Within the first picture, you see an Australian MP sporting a burqa in Parliament to debate banning the burqa for girls.
Within the second picture, it’s me and my buddy, two girls who’ve truly lived underneath the fact of compelled burqas and hijabs imposed by the Taliban and the Islamic… https://t.co/HwD12SiPzj pic.twitter.com/Bi1KTO5R2T— Masih Alinejad ?️ (@AlinejadMasih) November 25, 2025
Australian Senator Pauline Hanson tried to implement a burqa and full-face overlaying ban. Rejected, Hanson confirmed as much as Parliament donning a burqa to showcase the “radical” roots of the garment. Her friends labeled her a racist and reprimanded her with a one-week ban from the federal government.
“If Parliament received’t prohibit it, I’ll showcase this oppressive, radical, non-religious head garment that threatens our nationwide safety and the mistreatment of ladies proper right here on the ground of our parliament,” Hanson declared.
Twenty-four nations, together with Muslim nations, have banned the burqa. One of many first measures Islamic extremists implement is remitted coverings for girls (see: Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and many others.). Girls are handled as sub-humans who could not take part in society and even present their faces. “Let me make it fairly clear and imam clerics have truly stated the burka shouldn’t be a non secular requirement. They put on it as a result of they select to or they’re compelled,” the Australian senator added.
Australia refuses to acknowledge “girls” as a protected class. I suppose anybody might put on a burqa, and what a protest that may be—tons of of conservatives coated up and demanding that their Western nation defend Western rights. One couldn’t stroll right into a financial institution or an airport with a helmet or ski masks. Public security is at-risk.
Islam shouldn’t be a race and defending Western values shouldn’t be racist. Islam shouldn’t be appropriate with Western ideology, as historical past has repeatedly proven. The identical liberals demanding equal rights refuse to acknowledge the oppressive roots of hiding girls from society.
Girls who’ve lived underneath Islamic extremism are backing Hanson. The Australian authorities refuses to permit these girls to talk — how ironic.
As activist Masih Alinejad wrote within the X submit above:
“Within the first picture, you see an Australian MP sporting a burqa in Parliament to debate banning the burqa for girls. Within the second picture, it’s me and my buddy, two girls who’ve truly lived underneath the fact of compelled burqas and hijabs imposed by the Taliban and the Islamic Republic showing in an American TV. Now I realized that the talk on Banning the burqa wasn’t even allowed onto the ground of the Australian Senate. I perceive these points can really feel politically dangerous. However let’s be sincere: for us girls of Iran and Afghanistan who lived underneath compelled hijab and burqa, this isn’t an summary political debate, it’s the actuality we survived. We have been suffocated by it.
I used to be crushed by Iran’s morality police for displaying my hair. Afghan and Iranian ladies have been lashed, even killed, only for speaking about their rights. And even hundreds of miles away, we face assassination plots for the “crime” of asking for a debate on compelled hijab. This isn’t tradition. It’s oppression, exported globally.
What some name “tradition,” we acknowledge as gender apartheid enforced by the Taliban and the Islamic Republic. For this reason I wish to lengthen an invite to you , and members of the Australian Parliament: Open your Parliament to these of us who lived underneath compelled hijab and burqa. Let Afghan and Iranian girls share the reality straight with you, to supply a clearer and extra human understanding of what hundreds of thousands of ladies face as we speak. Australia has a proud democratic custom of listening to voices, not silencing dialogue. Together with us would honour that custom. We don’t ask to be spoken about. We ask to be heard.”
