Posted on 12/14/2015 4:45:36 AM PST by markomalley
A Wheaton College professor announced on Facebook Thursday night that she will be wearing a hijab (Muslim head scarf) throughout her celebration of the Advent as a way of showing solidarity with Muslims.
Larycia Hawkins, a political science professor at the Wheaton, Illinois, evangelical higher education institution, explained on her Facebook page that she will be wearing a hijab to work, class, and church. She also vows to wear the hijab during her trip to Chicago and even when she goes on an airplane to return to her hometown for Christmas.
"I don't love my Muslim neighbor because s/he is American. I love my Muslim neighbor because s/he deserves love by virtue of her/his human dignity," Hawkins wrote. "I stand in human solidarity with my Muslim neighbor because we are formed of the same primordial clay, descendants of the same cradle of humankind — a cave in Sterkfontein, South Africa that I had the privilege to descend into to plumb the depths of our common humanity in 2014."
Hawkins, who has been on the Wheaton faculty since 2007, further asserted that not only are Muslims her neighbors but they also "worship the same God."
"I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book. And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God," Hawkins stated. "But as I tell my students, theoretical solidarity is not solidarity at all. Thus, beginning tonight, my solidarity has become embodied solidarity."
"As part of my Advent Worship, I will wear the hijab to work at Wheaton College, to play in Chi-town, in the airport and on the airplane to my home state that initiated one of the first anti-Sharia laws (read: unconstitutional and Islamophobic), and at church," she added.
Hawkins did not respond to requests from The Christian Post for comments by press time.
The Wheaton College professor further explained that she hopes she is not the only non-Muslim woman wearing a hijab this holiday season, as she desires to start a movement of women showing their solidarity for Muslims.
"I invite all women into the narrative that is embodied, hijab-wearing solidarity with our Muslim sisters — for whatever reason. A large scale movement of Women in Solidarity with Hijabs is my Christmas ‪#‎wish‬ this year," Hawkins continued. "Perhaps you are a Muslim who does not wear the veil normally. Perhaps you are an atheist or agnostic who finds religion silly or inexplicable. Perhaps you are a Catholic or Protestant Christian like me. Perhaps you already cover your head as part of your religious worship, but not a hijab."
Hawkins turned to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), where she has a friend on staff, for advice on whether it would be offensive to Muslims if a non-Muslim wears a hijab.
"I asked whether a non-Muslim wearing the hijab was haram (forbidden), patronizing, or otherwise offensive to Muslims. I was assured by my friends at CAIR-Chicago that they welcomed the gesture," she explained. "So please do not fear joining this embodied narrative of actual as opposed to theoretical unity; human solidarity as opposed to mere nationalistic, sentimentality."
Just curious... what ‘love’ has she shown for any Christian or Jewish culture?
Marvel ye? It was all foretold. Better to acknowledge.
A useless idiot teaching a worthless class in a socially destructive degree program.
Figures...
Affirmative action “political science” professor.
If your kids go to this school you should ask for a refund
They think this is just a game.
Hey lady, you want to hang with the peeps? How about a clitorectomy for New Year?
She should go full burka.
I often wear a scarf over my head in winter, indoors and out. It keeps my head and neck warm.
This year we’re running the a/c, though.
So is she good with husbands beating and raping their wives too?
Merry Christmas
The prof has a choice of raiment, women under sharia do not. But then the the prof only wants to oppose America NOT show solidarity with anyone.
She needs to go live under sharia and wear a burqua for a few years.
But if a Christian man suggests that a woman stop dressing provocatively in church, this chick would probably go insane.
Hey Larycia Hawkins, you deranged, blind, idiot...
Guess what, just because you are an upwardly mobile, enlightened liberal with a ‘coexist’ sticker on your car... They want to kill you too.
No hijab for me, ever!
Some people are just stupid followers. ISIS counts on it.
I try, I really do try, to understand why those on the left do what they do, but I guess one of us in not living in the real world.
Even if 99.9% of the Muslims will not kill you personally, a vast majority support and aid the 1% that will. We can not tell the difference.
The Muslims have been at war with the west for a very long time.
If we lose this war, this professor will learn that she will not have the choice to wear a Hijab, and most likely even if she converts she would immediately become a 5th class citizen in the eyes of her new master.
But chances are, she would be killed like the rest of us “none believers”.
The real world is they want us dead.
I must have missed the article about her showing solidarity with the Christians being gang raped, enslaved, and murdered by Muslims.
So, is the visiting Prof from Saudi Arabia going to wear a crucifix as a reciprocal courtesy during Ramadan?
They’ll slice his head off anyways, doesn’t he know the are disgusted by Infidels trying to appease them?
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