God Help Girls Who Wear Shorts in Morocco

‘Their heads should be cut off’: Belgian volunteers

who wore shorts flee Morocco

Three young Belgian girls are returning home from volunteer work in Morocco after a local school teacher allegedly threatened to behead them, for wearing shorts. The teacher has been arrested and the charity’s work curtailed.

The girls were part of a group of nearly 40 volunteers who were helping to build a road in the remote village of Adar. The charity that organized the trip, Bouworde, posted a video of their activities on social media, prompting the 26-year-old teacher to unleash decapitation threats because their attire didn’t “respect the Muslim faith”.

Does it matter that the Muslim faith doesn't respect girls?

A scene from the video that sparked the threats. © Bouworde

“[…] Their heads should be cut off so that no one else dares to challenge the teachings of our religion,” the offended teacher wrote. The violent threats led Morocco’s National Judicial Police to arrest him for inciting terrorism.

The volunteers’ clothing also attracted the attention of Moroccan lawmaker Ali El Asri, a member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (PJD), who said: “Since when do Europeans start working in clothing that is meant for sunbathing?”

Shorts are not for sunbathing, they are for warm weather, and I think there is a lot of that in Morocco.

Morocco likes that there are volunteers who come and do things to make the country a better place, but they want them to dress in such a way as to be seriously overheated and largely invisible, like proper Muslim women.

In the midst of the furor, Bouworde revealed on Friday that three of the girls in the group would be returning to Belgium early. The charity also announced that it is canceling its upcoming volunteering projects in Morocco because of the “publicity” of the case in the press and on social media.

The organization had been working in the Taroudant region of Morocco for more than 15 years, helping to build infrastructure projects like water canals, schools and a women’s center.

The debacle comes less than a month after three Moroccan men were sentenced to death for murdering two Scandinavian women in a popular hiking area in the Moroccan Atlas mountains.

Adar, Morocco

‘Dirty Whore’: Youths Attack Families of Women Wearing Shorts During Bicycle Ride in France

The inability to accept the morals of the country that rescued you from the insanity of Islamic countries should be grounds for removal from France. One opportunity should be given to adjust their morals, and if not successful, they should be deported to whatever country they or their forefathers came from. I know that's not workable, but it should be done anyway. 

Also, the mosque/schools these teens are attending should be monitored for teaching anti-French values and shut down if they are.

Folks, if you think this behaviour is going to improve any time soon, you are sorely deceived. Islamization will only get worse unless significant measures are taken to stop it.

Henry Samuel, The Telegraph 

A French gendarme patrols on the beach during a visit of French Interior Minister in Toulon on August 14, 2016, to inspect the security measures taken to prevent terror attacks. BERTRAND LANGLOIS/AFP/Getty Images

Two families on a cycle ride in Toulon, southern France, came under violent attack after assailants hurled insults at two female partners for wearing shorts, according to prosecutors.

The attack, carried out by a group of youths from a housing estate in the Mediterranean port town, has sparked claims that parts of France are prey to an Islamist “morality police.”

Two couples with their three children and a friend were on a Sunday afternoon outing on bikes and roller blades when the “incredibly violent” attack took place, according to Var-Matin, the local newspaper.

They were passing near the Cite des Oeillets, an estate in eastern Toulon, when a group of adolescents starting insulting the women of the group because of their shorts, including jibes such as: “Dirty whore, get naked.”

When their male partners intervened, a larger group of youths arrived and a fight ensued, according to Toulon prosecutor Bernard Marchal.

“The male partners had simply asked them to respect their women and that sparked the fight. The three men were violently beaten on the face in front of their children. This was provocation of a sexual nature with the intention of forcing a reaction out of the men present,” said Marchal.

One of the men was severely beaten and has had to take a month off work, while another had his nose broken. The women were lightly injured and the children suffered from shock.

After accessing CCTV footage, police were able to identify and arrest two suspects, aged 17 and 19, and a preliminary investigation has been launched to identify other suspects.


Muslim girls are no better

The attack comes a month after an 18-year-old girl was spat at and insulted by a group of girls who found her shorts indecent. Maud Vallet posted a Facebook picture of herself in shock afterwards with the caption: “Hello, I’m a slag.” The post received over 81,000 “likes.”

She recounted asking her taunters: “Why are you calling me a whore because I’m wearing shorts while a man can walk around the centre of town bare-chested without anyone saying anything?” 

She said they replied: “Because you’re a woman and should respect yourself, you idiot.”

I guess men don't have to respect themselves because, well, they're men.

A solidarity “march in shorts” was held in the town. Both incidents follow a summer of tensions over burkini bans in a number of French beach towns.