Veiling for any woman or the degree of covered attire for an individual to choose is a choice either way. We do not push any rules with attire for either sex, as long as it is not blatantly obscene in the presence of innocents or blasphemous of the true Gods. Force of this is a completely different story.
In Islam, veiling is more-or-less obligatory. The word ‘hijab’ constitutes ideas of modesty in Islamic law (fiqh) for both sexes. Women are advised to cover their bosom with coverings at the very least, but conventionally this is taken to apply to all of the hair and neck. Attire must be modest and devoid of decoration, typically this is considered to consist of black garments.
Women are told not to exhibit themselves to any male who is not their husband, their father, father-in-law, brothers, nephews, their slaves, eunuchs or small children. These people are put under the label of mahram.
وَقُل لِّلْمُؤْمِنَـٰتِ يَغْضُضْنَ مِنْ أَبْصَـٰرِهِنَّ وَيَحْفَظْنَ فُرُوجَهُنَّ وَلَا يُبْدِينَ زِينَتَهُنَّ إِلَّا مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْهَا ۖ وَلْيَضْرِبْنَ بِخُمُرِهِنَّ عَلَىٰ جُيُوبِهِنَّ ۖ وَلَا يُبْدِينَ زِينَتَهُنَّ إِلَّا لِبُعُولَتِهِنَّ أَوْ ءَابَآئِهِنَّ أَوْ ءَابَآءِ بُعُولَتِهِنَّ أَوْ أَبْنَآئِهِنَّ أَوْ أَبْنَآءِ بُعُولَتِهِنَّ أَوْ إِخْوَٰنِهِنَّ أَوْ بَنِىٓ إِخْوَٰنِهِنَّ أَوْ بَنِىٓ أَخَوَٰتِهِنَّ أَوْ نِسَآئِهِنَّ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَـٰنُهُنَّ أَوِ ٱلتَّـٰبِعِينَ غَيْرِ أُو۟لِى ٱلْإِرْبَةِ مِنَ ٱلرِّجَالِ أَوِ ٱلطِّفْلِ ٱلَّذِينَ لَمْ يَظْهَرُوا۟ عَلَىٰ عَوْرَٰتِ ٱلنِّسَآءِ ۖ وَلَا يَضْرِبْنَ بِأَرْجُلِهِنَّ لِيُعْلَمَ مَا يُخْفِينَ مِن زِينَتِهِنَّ ۚ وَتُوبُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ جَمِيعًا أَيُّهَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ
And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husband’s fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. And you believers! Turn you all together towards Allah, that you may attain bliss.
Quran 24:31
The ostensible reason for this is that women of the faith are not molested by lustful men.
Even though Westerners revile any form of intrusion upon women by secular men as ‘slut shaming’ or harassment, many Westerners accept the argument within Islam that veiling is done to ‘protect modesty’ and that ‘men also have to lower their gaze’, among endless other arguments used to justify this practice.
Yet ultimately these people do not understand the actual reasoning: the veil is necessary for a Muslim woman as she must be determined not to be a female slave or a pagan. Muslim men are mandated to be able to see the difference.
Here is an example of this in action:
Then a group of men arrived, bearded and dressed in black like all the others. Heavy weapons swung from their shoulders. A delegation sent by the caliph, apparently. They pranced through the room, ogling us shamelessly. We tried as best we could to hide our faces beneath the veils and scarves we’d brought with us. “What are you doing?” they barked at us. “You’re not Muslims. Why are you hiding yourselves?”
The Girl Who Escaped IS, Farida Khalaf and Andrea Hoffman
Notice how they mock her for being Yezidi and having pretensions towards modesty, not wishing to be seen by alien men. In Muslim countries, minorities that dislike veiling such as the Yezidis are compelled to do so on threat of rape or slavery. Men are NEVER obliged to lower their own gaze when it comes to non-Muslims and slaves. Slaves are expressly forbidden from wearing hijab. The garments distinguish the believing woman from the pagan or the slave onto whom any act can be done:
يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّبِىُّ قُل لِّأَزْوَٰجِكَ وَبَنَاتِكَ وَنِسَآءِ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يُدْنِينَ عَلَيْهِنَّ مِن جَلَـٰبِيبِهِنَّ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ أَدْنَىٰٓ أَن يُعْرَفْنَ فَلَا يُؤْذَيْنَ ۗ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ غَفُورًۭا رَّحِيمًۭا
O Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their persons: that is most convenient, that they should be known as such and not molested. And Allah is oft-forgiving, most merciful.
Quran 33:59
The point of hijab in none of the Islamic literature supports the point that hijab is to deter sexual assault in general. The point of hijab is to distinguish proper targets for assault from non-proper targets. Pro-Islam apologists from the progressive side and westernized Muslims have seriously put the cart before the horse here. They insist the point of hijab is to deter sexual assault in general. THIS IS NEVER THE POINT OF ISLAMIC VEILING.
Supporting this happens to be the incidence of the so called grooming gangs of England and other areas, who took veillessness as a sign that girls could be groomed into being prostitutes or simply slaves.
Often, Muslim immigrants are insistent on forcing the veil onto women whether it is desired or not. In places such as the urban areas of France, women are increasingly harassed into doing this by scores of animal immigrants. What does this imply about the women they are doing this to? Are they claiming OWNERSHIP of them?
VEILING AGAINST ASSAULT
As usual, the Quran is WRONG. The hijab deters no assault, either for believers or non-believers. In fact, the reverse is true, where in Egypt westernized clothing seems to proven to correlate with fewer assaults.
UN surveys in Egypt show the IRRELEVANCE of attire to sexual assault:
72.5% of [sexual harassment victims] were veiled…
UNFPA report on sexual harassment in Egypt
Statistics say that most of the women or girls who have been sexually harassed have been veiled or completely covered up with the niqab.BBC News
The UNFPA report shows the kinds of attire correlating with frequency of assault:
In practice, although the majority of Egyptians of both sexes surveyed ‘agreed’ that Figure 2 would (or should) be the most subjected to sexual assault, figure 6 and 5 were some of the most likely to be assaulted, with 3 and 1 coming on top. 2 was in fact the least likely to experience this.
In Satanism, we do not believe attire contributes to sexual assault as a generalized pattern. We do not believe veiling or any kind of heavier attire deters rape. The numbers are there and obvious. At most, the argument can be made that it might conceal the identity of the victim.
The logic of the argument that covered attire prevents rape or molestation by large groups of men is a FALSE one.
However, a study by Abdelrazek postulated the argument that in the 1960s, women in Egypt usually wore mini-skirts and more revealing clothes than what women wear today in Egypt, yet sexual harassment percentage against women in the streets in Egypt was significantly low compared to the contemporary percentage.
Sexual Harassment, Moemen Elaraby
We also consider veiling female children as is the common custom among immigrants to be obscene for this reason, among others. What should this act imply about non-veiled children of ‘non-believers’? Are they legitimate targets? As mentioned, the cases of the grooming gangs seem to indicate this is the point.
Choosing to veil to reserve beauty for one’s loved one, out of disdain for the eyes of men or out of a preference for as little participation in the external world is a choice, a choice women are always permitted to make. Doing so simply because one believes it will deter sexual assault altogether is simply contradictory to reality!
MODESTY
The word ‘modestia’ in Latin actually means freedom from excess. Nothing in Islam correlates to this whatsoever: it is a cult focused around excess and imbalance. The ancient sources convey that veiling can be used for untoward purposes and to draw attention to oneself:
Poppaea had every asset except goodness. From her mother, the loveliest woman of her day, she inherited distinction and beauty. Her wealth too was equal to her birth. Her speech was clever and elegant and not preposterous. She put forward a front of respectability, but her life was depraved. In her few public appearances she went out with part of her face veiled to arouse curiosity and because it suited her.
Tacitus
Naturally, in the modern world, modesty has also gone out the window in the other direction. Women are instructed to be consumers above all other aspects. Cynically, some women are instructed to utilize overt sexuality in public in order to compete with men in external environments or simply for attention.
The real dimensions of feminine power are poorly understood, instead, the overarching ideology is that female power can be measured by bulwarks of traditionally male activities or even things that have no characteristics of sex at all, while the aesthetic elements of womanhood can provide a boost.
The list of standards for women aesthetically has gone into bizarre and stress-inducing areas. Many women cannot handle this type of psychological assault and end up addicted to a feedback loop. Some go towards Islam as an inevitable result, such as the rise of Islamic Tiktokers. We argue that the psychological dimensions of this type of thing are instrumental in why women convert to Islam than any idea of fending off sexual assault, regardless of what is said.
It is not possible for men to deal with this. While we believe the idea that modest attire does not protect from sexual assault, men have high libidos and an internal understanding of what is precious that the modern western world consistently violates. Most men are not able to ‘avert’ their eyes from something as blatant as OnlyFans plastered by the women on it in every comment section.
The traditionalist and radical feminist ideas that this is what men ‘should’ do and that all of this is the responsibility of men to deal with are simply not practical in any universe as this problem has gone into the dimension of excess to deal with, particularly as male children are exposed to this at younger and younger ages. These approaches fundamentally misunderstand men as beings while treating women as some sort of completely inert and powerless void, which, frankly, even in a fundamentalist Islamic society, is not really true.
These women also know exactly what they are doing. OnlyFans models with hundreds of thousands of male subscribers who pay them inordinate amounts of money are not ‘brainwashed’ or ‘trafficking victims’ just because they are women who push explicit content. There are many of these who derive a tyrannical power trip from exploiting men in the same way the burqa wearers go out to provoke their host society. NO physical contact or risk necessary.
This is not just to do with sex. Streamers, VTubers and others may never make a single piece of explicit content, yet they drain and pump their followers for endless amounts of money for a very questionable amount of ‘talent’ and by ensnaring their followers into parasocial relationships. Even prostitutes in the Classical world had talents such as hosting, singing or dancing yet these derive a lot of money from very little.
Enough of this drives people insane.
SILENCE
Let us also think of something else. The value of silence in Satanism is very strong. In the classical world, silence was ascribed to the wise and those of intellect. It had a meditative, didactic function. In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle considers contemplation and meditation (θεωρία) to be the highest of all virtues. Pythagoras and Plutarch observed how silence can build power than speech does. If you have an understanding of the Elements or Astrology, you can see how this is the case in a social format.
In Islam, it takes on an oppositional dimension entirely. Silence is considered an indication of willingness to have sex in all contexts. Beyond speaking not to harm another Muslim, silence is ascribed to the dumb, the stupid and the exploitable. Women are commanded to be silent not because of their natural intelligence or wiles that can be misused but because of their inherent stupidity and deficiency in every thing. The serene silence of a statue or idol is considered horrifying compared to the endless chattering of the surahs, hadiths, poems, rulings, and so on.
This goes in line with Islam’s denigration of the passive side of the brain that can tempt them away from active belief.
The veiled woman in Islam becomes therefore analogous to chattel: she does really not veil out of any virtuosity… but out of fear of debasement or hellfire. This is a terrible reason for veiling.
מטרונה שאלה את רבי לעזר מפני מה חט אחת במעשה העגל והן מתים בה שלש מיתות. אמר לה אין חכמתה של אשה אלא בפילכה דכתיב (שמות לה) וכל אשה חכמת לב בידיה טוו. אמר לו הורקנוס בנו בשביל שלא להשיבה דבר אחד מן התורה איבדת ממני שלש מאות כור מעשר בכל שנה. אמר ליה ישרפו דברי תורה ואל ימסרו לנשים. וכשיצתה אמרו לו תלמידיו רבי לזו דחיתה לנו מה אתה משיב.
A matron asked Rabbi Lazer: For what reason was there one sin in the incident of the Golden Calf and they died three deaths? He said to her: A woman’s wisdom is only in the spindle, as is written (Shemot 35) “And every wise-hearted woman, with her hands spun.” Hyrkanus his son said to him: Because you did not answer her one thing from the Torah, you have lost from me 300 kur of maaser each year! He said to him: words of Torah should be burnt rather than giving them over to women. And when she had left, his students said to him, “Master, to this one you have pushed off. What will you say to us?”
Jerusalem Talmud
The part of this video where one rabbi instructs a woman only to knit kippahs in his class should be obvious here. He is not just joking, this is a religious commandment and reference his audience understands.
We can see how certain concepts were twisted by Judaism to suit the vulgar and life-denying worldviews of jews first of all, but then these were altered further via Christianity and Islam to suit the lower orders of Gentiles. The ruin of women here is very subtle.
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