That Muslims are working overtime in the West to transform our societies into Islamic outposts where everyone submits to Allah, and sharia law becomes the law of the land, is not surprising. It is happening all the time as I have documented on numerous occasions.
What is surprising (and if not so surprising, then certainly reprehensible), is when Western leaders get in on the act, and actually become the conduits by which stealth jihad and creeping sharia takes place in the West. We find this happening all the time.
It is called national suicide. When clueless and/or duped leaders actually side with the enemies of the West and do their bidding, then you know we have not got long to go as a nation. Far too many dhimmified politicians are bringing sharia into the West, while the Muslim activists sit back and laugh, rubbing their hands with glee.
The latest and nearest example of this mindless dhimmitude comes from the Melbourne suburb of Dandenong. There the dunces in the Greater Dandenong Council thought it would be a neat idea to get non-Muslims to wear the symbol of female subjugation. Yep, let’s get the infidel to wear Islamic garb.
One write-up about it says this:
Fifteen non-Muslim women have trialled hijabs in Dandenong this afternoon as part of a social experiment, slammed by some as promoting separateness. The experiment by two Minaret College schoolgirls was part of a short documentary being filmed for Greater Dandenong Council’s “Youth Channel” program aimed at “providing awareness, insight and education”. The Council called on women to wear the Islamic headdress for three hours today as part of a “social experiment” for National Youth Week.
Um, we don’t need a social experiment in more sharia compliance and the demeaning of women. How about a social experiment to free those subjected to Islamic chauvinism and tyranny instead? What about standing up for the rights of women, instead of trying to get more women into bondage and second-class citizenship?
Fortunately the article went on to record some opposition to this insanity:
But Institute of Public Affairs executive director John Roskam said the council approach was wrongheaded. “What the council should be encouraging is allowing people from any walk of life and any religion to integrate,” he said. “This doesn’t encourage integration, this encourages separateness. This is not what multicultural Australia is all about.”
Mr Roskam said that based on events in the Middle East and Africa, Christians were currently the world’s most persecuted religious group. “If we’re going to have people dressing up as Muslims for three hours, why doesn’t the council encourage people to dress up as Christians,” he said.
Exactly. And since then other non-dhimmified commentators have expressed their outrage as well. Andrew Bolt said this:
I don’t understand why Australians need to be asked to wear the clothing of another religion, and an emblem of the subjugation of women. . . . This gesture suggests the problem with Islam isn’t the frightening things done in its name but the fear non-believers have as a result. It is, in the nicest way, an attempt to blame the victim. Would it not be more useful to have a day in which Muslim women in hijabs and niqabs are invited to walk around the streets in Western clothing instead, as a “social experiment”. Much more useful and to the point.
And Herald Sun columnist Rita Panahi also tore into this dhimmi madness. She is worth quoting in full:
What absolute harebrained idiocy to encourage empowered Western women to subjugate themselves in the name of diversity. Could you imagine the enormous uproar if a council put forward a plan for devout Muslim women to remove their head covering.
The unpalatable truth is that the root cause of much of the world’s entrenched misogyny is Islam and it manifests itself in a variety of ways including the requirement for women to cover up. This is not something to be celebrated or emulated.
Just last year women in Iran were being blinded in acid attacks for breaking the strict hijab code. I wonder how women who have fled countries that require them to cover their hair feel about local government encouraging women to wear hijabs?
If you are going to put forward these ludicrous ideas then why stop at the hijab? If we are going to fully embrace the cultural practises of other countries then perhaps we should ban women from driving. Or how about caning adulteresses in the Dandenong Civic Square?
I have no issue with women who want to wear a hijab to observe cultural or religious practises, but they have no right to impose their values on the wider population. It always baffles me why some folk who leave troubled regions for a better life in Australia seem determined for this country to adopt the political and social norms of their homeland.
In our eagerness to celebrate diversity we are often guilty of betraying our values of equality and freedom; the very values that make Australia such an idyllic place to live. Local governments should be focused on collecting rubbish, maintaining parklands and balancing the budget instead of moronic schemes designed to appease a tiny section of the population.
Well spoken Rita. As long as there are still a few sane voices out there in the media standing against the non-stop attempts at creeping sharia in the West there is some hope. But it seems that for every clear thinker on this, there are a dozen brainless politicians who are more than happy to engineer the destruction of the West.
Death by sharia. Death by dhimmi politicians. Death by Political Correctness.
Oh, and a few concluding questions: where are all the feminists when you need them? Why aren’t they absolutely blasting this move to drag women back into the seventh century, into subjugation, and into an oppressive patriarchal society?
The overwhelming silence of Western feminists on this particular move, and the mistreatment of women in Islam in general, is one of the most inexplicable, frustrating and bizarre features of modern feminism.
Think its time we all pulled out the neck chains with the crosses dangling there-on. Send the kids to school with them prominently displayed. A bit of ‘civil disobedience” maybe. Oh, hang on, forgive me, crosses are a religious icon and can’t be worn to school, but the kneecap, hijab and the burger are cultural symbols-so they’re OK aren’t they?
See how deceptive its all become?
I hope though that the participants in this “social experiment” have been immunized against ever considering Islam as a serious option. If so, maybe it has not been totally wasted after all.
We must remember that in the end, those who follow evil are His tools to bring His good plan about anyway.
Many blessings
Ursula Bennett
It has intrigued me for a long time why feminists are not continually doing handstands and cartwheels and blowing trumpets against the way women are treated by Islam, especially since Islam is very right-wing in its attitudes, well beyond normal conservatism.
I can’t believe that any government body would suggest this to intelligent, free spirited women. We are already being subjected to many mosques that Australians don’t want and Halal Certification which many of us refuse to buy the food that has this tax attached to it, for morale reasons alone. Now they are suggesting this is learning tolerance and integration. For goodness sakes these people are 2.2% of the population. Is this never going to stop?
I got a “good idea” how about those ladies who wear the burka and hijab …that are now Australian citizens …wear jeans and a t shirt for a day? Or join me and everyone else on the beach next summer? How about all we women get together and teach the ladies how to drive …. love to show you the rest of this wonderful BIG country. It really is a beaut place to drive around …on the wallaby…. and hava geek at the interesting places that are between the boring bits.
A social experiment with real gusto would see these Dhimmi dupes practice biblical Christianity for a little while – going to church, spending time praying, practising biblical morality donating to help the Christians being murdered by Islam, etc.
Many consider evil as a serious option. But as Jesus said from the cross: “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” Do these girls know what they are doing? The Jews know for they are in the thick of it. Consider the recent deal with Iran. Remember Muslims are not obliged to keep their side of a deal. Did our PM say that Islam is a religion of peace! Who can be relied on to give us the truth? A blessed Easter to you Bill and all the faithful who know Christ is the truth. Christ is the only name by which we can be saved.
Imagine, if on “Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah)”, April 15/16, those very same people sympathized with the Nazis by wearing the various military uniforms: Gestapo, SS, etc. Would people remain so complacent?
I have never seen so much appeasing the enemy, Islam, as I have seen in this generation. God will be their judge.
“Appeasement is always a seductive diplomacy because in the short term a bloody crisis is at least avoided. Hopes then rise that either tensions will cool as aggressors are pacified — or at least the latter won’t start trouble until the appeasers are long out of office. Appeasement is based on the theory that if you give one or two scraps of leftovers under the table to the dog at your feet, he will wag his tail and leave, grateful for such generosity, rather than to prove be even peskier for more.”
~Victor Davis Hanson, “The Seductions of Appeasement”
David,
I read a nice article which explains perfectly why the left does what it is currently doing.
It has absolutely nothing to do with equality, rights or anything they are whining about, it is all about destroying Christianity. That’s all it is.
You see, if they complained about Islam’s treatment of women, it could be seen as pro Christianity, and they can’t have that. If they complain about isis murdering people, it could be seen as being pro Israel, can’t have that either. So they HAVE to stay silent, as their only real objective is to destroy Christianity.
Neil Waldron.
A timely article, and on the ball. Getting infidels to dress like Moslems will ultimately backfire because infidels have un-Moslem or anti-Islamic ideas in their heads. Putting that in a Moslem package would be counterproductive for Moslems themselves. It’s a bit like dressing up village atheists as Christian priests. As soon as they open their mouths the game is up!
.
And what then would be the response if we encouraged our kids to wear a cross on a chain to school?
Isn’t there a law against such a practice in a secular school?
The latest and nearest example of this mindless dhimmitude comes from the Melbourne suburb of Dandenong. There the dunces in the Greater Dandenong Council thought it would be a neat idea to get non-Muslims to wear the symbol of female subjugation. Yep, let’s get the infidel to wear Islamic garb.
I opened the Herald Good Weekend section this morning to read this article which is going to stir up a lot of debate — http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/ayaan-hirsi-ali-on-extremism-islam-and-reformation-20150410-1m5kf6.html
Think its time we all pulled out the neck chains with the crosses dangling there-on. Send the kids to school with them prominently displayed. A bit of ‘civil disobedience” maybe. Oh, hang on, forgive me, crosses are a religious icon and can’t be worn to school, but the kneecap, hijab and the burger are cultural symbols-so they’re OK aren’t they?
See how deceptive its all become?
I hope though that the participants in this “social experiment” have been immunized against ever considering Islam as a serious option. If so, maybe it has not been totally wasted after all.
We must remember that in the end, those who follow evil are His tools to bring His good plan about anyway.
Many blessings
Ursula Bennett
It has intrigued me for a long time why feminists are not continually doing handstands and cartwheels and blowing trumpets against the way women are treated by Islam, especially since Islam is very right-wing in its attitudes, well beyond normal conservatism.
I can’t believe that any government body would suggest this to intelligent, free spirited women. We are already being subjected to many mosques that Australians don’t want and Halal Certification which many of us refuse to buy the food that has this tax attached to it, for morale reasons alone. Now they are suggesting this is learning tolerance and integration. For goodness sakes these people are 2.2% of the population. Is this never going to stop?
I got a “good idea” how about those ladies who wear the burka and hijab …that are now Australian citizens …wear jeans and a t shirt for a day? Or join me and everyone else on the beach next summer? How about all we women get together and teach the ladies how to drive …. love to show you the rest of this wonderful BIG country. It really is a beaut place to drive around …on the wallaby…. and hava geek at the interesting places that are between the boring bits.
A social experiment with real gusto would see these Dhimmi dupes practice biblical Christianity for a little while – going to church, spending time praying, practising biblical morality donating to help the Christians being murdered by Islam, etc.
Many consider evil as a serious option. But as Jesus said from the cross: “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” Do these girls know what they are doing? The Jews know for they are in the thick of it. Consider the recent deal with Iran. Remember Muslims are not obliged to keep their side of a deal. Did our PM say that Islam is a religion of peace! Who can be relied on to give us the truth? A blessed Easter to you Bill and all the faithful who know Christ is the truth. Christ is the only name by which we can be saved.
Imagine, if on “Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah)”, April 15/16, those very same people sympathized with the Nazis by wearing the various military uniforms: Gestapo, SS, etc. Would people remain so complacent?
I have never seen so much appeasing the enemy, Islam, as I have seen in this generation. God will be their judge.
“Appeasement is always a seductive diplomacy because in the short term a bloody crisis is at least avoided. Hopes then rise that either tensions will cool as aggressors are pacified — or at least the latter won’t start trouble until the appeasers are long out of office. Appeasement is based on the theory that if you give one or two scraps of leftovers under the table to the dog at your feet, he will wag his tail and leave, grateful for such generosity, rather than to prove be even peskier for more.”
~Victor Davis Hanson, “The Seductions of Appeasement”
David,
I read a nice article which explains perfectly why the left does what it is currently doing.
It has absolutely nothing to do with equality, rights or anything they are whining about, it is all about destroying Christianity. That’s all it is.
You see, if they complained about Islam’s treatment of women, it could be seen as pro Christianity, and they can’t have that. If they complain about isis murdering people, it could be seen as being pro Israel, can’t have that either. So they HAVE to stay silent, as their only real objective is to destroy Christianity.
Neil Waldron.
A timely article, and on the ball. Getting infidels to dress like Moslems will ultimately backfire because infidels have un-Moslem or anti-Islamic ideas in their heads. Putting that in a Moslem package would be counterproductive for Moslems themselves. It’s a bit like dressing up village atheists as Christian priests. As soon as they open their mouths the game is up!
.
And what then would be the response if we encouraged our kids to wear a cross on a chain to school?
Isn’t there a law against such a practice in a secular school?