muslim websites and organizations pushing this interpretation, such as VirtualMosque.com and Al-Islam.org, which even published a feature, “Hijab Jokes,” mocking Muslim women who don’t cover their hair “Islamically.”

So what’s wrong with that?

Nothing more than if the kkk put up a billboard promoting slavery for blacks .

Of course that would be diffenent. Seriously, wtf is wrong with you? That would be a bigoted stunt promoting both racism and an illegal act.

But thanks for revealing for the class here that you view Muslims through the myopic lens of bigotry.

So? That’s their opinion. Omar, who chooses to wear a hijab, believes differently, as do many American-Muslim women.

Holyfuckingshit!

It even said “opinion” at the top of the page you linked.

As far as hijabs, as far as chastity belts, as far as any article of clothing, in America, women are free to choose what they wear. If they choose to abide by their faith and their faith instructs them to wear something like a hijab or for Jewish men, a yarmulke, that’s their choice.

It’s rather disturbing how much conservatives hate it when Americans are given the freedom to make their own choices in life.

 

[Faun]

Is a yarmulke used to cover up to protect a man from women? No.

Oddly, you sound very uneducated. A hijab is no more a sign of misogyny than a yarmulke is misandristic.

So , that's why Islamic women cite the fact that wearing it protects them from rape.

It's because there is no misogyny involved.

Have you even finished high school, boy?

LOL

Lemme guess... you convinced yourself that riposte actually redeemed the blatant bigotry you just exhibited.

You live in a very strange little world, boy.

You support the degradation of women while calling those who don't support it bigots.

Now you’re simply lying about my position. I support no such thing as a hijab is no more degrading to women than a yarmulke is to men. A point I made eloquently which sadly sailed clear over your pointy little head.

Some Muslim women wear hijabs for the same reason some Jewish men wear yarmulkes; for the same reason some married Jewish women cover their hair ... they’re practicing what their faith teaches them.

I know how much many conservatives hate Muslims and look for any and every reason to denigrate them, but deal with them, because they’re not going away. Nor are they changing their faith for you.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

So who is behind this billboard and why did they sponsor it?

Billboard Campaign In Dallas Aims To Dispel Misconceptions About Islam And The Hijab

Ruman Sadiq says the current political climate has led to misperceptions of Muslim women.

That’s why she hopes a new six-week billboard campaign will encourage people to call and ask questions about the hijab, or head scarf.

"It's very difficult at times for Muslim women to go out in public wearing a veil,” said Sadiq, an outreach volunteer with the Dallas Chapter of the Islamic Circle of North America. “We face a lot of discrimination in educational institutions, in the supermarkets and public arenas."

The groups want to show that the hijab is a sign of empowerment and that women of other religions also cover their heads. They point to Mary, the mother of Jesus, who wore a veil, and nuns.

“It is also a form of liberation from strangers who dictate how women should dress in the society to be successful,” Sadiq said. “It’s to free us ourselves from being judged by our physical beauty, but rather our intellect and our character. It’s to preserve our modesty.”




Maybe it isnt a threat guys

That’s why she hopes a new six-week billboard campaign will encourage people to call and ask questions about the hijab, or head scarf.

If my wife doesn't wear the hijab, how long should I beat her?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Nor are they changing their faith for you.

Then they should change it for themselves.

 

[Faun]

Nor are they changing their faith for you.

Then they should change it for themselves.

In America, they can if they want to.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

In America, they can if they want to.

And i can suggest it, if I want to. Over and over. They need a reformation. Badly.

 

[Faun]

In America, they can if they want to.

And i can suggest it, if I want to. Over and over. They need a reformation. Badly.

Yes you can.

 

[depotoo]

Read this then tell me, if it was what Christians today demanded you would be all over it.
The Qur’an and Hijab

Makes me wonder as to your feelings about women, in general.
These women stated why the hijab is actually offensive, not due to an opinion, but due to tradition of Islam and its reasoning.
Let me ask you, would you be ok with women being encouraged to wear chastity belts, also, to keep from being raped? Or would you find it offense that

Here is what two Muslim women say about it, source is Washington Post. Maybe then you will understand-
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...idarity/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.47e48a77ac32
For us, as mainstream Muslim women, born in Egypt and India, the spectacle at the mosque was a painful reminder of the well-financed effort by conservative Muslims to dominate modern Muslim societies. This modern-day movement spreads an ideology of political Islam, called “Islamism,” enlisting well-intentioned interfaith do-gooders and the media into promoting the idea that “hijab” is a virtual “sixth pillar” of Islam, after the traditional “five pillars” of the shahada (or proclamation of faith), prayer, fasting, charity and pilgrimage.

We reject this interpretation that the “hijab” is merely a symbol of modesty and dignity adopted by faithful female followers of Islam.

This modern-day movement, codified by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Taliban Afghanistan and the Islamic State, has erroneously made the Arabic word hijab synonymous with “headscarf.” This conflation of hijab with the secular word headscarf is misleading. “Hijab” literally means “curtain” in Arabic. It also means “hiding,” ”obstructing” and “isolating” someone or something. It is never used in the Koran to mean headscarf.

In colloquial Arabic, the word for “headscarf” is tarha. In classical Arabic, “head” is al-ra’as and cover is gheta’a. No matter what formula you use, “hijab” never means headscarf. The media must stop spreading this misleading interpretation.

Born in the 1960s into conservative but open-minded families (Hala in Egypt and Asra in India), we grew up without an edict that we had to cover our hair. But, starting in the 1980s, following the 1979 Iranian revolution of the minority Shiite sect and the rise of well-funded Saudi clerics from the majority Sunni sect, we have been bullied in an attempt to get us to cover our hair from men and boys. Women and girls, who are sometimes called “enforce-hers” and “Muslim mean girls,” take it a step further by even making fun of women whom they perceive as wearing the hijab inappropriately, referring to “hijabis” in skinny jeans as “ho-jabis,” using the indelicate term for “whores.”

But in interpretations from the 7th century to today, theologians, from the late Moroccan scholar Fatima Mernissi to UCLA’s Khaled Abou El Fadl, and Harvard’s Leila Ahmed, Egypt’s Zaki Badawi, Iraq’s Abdullah al Judai and Pakistan’s Javaid Ghamidi, have clearly established that Muslim

Challenging the hijab

To us, the “hijab”is a symbol of an interpretation of Islam we reject that believes that women are a sexual distraction to men, who are weak, and thus must not be tempted by the sight of our hair. We don’t buy it. This ideology promotes a social attitude that absolves men of sexually harassing women and puts the onus on the victim to protect herself by covering up.

The new Muslim Reform Movement, a global network of leaders, advocating for human rights, peace and secular governance, supports the right of Muslim women to wear — or not wear — the headscarf.

Unfortunately, the idea of “hijab” as a mandatory headscarf is promulgated by naïve efforts such as “World Hijab Day,” started in 2013 by Nazma Khan, the Bangladeshi American owner of a Brooklyn-based headscarf company, and Ahlul Bayt, a Shiite-proselytizing TV station, that the University of Calgary, in southwest Canada, promotes as a resource for its participation in “World Hijab Day.” The TV station argues that wearing a “hijab” is necessary for women to avoid “unwanted attention.” World Hijab Day, Ahlul Bayt and the University of Calgary didn’t respond to requests for comment.

In its “resources,” Ahluly Bayt includes a link to the notion that “the woman is awrah,” or forbidden, an idea that leads to the confinement, subordination, silencing and subjugation of women’s voices and presence in public society. It also includes an article, “The top 10 excuses of Muslim women who don’t wear hijab and their obvious weaknesses,” with the argument, “Get on the train of repentance, my sister, before it passes by your station.”

The rush to cover women’s hair has reached a fever pitch with ultraconservative Muslim websites and organizations pushing this interpretation, such as VirtualMosque.com and Al-Islam.org, which even published a feature, “Hijab Jokes,” mocking Muslim women who don’t cover their hair “Islamically.”

Nothing more than if the kkk put up a billboard promoting slavery for blacks .

Of course that would be diffenent. Seriously, wtf is wrong with you? That would be a bigoted stunt promoting both racism and an illegal act.

But thanks for revealing for the class here that you view Muslims through the myopic lens of bigotry.

So? That’s their opinion. Omar, who chooses to wear a hijab, believes differently, as do many American-Muslim women.

Holyfuckingshit!

It even said “opinion” at the top of the page you linked.

As far as hijabs, as far as chastity belts, as far as any article of clothing, in America, women are free to choose what they wear. If they choose to abide by their faith and their faith instructs them to wear something like a hijab or for Jewish men, a yarmulke, that’s their choice.

It’s rather disturbing how much conservatives hate it when Americans are given the freedom to make their own choices in life.

 

[Faun]

Read this then tell me, if it was what Christians today demanded you would be all over it.
The Qur’an and Hijab

Makes me wonder as to your feelings about women, in general.
These women stated why the hijab is actually offensive, not due to an opinion, but due to tradition of Islam and its reasoning.
Let me ask you, would you be ok with women being encouraged to wear chastity belts, also, to keep from being raped? Or would you find it offense that

Here is what two Muslim women say about it, source is Washington Post. Maybe then you will understand-
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...idarity/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.47e48a77ac32
For us, as mainstream Muslim women, born in Egypt and India, the spectacle at the mosque was a painful reminder of the well-financed effort by conservative Muslims to dominate modern Muslim societies. This modern-day movement spreads an ideology of political Islam, called “Islamism,” enlisting well-intentioned interfaith do-gooders and the media into promoting the idea that “hijab” is a virtual “sixth pillar” of Islam, after the traditional “five pillars” of the shahada (or proclamation of faith), prayer, fasting, charity and pilgrimage.

We reject this interpretation that the “hijab” is merely a symbol of modesty and dignity adopted by faithful female followers of Islam.

This modern-day movement, codified by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Taliban Afghanistan and the Islamic State, has erroneously made the Arabic word hijab synonymous with “headscarf.” This conflation of hijab with the secular word headscarf is misleading. “Hijab” literally means “curtain” in Arabic. It also means “hiding,” ”obstructing” and “isolating” someone or something. It is never used in the Koran to mean headscarf.

In colloquial Arabic, the word for “headscarf” is tarha. In classical Arabic, “head” is al-ra’as and cover is gheta’a. No matter what formula you use, “hijab” never means headscarf. The media must stop spreading this misleading interpretation.

Born in the 1960s into conservative but open-minded families (Hala in Egypt and Asra in India), we grew up without an edict that we had to cover our hair. But, starting in the 1980s, following the 1979 Iranian revolution of the minority Shiite sect and the rise of well-funded Saudi clerics from the majority Sunni sect, we have been bullied in an attempt to get us to cover our hair from men and boys. Women and girls, who are sometimes called “enforce-hers” and “Muslim mean girls,” take it a step further by even making fun of women whom they perceive as wearing the hijab inappropriately, referring to “hijabis” in skinny jeans as “ho-jabis,” using the indelicate term for “whores.”

But in interpretations from the 7th century to today, theologians, from the late Moroccan scholar Fatima Mernissi to UCLA’s Khaled Abou El Fadl, and Harvard’s Leila Ahmed, Egypt’s Zaki Badawi, Iraq’s Abdullah al Judai and Pakistan’s Javaid Ghamidi, have clearly established that Muslim

Challenging the hijab

To us, the “hijab”is a symbol of an interpretation of Islam we reject that believes that women are a sexual distraction to men, who are weak, and thus must not be tempted by the sight of our hair. We don’t buy it. This ideology promotes a social attitude that absolves men of sexually harassing women and puts the onus on the victim to protect herself by covering up.

The new Muslim Reform Movement, a global network of leaders, advocating for human rights, peace and secular governance, supports the right of Muslim women to wear — or not wear — the headscarf.

Unfortunately, the idea of “hijab” as a mandatory headscarf is promulgated by naïve efforts such as “World Hijab Day,” started in 2013 by Nazma Khan, the Bangladeshi American owner of a Brooklyn-based headscarf company, and Ahlul Bayt, a Shiite-proselytizing TV station, that the University of Calgary, in southwest Canada, promotes as a resource for its participation in “World Hijab Day.” The TV station argues that wearing a “hijab” is necessary for women to avoid “unwanted attention.” World Hijab Day, Ahlul Bayt and the University of Calgary didn’t respond to requests for comment.

In its “resources,” Ahluly Bayt includes a link to the notion that “the woman is awrah,” or forbidden, an idea that leads to the confinement, subordination, silencing and subjugation of women’s voices and presence in public society. It also includes an article, “The top 10 excuses of Muslim women who don’t wear hijab and their obvious weaknesses,” with the argument, “Get on the train of repentance, my sister, before it passes by your station.”

The rush to cover women’s hair has reached a fever pitch with ultraconservative Muslim websites and organizations pushing this interpretation, such as VirtualMosque.com and Al-Islam.org, which even published a feature, “Hijab Jokes,” mocking Muslim women who don’t cover their hair “Islamically.”

Of course that would be diffenent. Seriously, wtf is wrong with you? That would be a bigoted stunt promoting both racism and an illegal act.

But thanks for revealing for the class here that you view Muslims through the myopic lens of bigotry.

So? That’s their opinion. Omar, who chooses to wear a hijab, believes differently, as do many American-Muslim women.

Holyfuckingshit!

It even said “opinion” at the top of the page you linked.

As far as hijabs, as far as chastity belts, as far as any article of clothing, in America, women are free to choose what they wear. If they choose to abide by their faith and their faith instructs them to wear something like a hijab or for Jewish men, a yarmulke, that’s their choice.

It’s rather disturbing how much conservatives hate it when Americans are given the freedom to make their own choices in life.

You poor thing, now you're just makin’ shut up. There’s plenty I disagree with when it comes to Christianity. But I never tell Christians how to practice their faith. Nor do I use bigoted analogies to describe their faith.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

But I never tell Christians how to practice their faith.

Well, we also don't have a severe global problem with Christianity right now.

 

[Faun]

But I never tell Christians how to practice their faith.

Well, we also don't have a severe global problem with Christianity right now.

So? We don’t have a severe global Muslim problem right now either.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

But I never tell Christians how to practice their faith.

Well, we also don't have a severe global problem with Christianity right now.

So? We don’t have a severe global Muslim problem right now either.

Of course, that's nuts, and we do

 

[Coyote]

Actually. Who cares? Why does it matter? It's a woman's choice in this country how she wishes to observe the dictates of her faith in order to pious.

When it's her choice, great. When it's her husband's choice, not so much.

Either way, it is what it is.
.

Yet folks only get their knickers in a knot when it is Muslim.

Sure, religion is intensely partisan now, just like everything else.

Jump with both feet on any perceived advantage. That's where we are.
.

Let me challenge you, Mac to stop defaulting to "it is all partisan".

What do you think of the rationale given by the group sponsoring it?

Do women, who desire to conform to the dictates of their faith have that right? Or is it sonehow conditional?

If so...then isnt it a good idea to promote education that dispells some of the popular misconceptions a good thing?

As I've already said, if it's the woman's choice to dress according to her faith, great.

If she's "required" to by her husband, or if she otherwise has to dress like that against her will, I'm not real keen on that, and I'd assume you wouldn't be either.

As I've also said, I agree with the Muslims who believe Islam is in desperate need of a Reformation.

I'm not sure what you mean by "...the rationale given by the group sponsoring it?" or "isnt it a good idea to promote education that dispells some of the popular misconceptions a good thing?". Please clarity and I'll respond.
.

What I meant was in post 181.
I see no difference between Muslim women who choose this...and Hasidic women who choose it...and Amish women who chose yet only group gets maligned.

 

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Makes me wonder as to your feelings about women, in general.
These women stated why the hijab is actually offensive, not due to an opinion, but due to tradition of Islam and its reasoning.
Let me ask you, would you be ok with women being encouraged to wear chastity belts, also, to keep from being raped? Or would you find it offense that

Here is what two Muslim women say about it, source is Washington Post. Maybe then you will understand-
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...idarity/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.47e48a77ac32
For us, as mainstream Muslim women, born in Egypt and India, the spectacle at the mosque was a painful reminder of the well-financed effort by conservative Muslims to dominate modern Muslim societies. This modern-day movement spreads an ideology of political Islam, called “Islamism,” enlisting well-intentioned interfaith do-gooders and the media into promoting the idea that “hijab” is a virtual “sixth pillar” of Islam, after the traditional “five pillars” of the shahada (or proclamation of faith), prayer, fasting, charity and pilgrimage.

We reject this interpretation that the “hijab” is merely a symbol of modesty and dignity adopted by faithful female followers of Islam.

This modern-day movement, codified by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Taliban Afghanistan and the Islamic State, has erroneously made the Arabic word hijab synonymous with “headscarf.” This conflation of hijab with the secular word headscarf is misleading. “Hijab” literally means “curtain” in Arabic. It also means “hiding,” ”obstructing” and “isolating” someone or something. It is never used in the Koran to mean headscarf.

In colloquial Arabic, the word for “headscarf” is tarha. In classical Arabic, “head” is al-ra’as and cover is gheta’a. No matter what formula you use, “hijab” never means headscarf. The media must stop spreading this misleading interpretation.

Born in the 1960s into conservative but open-minded families (Hala in Egypt and Asra in India), we grew up without an edict that we had to cover our hair. But, starting in the 1980s, following the 1979 Iranian revolution of the minority Shiite sect and the rise of well-funded Saudi clerics from the majority Sunni sect, we have been bullied in an attempt to get us to cover our hair from men and boys. Women and girls, who are sometimes called “enforce-hers” and “Muslim mean girls,” take it a step further by even making fun of women whom they perceive as wearing the hijab inappropriately, referring to “hijabis” in skinny jeans as “ho-jabis,” using the indelicate term for “whores.”

But in interpretations from the 7th century to today, theologians, from the late Moroccan scholar Fatima Mernissi to UCLA’s Khaled Abou El Fadl, and Harvard’s Leila Ahmed, Egypt’s Zaki Badawi, Iraq’s Abdullah al Judai and Pakistan’s Javaid Ghamidi, have clearly established that Muslim

Challenging the hijab

To us, the “hijab”is a symbol of an interpretation of Islam we reject that believes that women are a sexual distraction to men, who are weak, and thus must not be tempted by the sight of our hair. We don’t buy it. This ideology promotes a social attitude that absolves men of sexually harassing women and puts the onus on the victim to protect herself by covering up.

The new Muslim Reform Movement, a global network of leaders, advocating for human rights, peace and secular governance, supports the right of Muslim women to wear — or not wear — the headscarf.

Unfortunately, the idea of “hijab” as a mandatory headscarf is promulgated by naïve efforts such as “World Hijab Day,” started in 2013 by Nazma Khan, the Bangladeshi American owner of a Brooklyn-based headscarf company, and Ahlul Bayt, a Shiite-proselytizing TV station, that the University of Calgary, in southwest Canada, promotes as a resource for its participation in “World Hijab Day.” The TV station argues that wearing a “hijab” is necessary for women to avoid “unwanted attention.” World Hijab Day, Ahlul Bayt and the University of Calgary didn’t respond to requests for comment.

In its “resources,” Ahluly Bayt includes a link to the notion that “the woman is awrah,” or forbidden, an idea that leads to the confinement, subordination, silencing and subjugation of women’s voices and presence in public society. It also includes an article, “The top 10 excuses of Muslim women who don’t wear hijab and their obvious weaknesses,” with the argument, “Get on the train of repentance, my sister, before it passes by your station.”

The rush to cover women’s hair has reached a fever pitch with ultraconservative Muslim websites and organizations pushing this interpretation, such as VirtualMosque.com and Al-Islam.org, which even published a feature, “Hijab Jokes,” mocking Muslim women who don’t cover their hair “Islamically.”

Nothing more than if the kkk put up a billboard promoting slavery for blacks .

Of course that would be diffenent. Seriously, wtf is wrong with you? That would be a bigoted stunt promoting both racism and an illegal act.

But thanks for revealing for the class here that you view Muslims through the myopic lens of bigotry.

So? That’s their opinion. Omar, who chooses to wear a hijab, believes differently, as do many American-Muslim women.

Holyfuckingshit!

It even said “opinion” at the top of the page you linked.

As far as hijabs, as far as chastity belts, as far as any article of clothing, in America, women are free to choose what they wear. If they choose to abide by their faith and their faith instructs them to wear something like a hijab or for Jewish men, a yarmulke, that’s their choice.

It’s rather disturbing how much conservatives hate it when Americans are given the freedom to make their own choices in life.

Especially American women.