Wait a minute.
The premier of Alberta:
Eid Mubarak!
Wishing all Albertans who celebrate Eid al-Adha tonight peace and joy, and many blessings for the year ahead.#EidAlAdha #ableg #abpoli pic.twitter.com/LSA47PDUrz— Rachel Notley (@RachelNotley) August 20, 2018
I’m all for politicians being welcoming and affirming and all that, especially of groups who are targets of hatred and scorn…but putting on hijab to do it? Women are targets of hatred and scorn, and one version of that is forcing them to wear uncomfortable stifling concealing layers of cloth, often on pain of violence or even death. I don’t see why Notley couldn’t send a friendly Eid Mubarak without putting on a Modesty Garment to do it.
– OK, why you wear hijab!
– OK, pourquoi tu porte un hijab! https://t.co/kURX6aGI3u
— Ensaf Haidar (@miss9afi) August 21, 2018
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2 responses to “Cover thy sinful hair”
A minor appeasement to Saudi?
I think we need a meme pairing this with the notorious image of Calvin Coolidge in the feather hat: https://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2013/11/photo-oops-historys-worst-political-photo-ops-000157?slide=0
Wearing a tacky sombrero for Cinco de Mayo might be another.