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What a mean, merciless place Salt Lake City must have been.
To hear the city’s Mayor Erin Mendenhall tell it, there was apparently neither faith nor kindness there until Muslims started arriving there in large numbers beginning in the mid-1960s, and in even greater numbers after the Sept. 11, 2001 jihad attacks. This is clear in light of the fact that Mendenhall, at a recent Ramadan iftar she hosted for area Muslims in city hall, praised the Muslim month of alternate fasting and gorging for the “values of faith and kindness that Ramadan brings to our community.”
This is standard politicians’ boilerplate, translating in plain English to “Please vote for me,” but that doesn’t really make it any more excusable. If anyone pressed her on this quote, and no one will, Mendenhall would certainly explain that she didn’t mean that Islam originated faith and kindness, or that Muslims were the only people who ever manifested those qualities. Nevertheless, she said what she said, and it’s certain that neither she nor her team would ever have let a statement go public that gave the impression that Jews or Christians had a monopoly on faith and kindness. These errors and failures of clarity and precision always seem to go only one way.
Demonstrating her respect for those who gave us the values of faith and kindness, Mendenhall donned a hijab at the iftar. This was particularly unfortunate during the present conflict with a regime that has killed people for not wearing it. On Sept. 16, 2022, Iranian morality police in Tehran 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 insisted that she had been tortured to death while in custody.
Countless other women around the world have suffered for not wearing the hijab. 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.
The cousin of another Muslim woman, Alya Al-Safar, threatened her with death and even said he would 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.
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PRCS USN (ret) says
The ‘veil’.
Qur’an 33:59
*O Prophet! Tell thy wives and thy daughters, as well as all [other] believing women, that they should draw over themselves some of their outer garments [when in public]: this will be more conducive to their being recognized [AS DECENT WOMEN] and not annoyed.
*The message to 7th century Arabian men is uncovered women–being INDECENT–are fair game for said ‘annoyance’.
*That nonsense was NOT revealed by a guy in the sky, then sent to an angel, and to an iliterate desert dweller.
*It was, like all religions of the time, concocted by human beings who thought the earth was both flat and orbited by the sun.
Do the Mayor and her staff even have a clue?
PRCS USN (ret) says
If high profile Musimas Rashida Tlaib, Qanta Ahmed, and Asra Nomani don’t veil themselves, why does the Mayor?
And is she really not aware of the plight of Muslim women in Afghanistan, Iran, and other similarly governed nations?
OLD GUY says
Would this brilliant women mayor of Salt Lake City be a mayor of a city in any Islamic country?
I don’t think so.
jerry glenn says
Rampant Islamopandering.
Winston 101 says
Among many other wrong messages she is sending in her vulgar display of political ambition, ignorance, and cowardice is the message conveyed by the Submitscarf:
Rape is the fault of the victim.
Mohammed was not expected to sexually control himself per the Quran, Hadith
and Sunnah. Since he was the model man, that all men should strive to be like, men should not to sexually control themselves.
If a woman is raped – it’s her fault – she wasn’t dressed properly.
It also speaks to what Islam teaches men to see when they see women not wearing the Submitscarf.
Rather makes your skin crawl.
gravenimage says
Salt Lake City’s Woke Mayor Praises Ramadan as If It Has Brought Us Everything That Is Good
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“Everything that is good”–what, successive Jihad terror attacks?
somehistory says
She’s one of those Isaiah wrote about who will be receiving “Woe” due to “putting evil for good, bitter for sweet and darkness for light.”