Freedom shouldn’t have to be stealthy
I know some Ex-Muslims who are not impressed by the idea that wearing hijab is a good way to stand up for religious freedom, contrary to what People magazine suggests.
Actress Kathy Najimy Wants People to Wear Headscarves on Inauguration Day in Support of Religious Freedom
I get why she thinks that’s a good idea, but she’s still wrong. Hijab is a religious “obligation” imposed on women and women only. That’s not any kind of freedom.
One group, led by actress Kathy Najimy, is encouraging people to support “our about-to-be-disenfranchised Muslim sisters” by wearing headscarves on Inauguration Day.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Scarves — with the support of the Muslim Women’s PAC — is putting out a nationwide call for people to don headscarves in the style of an hijab.
But then what of My Stealthy Freedom? Those women take their hijab off in support of women’s freedom. Putting one on is a slap in the face to them, and to all the women who would like to ditch theirs but can’t, because of social and religious pressure including outright violence.
Najimy emphasizes that the purpose of this movement is to support religious freedom.
“We by no means are endorsing or aligning with ANY religious doctrine,” she says. “Simply stand for freedom. It’s easy, creates solidarity and puts some hope into the hearts of Americans who feel unjustly threatened.”
But they are endorsing a particular religious doctrine, whatever she says. They can’t help it. If people put on big ol’ crosses they would be endorsing a particular religious doctrine, whether they intended to or not.
The incredibly flawed, almost comical logic behind Najimy’s stance, now so typical and so widespread among the open-minded, is what pushed the narrow-minded to vote for Trump.
She’ll defeat ‘pussy grabber’ by draping herself in the symbol par excellence of ‘pussy mutilator’.
In light of events in Orlando, should gays perhaps do likewise?
Or the good burghers of Nice?
The mind inquires…
I don’t buy that. I grew up in Trump-world (not the rich part; the vulgar misogynistic hater part) and what pushed my family to be that way was their own inability to see anyone as worthy except themselves and those who looked and thought like them. The very thought of having non-white people going to school with their white children, of having non-white people in elected office, of having women in elected office, and of having any form of non-Christian in elective office – that’s what pushed them into Trump world.
This is a symptom of a much larger rot than the ridiculousness of the so-called open-mindedness of the left. Put the blame where it belongs – on Trump voters.
I heartily agree with Iknklast that we put the blame for Trump on Trump voters.
I have a friend who wears a hijab and I think for me to wear one in “support” would be condescending and hypocritical.
I doesn’t seem like enough. Shouldn’t we also segregate the women into a little side room with no windows at the inauguration for a proper show of support for religious freedom?
(/sarcasm)
Protesting Trump’s misogyny by donning THE symbol of theocratic gender apartheid is akin to protesting Hitler’s anti-Semitism by sporting a swastika.
Maybe Black marchers should wear leg-irons and juggle watermelons…ya know, to Honor Tradition.