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A setback for the Islamist ruling party of Turkey: Turkish Rulers Backtrack on Head Scarves. ANKARA, Turkey, July 31 — Turkey’s ruling party has dropped for now its attempts to lift a decades-old ban on wearing Islamic head scarves in universities, a campaign that infuriated defenders of the country’s ...
LGF, Turkey, Islamic Supremacism, Women's Rights, Hijab, Headscarf
A giant glass Muslim headscarf in the heart of Paris.
LGF, France, Louvre, Islam, Headscarf, Hijab, Misogyny, Dhimmitude
It’s confirmed. That really is Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s wife in that photograph I posted yesterday. Here are some more pictures of the First Bag Lady, with a hat tip to LGF reader dgoddard.
LGF, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Hijab, Veil, Headscarf, Burqa, Islam
I don’t know if it’s a real picture, but it’s too funny/sad/pathetic not to post; it’s from hurriyet.com.tr, and it purports to show Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his first lady. (Hat tip: Drained Brain.) Also see: Iran’s First Lady - Confirmed
LGF, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Hijab, Veil, Headscarf, Burqa, Islam
Remember this horrifying story the next time an Islamic advocacy group tries to tell you that wearing the hijab is a completely voluntary choice for Muslim women: Murder Charge for Brother Whose Sister Shed Scarf. TORONTO — The brother of a Canadian teenager who was slain in what friends described ...
LGF, Islam, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Hijab, Headscarf, Honor Killing
Debbie Schlussel has some interesting information about the two Muslim women prevented from sitting behind Barack Obama at a Detroit rally, and their connections to radical Islamic front groups. (Are you surprised?)
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Headscarf, Hijab, MSA, Muslim Student Association
They were barred by campaign volunteers from appearing in visible seats behind Barack Obama, because they were wearing Muslim headscarves. A campaign official apologized to them when it became a news story. But that’s not good enough; they won’t be happy until they’ve made a presidential candidate grovel: Muslim woman ...
Muslims in Belgium are angry (yes, really!) about a ban on the radical Islamic symbol of domination over women, the hijab, for employees of the city of Antwerp. So they’re demanding that the city also ban Christmas trees and Easter eggs. ANTWERP – “If headscarves are banned for employees who ...
LGF, Belgium, Radical Islam, Hijab, Misogyny, Women's Rights
Canada’s CBC is relentlessly leftist, and their story about the top soccer association’s decision not to allow the political symbol of radical Islam’s suppression of women shows their bias very clearly: Soccer officials fail to change rules about wearing hijab. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Note the language: the officials “failed” ...
Canada, Islam, Militant Islam, Dhimmitude, Hijab, Women's Rights, Misogyny
Someone pushed an 11-year old Muslim girl into trying to play in a soccer tournament wearing the symbol of radical Islam’s suppression of women—the hijab. She was ejected, according to the rules. And now the second-guessing starts. The ejection of an 11-year-old Canadian Muslim girl from a soccer game ...
Canada, Islam, Militant Islam, Dhimmitude, Hijab, Women's Rights, Misogyny
Last October, in noting the case of Ginnnah (yes, three Ns) Muhammad of Detroit, whose small claims case was thrown out when she refused to take off her niqab to let the judge see her face, I wrote: They lost this one, but they’ll be back. Well, they’re back. ...
CAIR, Radical Islam, Hijab, Niqab, Veil, Women's Rights, Michigan, Misogyny
It is now legal to board a bus in Grand Rapids wearing a full face mask: Michigan Public Transit Officials Apologize to Muslim Woman Over Veil Rejection. (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.) Apologies have been offered to those who wish to ride the transit system in disguise. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — ...
The promoters of Islamic misogyny are not only active in Europe; they’re continually testing the strength of American society too: Muslim woman refuses to remove her veil in court, so judge tosses case. (Hat tip: LSD.) And again, we see mainstream media (the Detroit Free Press) running interference for the ...
The Council on American Islamic Relations has issued one of their infamous “Action Alerts” about Fox News anchor John Gibson, blasting him for speaking out against radical Islamic repression of women: Incitement: ‘No veils. If you’re here, be American’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) INCITEMENT WATCH: MUSLIM VEIL SHOULDN’T BE WORN ...
Here’s an excellent post by Hugh Fitzgerald about the realpolitik of Tunisia and other “moderate” Islamic states, who must constantly fight a dirty, brutal battle against the intolerant forces of fundamentalism. And the battleground in this case is a seemingly minor article of clothing: Tunisian headscarves. Tunisia is a police-state, ...
Wearing Islamic scarves, Iranian women, play rugby during a training session at the Azadi (freedom) sport complex, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 22, 2006. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) (Hat tip: zombie.)
Michael Rubin at The Corner has news of an amazing development in Turkey, following the Islamist attack in an Ankara courthouse. (Hat tip: Jim in Virginia.) I spoke at length with Turkish officials last night. What is happening in Ankara is amazing. Crowds booed Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul—the ruling party’s ...
Raging and seething over a Turkish court’s decision to ban the hijab on public employees at work, a Muslim attorney tried to commit mass murder in Ankara today: Lawyer shoots judges in Turkish court. (Hat tip: Right Brain.) ANKARA, Turkey (CNN) — At least five judges were wounded when an ...
According to this AP report, the Coast Guard is now going to allow Islamic head coverings in identification photographs: Coast Guard drops ban on religious headgear in photos. (Hat tip: Sugiero.) NEW YORK—Plaintiffs’ lawyers say the Coast Guard has abandoned a rule requiring anyone seeking a merchant marine license to ...
Chechnya’s Islamic prime minister Ramzan Kadyrov has been pushing the government in the direction of shari’a, and now they are demanding that women wear headscarves. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) GROZNY, Russia, March 10 (Reuters) - The pro-Moscow Chechen government has started to demand that female state workers wear headscarves, women ...