{"id":1290,"date":"2011-12-31T23:44:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T23:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com.108-166-28-151.mdgnetworks.com\/wordpress\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2013-03-07T23:48:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T23:48:02","slug":"lessons-on-the-long-road-to-hijab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/lessons-on-the-long-road-to-hijab\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons on the Long Road to Hijab"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim<\/p>\n

Jihad Watch<\/em><\/p>\n

A\u00a0caricature, which first appeared on CagleCartoons.com, has been making the rounds on the Arabic blogosphere, and points to how democratic elections are serving to Islamize Egypt: average women enter the ballot box \u2014 “overseen” by the Muslim Brotherhood \u2014 only to emerge thoroughly veiled, thoroughly Islamized.<\/p>\n

Speaking of veils and the Brotherhood, here’s an interesting\u00a0video<\/a>\u00a0of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser (1956-1970), showing just how much times have changed.<\/p>\n

Speaking before a large assembly, Nasser told of how back in 1953 he wanted to cooperate with the Muslim Brotherhood, and met with its leader. (Nasser eventually learned that\u00a0the only response to the Brotherhood is suppression<\/a>, not cooperation, a lesson\u00a0John Kerry<\/a>\u00a0and others in the current administration would do well to consider.)<\/p>\n

According to Nasser, the very first demand of the Brotherhood leader was for the hijab to return to Egypt, “for every woman walking in the street to wear a headscarf.”<\/p>\n

The audience erupted in laughter at this, then, ludicrous demand; one person hollered “Let him wear it!” eliciting more laughter and applause.<\/p>\n

Nasser continued by saying he told the Brotherhood leader that if they enforced the hijab, people would say Egypt had returned to the dark ages (to more laughter), adding that Egyptians should uphold such matters in the privacy of their own homes.<\/p>\n

But the Muslim Brotherhood leader informed him that, as Egypt’s president, Nasser himself must enforce the hijab, to which Nasser replied:<\/p>\n

Sir, I know you have a daughter in college \u2014 and she doesn’t wear a headscarf or anything! [laughter] Why don’t\u00a0you<\/em>\u00a0make her wear the headscarf? [laughter] So you can’t make one girl, your own daughter, wear it, and yet you want me to go and make ten million women wear it?!” [burst of laughter and applause]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Half a century later and none of this is a laughing matter: the hijab, if not the full burqa, is commonplace in Egypt, even as the Muslim Brotherhood \u2014 who for decades were banned and imprisoned for trying to return Egypt to an Islamic dark age \u2014 are now poised to govern the nation, all under\u00a0US tutelage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0Sheikh Osama al-Qusi<\/a>\u00a0recently said, the great “mistake” of Nasser’s successor, president Anwar Sadat, was<\/p>\n

not that he released these groups [Muslim Brotherhood] from the prisons after Gamal Abdel Nasser had incarcerated them; but rather\u00a0for giving them the green light to work in all fields of Egyptian society<\/em>, thinking he would use them to get rid of his Socialist and Communist opponents. So he permitted them to work in trade unions, school unions \u2014\u00a0giving them every opportunity to hold official positions<\/em>\u00a0[Emphasis added].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, Sadat’s great mistake \u2014 which cost him his life \u2014 is that he conferred a degree of legitimacy on the Muslim Brotherhood, thereby allowing them to worm their way into Egyptian society.<\/p>\n

Such is the way of time: left unchecked, what was once ludicrous to suggest \u2014 for instance, the Brotherhood’s 1953 request “for every woman walking in the street to wear a headscarf” \u2014 slowly and gradually becomes part of the culture.<\/p>\n

It is for this reason that Sharia poses a threat to the West \u2014 not because it will be imposed on Westerners, but rather because, little by little, decade after decade, aspects of it may gradually worm their way in.<\/p>\n

\n

\u00a92011 Raymond Ibrahim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch A\u00a0caricature, which first appeared on CagleCartoons.com, has been making the rounds on the Arabic blogosphere, and points to how democratic elections are serving to Islamize Egypt: average women enter the ballot box \u2014 “overseen” by the Muslim Brotherhood \u2014 only to emerge thoroughly veiled, thoroughly Islamized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[227,230],"tags":[519,1017,276,1062,1043,58,1018],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-kO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2496,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/muslim-brotherhoods-method-impose-islam-step-by-step\/","url_meta":{"origin":1290,"position":0},"title":"Muslim Brotherhood’s Method: “Impose Islam…Step by Step”","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim Hudson New York Things are looking good for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the grandfather of all Islamist groups. 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