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Julie Bishop defends grants to promote Muslim hijabs for women "because there's a huge market for Islamic fashion"

This is Australia and we should be promoting what makes us great - and better than Saudi Arabia, Iran or Somalia.

If there is a huge market for compulsory covering of women we should be trying to reduce it, not grow it.

It's hard enough to stop the ratcheting movement of creeping Islamisation.

The last thing we need is to spend taxpayer money to promote its more odious precepts.

Australia's then Grand Mufti Sheik Hilaly explained the reason - in Muslim minds - for the compulsory veiling of women.

"If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside ... without cover, and the cats come to eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat's? The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab [the headdress worn by some Muslim women], no problem would have occurred."

That is the stark truth of Islam - perfectly displayed in its primary symbol of female oppression.

Bishop reminds me of Pixie Anne Wheatley giggling about how beautiful the "fashion" is - while she totally misses the point of just what she's promoting.

After this website, then others published details of DFAT's "modesty fashion" initiative, Julie Bishop had a choice - and time to consider which side to back.

Today she's nailed her colours to the mast.

Screen Shot 2018-02-07 at 9.42.33 amHuge market for modest Islamic fashion, Julie Bishop says

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The Australian

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has defended her department for sponsoring an Australian-made “modest fashion” Islamic clothing exhibition in Malaysia amid criticism it went against mainstream Australian values.

In yesterday’s joint partyroom meeting, chief government whip Nola Marino gave Ms Bishop an opportunity to explain the initiative after Tony Abbott last month called it an attempt to pander to an “incredibly old-­fashioned view of modesty” using taxpayer money.

The exhibition, featuring burkini swimsuit inventor Aheda Zan­etti and academic Susan Carland, was taken to Mal­aysia by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to promote Australian diversity and showcase Australia’s creative industries.

Ms Bishop said that in 2012 the Sydney Powerhouse Museum did a collection featuring the work of Australian designers targeting the international market for women in Muslim countries interested in “modest fashion”. The success of the collection led to an application for an export grant to take the ­designs to Indonesia and Malaysia where Ms Bishop said there was an estimated market of between 20 to 50 million people.

Ms Bishop argued this was consistent with the objectives of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in exploring export opportunities for Australian entrepreneurs. DFAT has said it expected spending in the Islamic “modest fashion” market to increase by more than 7 per cent by 2021 and is urging the industry to support “all sorts of fashions”.

Mr Abbott responded by asking whether the initiative was consistent with Australian values, with Ms Bishop clarifying that the government was “in no way” telling Australian women what to wear.

ENDS

Julie, have another think about what side you're on.

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