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Hajer al-Faham, a Cornell University doctoral student is afraid to wear her Islamic uniform, the hijab, because she no longer fears being killed by her parents for not wearing it, as much as she fears Republicans if they find out she is a Muslima.
Hajer (the "j" is pronounced like a "t") had an article published in the uber liberal Seattle Times entitled: "Why I Stopped Wearing the Hijab."
For those living in a cave who have somehow acquired the use of a computer and are reading this, a hijab is an Islamic head covering that is required to be worn by Muslim women lest a family member kill them to preserve family honor.
Rather than her being concerned with women's rights or the dangers of being in a religious Muslim family wear not wearing a hijab can get you killed, she claimed victimhood as a Muslim from Americans.
She wrote:
But she gets even more accusatory and emetic:
Women in hijabs are all over American cities and nobody bats an eye. They walk amongst us and nobody attacks them and they certainly don't appear worried that they'll be attacked.
But Republicans being racists or bigots? Islamophobes?
My wife is an apostate Muslim and if she lived anywhere but the USA she would be in mortal danger for leaving Islam.
The truth, the real truth is, that Hajer al-Faham would be in more danger living in an Islamic country and refusing to wear the hijab.
Republicans don't give a crap what she wears. We just don't want Muslims telling us what Sharia laws we should adopt that would require our women to wear hijabs.
The way I see it, Hajer al-Faham's complaint makes as much sense as a gay-lesbian organization demanding the implementation of Sharia law as a way of being politically correct and physically dead.
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Hajer (the "j" is pronounced like a "t") had an article published in the uber liberal Seattle Times entitled: "Why I Stopped Wearing the Hijab."
For those living in a cave who have somehow acquired the use of a computer and are reading this, a hijab is an Islamic head covering that is required to be worn by Muslim women lest a family member kill them to preserve family honor.
Rather than her being concerned with women's rights or the dangers of being in a religious Muslim family wear not wearing a hijab can get you killed, she claimed victimhood as a Muslim from Americans.
She wrote:
Hajer believes that post911 America shows a marked increase of harassment and Islamic discrimination and that the 2016 presidential campaign has made this situation even worse.I felt compelled to stop wearing my hijab out of concern for my safety. In the midst of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaigns, I have experienced an unprecedented degree of anti-Muslim hostility. The statements made by Donald Trump, in particular, encouraging the shutdown of mosques and the development of a database to track Muslim Americans have direct consequences for people like me.
Even when the challenges of being Muslim and Arab in the United States grew after 9/11, I did not succumb to the pressure to try to pass as non-Muslim and non-Arab.She didn't specify any examples of the so-called pressure she experienced, but she must have scores of examples, unless she hasn't any.
But she gets even more accusatory and emetic:
The environment that I and many other Muslims navigate has become increasingly perilous, to the extent that I and other Muslim women have to choose between our safety and our freedom of religion.If her taqiyya were not taqiyya that would be terrible, but it is a taqiyya lie. Statistics prove that she's using the CAIR signature lies that liberals love to believe. If you want to single out a group of people who are really being discriminated against, it's the Jews.
Women in hijabs are all over American cities and nobody bats an eye. They walk amongst us and nobody attacks them and they certainly don't appear worried that they'll be attacked.
But Republicans being racists or bigots? Islamophobes?
My wife is an apostate Muslim and if she lived anywhere but the USA she would be in mortal danger for leaving Islam.
The truth, the real truth is, that Hajer al-Faham would be in more danger living in an Islamic country and refusing to wear the hijab.
Republicans don't give a crap what she wears. We just don't want Muslims telling us what Sharia laws we should adopt that would require our women to wear hijabs.
The way I see it, Hajer al-Faham's complaint makes as much sense as a gay-lesbian organization demanding the implementation of Sharia law as a way of being politically correct and physically dead.
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Yes, and women who choose not to wear it in places like Saudi Arabia or Iran will be beaten severely. Those who choose to wear it have every right to do so--it often keeps them from being raped. Islam demands women cover but men have no dress codes and rule the roost. Niqabs are also worn and women who do so are brought up from birth to do so--it isn't about modesty as much as it's about men's insecurity over their women
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