What an appalling faux pas!

Shame on the woman who doesn't know her niqab from her burka from her hijab from her abaya from her jilbab from her khimar from her dupatta from her chador from her wimple!

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How did you know she was wearing sunglasses, if she had a burqa on?

I don't know how I feel about this event but I don't think it's possible to reconcile 'choice' with something that women are imprisoned, tortured and murdered for not complying with.

KJK is one brave woman as TRAs are mere kittens versus Islamic males.

Absolutely.

This is going to light a fire.

reminds me of when I was on the beach a couple of years ago. A woman clad in full burqa on a boiling hot day. Her husband was wearing swimming shorts. How anyone can justify it and say it’s ok, is beyond me.

KJK’s off the cuff remark went viral - 25 million views on X so far. It hit a nerve in the Middle East. KJK has been inundated with testimonies from women forced to live in these repressive societies. The Free Your Face event would never have happened if she hadn’t had the reaction that it did. KJK is one brave woman as TRAs are mere kittens versus Islamic males.

What on earth motivates a bunch of white non-Muslim women to don niqab-face and campaign on this specific issue.

You are saying women should not protest on behalf of other women if the protesters are a different colour or from a different belief system.
This is oppression olympics. You are putting colour and belief above sex.

This Let Women Speak page has screenshots of messages sent to KJK by women who are forced to wear various forms of "the veil" - scroll down then click on any of the screenshots to scroll through the gallery of images:

https://www.letwomenspeak.org/free-your-faces

Some of the stories, many of the stories, are heartbreaking.

By chance, yesterday I came across this video by a woman who has left Islam:

5 Horrible Hijabi Fashion Trends You Shouldn’t Try This Summer

Worth watching to see the horrors that women who "choose" to wear the veil inflict on themselves and the physical risks that they take to ensure their "modesty". I don't know where the "Hijabi women" featured live but I think not in countries where wearing the veil is enforced by the state.

KJK has been criticised for not distinguishing between different forms of "the veil" whereas these Muslim and ex-Muslim women refer to its various manifestations by the catch-all "hijab" as well as differentiating between different types.

There is this too:

Iranian protests: 'Standing up for freedom should never be labelled as Islamophobia'
9 Oct 2022
Iranian women's rights activists Mooniter and Elnaz Sarbar join Andrew Doyle as protests in Iran enter their fourth week following the death of Mahsa Amini.

What I find vile is the performative misogyny of feminists (!) who don the hijab every Feb 1st on World Hijab Day "in recognition of millions of Muslim women who choose to wear the hijab and live a life of modesty."

These will include the same "feminists" who deride "trad wives" and SAHMs, saying that their "choices" are invalid because they have been brainwashed by and are propping up the patriarchy, or that their "choices" are those of women who are subjugated by the threat of abandonment or domestic violence.

Where is their solidarity with and recognition of the millions of Muslim women who are forced to wear the hijab and "live a life of modesty" under threat of violence and death? Not because it is required by their patriarchal religion because it is not: it is required by their patriarchal cultures, by men using the excuse of religion to justify their subjugation of women from when they are little girls.

Not just in far away lands but in the UK too.

The double standards these feminists set for Fundamentalist Christianity vs Islam are baffling to me. Christians advocating "abstinence" for both men and women before marriage: bad.

How about Muslim men wanting virgin brides? It goes part and parcel with "choosing" to wear the hijab and "living a life of modesty" from childhood. To say otherwise is what is "cherry picking".

Revealed: 'Deeply disturbing' Muslim matchmaking site operating in Britain advertising virgin brides and polygamous marriages
6 July 2025
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14879319/Muslim-matchmaking-Britain-virgin-brides.html

Same with this. Nine is old enough to be a bride, say the Taliban. How old were the youngest victims of the Grooming Gangs? Ten if I recall correctly. Veiled six year old and nine year old girls being sold as child brides in Afghanistan. "Immodestly" dressed ten year olds in school uniform sold for sex in the UK.

There will be veiled girls in the UK being raped by the same men. Their "modesty" does not protect them. All the veil does is signal their oppression and subjugation.

UNHEARD VOICES - Sexual Exploitation of Asian Girls and Young Women
September 2013
https://www.mwnuk.co.uk/resourcesDetail.php?id=97

These children suffer the same gang-based rape and torture that has become horrifying familiar from court cases over decades but they are even less likely to get support and justice, whether from the authorities or from within their own communities.

Why is that? We all know why. Good job some women give enough of a shit about actual women and children rather than wallowing in anti-racist virtue-signalling.

Susan Moller Okin: Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
http://fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/Class%20Readings/Okin/Susan%20Moller%20Okin_%20Is%20Multiculturalism%20Bad%20for%20Women_.pdf

Man’s Dominion: The Rise of Religion and the Eclipse of Women’s Rights
Sheila Jeffreys – 2011
https://sheila-jeffreys.com/book/mans-dominion-the-rise-of-religion-and-the-eclipse-of-womens-rights/

That certainly is a topic that needs more discussion.

I hope the event gets a lot of publicity and starts a long overdue conversation about how many women in this country are not enjoying the rights and freedoms that they have whilst in this country.

Women are either guilty of ''white feminism'' or ''white saviour'' mentality - I can't tell if that's the good girl double bind, or a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Talking about 'coercive control' in this situation is a bit like talking about 'enhanced interrogation'. The whole concept of the veil is misogynist oppression at its finest. Modesty does not translate as erasure in anyone's language.

Good for KJK.

And the Secular Society's pages on women's rights issues impacted by religion:

https://www.secularism.org.uk/women/

Debate from the National Secular Society:

https://www.secularism.org.uk/veil-debate-should-the-uk-ban-th

An old article looking at issues surrounding veils for women in Europe:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13038095

Looking at one of Amina's campaigns, on intimate image abuse:

'For Muslim & BME women, intimate images could include photos of parts of their bodies (such as their legs) or even the hair of Muslim women. However, these do not meet the legal definition for ‘intimate images’. The legal definition must be made inclusive to protect Muslim & BME women.'

That might present some interesting issues.

Is anyone effectively helping women who are "being pressured in relation to Islamic dress", in this country or in countries such as Afghanistan?

I don't know of any organisations involved in this. It is quite specific.

The Amina organisation in Glasgow does great work, including specifically on 'taboo' topics.

https://mwrc.org.uk/vawg/vawg-campaigns/

You could reasonably say that this issue is none of my business, so I'm just commenting out of interest in the underlying philosophical and practical implications of involvement. I see and sympathise with your objection to "performative fanfare". My questions are:

Is performative fanfare necessary to get some men to start questioning their part in controlling women's behaviour? There are many examples where publicity has been part of getting debate going.

Is anyone effectively helping women who are "being pressured in relation to Islamic dress", in this country or in countries such as Afghanistan?

I don't personally take to KJK, but when she shouted "he's a man" that encouraged people to stop just being "kind" and to stand up publicly for women who were being abused by men.

If the niqab is so great why aren’t men wearing them? I can understand why women do not want visibility in front of the men in their communities . Some are virtue signalling their faith to others. Some will free themselves when in women’s company. The problem as always is men, and we are allowed to be critical of their oppressive religions and ideas.

The “intersectional” feminist community is bothered about who says what and “cultural appropriation”, but they also think a group of entitled sexist men are more oppressed than any women, so meh. If this event is not to anyone’s taste, they don’t have to go. Let Women Speak.

Islam is a religion practised by people of all ethnicities.

This 'white saviour' thing - does that apply to any cause that may involve people of different ethnicities?

And 'mistrust' of religion is allowed, you know. Any religion.

This is long overdue. It’s misogynistic oppression in plain sight. People make a big deal about ‘what women choose to wear’ but it’s a garment that is culturally loaded by patriarchal, violent and erroneous ideas about female sexuality. Not tempting men to sin should be entirely the responsibility of men.

'White women need to care about something other than sex and gender'
'Oh OK, I got all these testimonies from women who have to live under a shroud of darkness'
'Not those women, white women arent allowed to speak about that.'

Bad if you dont and bad if you do.

Norty KJK. Stay in your lane eh?