Promotion of the hijab by the Council of Europe: "No, the veil is not an ordinary clothing!"

Benjamin Sire is a composer and journalist.

For a very long time the Paris Match magazine was associated with its slogan, "the weight of words, the shock of the photos".It must be believed that the Council of Europe, through its program aimed at combating discrimination, inequalities and exclusion and to strengthen inclusion, decided to appropriate these words, without seeking inmeasure the consequences.Thus, wanting, in a laudable way, to celebrate diversity and religious freedom, the program in question launched a large campaign on social networks, starting with Tiktok, whose teenagers are the most fond, aimed at promoting...The Islamic veil with great visual blows showing women without, then, with the veil, or carrying it directly, all sometimes accompanied by the famous slogan "my veil, my choice", sometimes of the sentence "Beauty is in diversity, as freedom is in the hijab ”...

Not being one of those who fight everywhere and all the time wearing the veil, considering that it is sometimes a real personal and spiritual choice, as well as often, alas, a patriarchal taxation, an identity house assignmentOr even a separatist political affirmation claiming the superiority of the supposed laws of God over those of men, I nevertheless fell from my chair by browsing these visuals and videos.

Between accepting, in the name of freedom of conscience, the port, in public space, of a religious sign that is not inclined to celebrate the freedom of women, and make a real promotion as the council of theEurope, slaughtering thousands of women who, in countries with an Islamist regime like Iran (Shiite), or Saudi Arabia (Sunni), fight to be able to remove the imposed tissue, there is goodmore than a ditch.And this was all the more so, a few weeks after the total recovery of Afghanistan by the Taliban, who did not wait long before proving to the good souls who questioned that the word "inclusive" does notis not part of their vocabulary, no offense to Jean-Yves Le Drian who had naively considered the thing.

This campaign is all the more surprising since, with the exception of a visual, at no other time it does not raise the corner of the veil (if I can afford), on what diversity is, no more thanIt does not explain the means to fight against discrimination, especially since the hijab in itself can be a form of discrimination and is in no way a pure Koranic prescription, but a political marker of rigorous Islam.As the philosopher and Islamologist Razika Adnani recalls in an article in Ouest France dating from February 2021: “Thus, it was Muslims[and not the Koran, editor's note] who decided what is the part of the body of the woman who mustbe hidden and the way in which the veil must be worn, but also what rules must be followed and those that must be abandoned.[...] If the Islamists give as much importance to the veil, it is because it represents an important index, because visible, of the success of their movement.Their strategy is to accustom women to wear it.This is why, they also want to impose it on the little girls ”.

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By this simple statement, based on the study made by Madame Adnani (and others) of the Koranic suras devoted to this question of textiles, the supposed free choice is granted from the wearing of the hijab takes a slight blow."My sail, my choice" they say so.On this subject, the feminist philosopher Élisabeth Badinter expressed himself several times, pushing the highlight of patriarchal and political domination underpinned by this garment, while considering, as me, that it should not be prohibited inpublic space, but in all places imposing a neutrality, in accordance with the law of 1905.

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Thus in the program of Raphaël Enthoven, philosophy, words to the thinkers of our time, broadcast on the arte channel last month, she explains: "I can quite understand that women find their happiness in the servitude.It is a human phenomenon.[...] But when[this veil] is dominant in a neighborhood, it is quite difficult for those who do not want to wear it to face this ”.This implies that the veil then becomes a form of compulsory standard for women who want to free themselves from moral, religious and political pressure that reigns in these districts.

In this light, the shameless promotion of the veil by the Council of Europe is quite incomprehensible, unless it is considered that it, more and more subject to the diktat of the identity era and to various pressures which, underCovered in progressivism, bring the obscurantism back to the front of the stage, has decided to put oil on fire in a period when Europe is subject to the pressure of populisms which, more than to fight against Islamismdeadly fight the very existence of Islam, as respectful as it is community rules and laws in force in each country.

This approach can also be considered as a real provocation in the French context, even though the presidential campaign begins under the hegemonic sign of the Z, and again sees confusion being maintained by his camp, between Islamism(Politics and conqueror in essence) and all of our Muslim compatriots who have spent decades perfectly agree with the laws of the Republic.Because this is exactly what these visuals do that want to impose as a norm an Islamist vision of the Muslim religion and can only encourage those who, little inclined to the nuance, prove to be sensitive to the speeches of Eric Zemmour...

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The same is true of a recent UN campaign which, reversing all values, illustrated a visual supposed to promote gender equality in the field of technology by a veiled woman, while, again,This tissue condemns such equality.Another graphics of the European campaign continues to question and maintain this provocation, making the veil an ordinary clothing, as if it were free from any political and religious background, by drawing an indecent parallel again between itsport and, for example, that of miniskirt, as if the latter was imposed on anyone.

To understand the difference, even if those who pretend to question him have duplicity and hypocrisy in their political agenda, I will recall the words of the courageous secular and Belgian feminist Nadia Geerts published 5 years agoHis blog: “The seduction codes of seduction give women infinitely more freedom than those of Islamic modesty, ayatollahs, mollahs and other Islamofascists version.I think I can say that I do not know any woman sacrificing every day, at each of her outings, to these codes.[...] Certainly, many women have in their wardrobe one or the other piece of clothing evoking the bimbo more than the modern woman concerned with comfort above all.But we all play these codes, alternating jeans and mini-skirt, stilettos and old sneakers.Without ever this game making us run the slightest physical risk: no font of virtue to remind us that we are not sexy enough, no law to impose any dress-code ourselves ”.

And as Nadia Geerts still points out about the reason for the imposition of the veil, but also of the other female clothes subject to religious prescription: "Yes, for Islamists - as for the first Christians, as for Orthodox Jews - the woman isDiabolical creature.She is the tempter, the sinner, the one by whom the evil arrives.It is therefore necessary at all costs to conceal, domesticate, tame this body object of desire ”.

He becomes boring to repeat Ad Nauseam These evidences, although these, at the time of relativism, no longer seem to be.But more than boring, it is downright worrying to see that even in the highest community bodies, this relativism and the confusion that it conveys becomes the norm.