Swedish Ministers’ Hypocrisy: Wear Hijabs In Iran

(Two articles from The FRONTPAGEMAG and UN WATCH in February 2017.)

Swedish feminist minister in Hijab and Chador?

Sweden’s so-called first feminist government wears “Please Do Not Rape Us” Islamist hijabs in Iran: You can think of the Hijab in a variety of ways.

1. There's the straight Koranic origin for making women cover up. So they are recognized as Muslim women and Muslim men know not to rape them. “O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their bodies that they may thus be distinguished and not molested.” (Koran 33:59)

One Koranic commentary is quite explicit. “It is more likely that this way they may be recognized (as pious, free women), and may not be hurt (considered by mistake as roving slave girls.)” The Yazidi girls captured and raped by ISIS are an example of “roving slave girls” who can be assaulted by Muslim men.

Muslim rapists and their clerics have utilized the "She wasn't wearing a Hijab" defense in contemporary times in Western nations. Most notably in the Sydney gang rape case. Australia’s Grand Mufti, the infamous Sheikh Hilaly, had said, in response to a Muslim gang rape case, that in sexual matters, “it's 90 per cent the women's responsibility.”

Then the Grand Mufti went on to compare rape victims to uncovered meat. “If you take uncovered meat and put it on the street, on the pavement, in a garden, in a park or in the backyard, without a cover and the cats eat it, is it the fault of the cat or the uncovered meat? The uncovered meat is the problem.”

“If the woman is in her boudoir, in her house and if she's wearing the veil and if she shows modesty, disasters don't happen.” Wear a Hijab or get raped. It's a simple Islamic message.

2. The coverings are a kind of mobile Purdah. A symbolic segregation that allows the woman to leave the house, instead of being confined to her room or the kitchen, but in which she is still segregated through the cloak or the veil.

3. Iran has its own wrinkle on the Hijab. And we are not just talking style or name. But the conviction that women's hair emits "sexual rays". This led to issues with airplanes flying over women who might have uncovered hair, even if the men couldn't see them, because the rays might be able to penetrate aircraft.

I'm not sure which of these scenarios left-wing feminists legitimize by donning the Hijab. But here, via UN Watch, is the feminist Swedish government doing the Hijab thing.

UN Watch, a non-governmental human rights NGO in Geneva, expressed disappointment that Sweden’s self-declared “first feminist government in the world” sacrificed its principles and betrayed the rights of Iranian women as Trade Minister Ann Linde and other female members walked before Iranian President Rouhani on Saturday wearing Hijabs, Chadors, and long coats, in deference to Iran’s oppressive and unjust modesty laws which make the Hijab compulsory — despite Stockholm’s promise to promote “a gender equality perspective” internationally, and to adopt a “feminist foreign policy” in which “equality between women and men is a fundamental aim.”

In doing so, Sweden’s female leaders ignored the recent appeal by Iranian women’s right activist Masih Alinejad who urged Europeans female politicians “to stand for their own dignity” and to refuse to kowtow to the compulsory Hijab while visiting Iran.

There is no feminist foreign policy. What is dubbed feminism is usually just left-wing politics marketed to women. The same is true across a range of identity politics. And the left is allied with Islam. Against women.

Sweden's so-called feminist government in hijabs kowtowing misogynist Iranian ayatolahs in Teheran.

Walk of shame: Sweden’s “first feminist government” don hijabs

GENEVA, Feb. 13, 2017 — In a statement that has gone viral on Twitter and Facebook, UN Watch, a non-governmental human rights NGO in Geneva, expressed disappointment that Sweden’s self-declared “first feminist government in the world” sacrificed its principles and betrayed the rights of Iranian women as Trade Minister Ann Linde and other female members walked before Iranian President Rouhani on Saturday wearing Hijabs, Chadors, and long coats, in deference to Iran’s oppressive and unjust modesty laws which make the Hijab compulsory — despite Stockholm’s promise to promote “a gender equality perspective” internationally, and to adopt a “feminist foreign policy” in which “equality between women and men is a fundamental aim.”

In doing so, Sweden’s female leaders ignored the recent appeal by Iranian women’s right activist Masih Alinejad who urged Europeans female politicians “to stand for their own dignity” and to refuse to kowtow to the compulsory Hijab while visiting Iran. Alinrejad created a Facebook page for Iranian women to resist the law and show their hair as an act of resistance, which now numbers 1 million followers.

“European female politicians are hypocrites,” says Alinejad. “They stand with French Muslim women and condemn the burkini ban—because they think compulsion is bad—but when it happens to Iran, they just care about money.”

The scene in Tehran on Saturday was also a sharp contrast to Deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lövin’s feminist stance against U.S. President Donald Trump, in a viral tweet and then in a Guardian op-ed last week, in which she wrote that “the world need strong leadership for women’s rights.”

There was another stark contrast: in the same week as the Swedes wore their Hijabs, Tehran hosted the world competition in women’s chess, and numerous female chess champions from around the world gave up their chance to win a world prize because they refused to submit to the required Hijab and Iran’s discrimination against women.

Trade Minister Linde, who signed multiple agreements with Iranian ministers while wearing a veil, “sees no conflict” between her government’s human rights policy and signing trade deals with an oppressive dictatorship that tortures prisoners, persecutes gays, rapes imprisoned-virgins and is a leading executioner of minors.

“If Sweden really cares about human rights, they should not be empowering a regime that brutalizes its own citizens while carrying out genocide in Syria; and if they care about women’s rights, then the female ministers never should have gone to misogynistic Iran in the first place,” said UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer. The government has now come under sharp criticism from centrist and left-wing Swedish lawmakers, who said the ministers should not have deferred to “gender apartheid.”

“They go to my country,” said Aliinejad recently in the European Parliament, “and they ignore millions of those women who send their photos to me and put themselves in danger to be heard. And [the European politicians] keep their smile, and wearing hijab, and saying this is a ‘cultural issue’—which is wrong.”

Trade minister Ann Linde, one of three Swedish ministers who oversees the country’s “feminist foreign policy,” decided voluntarily to go covered in a long black coat, akin to the Chador, in addition to covering her hair with the compulsory Hijab. She is seen below meeting President Rouhani, and then signing one of multiple agreements with representatives of the theocratic regime.

Writing in the Guardian, Deputy Prime Minister Lövin contrasted Swedish policy with that of President Donald Trump, saying that the world “needs strong leadership for women’s rights” and “Sweden will have an increasingly important role to play in this.” She added that “many countries could learn an important lesson from this.” Her viral tweet was meant to emphasize her government’s focus on women’s rights, as opposed to Trump.

Once-were-Vikings Swedes are now ruled by the alliance of Marxists, Progressives, Feminists, Islamists, and Gays.

(Blogger’s notes: Now she is saying privately that she and other Swedish female ministers would be violating Iranian law if they didn’t cover their head and could be jailed and raped by the notorious Revolutionary Guard in an Iranian prison. Poor woman, though everyone in Sweden thinks she likes to be screwed like that progressively tolerant Captain Sweden in those “Sweden Yes” comics.)

--------------- Update on 19 February 2017 ---------------------------

Iranian Hardliners Attack Swedish Delegation Over Hijabs

Sweden’s “first feminist government” wore hijabs while in Iran but were blasted by hardliners for taking them off to sign a trade deal.

A Swedish delegation to Iran was heavily criticized for a decision to wear hijabs while in the country, in deference to Iran’s modesty laws, despite attempting to brand themselves as their country’s “first feminist government.”

Yet they were also criticized by Iranian hardliners who found their conciliatory approach did not go far enough. Iran and Sweden signed five memoranda of understanding during the visit. The signings took place at the Swedish Embassy in Tehran, rather than at an Iranian location.

“In an unexpected and questionable occurrence, the ceremony for signing trade contracts between Iran and Sweden was held at the residence of the Swedish ambassador and not our country’s official institutions,” Hossein Shariatmadari, the chief editor of the Kayhan media outlet wrote on February 12, according to a translation by Al-Monitor.

“Pictures of the mentioned ceremony indicate that the female members of the Swedish prime minister’s delegation were in attendance without [wearing] hijabs. It has been said that the Swedish prime minister and the ambassador had insisted that the ceremony be held at the Swedish ambassador’s residence so that these women could attend without [observing the] hijab.”

Others objected to the location of the signing ceremony. “[Signing] contracts and agreements outside an official [Iranian] venue and [instead] at the residence of an ambassador, who is our guest, is the diplomatic humiliation of the Islamic Republic of Iran and humiliation of the Iranian nation,” member of parliament Seyyed Hossein Naghavi Hosseini said.