Why should she have anything to do with the so-called laws of so-called Switzerland? This, mes petites, is what people mean when they refer to the failure of (cough) ‘integration.’ She’s like the ultraorthodox in Israel, who see that “country” as the enemy against which God commands them to resist.
Deep Salafist pockets will pay her fines – she will continue to rack them up – until the state decides that the system of fines isn’t working. Next step: A social worker tries to reason with a fanatic. Then jail?
… and one of its political leaders uses remarkably strong language against the thing.
“[I do not accept that women should be forced to] walk the streets as if they were animals or merchandise.”
[Arab women] are allowed access to the public sphere only if they renounce their bodies: To let them go uncovered would be to uncover the desire that the Islamist, the conservative and the idle youth feel and want to deny. Women are seen as a source of destabilization — short skirts trigger earthquakes, some say … [T]oday, with the latest influx of migrants from the Middle East and Africa, the pathological relationship that some Arab countries have with women is bursting onto the scene in Europe... People in the West are discovering, with anxiety and fear, that sex in the Muslim world is sick, and that the disease is spreading to their own lands.
***********************
An essential companion piece.
A Spanish human rights activist argues for restrictions on various forms of Islamic dress in her country.
They’re pretty much the last holdout in Europe on allowing the burqa, and like idiots they pride themselves on their tolerance even of cultural vileness.
Years ago, this blog covered the efforts of Muslim students to impose strict gender segregation in British universities, with the enthusiastic backing of the official body in charge of such matters. It took a lot of screaming and crying for this scandal to end.
And after all, having tolerated a branch of Islam rigidly determined to erase women, the Brits constantly have to tamp down further discrimination.
Things like a recent foot race which barred women from participating, for instance, continue to make the Brits look idiotic. The race went off without a hitch and without any women, and only after the thing happened did it occur to someone or other that there weren’t any women in it. So now oh yeah NOW we’re gonna appoint a committee to review that and for sure we shall do er something.
Left and right in Sweden look ready to go: A burqa/niqab ban is definitely on its way.
*********************
Ugh. “Almost 70,000 women are female genital mutilated in this country.”
A very confused Canadian person tells us that she – quite rightly – opposes the grotesquerie of swaddling very little girls in the hijab. But this is only a kind of whispered aside; she is actually indignant throughout the piece that Quebec’s secular government has issued a complaint about an image, in a children’s book, of a very little girl swaddled in a hijab. She sees this complaint as bullying.
No, babe. Bullying is parents forcing body draping on a helpless child.
******************
She says there’s no knowing how many in Quebec approve of this form of secularism. Oh but there is: Oodles of opinion polls show strong support for banning hijabs in the public realm. That’s what the current national controversy over Bill 21 is about.
Reasonable people can debate whether adults in public sector jobs should drape their heads and bodies; only religious bullies would consider the blanketing of female babies and toddlers defensible.
I mean, even the opinion writer feels the need to disclose that she in fact opposes the thing she’s defending. I wonder why she opposes it. Her argument would have made more sense if she’d spilled a bit of ink on the matter.
Sara Kelany, an Italian MP, gets it said. And indeed Italy seems very close to banning the total-blackout burqa and niqab. In this they are joining many other countries who have decided it is uncivil and uncivilized.
******************
[MP Andrea] Delmastro said Italy had drawn inspiration from France, the first European country to introduce a full burqa ban in 2011. Since then, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland and several other countries in Europe and around the world have imposed full or partial bans.
*******************
Mona Eltahawy‘s definitive opinion piece.
Turns out to be very simple: You can repeatedly imprison/kill a large percentage of your female population until the only women you see on the streets are swathed head to toe in black, or you can decide that forcing an entire country to share your religious fanaticism is a bad idea.
It doesn’t have the force of law, but indicates where things may be headed.
Thousands of militant hijabis all in black from head to toe and mad as hell cuz turns out some Iranian women aren’t militant hijabis all in black from head to toe — these chicks is real hard to control when they mass in the street and get whomped up about whores who don’t veil. They is spoiling for a fight, and, if the Islamic state doesn’t discourage them, will soon be shaving the heads and then beheading the heads of the hussies. So the president himself went on tv tother day to say okay okay if you don’t want to wrap your whole self in black I guess you don’t have to…
Love the idea of Iran dedicating hundreds of millions to its R U INVISIBLE, FEMALE? technology; love even more our Treasury saying fuck you go ahead but we’ll try to make it hurt.
Pasargad Arian Information and Communication Technology Company is currently working on clitoral recognition surveillance tools [CRST] that will detect a still-intact clitoris. Once detected, the organ will be targeted by flesh-searing drones.
The wise Finns move toward uncovering their poor burqa’ed children. Brava.
… follow the honor killing trial.
Lovely that the attempted murder was filmed.
Lovely that Fatima has the guts to take the stand.
Not lovely that people willing, in public, to kill their daughter exist among us.
France, Austria: They’re making it illegal to cover up children. Bravo.