Social media has plenty of examples of non-Muslim women donning the hijab in solidarity with Muslim women … not for the treatment of Muslim women in Islam, but when for some reason a Muslim woman has been persecuted.
But solidarity is a one-way street. I’ve seen so many Muslim women not only refuse to remove their hijab in solidarity, they won’t.
Even in this parliamentary debate you will here someone objecting “Why?” as if it’s an unreasonable request.
As a reminder, #NoHijabDay was a Twitter hashtag started by Iranian women, and their supporters, who were protesting the forced wearing of the hijab in Iran. At no point did any of them say Muslim women should not wear the hijab if they wanted to. What was the response from Muslim women? Outrage, as if #NoHijabDay was specifically telling Muslim women they should not wear the hijab … and so outraged were they, they responded with #HijabDay and actually asked non-Muslims to wear the hijab in solidarity, to defend the wearing of the hijab.
There are many cases like this, where Muslims turn around issues with Islamic extremism or persecution of non-Muslims, and re-package the issues as persecution of Muslims. It’s very much a case of a common meme, “Death to those that says Islam is a violent religion!” A meme all too often close to the truth. The gaslighting has gone to such extremese as comparing Israel with the Nazis … an odd claim, since post-WWII, old SS and Gestapo members were known to join Muslims in order to complete Hitler’s ‘solution’.
Ramblings 