The actual oppression related to the hijab is not linked to wearing it, but to not wearing it. 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.
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.
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 New York state’s recognition of all these women, and so many others who have been brutalized or even killed for not wearing hijab?
“US Muslim civil rights group welcomes recognition of ‘World Hijab Day’ in New York,” by Merve Aydogan, Anadolu Agency, January 29, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Wednesday hailed a new resolution in the New York State Senate that officially recognized Feb. 1, 2025, as World Hijab Day.
The resolution, introduced by Senator Roxanne Persaud, aims to “encourage religious tolerance, cultural understanding and international solidarity.”
“World Hijab Day, in its 12th year, is a platform to promote understanding, dismantle stereotypes, and celebrate the empowerment of women who choose to wear the hijab,” CAIR said in a statement.
Noting that “this resolution reflects New York’s celebration of cultural and religious diversity,” CAIR-NY Executive Director Afaf Nasher said, “World Hijab Day is an important opportunity to amplify the voices of hijab-wearing women and to combat the prejudice and discrimination they often face.”…
James Lincoln says
How about a worldwide “hijab optional” day?
How would countries like Iran handle it?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Hijabs do have one positive function. It tells me who to avoid
Taffy says
And it partially hides the ugly a Muslim underneath. Imagine Zahra Billoo (a/k/a Mrs. Potato Head) or Linda Sarsour without a hijab.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Taffy
Rashida Tlain should follow Ilhan’s example, and don a hijab
somehistory says
Full burka for her, face completely covered, eyes behind the screen. And mouth shut.
somehistory says
the senator who led this was born in Guyana. she could wear one too.
world@70 says
I would prefer a MAGA hat day.
Taffy says
It’s disgusting that the NYS Senate is occupying its time with this nonsense instead of focusing on and undoing the financial ruin of New York that they caused, not to mention the NYC crime explosion with no bail releases and no jail time sentences for serious crimes. I am teetering on whether to leave NYS for saner pastures. I was ready to brush up on my Spanish and move to Uruguay if Kamala became president. Now that things are looking up nationally, I am staying in the US, but I need to find a Red State that is livable. Florida, unfortunately, has oppressive heat and humidity, but Trump, on his first day in office, fixed that! But alas, the fix was very temporary.
40 rounds says
New York is a beautiful state, my mother was from there, but, you’re right, the lunatics are in charge and destroy everything they come in contact with. Move while you can
somehistory says
If you don’t want the humid conditions of Florida, and most people not born in Florida complain about it, try Texas. It gets hot, but the humidity in West Texas can be as low as 5%
40 rounds says
By the way, all red states are livable. We have air, water, and food just like blue states
Tony says
Islam is a totalitarian system of oppressive power and control against all Non-Muslims, and Muslim women are under the control of Muslim men by Islamic Law of which the Hijab is a discrimination symbol of control over women. Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION and NOT A PEACEFUL RELIGION UNDER WESTERN LAWS(Quran 2:216; 4:95; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,29,41,49, 21:921; 88,111,123;21:92; 49:15 and more). More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Criminal Organization of continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran. Fundamentally, Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist Criminal Enterprise with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah. The FRUIT of Islam is incessant 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 Israel, 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 3:22,151; 69:30-32; 98:6.
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 when 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 limitless, 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.”
Deceitful 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…”
somehistory says
The “empowerment” stuff is a fat lie. It does nothing of the sort. In mozlum ruined nations, it says only the husband and those he may choose can rape the woman wearing it.
In non-molzum ruined nations (growing fewer in number) it says that mozlum women are superior to other women, but still slaves to the males of the mozlum world.
In America it says, “hey look at me with smiling approval while I scowl at you.”
gravenimage says
+1
Milad says
Free women who wear Hijab are in favour of Iran and Taliban’s crackdown and oppression of women. Hijab in Quran حِجَابٍ means partition not head cover.
Quran 42:51 – Allah inspires وحي (NOT reveales انزلنا) from behind a partition حِجَابٍ (hijab).
gravenimage says
Women being isolated, forced to stay at home, or immurred in Burqas are one and the same–preventing women from being seen or heard.
Walter Sieruk says
It is a very true statement when it was said that “World Hijab Day” is nothing to celebrate” For the hijab is literal object and symbolic item of the harsh oppression of girls and women of the misogyny in “The House of Islam.”
Sharia or as many Westerners call it “Sharia Law” very much supports the Islamic practice of females being force to wear the hijab.
So it should be made known that the actual origin of Sharia had been revealed in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995 ” For that future history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” .page 150.
Therefore, Sharia is of pagan origin and therefore has no value or worth, so likewise the “World Hijab Day “ is actually a farce.
Bruce David Watt says
hijab wearing is like daily wear of your NAZI SWASTICA arm band for superiority identification.
John1 says
Hijab = medieval chastity belt.
Walter Sieruk says
World Hijab Day is a hoax. The forcing of girls and women to wear the hijab is part of the
malicious and oppressive misogyny that is part of ,the basic essence, of the misogyny of Islam.
The misogyny of Islam is explained, exposed and revealed by a scholar of Islam who revealed in her book “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islam ideology.” Furthermore, the author also exposes that `” Women is Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [1]
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, pages 171,172.
Michael Skok says
The hijab should not be celebrated. It is unhealthy. It blocks out the sun, which is the best source of vitamin D.
jerry glenn says
New York surges in the national islamopandering derby
Troybeam says
No city or state should appease Islam in any form period. Doing so empowers Islam for more and more special requests which go against humanity plus its the beginning of the Islamic quest to conquer a nation.
Sister Alberti says
It is an abomination that “Hijab” day was announced the same day as “Groundhog Day”. Will they make Punxsutawney Phil wear a hijab next Feb. 2?
memi says
New York Mayor Eric Adam is a fervent supporter of all things ISLAMIST. He has already been accused of crimes involving acting as agent for Islamofascist Turkey where he spends many a “holiday” being the guest of Erdogan’s officials lavishing him with gifts. Adams should be in jail but is still strong and supporting all Palestinian “causes” and anti-Israel propaganda that Erdogan wants him to “spread” in New York!
Shameful for a U.S. Mayor and he’s still being investigated for his “lavish gifts” from Turkey (and possibly Qatar, the corrupt mini-oligarchy that spends money like popcorn to promote Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood together with its “bodyguard” with bases inQatar,Islamofascist Turkey!
gravenimage says
New York state officially recognizes World Hijab Day, Hamas-linked CAIR is delighted
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Of course they are–these Islamic thugs want us all immurred in “cover”–first by “cute lil” days like this, then by “religious police”, finally by state-enforced veiling.