Anyone On Here Goin To Take Part.?

[webbo3]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5364753/Foreign-Office-faces-backlash-Hijab-Day-celebration.html

[andy-hughes]

ichkeria - // All a bit daft, but I can't really see the reason to get so hot under the hijab about it :-) //

I think people get upset because, on the one hand, some women in other countries are oppressed by being made to wear this garment, while over here, civil servants mock their freedoms by playing dressing-up.

[Mamyalynne]

Oh I missed it :-(

I was wearing my double pommer that day to keep warm.

[ichkeria]

" civil servants mock their freedoms by playing dressing-up. "

In your opinion, don't forget
I doubt if anyone who took up the offer did it to mock anyone, but then this is the first I have heard of World Hijab Day so i don't know for sure.

[Togo]

We can all have a little chuckle at the obvious idiocy of the "scheme", but there are more perhaps insidious effects to consider regarding the invitation. Would anyone in the office who declined to participate in the virtue signalling exercise automatically be tagged Islamophobic?
Was the "civil servant" him/herself an adherent of any religion in particular?

[naomi24]

I don't think whoever proposed it or the people who joined in did it to mock. Quite the reverse. It's all about the wonderful diversity that we should all be embracing. :o/

[ladybirder]

I think Togo is right wonder about the 'insidious' effects etc etc and Naomi I'd bet the proposers were deadly, drearily, serious.

[naomi24]

Ladybirder, you can bet your boots they were! (Actually, because you haven’t been around I posted a thread a little while back asking after you but no one had any news. Pleased to see you back. Are you ok?).

Togo is right. I know a major company that encourages its employees to embrace ‘diversity’ in all its forms, but predominately LGBT. It has set up a ‘friends’ system so that anyone belonging to a minority group knows they have someone to talk to if needs be. All the staff wear nametags on black ribbons around their necks but the anyone who volunteers to be a ‘friend’ is issued with a rainbow ribbon so that they, as a ‘friend’, can be identified by the needy ....which led me to ask the same question that Togo asked. Does that automatically render those with black ribbons ‘phobics’, ’bigots’, etc., etc?

[naomi24]

*but the anyone* ....drat .... but anyone.

[hereIam]

Madness, isn't it ??

[Zacs-Master]

Of course it doesn’t Naomi, it makes them disinterested / fearful of confrontation / apathetic.....many things but not, necessarily, anything negative.

[hereIam]

Nice to see you back lb .... x

[vetuste_ennemi]

More on the situation in Iran referred to in the DM article:

https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2018/02/woman-arrested-for-removing-hijab-in-tehran-refuses-to-repent-despite-facing-10-years-in-prison/

[Togo]

Naomi@ 14:14...... What next, make them wear little yellow stars?

[naomi24]

Togo, it's ... 'voluntary'.

[naomi24]

v_e, no worries. The useful idiots in the west can be relied upon to maintain the requirement.

[ladybirder]

Thank you Naomi, I don't have contact with any ABers off site but it's always nice to know one has been missed (amazed actually). I just need to take a break from here now and again as I find it so depressing at times. HIA thank you too. XX

[naomi24]

Ladybirder, So pleased you're ok. x

[andy-hughes]

ichkeria - // " civil servants mock their freedoms by playing dressing-up. "

In your opinion, don't forget //

Everything I post is in my opinion, unless it is a fact, and if it's not clear it's a fact, I will confirm that it is.

Hope that clears up any misunderstanding.

[ladybirder]

Naomi glad to see you've kept on keeping on LOL.

[naomi24]

:o)