The glorious Spring weather drew thousands last Saturday to the Schlossplatz in Stuttgart. It was pretty much ideal conditions for the rally “Against Oppression of Women” jointly organized by the Baden-Württemberg regional chapter of Pax Europa and the Stuttgart PI Group.

What hijab, chador and burka mean for a woman, every visitor could check out for themselves. Hardly anyone held out very long. One feels as they’re in prison, and that is what is seen to in the purpose of these misogynous garments.

Ilona from Stuttgart held the opening speech:

We have gathered ourselves here in order to protest the methods of covering and of oppression of women. The Islamic command of the veil robs people of their face. Programs for an open, multicultural Germany require of us “to show our face, “show face against the right,” or “be a voice — show face.” Why isn’t the same demanded from Muslim women as well?

The sayings in the languages of the West all show how important our face and the face of our fellow person is. One can keep face or lose it. One can look someone boldly in the face, or one can tell a bold-faced lie. Every person has a right to their face, and every person has the right to look at their counterpart in the face. That is the world as we know it. Our language shows that upstanding individuals show their face, double-faced individuals present a fraudulent face or hide under a mask.

We want to see no veiled faces because we cannot judge people, we cannot even communicate with them if they keep their face from our sight. Millions upon millions of women in Islamic countries do not have this right. They must hide their face in public; they have to dehumanize themselves. And some women in Europe are misled into losing their face before their counterparts, to hide under clothes that have Islamic names: burka, chador, hijab.

Veiling is a private matter. When a woman veils herself, she contributes in this fashion to the delegitimization of all the women in this world, whether here in Germany, or somewhere in Afghanistan. By this action, she divides the women of the world into two classes: the good, or the chaste, and the evil, or the permissive. We therefore demand that the Islamic veiling of the woman be forbidden in Germany.

Young Muslim women were also interested in the topic. But almost none of them spoke critically about their religion. Of course, it is well known what kind of force is often exerted in the familiar environment of the woman. Many Muslim women gave the impression that they were OK with all the rules of Islam. One got the sense with a few of their legitimate pride of “being exclusive” in contrast to Western women by how they can express themselves due to their head covering.

The Quran delivers misogynous passes in abundance and fulness. In Sura 2 verse 223, for example, it is ordained that women must be available anytime for the desires of their husbands. Sura 4 verse 15 calls for the execution of women for adultery. In Sura 4 verse 34, they can be beaten for “insubordination.” Sura 4 verse 176 rules that they inherit only half as much, and their witness in court counts for only half the value (2:282). They are to veil themselves so that they cannot be “recognized and molested” (35:59), and after sex, men are to clean themselves as after nature’s call or sickness (4:43).

We presented all of these verses in flyers that were snatched up quickly. Michael from Munich presented how important it would be to modernize this religion, for the 1400-year-old book of Quran is still considered God’s leading for the 21st century. If Muslim women want to be and should be liberated from all of these impositions, then conformity to today’s age is unavoidable. After all, the Quran doesn’t even take women into consideration.

Historically speaking, for women, only horrible conditions ruled in the pre-Muhammadin era of Arabic tribal society. To this point, one could say, that in a certain way, Muhammad’s laws for that time were indeed an improvement. For women received at least minimal rights through the prophet of Islam. But nowadays, they are hopelessly retrograde, obsolete and gruesome in their focus. The problem, however, is that the Quran, as Allah’s direct word, is inalterable. And thus, Mirjam from Reutingen reported about the terrible conditions in Islamic countries that draw similarities to the 7th century. And they are creeping steadily into Europe:

The Coptic Christian Abdel fleshed out these descriptions with a few breath-takingly close examples of experiences in Egypt:

Besides the still-living member of the “White Rose,” who has fought 70 years long against fascism, and who sees Islam as a similar totalitarian threat, the citizen initiative Pax Europa also has several Jewish compatriots in its ranks. Monika from Erding has learned through intensive study of Islam that the Jews were the first unfortunate victims of the warlord Muhammad, and since then it hasn’t gotten much better. She affirmed in her remaining remarks that head covering and hijabs were an insult to men in the Western world:

Many young women were interested in the 3 1/2 hour rally. One of them even spoke up spontaneously and expressed doubts that women in Afghanistan willingly put themselves in burkas:

There were also many Muslim men at the Stuttgart Schlossplatz, some of whom had lively discussions with us. There were also followers of the “Grey Wolfe” present who, interestingly enough, admitted that Atatürk had an Islam critical attitude. They implied that their nationalism was more important then their religion. Other Muslims tried with the well-known generic arguments as “wrongly translated” and “taken out of context” to cast doubt about the misogynous Quran passages, but we were able to counter them very quickly. The offical Quran translation of the Central Council of Muslims on islam.de speaks for the other translations. Moreover, we got the impression among some Muslims that they themselves didn’t really know the Quran so well. Since we speak with all fellow citizens about the subject of Islam, and there are also three secularly-minded Muslims among the members of Pax Europa, we, of course, wanted to share the microphone with Turkish-born compatriot Emre when he asked:

Conny from Heilbronn remembered that Saturday was Memorial Day for the Armenians who were mass-murdered in Turkey, in which many women and girls were among the 1.5 million unfortunate victims. This genocide against the Christian/Armenians has been denied to this day in Turkey, and is even punishable by prison for “insult to the Turkish Nation” when this part of Ottoman history is truthfully presented:

Theodor from Reutling imparted his Christian view of things to us:

Kurdish journalist Gül also made a speech that unfortunately isn’t available on video. She reported that the Turkish authorities in the east of Turkey would arrest even 13-year-olds for suspicion of terrorism and put them in prison. They are threatened there with a 58-year sentence. Girls are raped with regularity, and their families end up hearing nothing more of their children. 15-year-old Berivan, for example, is a Kurdish girl who has suffered such fate. Gül demanded the release of this girl.

After the speech contributions, there were many exciting discussions at the Schlossplatz. Among the most passionate were a few who would describe Henryk M. Broder as a “left-wing reactionary do-gooder (LRD). They adamantly refused to discuss about the misanthropic and misogynous aspects of Islam, but rather tried repeatedly to counter with the stereotypical generic questions such as: “What about the crusades, witch burnings, abuses, Insquisition,” etc. One couldn’t get the point across to them that these evil things from the Middle Ages were indeed committed by “Christians,” but were not justified in word or deed by Jesus, as well as the rest of the New Testament. And likewise it isn’t throughout the bloodily-inclined Old Testament, for this was narrative and not written in imperateive form. However, they weren’t very ready to acknowledge that the behavior in the case of Muhammad and the Quran was quite different:

Really passionate discussions were held, but to this point, everything remained within peaceful confines. Everyone attempted to present their view of things and was willing to listen to the other party.

In the evening around 30 BPE and PI Group members met for a debriefing of the successful rally and for the planning of further actions. At this occasion, the South Germany PI Network was formed. Along the line of Munich-Stuttgart, the PI Groups from Augsburg, Heilbronn, Mannheim, Nürnberg, Regensburg and Reutlingen joined to form this network.

Tomorrow, we will report how a gathering of confused “Antifas” attempted to disrupt the rally. A few teenagers looking for a ruckus caused a mass-deployment by the Stuttgart police. So, it seems some have practiced well for May 1st.

In conclusion, here is a series of photos of the remarkable and overall successful event:

The glorious Spring weather drew thousands last Saturday to the Schlossplatz in Stuttgart. It was pretty much ideal conditions for the rally \"Against Oppression of Women\" jointly organized by the Baden-Württemberg regional chapter of Pax Europa and the Stuttgart PI Group. What hijab, chador and burka mean for a woman, every visitor could check out ...

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