Posted on 01/14/2018 11:40:22 AM PST by Kaslin
No one knows her name, but a young Iranian woman waving a white scarf has become a symbol of almost forty years of struggle by Iranian women, protesting the gender apartheid that clerics brought to our country, overnight, in the winter of 1979. She waved a white scarf in the air as a symbol of peaceful defiance and a campaign, #MyStealthyFreedom, of women fighting for their right to feel the wind in their hair in Iran, the country of my birth.
The reaction of the paramilitary forces of the regime has not been so peaceful, with this young woman allegedly detained and other protesters killed by the dictatorial theocracy of Iran, which demands that women cover their hair.
The young woman's struggle is part of a longer battle that Iranian women and men have fought against the Shia clergy's thirst for power and wealth since the 1840s, when a band of organizations, the Ladies' Secret Societies, emerged to take Iran back from occupying clergy. They prevailed with the 1906 Constitutional Revolution that established a secular system of governance and separation of religion and state. They hearkened back to a secular philosophy that has defined the Persian Empire since the year 539 B.C., when the emperor of Persia, Cyrus the Great, wrote the first proclamation of human rights and separation of religion from the state.
However, a few clerics, like the ayatollah Khomeini, would not give up. He knew that the Iranian people did not want clerical rule and that he would never be able to take over Iran through a democratic process. Khomeini needed America's power and shopped for the support of U.S. presidents, beginning by writing to John F. Kennedy but succeeding only in fooling former president Jimmy Carter's administration,
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There are elected women holding high government offices in Iran.
There are de-juro Islamic dress code but two in three women are ignoring it.
You can see them dressing the way Europeans do and if they are stopped by the police they claim they are Christian or Jewish or Communist. That basically means case closed and they go.
The portrayal of Iranian society in media is heavily distorted to say the least.
They are extraordinary free by Middle Eastern standards.
Go compare to Saudi Arabia.
“but succeeding only in fooling former president Jimmy Carter’s administration,”
Like that was hard to do.
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“There are de-juro Islamic dress code but two in three women are ignoring it.
You can see them dressing the way Europeans do and if they are stopped by the police they claim they are Christian or Jewish or Communist. That basically means case closed and they go.”
I’ll have to tell my friend whose sister and friends have been picked up and questioned several times for having pants too short that showed their ankles or not having their head scarf on properly.
All the authorities have to do is look at a person’s name on their ID card to be able to tell if they’re Christian or Jewish. And identifying as a communist will get you thrown in jail.
Where did you get this crap from?
“It would be a monumental catastrophy of epic proportions if we sent our boys to die over there to die for the right for Iranian women to dress like they’re at a slutwalk in the States. “
Nobody is asking for that
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“” “” I’ll have to tell my friend whose sister and friends have been picked up and questioned several times for having pants too short that showed their ankles or not having their head scarf on properly.”” “”
Were they thrown to jail as a result?
“Were they thrown to jail as a result?”
They were taken away & detained for hours.
“You can see them dressing the way Europeans do and if they are stopped by the police they claim they are Christian or Jewish or Communist. That basically means case closed and they go.”
Are you going to take this back? It’s really absurd.
Walking the streets of Tehran
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pLfR9OCw9cU
It is noticeable how few are wearing traditional Islamic dress. The rest has headscarfs true but the Islamic purpose of it is to fully hide hair. They are wearing it as fashion elements with hair exposed.
Once again, go compare to Saudi Arabia.
Tehran is the “New York” of Iran, it’s hardly representative of the rest of the country.
Well, here is ‘midwest’ of Iran.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wYP1MNmyRbQ
The first thing you see is a teen girl in jeans with hair uncovered. So much for a ‘strict’ Islamists society. In Turkey they are dressed more Islamic on average.
Chador is not required.
That doesn’t mean you can where what you want and tell authorities that you’re Christian or Jewish or communist and walk away - which was your statement.
Communists are jailed & executed in Iran.
Just don’t post nonsense.
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