US DoD white paper: wearing hijab is "passive terrorism"

[burllamb]

Wearing of the hijab is NOT passive terrorism. It is active terrorism - against women, who are rightfully terrified not to wear it.

[jannamark]

Preparing food for others is a sacred duty for which he’s not remotely qualified.

[nimelennar]

Oh, no, I don’t deny at all that there are assholes that make women dress according to what they think is proper, and that some of these assholes are the same ones that tell their young men to blow themselves up in the name of their god.

I just also don’t deny that there are at least some free-thinking women who wear the hijab for the same reason that a Jewish man might wear a yarmulke: as a part of their not-repressive, not-fundamentalist religion and culture.

[Melizmatic]

@navarro

i’ve been fighting against it for 42 years, ever since i was confronted with a grotesque demonstration of the double standard when i was in the 7th grade.

Care to tell that tale?

Sounds interesting.

[popobawa4u]

@burllamb

So you think that the fact that…

@burllamb

And those of us who point this out…

Who are “us”, and how are you people able to point out to me what I think? It’s uncanny!

[Phrenological]

That’s sure a mighty overbroad assumption.

[Phrenological]

@burllamb

And those of us who point this out are Islamophobic no doubt.

You in particular? Likely.

[wrecksdart]

@manybellsdown

“Is there a way we can blame terrorism on women? YES!”

I always knew those scheming wimmins were at the heart of eeeeeevil. I mean, high-waisted pants, amirite?!?

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Also, did the OP throw a link in there? JIC, linky to the paper in question:

ARL-CounteringViolentExtremism.pdf

[Gyrofrog]

@nimelennar

I just also don’t deny that there are at least some free-thinking women who wear the hijab for the same reason that a Jewish man might wear a yarmulke: as a part of their not-repressive, not-fundamentalist religion and culture.

That would describe my former boss. She was from Egypt, where some women do not wear the hijab. And, actually, she only wore it as business attire (with what looked like an agal, whatever that might be called for women) – if we worked on Saturday, for example, she’d just wear a scarf. It’s not as though I’d ask her something like this point blank, but I’m quite certain no one (including her husband) was making her cover her hair. Their daughters didn’t cover their hair at all.

[Medievalist]

Well, like I said I don’t want to defend the theory, just point out that it’s not novel.

Personally, when I was younger, and did not have access to sex, I went out and tried to get me some (this mostly involved ineptly trying to impress girls who were not particularly impressed by pimply, overeager teenage beanpoles). If my elders and/or preachers had acted to prevent this, I’m pretty sure that I would have been angry at everyone except women. But that’s just me, and I never bought into the “women are the root of sin” meme the preachers like to push at young men.

[cjankelson]

Alternative interpretation: wearing hijab, turban, yarmulke, crucifix, or colander is an obnoxious way to proclaim your membership in a mythology that’s clearly better than everyone else’s. I don’t see any diff. between so-called mainstream religious garb and tattooing the answer to x = 23111 on your forehead.

[Phrenological]

Oh no you had to see someone’s cultural designation. Are you ok? Do you need a hug?

[Mindysan33]

Stop deciding what women should and shouldn’t do. Many women wear it as a choice, even when some obviously don’t.

[CarlMud]

@cjankelson

or colander

I’m pretty sure that if the FSM existed, s/he would point out that his/her followers don’t actually think their intentionally made up mythology is better than everyone else’s, even though objectively, it clearly is. They’re just being honest about the fact that their mythology is completely made up.

[jerwin]

@William_Holz

And this guy has a job?

He quit his last job.

Tawfik Hamid, a former member of the militant extremist group al Gama’a al-Islamiyya, offers a “soup to nuts” strategic plan that addresses the components of the Islamist terrorism cycle at ideological, psychological, social, and economic levels including proliferation of the Salafi Islamic ideology (indoctrination, cultural practices, propaganda), creation of passive terrorists, and the transformation to active terrorists.

The implication may be that militant extremists aren’t “right in the head”, and a explanation that seems bonkers to us might seem perfectly logical to the kind of people who think that militant extremism will bring about desirable eschatological change,

[CarlMud]

It sounds like Hamid thinks counter-indoctrinating religious extremists with sexually permissive Western culture is the solution for making them hate Western culture less. I’m guessing that net, even if it might catch a few fish, has a significant hole in it.

[Phrenological]

All those people who think they’re better than him! Don’t they know that they’re worse than him?

[L_Mariachi]

“Inflaming the Imam.”

[anon68952647]

@manybellsdown

“Is there a way we can blame terrorism on women? YES!”

WHY DID YOU EAT THAT APPLE?

[bibliophile20]

@cjankelson

Alternative interpretation: wearing hijab, turban, yarmulke, crucifix, or colander is an obnoxious way to proclaim your membership in a mythology that’s clearly better than everyone else’s. I don’t see any diff. between so-called mainstream religious garb and tattooing the answer to x = 23111 on your forehead.

@Phrenological

Oh no you had to see someone’s cultural designation. Are you ok? Do you need a hug?

I suddenly want to start wearing my yamulke again, just for cultural pride.