Today is World Hijab Day
The idea is that if non-Muslim women wear a hijab for a day, for reasons that are not entirely explained, we will have: “Better awareness, greater understanding and a peaceful world.”
So ladies, don your hijabs and prepare to usher in a halcyon era of calm and tranquillity as male concuspience – the root of all conflict – is quenched by the absence of visible female hair. It is the obvious solution for peace in the Middle East. It should work: looking at this, already I feel waves of libido sapping ataraxia overwhelming me:
I’m going to spend this afternoon at Tahiti Beach in Saint Tropez to celebrate.
From the website it looks to me more like a ‘veiled’ evangelistic project.
Twenty-year-old Naomi Oni left the hospital today, where she’s been for the last month undergoing skin grafts and treatments in the burns unit. She was returning from work when “an unknown attacker dressed in a niqab” threw acid at her.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/exclusive-young-woman-scarred-for-life-and-almost-blinded-in-random-acid-attack-on-london-street-8476680.html
“But what is missing is any acknowledgement of the violent means by which the hijab is imposed on Muslim and non-Muslim women around the world. For many women, even in North America, the consequences of not wearing the hijab can be fatal.”
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/dgreenfield/the-islamic-feminism-of-all-american-muslim/