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Enough already with the ridiculous “they used to be free” memes

With all the hoopla around Muslim women‘s dress many better have a look back in history seeing that there where years that Muslims were clothed much more ‘modern’ than women in their time or than Muslim women in certain regions today.

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To remember

women liberated = ridiculously untrue

regimes brutal, squelched freedom of speech, imprisoned people seen as political dissidents

women “went backwards” again > many parts of Muslim world rebelled against this neocolonialism by going back to their Islamic roots

direct response to Imperialism

religious code of conduct.

image of a Coptic Christian Egyptian woman in full niqab

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  6. Women in France running with naked bosom all right but with covered bosom penalised
  7. France and the Burkini
  8. French showing to the whole world their fear and weaknesses
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  14. Does Banning Face Veils Help Us Fight Terrorism?
  15. Islamism Rises from Europe’s Secularism
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  18. Not limiting others but sharing peace with all
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  21. Secularism in France becoming dangerous for freedom of religion
  22. Christians, secularism, morals and values

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Further reading

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  2. Niqabi in the West
  3. Niqab : First Order from Philippine
  4. Hijab or no hijab?
  5. Turnabout is fair play
  6. Anglosphere Islam: When Muslim Activists are Ignorant of the Revealed Law…!
  7. The Veil of Oppression
  8. Muslim woman kicked out of dollar store for wearing niqab
  9. Watch Syrian women burn a niqab after their city was liberated from ISIS control
  10. To Never Hide
  11. Avoid Hollow Religiosity
  12. fashion likes and dislikes
  13. To my brothers in Islam
  14. Why I don’t unveil myself
  15. Burkini Ban: Not Everything has to be Legislated On, You Dimwits
  16. ISIS Provokes a Backlash Against the Veil – The Daily Beast
  17. 13 Thoughts on the Proposed Prohibition of the Burka in Germany
  18. Germany may implement ban of full face veils amid spate of violent attacks
  19. German Conservatives calls for ban on full-veil
  20. Germany may outlaw women from wearing face veils in public
  21. German court prohibits young Muslim woman from wearing niqab in class
  22. Despite CDU-CSU push, Germany can’t legally ban burqas
  23. Hijab is a girl’s right: Fabricating a lie 
  24. Ninjas Not Allowed In School
  25. So! (en) | Islamic veil across Europe
  26. “It is the beach version of the burqa”: More French towns have banned the burkini on beaches
  27. Banning the Burkini in Cannes: Continuing Oppressing Women Under the Name of Liberation
  28. “France is at War with its own Citizens” – Yasser Louati on the Cannes “Burkini” Ban
  29. Everything under the sun
  30. Hidayah niqab review
  31. Americans should not tolerate the culture of Niqab 
  32. French ban Rio Olympic burkini to hide their false-flag shame!
  33. Kyrgyzstan president suggests Islamic garb radicalizes women
  34. Fitnah Wanita & Sosial Media
  35. A pleasant surprise!
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  37. Ban The Burka

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Yes, we know. You found a really cool image of women in some “backwards country full of dirty Moozlums”. It shows “dirty Moozlum women” from about 50 years ago in short skirts etc. The genius people who made these memes juxtaposed these liberated looking women next to images of women in niqab or burqa or even hijab.

The thing is, these memes are intellectually dishonest. Lots of the Muslim world back then had populations in secular dress because foreign countries were enforcing/supporting secular and/or communist regimes all across the Muslim world.

So to showcase how women in these countries “used to be liberated” is ridiculously untrue. Many of these same regimes were absolutely brutal, squelched freedom of speech, imprisoned people seen as political dissidents, and so on.

As to how these women “went backwards” again, many parts of the Muslim world rebelled against this neocolonialism by going back to…

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A Jew and Muslim walking together side by side down USA city streets

Not only racial discrimination seems to be increasing in many parts of the so called civilised commercial world. In many places of the Northern half-round religious discrimination is also in the lift.

It is good to notice not too many people accept such anti-social behaviour coming to their regions. this might be seen by some candid camera actions some people tried out in several cities.

Though last year a Flemish non-muslim who tried to walk on the streets in Flemish cities in niqab had to stop her experiment because of the heavy negative or insulting reactions she could not bear any more. On her video we could see many intolerable actions from certain people on the street. Also in England the experiment was done to know what it is like wearing the niqab in public. But in some experiments wearing the Muslim attributes in a way gave more protection having the woman being harassed less.

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American YouTube personality, actor, singer, director, vlogger and prankster of Egyptian descent Karim Metwaly

In the United States of America, Karim Metwaly, also known by his YouTube username AreWeFamousNow teamed up with Alaaldeen Shehadeh and Moe Zahrieh for some videos that has garnered together over 2 million views since being posted.

Lots of people may think Arabs, Muslims and Jewish people are hating each other. they are not supposed to hate each other and when they are real believers in the One True God that should know that all people, no matter where they live, which sort of peoples they belong to, whatever skin colour they may have, whatever religion they may adhere or have no faith in a god or gods, they all are created in the image of God and should be respected as creations allowed to live here by this Most High Divine Creator.

Believers in the One True God also should know it is a wrong attitude to divide people in labels and to threat the differently. People need to stop with the “We vs Us” mentality. One of the comments of a video of the group was

Why do humans feel the need to categorize and differentiate themselves smh (white, black, tall, short, gay, straight, muslims, christians, israel, palestine) . We are all humans for godsake. We have noses , eyes , mouths , and all of us need food , sleep and water. we have hands and legs , we see the same moon for fk sake. all of you are the same species not lions or baboons . i rlly wish there would be a war between animals vs humans or aliens vs humans. then we will realise how similar we are and then all of us are on the same side {yusuf zulfi}

I’ve watched several of their video’s and some of them where really confronting but like the YouTube stars were pleasantly surprised by the positive feedback, certainly with the video of the man tearing off the scarf of the Muslim girl, it showed that also in the States there are enough wary citizens who do not like asocial behaviour and who want different sorts of people have their own freedom (what to wear, how to and when to pray).

Concerning what Muslim women want to wear it is not bad to listen to Noble Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman from Yemen when she was asked about her hijab by journalists and how it is not proportionate with her level of intellect and education, she replied:

“Man in the early times was almost naked, and as his intellect evolved he started wearing clothes. What I am today and what I’m wearing represents the highest level of thought and civilisation that man has achieved, and is not regressive. It’s the removal of clothes again that is regressive back to ancient times.

Lovely also it was to find reactions from Jews living in Israel who also want love between Jews, Palestinians and others, who say they have no problem with anyone and do hope that one day there will be peace.

Naturally we also should question the reaction of certain Americans who called the police because they saw a Jewish and Arab walking together on the street. On some video’s we can see the neighbourhood watch and/or the police showing up, and in even one video they ask to go away and to stop with the experiment.

Gabriel Rd reacted

People called the police because you were walking down the street in broad daylight? ….just walking down the street? ….And the police actually showed up and checked you out? OMFG what the hell kinda country do you live in? What ever happened to all we hear about American being the land of the free?

In the video where they present a married couple you can see they were met with many stares and unpleasant comments.

“This is wrong on so many levels,”

someone said.

“It’s the wrong picture, you’re making Islam look bad.”

Another person in the Queens neighborhood screamed a profanity and gestured at them rudely. In the Jewish neighborhood, someone called Zahrieh a gay slur, “a stupid Muslim,” and a “terrorist,” while someone else threw a water bottle at the couple.

Yet, in addition to the varied harassment, as in some other experiments, the couples also received some positive feedback.

“I think Jews and Arabs can be friends, I think everybody can be friends,”

two Jewish boys said.

On more than one video we also heard people them understanding we all came from the same source and in a way we all being cousins.

“We’re cousins for a long time,”

a Muslim man said. Others in both neighbourhoods called the sight of the couples “inspiring” and “highly liberating.

Some people do think Arabs/Muslims and Jews hated each other always. They do forget that more than once it were Arabs protecting Jews are taking them in by for example the dangerous actions of the crusaders. In North Africa you had a very huge Jewish community in the Islamic Morocco.

Muslims from Middle East and Africa were also welcoming refugees escaping from European terrorism in 1943.

Abraham Gutman and Dania Darwish, Jewish and Muslim classmates at Hunter College in New York, came up with the hashtag #JewsAndArabsRefuseToBeEnemies.

“With tempers only rising both on the ground and in social media platforms, we thought it would be productive to remind people that they are allowed to refuse to join hateful discourse,”

Mr. Gutman wrote in 2014, during the war in Gaza.

The organization Seeds of Peace, a summer camp for Israeli and Palestinian teens which tries to inspire and cultivate new generations of leaders to transform conflict, is also looking to expand its reach. The camp has more than 5,000 graduates, now moving into leadership roles in their professional fields. Seeds of Peace aims to empower their graduates to make change in various sectors, from women’s rights to technological innovation, in hopes of sustaining peace over time.

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A Muslim woman was racially abused while waiting in a queue at a shop in south London.
Ahlam Saed, 25, filmed the moment she was shouted and sworn at simply because she wore a niqab.
Ahlam Saed says she filmed the abuse because she wanted to show the kinds of treatment some Muslims are subjected to in the UK.

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Please also see the video’s on

Jack The Lad: Jewish and Muslim man walk through the streets of America |

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Preceding articles:

What is Racism??

A last note concerning civil rights

Mass Media’s Deception Causing Division

A charter for a truly free world and why we need it

Daring to speak in multicultural environment

People of different cultures, beliefs and political convictions fraternal together

The Scensual World – Mission & Vision

Entry 2. Unite our voices

Peace and Islam

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Additional reading

  1. Religion, fundamentalism and murder
  2. Christian fundamentalism as dangerous as Muslim fundamentalism
  3. Exceptionalism and Restricting Laws
  4. Vatican against Opponents of immigration
  5. 150 Years after the 13th Amendment

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Read also

  1. This World was designed to Break You Down | Jack The Lad
  2. The World’s Greatest Problem | Jack The Lad
  3. Tawakkol Karman Amazing Response To Journalist When Asked About The Hijab | Jack The Lad
  4. Dear West: A Poetic Response To Terrorism | Jack The Lad
  5. Spot The Terrorist: Orlando Hero | Jack The Lad
  6. This is not my Islam
  7. Islamophobia in the U.S.: A Threat to Justice Everywhere
  8. Muslim woman wearing face veil racially abused and called ‘Batman’ in shop
  9. ‘Are you ISIS?’ Ahlam Saed Muslim woman wearing veil victim of racist tirade
  10. History of the Arabs

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