Germany: Bizarre propaganda for the Muslim hijab at taxpayers’ expense

The Federal Agency for Civic Education (BpB) recently drew attention to itself with a questionable post on the social media platform “Instagram”. In a short video sequence, two women wearing headscarves talk about the topic of feminism, among other things. One of them is Kübra Layik, who works as a journalist for the Islamic magazine “IslamIQ” and in her articles published there regularly gets worked up about the “anti-Muslim racism” allegedly rampant in Germany. In the video, the two headscarf wearers refer to Islam as “feminist” and declare that being a Muslim and a feminist go “hand in hand” for them. They also describe feminism in Germany as “very white and very privileged” and criticise it for not being accessible to other people.

Joachim Paul, member of the federal executive committee of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) , states:

“Two women appear in a taxpayer-funded forum of the Federal Agency for Civic Education and declare that Islam is per se feminist. More appropriate than this farce would be a critical reflection of the religious bullying that forces young women and girls to veil themselves – in very many cases against their will. The obvious contradiction between these conditions, which stem from the misogynist tradition of fundamentalist Islam, and the attitude displayed here should be palpable to many ordinary citizens. They might equally wonder why their tax money is being politically misused by the Federal Agency for Civic Education for Islamist narratives.The accusation that feminism is ‘too white and too privileged’ is downright cynical, considering that Muslim activists in particular are often enough the ones who brand any criticism of fundamentalist Islam and its structures as ‘racist’ and like to cover up grievances in Islamic milieus with a cloak of silence for ideological reasons. In this way, they share responsibility for the structural oppression of women who do not want to live as the men in their milieus pretend to do.

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