The European Commission obviously has a specific agenda: to widen the gap between European citizens and the European Union. A few months ago, the institution proposed a campaign, inspired by an association close to the Muslim Brotherhood, to make wearing the veil a freedom, creating frankly repugnant confusion on a poster where a woman’s face is cut in two: hair version and veil version.
The poster campaign was withdrawn, not the feeling of having been fooled by Helena Dalli, European commissioner at the initiative of the affair and incidentally ex-miss Malta -, who would do much better to take care of the abortion ban still in place on his island. A few weeks later, she did it again with a guide to inclusion in the European Union, a dictionary of taboo words, an unreal document whose ambition was to ban the words “madam” and “sir” so as not to hurt comfortable with transsexuals (0.6% at most of the world’s population), or even “Christmas”, because non-Christians should not be offended, but also “Mary” or “Jean”, because the European Union must hide under the rug all traces of its traditions, its history and its daily life, in the name of sacrosanct inclusion.
The guide has been withdrawn, but Mrs. Dalli is still in office. Today it is the Conference on the Future of Europe, an initiative shared by the European Commission, the Council and the European Parliament, which makes us want to go to the other side of the world. The campaign “The future is in your hands” offers 17 visuals that are supposed to interest us in the future of Europe, and which take us further away from it. Because the choice of these visuals represents as badly as possible the reality of European lives.
A spat in the face of the refugees
Out of a total of 17 images, we count four single women, including a veiled woman, with several layers of fabric. Even in Iran, which is an Islamic republic, few women cover their hair so much and there the veil is compulsory. His absence leads you directly to 150 lashes and imprisonment. That the future of the Union is represented if only by a only veiled woman is a spit in the face of the refugees who left their countries to offer a destiny of free women to their daughters.
Where can they take refuge if Europe validates the worst sign of inferiority of women? Where to find the freedom not to appear “Muslim”? To exercise their religion without exposing it, without undergoing the suffocating social pressure of the country of origin – what exactly are they fleeing? My heart aches for the Muslim women of the world. The majority, forced to hide their hair so as not to provoke men, must submit to retrograde ideas that trap them in a pre-determined destiny of eternal victim. The veil is a shroud.
An inclusion that has its limits
I also counted five single men, including an old dominant male over 50 years old, but who wears a cap and seems to work in the construction sites that are revealed in the background. Phew! Male domination won’t get us anymore! I also count four couples, a lesbian, a mixed race, a hetero (but from the back) and two retired white heterosexuals.
Inclusion also having its limits, no homosexual couple appears. Nor should we offend Malta or Hungary or Poland or Bulgaria (this is an opportunity to remember that male homosexuality is always a subversion). Finally, and this is perhaps, with the veiled woman, the worst part of this campaign, there is no visual that represents a “classic” family – i.e. parents and children -, priority being given to single parents : two mother-daughters and two father-sons.
The figures tell us that 30% of European households are made up of a family with children. Among these, the couple with one or more children remains largely in the majority: 21.1% or 70% of families with children. Single parenthood remains very much in the minority: 3.9% of households, or 13% of families with children. Representing Europe’s sociological diversity as accurately as possible is fundamental, but censoring the reality of life of its citizens through ideology is an anti-European approach that creates borders that will soon be impassable.