In the past we’ve featured the Moroccan-French writer Zineb el-Rhazoui, who apostatized from Islam when she was young. In the following video Ms. El-Rhazoui discusses the burkini as a sign and symptom of the oppression of women under Islam.
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
00:00 | Of course it’s a religious swimming suit, and I’m going to tell you, | |
00:04 | it’s a swimming suit which was invented for the West. | |
00:08 | The burkini doesn’t exist on the beaches | |
00:12 | where Islam has the cohesive power, because those are beaches that are emptying themselves | |
00:16 | of women! In a burkini, in a burka or anything else! | |
00:20 | Since anyway what comes with the veil, with the burkini, is finally | |
00:24 | the idea that women have to disappear, have to be erased from public space. | |
00:28 | At the end of the day, what is the veil and all its derivatives: burka, burkini, simple veil? | |
00:33 | It’s a piece of fabric that is supposed | |
00:37 | to prevent gentlemen from having erections. It’s just that, technically. | |
00:41 | Now on the religious level we could debate it, | |
00:45 | but on the religious level you need to know that there are rules, | |
00:49 | there are apparel rules for gentlemen in Islam. | |
00:53 | Muslim men have no right, for example, to wear silk. We have [however] never seen employees of a | |
00:57 | factory in France start a strike because they were forced to wear a uniform containing silk fibers. | |
01:02 | Muslim men, have no right to wear gold and silver. —Why? Why no silk? | |
01:06 | Why no silk? —Because it’s the rule. Because the prophet decreed it as the law. | |
01:10 | Voilà. It’s a wardrobe rule. —He decreed it? It’s written somewhere? —It’s written in the Sunna. | |
01:14 | It’s in a hadith. A Muslim man cannot wear his hair longer than below his ears; | |
01:18 | he cannot wear silk; and he cannot wear gold and silver. | |
01:22 | As a male, he cannot show the entire the part which goes from below the belly button | |
01:26 | to below the knees. And still, nobody is PISSING US OFF | |
01:30 | with a burka-shorts, for which we would change the rules on the | |
01:34 | beaches and in the swimming pools. Muslims, even the Salafi ones, wear | |
01:39 | the same swimming gear as the infidels. So there you can see that | |
01:43 | the veil, the burkini and all their derivatives are sexist things! | |
01:47 | Those who complain, like this young woman, of being PISSED OFF here, because she cannot wear it, | |
01:51 | I’m telling them that I’m much more sensitive to the suffering of those who don’t wish to wear it | |
01:55 | in the countries where it’s obligatory, where women are chastised publicly | |
01:59 | if they don’t wear it! And as long as the veil is mandatory | |
02:03 | for millions of women across the world, I could NEVER, as a free French woman, | |
02:08 | consider it a normal garment. NEVER. |
“Gentlemen”?
There are no gentlemen in islam.
The question of the burkina seems equivalent to picking a Supreme Court justice in the US.
With the left, the arguments, logic and facts don’t matter. You have the votes or you don’t.
The Republicans have grown a spine, pushed back against the pressure from screaming leftist mobs, and are now savoring victory.
The question is, will the Republicans revert to form, surrender, or will they maintain a backbone? The left, brain-dead as usual, is doubling down on the very intimidation tactics the Republicans are finding can work very well to increase the enthusiasm of the Republican constituency.