Saturday, Feb. 1, is another World Hijab Day, a Western feminist expression of solidarity with Muslim women in the United States who are supposedly oppressed and discriminated against because they wear the hijab. Note that the NEA relies for its data on the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR): “On college campuses, 49% of Muslim students experienced harassment or discrimination due to their Muslim identity, they told the Council on American–Islamic Relations-CA in 2024. More than one in three felt targeted by professors; more than half by their peers.” Yet CAIR has been caught promoting numerous fake hate crimes.
Back on Sept. 16, 2022, in Tehran, the Iranian morality police arrested Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, for not wearing her hijab properly. Amini later died in a hospital in Tehran, and numerous Iranians charged that she had been tortured to death while in custody. All over the country, protesters took to the streets to protest not against the hijab laws, but against the repressive and brutal Islamic Republic itself. Other women, and male protesters as well, were killed as the Iranian regime ruthlessly applied the Qur’anic injunction to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (8:60). The protests went on for months until the regime began summarily executing protesters, and even then some indomitably courageous Iranians continued to take to the streets to demand their freedom.
It is against that backdrop that World Hijab Day is once again being celebrated. For innumerable women in Iran, the hijab is the most visible sign of their second-class status, and of the brutality of the regime that will imprison them for years or even kill them outright for daring to venture out in public without wearing it. The Iranian authorities call their morality police the “Guidance Patrol,” an Orwellian name that makes them sound as if they’re a bunch of benign, avuncular individuals selflessly dedicated to helping young Iranians avoid moral pitfalls and stay on the straight and narrow. A more accurate name, however, would be the Terror Patrol, for the morality that these officials enforce is not the virtuous person’s free choice of the good, but the enforced obedience of those who are frightened into submission.
Actual incidents of Muslim women being harassed or discriminated against for wearing the hijab in the U.S., meanwhile, are extraordinarily hard to find. It’s much easier to find examples of Muslim women in America who falsely claimed that they were being harassed or discriminated against in order to score points on the left’s insane scale of victimhood worship.
In one such incident, an eleven-year-old girl in Toronto made international headlines with her claim that a man had followed her and cut her hijab with scissors. After an investigation, police concluded that the attack never happened. Likewise, Yasmin Seweid, a Muslim teen, claimed in December 2016 that Trump supporters on a New York subway tore off her hijab and no one in the packed subway car helped her. She, too, gained international media attention, and she, too, made up the whole thing. Shortly before that, a hijab-wearing Muslim student at San Diego State University also falsely claimed that she was assaulted by Trump supporters. In July 2017, a Muslim in Britain falsely claimed that a man had pulled off her hijab in a “race hate attack.” In November 2016, a University of Michigan Muslim student claimed she was “accosted by a white man who told her to remove her hijab or he would set her ablaze with a cigarette lighter.” She also fabricated the whole event. And there are many others of this kind, but the World Hijab Day feminists, of course, have taken no notice.
Nor have they ever acknowledged the fact that women are far more likely to be oppressed for not wearing the hijab than for wearing it, and not just in Iran. In Mississauga, Ontario, a few years back, Aqsa Parvez’s Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it. Amina Muse Ali was a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab. Forty women were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab. Alya Al-Safar’s Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain. Amira Osman Hamid faced whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab. An Egyptian girl, also named Amira, committed suicide after being brutalized by her family for refusing to wear the hijab. Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South Australia were told they had to wear the hijab or be fired. Women in Chechnya were shot with paintballs by police because they weren’t wearing hijab. Other women in Chechnya were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab.
When is the day for all these women, and so many others who have been brutalized or even killed for not wearing hijab?
“Recognizing World Hijab Day, Supporting Muslim Women,” by Mary Ellen Flannery, National Education Association, January 22, 2025:
Muslim students in the United States—from middle school through college and university—are experiencing harassment, discrimination, and bullying at scary rates, surveys show.
On college campuses, 49% of Muslim students experienced harassment or discrimination due to their Muslim identity, they told the Council on American–Islamic Relations-CA in 2024. More than one in three felt targeted by professors; more than half by their peers.
Among middle and high school Muslim students, 47 percent report feeling “unsafe, unwelcome, or uncomfortable” at school because of their identities. One in four say they’ve heard a teacher or other adult at school make offensive comments or act in a way offensive to Muslims. For students who wear hijabs, it’s especially threatening: about a third say their hijab has been pulled off or touched in an offensive way.
This is what Islamophobia looks like—and it stems, at least in part, from a lack of awareness, understanding, and empathy among non-Muslim people, suggests Nazma Khan, the founder of World Hijab Day.
Since 2013, World Hijab Day has provided an opportunity for non-Muslims to support Muslims and share their experiences by simply wearing a hijab. This is not an act of cultural appropriation; it’s an act of cultural appreciation, Khan notes.
“What if women from all walks of life, irrespective of their religion or faith, walk in my shoes by wearing the hijab for just one day?” says Khan. “Then perhaps these women will understand that it’s just a piece of cloth we wear. Then perhaps these women can be our allies when somebody is bullied on a train.”
Learn more about the who, when, where—and most importantly, the “why” behind World Hijab Day….
Today, World Hijab Day has been recognized by lawmakers in states as varied as Oklahoma and Michigan, and it has expanded to include inclusivity workshops that Khan offers to educators and parents.
“The whole goal is to dismantle Islamophobia,” she says.
somehistory says
Of course all of these female mozlums told cair about the abuse, harassment, discrimination and targeting.
cair members furnish scripted handouts for each, instructing exactly what to say to the *survey* questions….like they furnish directions when dealing with LE and the FBI especially.
I personally have seen female mozlums wearing their ugly terror scarves push their way about the University of Florida campus; government buildings in the area of the university and in the various rooms at the Medical Center associated with the university.
They don’t ‘wait their turn,’….they will run anyone over who might be walking along in front of them or going in the opposite direction. Going thru a doorway and one wants to go faster, you get pushed without so much as an ‘excuse me.’
cair is infamous for their hoaxes….which usually, if not *always,* include someone reportedly taking the scarf of some innocent mozlum female….taunting, saying ‘go home.’ etc.
They are found to be hoaxes, but that doesn’t stop the liars at cair from claiming otherwise.
cair and the women who survey along with them don’t give one bit of real *care* for any mozlum girl or woman who has been terrorized and many murdered, because they didn’t want to wear the scarf.
This world day to honor slavery is just another tool of mozlum terrorism.
E T says
And women in Iran are carted away, hung up by their wrists, the bottoms of their feet lashed, destroying their nerves to the point they cannot stand and raped for not wearing a hijab.
It’s all about submission.
somehistory says
And every nano particle is demonic How the fools must lust for demon power.
Tony says
The totalitarian cult of Islam is against women, children, and all Non-Muslims as taught in Islam’s Quran. Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 8:12; 9:29,41,111; 49:15 and more). More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Criminal Organization of discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran. Fundamentally, Islam is a Terrorist Criminal Enterprise. The FRUIT of Islam is continual WAR, terrorism, discrimination, and violence against all Non-Muslims; this FACT must be taught and broadcast to the general public to prohibit Islam, its Mosques, and its Schools. Also, Islam is an Antichrist System terrorizing Christians and Non-Muslims. Plus, there is NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW in Islam or in Islamic Law(Quran 98:6-7; 9:29 and more). In Sahih Bukhari(V6,B60,N80), Abu Huraira narrates, “‘You(Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised for mankind.’ means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them[Non-Muslims] with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam[see Quran 3:110].” See also Quran 69:30-32; 3:151.
Non-Muslims CANNOT have peace with Islam and its Muslims because Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a continuous, Muslim war against unbelievers where Non-Muslims are CRIMINALS under Islam as Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” HENCE, NON-MUSLIMS MUST MAKE ISLAM, ITS MOSQUES, ITS SCHOOLS, ITS ORGANIZATIONS, ETC. ILLEGAL UNDER THE LAW. Similarly, Islam and its many Organizations must be identified and publicly declared to be MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS for their funding, teaching, and support of terrorism, violence, and discrimination against Non-Muslims(eg. Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
Islam promotes a terroristic, Muslim war against unbelievers when Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with THEIR MONEY AND THEIR LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Allah promises Heavenly Paradise to Muslims for acts of Muslim killing in a terrorist war against Non-Muslims and hypocrites when Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah, so they kill and are killed…”
40 rounds says
The education establishment is a crock. Most teachers I’ve encountered are really mal-educated and suckers for the teacher’s unions. What’s next, national clitoral mutilation day?
BubbleBurster says
Don’t give them any ideas.
FGM Day could be next.
Stupid people would go along with tit.
Look how being a tranny, a non binary and a homosexual is celebrated.
If Satan had an organized religion, it would be Islam.
E T says
Education City heavily invested in American Universities to teach the “wonders” of Islam.
Simpleton1 says
France’s President Emmanuel Macron thought he could also do the “common-sense” thing like President Trump.
Macron chats to some one who despises him and want France to :—
promotes the niqab (full veil) and goes so far as to defend the wearing of the veil by young girls from the age of seven.
describes Macron as “a dwarf who is married to his French teacher and who runs a country the size of a crisp.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/macron-promotes-himself-chatting-on-tiktok-with-islamist-influencer/
More fool is Macron caught out with his phone in hand as if it is hand mirror, supposedly de-regulating but being complicit in his arrogance of his ignorance. i
abu taleb says
If muslims do not get preferential treatment, they will complain because they think they are entitled for that because they are musims. Muslims have to be given time for worshipping the black stone otherwise they are discriminated, while other people don’t get any time for their religious duty. Muslims must be allowed to have multiple wives, must be allowed to marry underage girls etc.
It is stupid to cater the muslims as they will demand more and more until there is no infidel left except those who have become muslims’ slaves.
skeptiker says
Aus Solidarität mit den unterdrückten Frauen in Islamistan tragen wir heute alle Kopftücher. Auch die, die sich männlich lesen, sollten sich dem Kampftag für Aberglauben, Unterdrückung und Misshandlung anschließen. Als Höhepunkt dieser Solidaritätsceranstaltung wird eine öffentliche Steinigung einer unverschleierten Person vollzogen. Großes Theater. Den Himmelskomikern wird es gefallen. Allahu akbar
jerry glenn says
NEA surges in the national Islamopandering derby.
James Lincoln says
I would counter with a “World Hijab Choice Day.”
Worldwide – including muslim majority countries – a choice to wear – or NOT wear – the hijab.
Let’s see how that works out…