The President of Austria asks all women to wear hijabs

[1srelluc]

The President of Austria, Alexander Van der Bellen, has made headlines by calling for all women to wear hijabs in solidarity with Muslim women facing abuses. This statement was made during a school event where he addressed the question of whether a ban on Islamic headscarves or veils would reduce women to their appearance rather than their accomplishments. Van der Bellen's comments have sparked significant debate and controversy, with many questioning the appropriateness of such a call and the implications it may have for women's rights and freedom of expression.

The Express Tribune



These people will do anything to make their weakness and cowardice look like compassion.

Solidarity = Empathetic Suicide.

Is this the type of behavior the dems expect us to imitate here in the US since they think the EU is so great?

 

[ozro]

First thought that comes to mind is morti posting pics of him and his mom in a hijab.
I guess time will tell.....

 

[1srelluc]

First thought that comes to mind is morti posting pics of him and his mom in a hijab.
I guess time will tell.....

I thought of mort too!

 

[JGalt]

The President of Austria, Alexander Van der Bellen, has made headlines by calling for all women to wear hijabs in solidarity with Muslim women facing abuses. This statement was made during a school event where he addressed the question of whether a ban on Islamic headscarves or veils would reduce women to their appearance rather than their accomplishments. Van der Bellen's comments have sparked significant debate and controversy, with many questioning the appropriateness of such a call and the implications it may have for women's rights and freedom of expression.

The Express Tribune



These people will do anything to make their weakness and cowardice look like compassion.

Solidarity = Empathetic Suicide.

Is this the type of behavior the dems expect us to imitate here in the US since they think the EU is so great?

Oh shit. I hope we're not gonna see a thread with Mortimer dressed in a hijab.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Abuse? The hijab itself is abuse.

Forcing women to cover all but their eyes is part of the culture that women belong to men, first their fathers, then their husbands.

 

[Eman623]

Please tell me this is political satire!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Abuse? The hijab itself is abuse.

Forcing women to cover all but their eyes is part of the culture that women belong to men, first their fathers, then their husbands.

That is not a hijab. Try again!

 

[Votto]

The President of Austria, Alexander Van der Bellen, has made headlines by calling for all women to wear hijabs in solidarity with Muslim women facing abuses. This statement was made during a school event where he addressed the question of whether a ban on Islamic headscarves or veils would reduce women to their appearance rather than their accomplishments. Van der Bellen's comments have sparked significant debate and controversy, with many questioning the appropriateness of such a call and the implications it may have for women's rights and freedom of expression.

The Express Tribune



These people will do anything to make their weakness and cowardice look like compassion.

Solidarity = Empathetic Suicide.

Is this the type of behavior the dems expect us to imitate here in the US since they think the EU is so great?

To be fair, Europe is now Islamic, so the people need to be respectful of the norms their society embraces, like throwing gays off roof tops and taking all rights away from women and beat them if they resist.

Europe has made its choice.

 

[JWBooth]

Something 12,000 Poles, Hungarians, Austrians, and Germans died to prevent in 1683.

 

[Seymour Flops]

That is not a hijab. Try again!

I didnt say it was.

Dont try again, you'll only fail again!

 

[task0778]

The President of Austria, Alexander Van der Bellen, has made headlines by calling for all women to wear hijabs in solidarity with Muslim women facing abuses.

This is not true. It is unfortunate that on this website we have posters with misleading titles on their threads. Read the OP's link if you want to know what he actually did say.

 

[JGalt]

This is not true. It is unfortunate that on this website we have posters with misleading titles on their threads. Read the OP's link if you want to know what he actually did say.

"In a 2017 speech, Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen said that the day might come when all women would need to wear a headscarf out of solidarity against growing Islamophobia. He did not call for it as a present mandate, but rather as a hypothetical measure in an extreme future scenario.

His full quote, delivered at the House of the European Union to a group of students in March 2017 and later broadcast on Austrian television, was: "If this real and rampant Islamophobia continues... there will come a day where we must ask all women to wear a headscarf — all — out of solidarity to those who do it for religious reasons".

The President's comments were made in the context of a debate over a proposed ban on full-face Islamic veils (niqab and burqa) in public places, which the Austrian government eventually passed into law. His position was that "It is every woman's right to always dress how she wants, that is my opinion on the matter". He intended his statement to highlight the problem of discrimination, not to literally mandate a headscarf for all women."

Case closed.