Within the first picture, you see an Australian MP carrying a burqa in Parliament to debate banning the burqa for ladies.
Within the second picture, it’s me and my good friend, two girls who’ve truly lived beneath the truth 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 masking 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 girls 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 ladies (see: Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and many others.). Ladies are handled as sub-humans who might not take part in society and even present their faces. “Let me make it fairly clear and imam clerics have truly stated the burka isn’t 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 will be—tons of of conservatives lined up and demanding that their Western nation shield 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 isn’t a race and defending Western values isn’t racist. Islam isn’t suitable 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.
Ladies who’ve lived beneath 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 carrying a burqa in Parliament to debate banning the burqa for ladies. Within the second picture, it’s me and my good friend, two girls who’ve truly lived beneath the truth of compelled burqas and hijabs imposed by the Taliban and the Islamic Republic showing in an American TV. Now I realized that the controversy 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 trustworthy: for us girls of Iran and Afghanistan who lived beneath compelled hijab and burqa, this isn’t an summary political debate, it’s the actuality we survived. We had 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. This is the reason I need to lengthen an invite to you , and members of the Australian Parliament: Open your Parliament to these of us who lived beneath 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 girls face right now. 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.”
