Message to Starbuck HR: Hijab is not a cultural symbol

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Dec 12, 2022 at 22:06

Dear Dr Pipes: Earlier I wrote about how I found the NYC transit and Amazon.com using the Hijab as a symbol of diversity. Now it is the turn of Starbucks. The local Starbucks in my town is hiring. In the job opening ad displayed in the store, they showed a hijab clad woman applying for a job. Not good. Not acceptable.

Let me tell Starbucks that it is not the job of their HR department to promote Islam. Would they show a cross to hire people? How about a man in a Yarmulke? Or, a Hindu man with a Tilak on his forehead and a Swastika on his Kurta?

Muslims are so obsessed with spreading Islam that they would never clarify the issues. If a lie spreads Islam, they will spread the lie. Hijab is 100% about religion. It is not about diversity and women's rights. (Please see the footnote below, dear readers.)

The corporations in independent and free nations need to be educated. There is no need
for them to support Islam.

Footnote: Islamic lies are sometimes so well hidden that it may take you years to figure out that they are lies. That Hijab is a women's right issue is one such lie. Typically, the phrase 'women's right' is used in the context of women in a society having the same rights and freedoms that are available to men **in that society**. If all Muslim men were wearing hijab, and some tyrant was stopping women from wearing hijabs, it will be a women's right issue. Hijab is a symbol of women's suppression by men and religion. It has nothing to do with women's rights. But humans are gullible. Western feminists are fooled into believing that a hijab clad Muslims are their friends. The truth of the matter is that if a Muslim hijab wearing woman turns up at a feminist meeting, she should be shown the door. To make the matter more clear, the right of women in Iran to NOT wear hijabs and the right of women Saudi Arabia to drive cars are true women's rights issues. Muslim apologists will keep mum about it.

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