Utah is doomed by dhimmitude

Robert Spencer's written about how Utah's selling out to woke ideologies, with Islam being one of the latest they're succumbing to:

Mormons once had a reputation for being conservative, but those days are gone forever. Salt Lake City is so woke that it even adopted the pride flag as an official city flag in order to circumvent a ban on flying anything but the official national flag, the state flag, city flags and a few others on municipal property.

And so it was inevitable that Erin Mendenhall, the same far, far-left mayor who spearheaded the continued official display of the pride flag, would also engage in some of the most flagrant Islamopandering we have seen up to now anywhere in the United States. Islamopandering is all the rage these days and is happening all over the country; Mendenhall is by no means unique, but she offers a particularly egregious example of how foolish this really is.

She happily dons a hijab, oblivious to the untold numbers of women who have been threatened, brutalized, and even killed for not wearing it. Back on Sept. 16, 2022, in Tehran, the Iranian morality police arrested Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, for not wearing her hijab properly. Amini later died in a hospital in Tehran, and numerous Iranians charged that she had been tortured to death while in custody. All over the country, protesters took to the streets to protest not against the hijab laws, but against the repressive and brutal Islamic Republic itself. [...]

And so on and drearily on, as Erin Mendenhall remains blissfully oblivious, and thinks that donning a hijab to try to attract Muslim votes in Salt Lake City is perfectly in harmony with her feminist principles. Lost in all this fantasy, she praises “the values of faith and kindness that Ramadan brings to our community,” giving the impression to those ignorant of their own culture (and they are legion) that Islam teaches faith and kindness in a way that Judaism and Christianity (and Mormonism) do not, and that faith and kindness didn’t exist in the West before Islam came along. She also ignores the real meaning of Ramadan, and why there is always more jihad violence during it.

This says all you need to know what's going wrong in Utah, and this is obviously just for starters. There's also the disturbing case of New Jersey's governor doing the same as she paid a solidarity visit to a cleric accused of Hamas ties:

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill attended a Ramadan event at a Paterson mosque led by an Imam who fought deportation for years over alleged ties to Hamas.

Sherrill posted photos of her visit to the Islamic Center of Passaic County on social media, wearing a hijab and taking selfies. In one image, she is seen speaking with the mosque’s longtime leader, Imam Mohammad Qatanani.

"Thank you to the Islamic Center of Passaic County for welcoming me to join their celebration as the holy month of Ramadan comes to a close," she wrote. "I wish our Muslim neighbors a safe, joyous, and peaceful Eid al-Fitr."

Qatanani, a Palestinian-born cleric, has been at the center of a decades-long immigration battle after federal authorities sought to deport him, citing alleged ties to Hamas and claims he failed to disclose a prior detention in Israel. He has denied those allegations, saying he was detained but never convicted.

Worst, a federal judge, quite possibly also a Democrat, blocked his deportation and this is one of the biggest problems with the criminal justice system in the USA now. NJ's governor is another woman, no matter her ethnicity, who's a disgrace for both wearing the hijab and making it look as though she believes being a woman is shameful, and then she makes things worse by siding with a monster.

And as for Mendenhall, what's she trying to do? Use a protected class pandering position in order to bring back polygamy, which the Mormon movement once upheld but mostly abandoned by the end of the 19th century? When somebody embraces a barbaric religion for the sake of that, it's clear something's horribly wrong. These are just a few examples of women who clearly lack self-respect, and must believe being born female is abominable. Somehow, it's also no surprise women who could embrace LGBT ideology would also be willing to later abandon even that if the Religion of Peace so demands.