I agree with Andy (below).
I thought it was crazy when I saw it on TV. Well-meaning, but ignorant people this in-sympathy veiling.
Ignorant, for example, of Muslim feminists fighting to be "#Free of the hijab". Ignorant of Nasrin Sotoudeh, the human rights campaigner in Iran, who is in prison, due for 180 lashes, because she defends Iranian women who dare walk in public unveiled. Ms Sotoudeh appeared in court unveiled herself and was thrown an additional charge of "destabilising the government".
And so, because ignorance, dear, lovely, sweet Kiwis; well-meaning, caring … naive Kiwis, ignorant Kiwis, thinking they're showing solidarity with grieving Muslims, go out and veil themselves. On the country's government-funded TV station, no less.
Why is it that well-meaning folks everywhere (it's not just New Zealand) seem to do what the Islamists want, not what moderate Muslims want? Are they afraid they'll be called out by those same Islamists for not showing enough "solidarity"? Or that they'll be accused of "destabilising Islam"? Or something.
Whatever, it's a …
Pity.
And sends a horrible message to Muslim feminists: we see you, but we don't care; virtue-signalling is more important to us. (Or perhaps "we don't see you because… well, just because. Sorry 'bout that, eh!")
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Andy Ngo is a blogger, vlogger and Twitterato based in Portland Oregon. Gay, by the way.
