“British Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to apologize for Islamophobic comments he wrote in 2018 comparing Muslim women in burqas to letterboxes and bank robbers.” Johnson has stood firm on this issue. He was once threatened to be sent by his party to “diversity training” over his face veil comments, and right after he made […]
Indonesia: After sex abuse scandal in Islamic boarding school, girls required to wear face veils
“In mid-July, the male head of a pesantren (Islamic boarding school) in the ultraconservative province of Aceh, as well as one of the school’s male teachers, were arrested by police for allegedly sexually assaulting 15 of the school’s male students.” The abuse was against male students, and caused such a scandal that the pesantren was […]
Christine Douglass-Williams: “Incalculable number of women” abused for decision to stop wearing full-body veils
In this interview with Sputnik News, Jihad Watch writer Christine Douglass-Williams exposes a great deal about the systematic and institutionalized abuse of women under Islamic law. Indeed, the second-class status of women is ingrained in Sharia, and set out in numerous passages of the Qur’an and Hadith. The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to […]
UK: MP Boris Johnson accused of “Islamophobia,” refuses to apologize over burqa joke
A former Mayor of London and current Member of Parliament, Boris Johnson, made headlines for his comments about women wearing the burqa: He stated: He did not want the full-face veil and gown donned by some Muslim women to be banned in Britain but the outfit was “ridiculous” and “weird”. He also said it made […]
Denmark bans Islamic full-face veil in public spaces
Denmark has become “the latest European country to ban the Islamic full-face veil in public spaces in a move slammed by human rights campaigners as ‘a violation of women’s rights.’” This is the real violation of women’s rights: (Quran 24:31) And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts […]
Montreal mayor opposes law forcing burqa-wearing women to show faces to access public services
Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre is challenging the Province of Quebec for “forcing Muslim women to uncover their faces if they want access to public services.” Should Coderre succeed, the public will be put at risk, not because of so-called “Islamophobia,” but because there have been widespread jihad attacks throughout the West and continued calls from […]
UK: Muslim cleric calls for burqa ban in Britain
An Oxford-based Muslim cleric has called for Britain to ban the burqa, arguing that the wearing of a face veil is not Islamic but the product of a misogynistic culture. He further argues: Since the burqa and niqab are ancient habits and not mentioned in the Koran, it is, therefore, pre-Islamic, not Koranic and ipso […]
Germany: Hijab fashion stores linked to Salafism
The mental gymnastics is pretty impressive in this one. On the one hand, the author quotes the Brookings Institution, saying “Salafism is the idea that the most authentic and true Islam is found in the lived example of early, righteous generations of Muslims, known as the Salaf, who were closest both in time and proximity to […]
Germany: If you ban burqa, you have to ban Santa Claus outfit, too
To think that Ralf Jäger — despite his bad reputation over the New Year’s Eve sex assaults and the chaos happening in Germany due to the migrant crisis — would shamelessly continue to partake in the erosion of Germany’s civilized culture by defending the burqa and putting it on par with a Santa Claus outfit. […]
Islamophobes urge Canadian government to ban burqas, niqabs in public — no, wait…
Actually it was a Canadian Muslim group — a group that knows full well what these garments mean for the subjugation of women. But our enlightened multicultural Western governments know better, of course. “Muslim group urges gov’t to ban burkas, niqabs in public,” from The Canadian Press, October 7 (thanks to Maxwell): TORONTO — Middle […]