Sarsour To Fly To Iran To Force Women To Wear Hijab, Symbol Of Empowerment

She will share the wonders of the hijab with women overseas who have succumbed to misguided notions about the garment and its implications for feminism.

New York, July 19 – A leader of the Women’s March feminist movement in the US who insists the head covering that Muslim women are forced to wear in public is in fact a liberating phenomenon intends to travel to an Islamic country to help the regime there compel women to don the garment and internalize the message of freedom that it bespeaks.

Linda Sarsour announced today that she plans a trip to Iran later this summer, during which she will assist Basij militias and the ayatollahs’ religious enforcement police in identifying women who refuse to wear the hijab, apprehending them, and forcing them to put it on so the latter appreciate the empowerment that Ms. Sarsour feels when she sports the covering.

The activist told reporters and supporters of her plans during an appearance at a protest against the administration of President Donald Trump. “I experience the hijab as the embodiment of unbounded freedom of religious expression,” she declared to applause. “And I intend to take that message of freedom to the women of Iran when I travel there next month. With these two hands I will impress upon them the importance of wearing this empowering garment and thereby living the feminist dream that here in the benighted US we women must keep fighting to realize.”

Sarsour’s announcement marks a reversal of her recent rhetoric. Last week the activist dismissed concerns that she disregards the comparatively severe oppression of women outside the US, stating that she must focus her efforts on fighting for the rights of women where she lives. Now, however, she appears to taking a different tack, in the direction of sharing the wonders of the hijab with women overseas who have succumbed to misguided notions about the garment and its implications for feminism.

“I’m just so excited for the women of Iran,” gushed Tamika Mallory, also a leader of the Women’s March. “They get to encounter what I have for years already: a wonderful person who will confront them with the wonderful truth about their heritage and how empowering it is. It’s just unfortunate that she can’t do this individually for the millions of Iranian women, but at least she’ll have the assistance of government officials there to work with her in parallel in achieving the same goal for those women. I’m also so proud of her.”

Sarsour also indicated thoughts of visiting Afghanistan and the Palestinian Territories to encourage women there to celebrate being murdered for bringing dishonor to the family by engaging in contact with a man not approved by her father or brothers.

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