Crowdfunding raises $50k for new Australia Day ad campaign featuring girls in hijabs, by the ABC. Following on from the story a couple of days ago about a billboard for Australia Day with girls in hijabs:

More than 1,000 people have given money to fund an advertising campaign featuring two girls in hijabs, after an Australia Day billboard which used their photo was taken down following complaints. … It showed two girls wearing hijabs, a head covering worn by some Muslim women, celebrating Australia Day last year.

Executive creative director of Campaign Edge advertising agency, Dee Madigan, is behind the Go Fund Me campaign to feature the girls in another campaign. The campaign page states the agency is “talking to media buyers now” and “looking at a full-page press ad and a billboard to start”. Ms Madigan said the idea of a replacement billboard was to show the community that “most Australians are not horrible racists”. “I’m really angry, this was a photo of two young Australian girls celebrating Australia Day,” she told ABC Radio Melbourne. “I feel for the Muslim community, they’re damned if they do, damned if they don’t.” … “You get all the racists saying ‘oh, they don’t assimilate’ and then there’s literally a photo of them celebrating Australia Day and you get the same people saying ‘that’s not right’ – it’s just not OK,” she said. … “Racism is cyclical, but this brand of racism is not something that we’ve seen before and not encountered before, and I believe that this will have to be a sustained campaign,” she said. … Ms Kapolos said the commission was in the midst of planning a campaign called “I’m an Australian Muslim, get over it” to address “stereotypical claims and mistruths”.

There they go again, wrongly abusing us as racists. Ms Madigan, Islam is not a race, it’s a religion. Unlike one’s race, Islam is not an immutable characteristic you are born with, but a set of beliefs acquired during your lifetime that you can choose to subscribe to or not. Big difference, morally.

Unlike any other major religion, Islam is also a totalitarian political ideology — Sharia law. It has more in common with a supremacist cult: the penalty for leaving Islam is death. As Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, stated: “The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished … The majority of them … agree that apostates must be executed.” Qaradawi also once famously said: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.”

Racism is where you treat people differently on the basis of their race, rather than as individuals — as the PC group routinely do with their identity politics. You wouldn’t do that, would you Ms Madigan?

Islam is a seventh century Arabian culture that is immutable because the Qur’an is the unchallengeable word of God, dictated to Mohamed by the archangel Gabriel and not open to later re-interpretation. Islamic societies that have tried to move away from fundamentalist Islam have always been dragged back to its roots by fundamentalists. That’s been happening for thirteen centuries now, and that doesn’t look like it’s going to change any time soon — and I don’t want foolish lefties betting my great grandchildren’s lives on it changing for the first time ever real soon now.

Islam is incompatible with modern western culture. Don’t try and force them together. Islam is seventh century Arabian culture, pre-dating medieval culture. Either modern culture must yield, or Islam must yield, but they are not compatible. And no amount of virtue signalling is going to change that, Ms Madigan. Billboards such as this just annoy people.

The hijab, and especially the burqa, are aggressively Muslim forms of dress. Wearing them is a political statement, expressing Muslim superiority and the support for the ideas of the Koran — that non-Muslims may be treated very poorly by Muslims and that Islam will conquer the world. Implicitly discriminating between Muslims and non-Muslims, they are a form of “hate speech” — just as the PC crowd now label as “hate speech” even a statue of Cecil Rhodes, anything Donald Trump says, or pointing out measured statistical differences between groups. (UPDATE: See here.)

Of course, I would think for most girls wearing hijabs is not political. It’s about fitting in, identifying, and culture — and often they get no choice anyway. But Islam is itself political, so a form of dress that is uniquely and conspicuously Islamic is inevitably political.

A nun’s outfit is much less political, because the Christian church and its doctrines are much less political than Islam and do not dictate every aspect of your life (render unto Caesar…). A teenager wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt is trying to be political, but we all know they aren’t serious.

So that’s two forms of hate speech in the one ABC article: wrongly calling those of us who recognize the incompatibility of Islam and modernism “racist”, and promoting Islamic clothing that promotes the “hate speech” of Islam against non-Muslims. Well done ABC.

And while we are at it Ms Madigan, please note the words of Christine Williams:

Jihadists and Islamic supremacists are a curse to women globally, treating them like dirt. Take, for instance, the Muslim migrant rape epidemic across Europe and the attendant cover-ups; the treatment of women sanctioned by Islamic jurisprudence (Muslim men are allowed to beat their wives and imprison them in their rooms); and the sanctioning also of the rape infidel women and the taking of sex slaves, about which we have been inundated with news coverage.

And those of Caroline Overington, about discrimination at Islamic schools:

I get that there’s cultural sensitivity. People don’t want to be accused of racism or bigotry. They don’t want to discriminate. But what about the discrimination against girls going on right now in Australian schools? Don’t believe it? … Only the girls, from age five, have to wear long sleeves, even in summer. Only the girls have to wear skirts to the floor (ankle-length) summer and winter. The hijab, or head covering, also is compulsory for girls, from age five. It is compulsory even for sport. The boys scamper about in short sleeves. … The boys are relaxed and grinning. The girls are swathed in so much fabric you can see only their faces. You support this, with your taxes. It’s blatant discrimination. It tells girls that there is something sinful about them, something that will drive men to distraction, something they need to keep covered while out in the world.