Austrian President: Women should wear Hijab

Since January Alexander Van der Bellen, the former head of the Green Party, is Austrian President. His campaign had some parallels to that of Emmanuel Macron as it was called a „movement“ and labelled as „independent“. After he and Norbert Hofer (Freedom Party) remained for the second round it was a constellation similar to France with the whole establishment for one candidate. A TV report now quotes Van der Bellen discussing in March with schoolkids saying literally: „It is the right of a woman – do men also wear headscarfs? – to dress however they like. This is my opinion. And not only Muslim women. Every woman can wear a hijab. And when things proceed this way – which brings me to the next question – concerning the real increase of islamophobia the day will come when we ask all women to wear a hijab, also in solidarity whith those who do it for religious reasons.“

When the TV report cut him off the full version (on the Facebook page of the EU in Vienna) this makes it even worse as he compared veiled women with the legend of Danes who in WW II attached Yellow Stars to their clothes in order to protect Jews (which is untrue). The increase of Antisemitism in Europe is not a result of never dying out Nazis but of mass immigration from Muslim countries and authorities who are unable to deport whoever has no right to get asylum. While Van der Bellen’s team complains that the public broadcaster ORF took him „out of context“ (in „Report„) this context makes it even worse. Those who intimidate not only Jews are compared with Jews whose lives were in danger. If we try to imagine what Austria or any other Western country whould look like if „all women wear hijab in solidarity“ it is the picture of a state completely overtaken by Islam.

(Social Democrat) Women for Van der Bellen (Facebook)