This is a clip from my talk at Harvard University, where I demonstrated just how isolating and disempowering the hijab and niqab can be. On the rare occasions Muslim women are allowed to leave their fundamentalist homes, they are forced to interact with the world through a veil of isolation - even expected to hide their voices from “strange” men. And yet, many in the West insist the niqab and hijab are apparently “empowering”. Just one day inside this body bag would undoubtedly change their minds.

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How come this type of trash lecturer is allowed in #Harvard?
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Aww are you sad because no one gives a fuck about you or what you have to say? Cheer up! You have 24 followers! 😆
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The women from these countries will one day be free and no one will be able to do anything about it, the masses of women will leave behind these misogynistic ideas, they will dress how they want, and talk with their voices out loud! Nothing will stop them keep on fighting 💚
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The only “empowering” a hijab does is when it’s burned in public like they do to our flags. ☪️ancer
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One day, the inside of body bag will hopefully change their minds. There -- fixed it.
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Many women voluntarily wear it even when they're told not to so I don't know who the hell would oppose this Maybe a pervert
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You are the best. Thank you once again for taking this treacherous road of exposing Islam and your ongoing service to humanity. 🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽
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Brainwashing works. Thank you for all that you do to educate and deradicalize our indoctrinated youth.
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Rebranding the forced silencing and physical erasure of women as "diversity and choice" is peak intellectual rot
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Islam is submission by oppression, it cannot be part of our civilization, it must be abolished.
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Excellent post .. just confirms the coercion & control meted out to women and girls .. in this country 🇬🇧 too !
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A teacher in Fishers Indiana encourages students to try on hijabs AT SCHOOL to celebrate “World Hijab Day” nitter.cf/jenn_mcw/status/208808…
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What does the club do? They hold “World Hijab Day” celebrations and encourage students to “try on a Hijab” (even the boys). Pics from 2015! Club still active today.
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I am getting claustrophobic just watching this. I could not do this.
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Great! They let you in without protests?
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I keep rewatching this, and it makes me viscerally angry. I am so sorry.
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Absolute horror show. Try it. Wear it.
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I had to wear a burqa to tour a mosque once. I didn’t realize how much it would affect me until I put it on. It felt like I wasn’t a human anymore. The people around me did not talk to me or make eye contact with me. I could not speak clearly. It was a horrible experience.
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Head coverings are empowering - for the islamo-marxist alliance of progressivism with the Muslim Brotherhood. The moderate left needs to purge progressivism from its ranks. The right needs to refuse any concession to Islam within its nation.
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Never forget
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I don’t know if you’ve seen any of the poetry from the girls & women Kate Clanchy tutors online in Afghanistan, but there’s some beautiful writing amongst the heartbreak & horror
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Samreen just sent me this incredible poem from Afghanistan. She's stuck in a boiling hot attic with on/off electricity and a marginal internet connection. She will see if you like her poem though, and it will help.
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Hi from Dearborn, since you mention hijabs and niqabs. nitter.cf/TedBarham/status/20841…
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At enormous Arbaeen festival in Dearborn. Muslim people immigrating to America is a one-way street. How can that change?
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Jewish Hasidic women shave their heads to wear wigs because they cannot show their real hair. Not only do they rarely leave home, but they don’t even have to go to school. They’re also forced to only have intercourse when they’re ovulating. Why are you only focused on Islam & not all of religion if you’re actually virtuous?
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Go on!!!
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BOYS at school should be made to spend a week like this.
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This is so amazing Yasmine. We need a lot more women to speak up and give similar talks at leftist university campuses.
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I've been at church bible study lessons where Muslim women in hijabs secretly attend They make sure they haven't been followed. Then they take off the hijab and are happy to be able to read the New Testament and learn about Jesus The truth is setting them free
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I'm shocked Harvard allowed it and that there weren't protests.
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If rules you were forced to live by were implemented even for just one month, most women would finally get it. All of the freedoms women have been fighting for, and finally achieved, would be gone in the space between a blink and a tear. And it just gets worse from there 😣
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Nuns are forced to wear a veil while being confined witin the walls of a monastery. If a nun chooses to enter a monastery in a miniskirt, she will be removed by forced, disowned & excommunicated by the Chruch. Muslim women CHOOSE to wear the hijab & that choice irritates you.
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Was your talk at Harvard in their janitor closet? Jesus, which student group invited you to speak to their 7 members?
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It could only ever be empowering if you were hiding. In the West, we are not cowardly women. We do not hide. And our men, for the most part, are not men we need to hide from.
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Thank you Yasemine jaan to show the students how horrible it can be wearing hijab. It’s not imaginable for them and yet, they defend it as a choice! At the age of 9, a girl has no choice and then, if she wants to live differently, she is accused by others as a whore!
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What do you think about Muslim women winning “Rose of” competitions across Ireland? Seeing them collecting their award in a hijab then dancing like some liberated woman makes zero sense.
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And this is the part that makes your argument worth examining rather than simply dismissing. You were born and raised in Vancouver, in a Muslim family, and you have your own deeply painful experience with fundamentalism. That experience deserves to be heard. 🇨🇦 But your experience is not automatically the experience of every Muslim woman on Earth. Jewish women cover their hair. Orthodox Christian women cover their heads. Amish and Mennonite women cover their heads. Hindu and Sikh women use traditional head coverings too. ✡️✝️🕉️☬ Yet we don’t take one woman’s traumatic experience with a religious practice and declare that we’ve discovered the universal meaning of that garment. You escaped something you experienced as coercion. That’s your story. But a woman voluntarily choosing hijab is hers. That’s the distinction between feminism and paternalism: “I know what’s best for you” ≠ empowerment. Let Muslim women speak for themselves. 🎯
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Some self-proclaimed progressives seem to live in an upside down world where ignorance is strength, words are violence and slavery is empowering. It’s great you’re going to universities, which the epicenter of some of that craziness. Better education is urgently needed.
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