{"id":3800,"date":"2019-05-06T12:36:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T12:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/06\/stealth-jihad-and-the-hijab\/"},"modified":"2019-05-06T12:36:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T12:36:44","slug":"stealth-jihad-and-the-hijab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/06\/stealth-jihad-and-the-hijab\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealth-Jihad and the Hijab"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Kilpatrick<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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After all the years that have passed since 9\/11, many American still misunderstand the nature of the Islamic threat. The main way that Islamic power advances in the West is not through terror attacks, but through stealth-jihad\u2014the slow-motion co-option of our cultural and political institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cultural battles are won\u2014or lost\u2014by cultural institutions. Most stealth jihadists don\u2019t hope to impose sharia law through armed struggle, but rather through influence operations designed to enlist these institutions on their side. They already seem to have enlisted two major cultural institutions on their side\u2014universities and media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many universities, for example, seem to have adopted a pro-hijab stance. Faculty and student groups present the hijab as a symbol of a woman\u2019s right to choose\u2014in this case, to choose what clothes she will wear. Thus, on International Hijab Day, students are encouraged to don the hijab in order to show solidarity with their Muslim sisters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having thus been primed to see the hijab as a symbol of choice and diversity, the typical college grad will have no difficulty understanding the decision by Fox News <\/a>to suspend Judge Jeanine Pirro for her criticism of Representative Ilhan Omar\u2019s wearing of the hijab. Pirro suggested that Omar\u2019s hijab might be \u201cindicative of her adherence to sharia law.\u201d  And that was enough to bring on the two week suspension.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William Kilpatrick: After all the years that have passed since 9\/11, many American still misunderstand the nature of the Islamic threat. The main way that Islamic power advances in the West is not through terror attacks, but through stealth-jihad\u2014the slow-motion co-option of our cultural and political institutions. [. . .] Cultural battles are won\u2014or lost\u2014by … Continue reading “Stealth-Jihad and the Hijab”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}