Top human rights body pulls anti-hate speech campaign after France protests hijab ‘promotion’

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  1. > The wording of the campaign “reflected individual statements from people who took part in one of the project’s workshops, and doesn’t reflect the position of the Council of Europe or its secretary-general [**Marija Pejčinović Burić**],” the statement reads.

    Council of Europe has been corrupted to its core, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caviar_diplomacy

  2. As a Turkish citizen I find what France did is Uncivilised but also I understand why they did it. France will be first muslim majority European country and muslims in France are… radical at best. I beileve France just trying to protect itself from their own will be future.

  3. Anything which helps in preventing the normalization of the Hijab and aids in banning it from our liberal societies is worth supporting.

    Just because we are liberal and tolerant does not mean we need to stretch our hand out to symbols of opression. Regardless where from. It should be treated like other similar symbold and receive a complete embargo. More and more european countries are shifting that way thankfully.

  4. The phrasing of this campaign doesn’t suggest that there is a liberty of wearing a hijab (that exists in France and in its laws), but that freedom is in the hijab.

    This campaign has been conceived by NGOs such as FEMYSO and EFOMW that are linked with the Muslim Brotherhood. That the Council of Europe is so porous to entryism doesn’t come as a surprise, but it is still a problem for everyone when they are free to stamp the EU flag on everything they do.

  5. >The split image “deeply shocked me,” Secretary of State for Youth **Sarah El Haïry** said on Tuesday evening to LCI. “It is the opposite of the values France is standing up for … France made its very strong disapproval of the campaign clear, which is why it was pulled today.”

    Clearly a multiracial Islamophobic white supremacist!! /s

    Why are people constantly surprised that not all people from Muslim backgrounds want to normalise headscarves?

  6. **”freedom is in hijab”**

    If that’s not naked proselytism I don’t know what is.

    Also looking at who exactly is behind that campaign is pretty interesting. I’d share an article on that subject but it’s in french. It’s no surprise you can find organizations close to the Muslim brotherhood.

  7. I’m rather confused how people here have such strong feelings over an article of clothing? While it is forced down on woman in certain countries, very unfortunate indeed. It doesn’t mean all that the odd 300+million Muslim who wear it are forced. I have relatives in scarfs, as well as university classmates. People ranging from all walks of life and in prestigious institutions. Non of them see it as oppression, because they chose to wear it. Have a Muslim girl who’s own mother doesn’t wear it but yet she still pushed her parents to be okay with it.

    I find it weird that you Europeans get so offended by the scarf, in Britain it has to be the least of our concerns. I’ve yet to encounter anyone who’s even brought it up to those around me. The Human rights act of 1997 solidifies and protects a British residents right to be. Their right to dress express and live how they please. If that means walking around in a bikini, that’s okay, if it means a woman wants to wear a hijab, that’s okay. The law clearly states that what a woman does, within her rights, is solely up to her and no one else.

    Saying that everyone who wears it is oppressed or misguided is very ignorant. The world is bigger than just your town or area, or what u read online. It helps speaking to a variety of people to truly find the meaning and reasoning beyond those whom chose to wear the scarf(often complex, personal reasons)

  8. Equating hijab with freedom is nonsensical. There are dozens of neighborhoods in France where women are being pressured/forced to wear the hijab by Muslim hardliners. You want your tax money to go to a Muslim brotherhood propaganda ad?

  9. Very good!

    Don’t see how a symbol of servitude from a misogyn religion and culture can be linked to freedom.

    Also, guess what, this damned scarfs are antimonic of diversity since they just make all of them look the same.

  10. Protesting against hijab is synonymous to helping these poor women escape the oppressive cultural brainwashing they’ve gone through. They’re plagued by a weird Stockholm syndrome.

  11. People who have actually seen the ad would know it’s badly conceived. But reading some of the comments in this thread just makes me feel equally bad.

    The amount of people being triggered by a piece of fabric that some people choose to wrap around their head is really disproportionate.

    I don’t see anyone having the same response with old ladies wearing babushka or bald guys wearing knitted hats to cover their receding hairline. It’s just an attire, chill.

    It’s also the people who are most triggered by these things that are least interested in listening to what the actual women wearing hijab have to say. Some choose to wear hijab and some don’t, each have their own reasons because surprise people actually have rich inner lives beyond what they wear in public.

    Some of you need to stop telling people how to live and leave them alone.

  12. People can chose to wear whatever silly costume they want, but i wonder how many women are freely choosing to wear hijab/burka etc.. especially in the part of the world that the immigrants left.

  13. LMAO people in Iran literally being jailed for decades cause they don’t want to wear hijab

    and people in Europe protest anti hijab activities

    Iran and Europe are not that different

  14. It’s about freedom of choice. If you have the freedom of being naked, others should have the freedom of covering themselves.
    Why do you think, yours way is the best way?

  15. Let’s just hope that all this won’t end up in a situation where people will start attacking women wearing a hijab and force them to remove it, because it’s a sign of oppression.

  16. Women can use the Hijab if they want but saying it’s a symbol of freedom? Sorry but that’s where I draw the line, seems more like 1984 double speak.

    We simply cannot ignore that for many women it’s not a choice ; it’s mandatory.

  17. These “human rights bodies” are becoming more and more disconnected from the rest of European society and as a leftist myself, I specifically blame them for the rise in right-wing mania. I urge authorities to sit down and have an open discussion with people that, yes, radical Islamic organizations have infiltrated into European society.

  18. I’m left wing and the only good thing that the right has ever done in the UK, is to leave this dumb shit union called the EU. If I was a Muslim in the EU, I’d start thinking about moving to UK/NZ/Canada/USA/Australia where your rights are protected and not discriminated against.

  19. women are forced to wear hijab, they do it because some religious guy says so and others enforce this.

    Lets break this chain.

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