Ottawa Hijab Day – Thursday, February 25th, 2016
“Better Awareness, Greater Understanding, Peaceful World when non-Muslim women will wear a hijab for all or part of the day to be in solidarity with Muslim women. We walk with our sisters.”
Please do this instead: Do NOT wear a headscarf in “solidarity” with the ideology that most silences us, equating our bodies with “honor.” Stand with us instead with moral courage against the ideology of Islamism that demands we cover our hair.
~ Asra Q. Nomani & Hala Arafa ~
The Ottawa Women’s Action Forum has advertised ‘Wear the Hijab’ Day promising its membership that reaching out to Muslim women by wearing a hijab in solidarity is one way to end cultural misunderstanding and conflict. While we stress that no woman should ever be harassed or attacked for wearing the hijab, we think it is a grave error to celebrate such a garment.
We will discuss the hijab as a symbol both of Muslim women’s sexual subordination within Islam – the last thing that any modern western woman should support – and of the cultural superiority of Islam in contrast to decadent and corrupt western societies. Pious platitudes about tolerance and mutual understanding should not prevent us from understanding why women choose or are forced to wear the hijab, sometimes with deadly consequences. The hijab is not an innocent piece of cloth and should never be celebrated by freedom-loving peoples.
So, wear a Hijab Day? Why not a day for the girls who didn’t want to cover up and were honor killed for it? Why not a day for Muslim girls who were killed by their fathers and/or brothers for refusing to wear the hijab? For the millions of women and girls forced to wear the cover-up, such a tribute is ghastly.
How about an Aqsa Parvez day who was honour murdered in Toronto; strangled to death by her father and brother because she didn’t want to wear the hijab.
How about a Zainab, Sahar, Geeti and Rona Shafia day who were murdered by their father and brother – drowned in the Kingston Canal – for wanting to live with western values and not wear the hijab.
When is their day?
Following are several articles which illustrate that the wearing of the Hijab is not as innocent as it is made to appear.
Ottawa Hijab Day by Jamie Glazov
A group called “City for All Women Initiative“ is planning an “Ottawa Hijab Day” on Feb. 25, 2016. The group states that it is aiming for “better awareness”, “greater understanding,” and a “peaceful world.” The Hijab Day will be a day, the group announces, “When non-Muslim women will wear a hijab for all or part of the day to be in solidarity with Muslim women. We walk with our sisters.”
Perhaps the organizers of the event will share this video with all of their event’s participants in order to help achieve “better awareness” and “greater understanding”. In response to this group’s planned event, we are running Jamie Glazov’s Video: What a Woman in Hijab is Really Saying to You, in which he unveils the terrifying truth about what the hijab really signifies.
http://jamieglazov.com/2016/01/27/ottawa-hijab-day-the-glazov-gang/
Ban face covering in all public institutions. Veiling is slavery
Veiling is gender apartheid, tout court, and entering the word “religion” or “belief” into the discussion does not soften the harshness of the practice. The same cultures that approve of veiling often either approve of or wink at female genital mutilation and polygamy. Is there a competing interest in these practices too? No free citizen should find an “interest” in any of these practices that can actually compete with our cultural value of treating women with equality, respect and dignity. Some cultural customs are morally superior to others. The strength of our social and civic fabric depends on our recognizing and acting on this truth.
Islamic Groups Push ‘World Hijab Day’ To Undermine Western Opposition
As we have said many times in the past, with the testimony of elderly Muslims, the hijab was introduced by terrorist organizations. Wherever you find the hijab, you find the support of terrorism. The fully covered garbage sack or “beekeeper’s costume” has nothing to do with culture or religion but is a rape shield which entitles Muslim men to beat, rape or kill women should they not comply to their orders. And as our readers have observed, the hijab (fully covered burka) is a weaponized articles of clothing designed to make an influential or intimidating political statement.
As Muslim women, we actually ask you not to wear the hijab in the name of interfaith solidarity
Asra Q. Nomani and Hala Arafa believe in freedom of religion. To them, the “hijab”is a symbol of an interpretation of Islam they 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. They 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.
Hijab is not a piece of cloth on your head
Hijab is not a piece of cloth on your head. It’s a way of life. Just because some of the sisters have their head covered, they think that the requirement of Hijab is fulfilled. They don’t realize that wearing a Hijab requires much more than just covering your head. Actually, if you think about it, Hijab is the way you talk…..the way you walk….the very way you carry yourself. In fact, Hijab is an attitude in itself. It’s a whole way of life.
http://www.farhathashmi.com/articles-section/women-and-family/hijab/
The myth of how the hijab protects women against sexual assault
The myth that there’s a correlation between the hijab and a low incidence of sexual harassment and violence against women actually systematically victimizes them. Men are doing women a disservice in that they are placing blame on women who don’t cover themselves, as well as insinuating that a woman who is attacked while wearing a headscarf somehow did something to deserve it. As with all victim-blaming, this prevents women from speaking up about sexual assault.
Mainstreaming Islamic Oppression by Robert Spencer
Dalia Mogahed explained to an adoring audience that the hijab represented nothing more or less than the “privatization of women’s sexuality” – and who on earth but the most benighted lout could possibly be against that? Will Dalia Mogahed and Trevor Noah get together on another Daily Showepisode to say a few words in memory of Aqsa, Amina, and the forty Iraqi women? Will they honor the memory of Amira, an Egyptian girl who committed suicide after being brutalized for her family for refusing to “privatize” her sexuality and wear the hijab? Will they defend the freedom of Alya Al-Safar, whose Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped privatizing her sexuality and wearing the hijab in Britain? Will they speak up for the Saudi schoolgirls who were burnt alive because firefighters wouldn’t enter their burning school since they weren’t wearing hijab, i.e., their sexuality was insufficiently privatized?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261475/dalia-mogahed-mainstreaming-islamic-oppression-robert-spencer
Iranian human rights activist Shabnam Assadollahi condemns Ottawa Hijab Day
In an open letter that Iranian Canadian human rights activist Shabnam Assadollahi sent to Ottawa’s Mayor Jim Watson, Assadollahi expressed her concern with the feminist “City for All Women Initiative” in Canada who have decided to host an Ottawa Hijab Day inside the City Hall building on February 25, 2016. According to her, hosting a Hijab Day inside a City Hall building amounts to the “acceptance of a legal system that is contrary to our democratic values and human rights.” She believes that endorsing the Hijab as legally mandated in many Islamic countries amounts to “a tolerance for an extremist ideology that condones honor killings, female genital mutilation and the treatment of women in a way that is incompatible with our Canadian values.”
YOUTUBES
Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1958
This Youtube shows Nasser laughing at the Muslim Brotherhood in 1958 for suggesting that women should be required to wear the hijab.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZIqdrFeFBk
What a Woman in Hijab is Really Saying to You with Jamie Glazov.
If the significance of wearing the hijab is still not clear to you, please listen to Jamie Glazov explain in simple terms what it means. It will be crystal clear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ref8dRgP5fk
We ask you, as concerned citizens and activists, to write to the following people to voice your displeasure at using a public space to promote this event.
Mayor of Ottawa, Jim Watson Jim.Watson@ottawa.ca
Honourable Patty Hajdu,
Minister of Status of Women Patty.hajdu@parl.gc.ca
City Counsellor Catherine.McKenney@ottawa.ca
Let’s not forget that only last year the Left wing Muslim Loving Ottawa city government had a Palestinian day at City Hall with Art depicting evil and hate against Israel, Take a walk through the East end Costco and the store is full of Muslims with Black Shamattes with the tiny slits , carriages filled to the rim thanks to Ontario’s left wing Government with checks of up to 5 thousand dollars a Muslim family .Meanwhile go down Rideau street and Regular Canadians beg on the street for Pennies