Seemorerocks: Daring to speak out on NZ women wearing the hijab

Thursday, 4 April 2019

Daring to speak out on NZ women wearing the hijab

Nobody, but nobody could say this without being labelled an islamophobe, a fascist, unpatriotic or something else

Is anyone else noticing the spectacle of PROGRESSIVE women adopting the religious expression of the subjugation of women which is not just a small part,but a major part of a religion that is still practising according to views that date back to medieval times.

All that at the same time as castigating “toxic mascuinity” or the (white) rape culture while ignoring the rape of western women and girls by migrants in Europe and elsewhere.

But you can't say that!

Iranian women's rights activist says NZ hijab display after Christchurch shooting is 'heartbreaking'

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NZ Herald,

2 April, 2019

A women's rights activist in Iran says her heart broke when she saw New Zealanders wearing the hijab in an attempt at solidarity following the Christchurch mosque attacks.

Masih Alinejad, an Iranian activist and journalist who hosts the website My Stealthy Freedom where women in Iran post photos without headscarves, admired Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's compassion, but was conflicted about the national display.

After 50 people were shot dead in two Christchurch mosques on March 15, photos of Ardern wearing a hijab went around the world, with many political commentators admiring her act of solidarity.

Alinejad, who has lived in self-imposed exile since 2009 and received death threats for her campaigning against Iran's obligatory wearing of headscarves, told Reuters: "I felt admiration that a prominent leader and women in New Zealand showed compassion to the Muslim community, but I also felt that you are using one of the most visible symbols of oppression for Muslim women in many countries for solidarity, and it also broke my heart.

"That is why I call on them to show their sisterhood and solidarity with us, who are being beaten up, imprisoned and punished for fighting against compulsory hijab as well."

Alinejad has also founded White Wednesdays, a movement which saw many women take off their headscarves in protest of the "discriminatory law".

She says visitors to Iran shouldn't wear the hijab out of "respect for the culture of Iran", and those who do are "sending a message that men are more equal than women".

In a video circulating on Twitter she says: "Iranian women, they fight against the compulsory hijab and they are alone, they are on their own.

"There were three female politicians from the Netherlands - they went to Iran the same day when one of the women of the White Wednesdays movement put her headscarf on a stick and waved it in public, she got arrested.