Frank wrote on Jun 19^th, 2024 at 10:05am:



The meaning :


Hijabi woman burns the French flag. If you hate Europe so much, why do you still keep coming to Europe?
https://x.com/EuropeInvasionn/status/1803339183118835944

Bravo to Marine Le Pen for blasting Islamic veil in France:

“I consider the Islamist veil to be a marker of this totalitarian ideology. I thus wish to free every women on our national territory from it.

I said it this morning to neighbourhood under the pressure from Islamists (to wear veil) is that of course  on the women who don't wear it, isolating the women who don't wear one. And from that point It's a great loss of freedom for women, which is in fact freedom of choice."

https://x.com/ImtiazMadmood/status/1808015901347774526

One writer defines it as “hostility to the hijab”. The Oxford Handbook of European Islam defines it as “rejection of the hijab”. Apparently ­hijabophobia is such a scourge here in the UK that schoolkids must be taught to love rather than fear this hair-veiling garment.

On World Hijab Day in February every year, schools encourage non-Muslim girls to don a hijab so that they might “experience what it feels like to be a Muslim woman”.

Heaven help the blasphemous soul who dares to diss the veil. Boris Johnson was once hauled over the coals for the thoughtcrime of hijabophobia. In a newspaper column in 2018 he described Muslim veils as “ridiculous” and said some women end up “looking like letterboxes”. The activist class went nuts. “Bigot”, they yelled.

This got me thinking about the young women in Iran currently rising up against the ruthless theocracy – are they bigots? They’ve certainly displayed “hostility to the hijab”. Some have trampled their veils into the dirt. Others have thrown them on to fires. We’ve seen footage of women dancing with joyous abandon as their unveiled hair flows in the wind. They don’t want to look like letterboxes.
Brendan O'Neill