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<\/a><\/p>\nBut on Wednesday, she did something I have never seen before in American federal politics. She put on a hijab at an event.<\/span><\/p>\nThat says something. It says something about her, about where the Left is going, and about where America is going.<\/span><\/p>\nIt used to be that if you were a terrorist-supporting radical Muslim, you had to cosplay as a mainstream American, or at least get the media to do your dirty work for you. But now, <\/span>Democrats are cosplaying as Muslims<\/span><\/i> or as fellow travelers to radicals.<\/span><\/p>\nHere\u2019s the salient point: Radical Islamists in America <\/span>aren’t cosplaying<\/span><\/i> anymore. Ilhan Omar doesn’t cosplay. Neither does Zohran Mamdani. Neither does Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed. They may sometimes pretend to hide some of their more radical Islamist edges, but they’re not really trying to hide the ball.<\/span><\/p>\nNow AOC is cosplaying as one of those types.<\/span><\/p>\nOther Democrats are playing dress-up, too; Maine Democratic senatorial candidate Graham Platner is wearing a Trump voter costume. (At least what the Left thinks Trump voters are like.) Or James Talarico, the Senate Democratic candidate in Texas, who’s pretending to be a Bible-thumping Christian who loves ribs when actually he just loves transing the kids.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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On Tuesday evening, Muslims marked the beginning of Eid al-Adha with prayer and feasting.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showed up to an Eid dinner with Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani showed up in a thobe, the long robe worn by Muslims for the holiday. Mamdani is precisely who you think Mamdani is: a radical Islamist who is masquerading as a Gen Z TikToker. He’s a socialist who wants to bring down the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nBut the story is AOC wearing a hijab. She was clearly wearing a scarf to look like a hijab.<\/span><\/p>\nIn Muslim countries all over the world, hijabs for women are mandatory. If you do not wear it in places like Iran, they will kill you. In radical Islamist countries, you will be punished.<\/span><\/p>\nThere has been a long-standing tacit bipartisan policy in the United States that when women go to the Middle East, they don\u2019t wear the hijab. In 2007, Laura Bush went to Saudi Arabia. No hijab. Condoleeza Rice went to Saudi Arabia; no hijab. Nancy Pelosi in Saudi Arabia? No hijab. Hillary Clinton in Saudi Arabia in 2012? No hijab. Michelle Obama in 2015?\u00a0 No hijab.<\/span><\/p>\nWhy does this matter? Because when Western women go to the Islamic world, they are making a point, which is that they are <\/span>not <\/span><\/i>going to be forced into a traditional Islamic hair covering that has been used for hundreds of years as a way to treat women as second-class citizens.<\/span><\/p>\nIn 2016, former German defense minister Ursula von der Leyen \u2014\u00a0 not a Right-winger \u2014 went to the Middle East. She did not cover her hair this way and said, \u201cNo woman in my delegation has to wear the abaya\u201d ( a different kind of head covering). “The right to choose your own clothing is a right shared by men and women alike. It annoys me when women are pushed into wearing the abaya.”<\/span><\/p>\nFormer Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrote in her memoir about the time she visited Saudi Arabia and the Crown Prince handed her an abaya. She wrote, \u201cThe Crown Prince pulled out a gift-wrapped package. \u2018I have a gift for you,\u2019 he said. It was a full-length, beautifully embroidered abaya, the black robe and veil Saudi women traditionally wear. \u2018I had it made especially for you,\u2019 he said tenderly. \u2018Our women wear them.\u2019 Yes, as a sign of oppression, I thought.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCorrect. Hundreds of millions of women around the world are forced to wear these sorts of head coverings.<\/span><\/p>\nYou’ll notice I’m not talking about Ilhan Omar wearing a hijab. She’s a Muslim woman. If she wants to wear a hijab, that\u2019s her business.<\/span><\/p>\nNo Jew has ever asked a politician to put on a kippah. If you’re a non-Jewish man, there’s literally no reason to do it. Don’t do it. It’s stupid; it’s dumb. As an Orthodox Jew, I have never, ever seen an Orthodox Jew ask a woman to wear what’s called a shaytl, a wig used as a religious hair-covering.<\/span><\/p>\nThere is a category for generic hair coverings, such as women putting on a veil to cover their hair when visiting the Vatican. They want to cover their hair out of respect.<\/span><\/p>\nBut that’s not what AOC was doing.<\/span><\/p>\nShe made an overt choice. She put on a hijab for a reason.<\/span><\/p>\nWe should ask what the reason is, because all over the world, hijab is a sign of the submission of women. There’s a reason France has banned certain types of head coverings in public spaces: it sees them as a form of submission to radicalism.<\/span><\/p>\nThat\u2019s <\/span><\/i>why AOC did it. This was not a bug or a mistake; this was a feature. She was cosplaying in solidarity with foreign radicalism. She was cosplaying as a member of the supposedly \u201coppressed foreign contingent\u201d in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\nShe believes the rising tide in the Democratic Party is foreigners who come to the United States and say that America sucks. She believes that Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Zohran Mamdani are the rising tide; all immigrants to the United States or children of immigrants who decide that America is horrible and that the problems of the world must be laid at America’s feet.<\/span><\/p>\nShe was signaling solidarity with all of that. This was not a sign of generic religion or respect for Muslims. Everything she does is scripted, a deliberate choice.<\/span><\/p>\nIf you truly believe AOC got up in the morning, grabbed a scarf from the shelf, decided she was going to wear it, and it just coincidentally looked like a hijab, you’re being deliberately ignorant.<\/span><\/p>\nIt was a virtue signal to the people who believe that America is responsible for all the problems of the world, that third-world cultures all over the world have been put upon by the United States. She was signaling her solidarity with that.<\/span><\/p>\nThis was not a generic symbol. Politics is all about the symbolic. It’s all about how we use speech. It’s about how people act, and it’s about the symbols that they choose to identify with.<\/span><\/p>\nAOC would not wear garb that was redolent with Trumpism. AOC is not going to walk out of her house wearing an American flag t-shirt.<\/span><\/p>\nThere’s nothing new about the cosplay; Democrats do it all the time.<\/span><\/p>\nAOC is clearly preparing for a presidential run. She believes that there is a rising majority of people who despise this country, who think the country is responsible for all the ills of the world, and that she can activate the most passionate base in primaries in order to get her over the top.<\/span><\/p>\nThat’s why she’s doing what she’s doing.<\/span><\/p>\n
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