Posted on 07/11/2018 8:58:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Authorities in Iran arrested four girls and women last week for posting videos of themselves dancing on Instagram. Only one of the girls, 17-year-old gymnast Maedeh Hojabri, has been identified. State TV in Iran aired her “confession” on Friday.
Instagram is one of the few Western social media sites not heavily blocked in Iran, and Hojabri posted about 300 photos and videos before her account was temporarily shut down. Her account appears to be back up as of this morning. Hojabri posted a new video just hours ago addressing her critics.
Hojabri, who reportedly has often spoken about gymnastics and parkour in her videos, was not wearing a hijab in the videos that got her into trouble, which is required by law for women in the authoritarian country.
As The Guardian reports, not much is known about Hojabri, but she’s become the face of a resistance movement against modesty laws for women in the Islamic country. A hashtag of her name, #مائده_هژیری, has emerged. Another, which roughly translates to #dancing_isn’t_a_crime, has also become popular. Logically, most people reportedly suspect her “confession” on Friday was made under pressure from Iranian authorities.
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Some of the videos of Hojabri are still available online on both Instagram and Twitter and show her doing nothing that would be considered scandalous to even conservative American audiences
Women in Iran have posted protest videos of themselves dancing on Instagram, and other protests against the country’s hijab laws have erupted in recent months. The hijab has been mandatory in Iran ever since the revolution in 1979.
As the BBC notes, six Iranian girls were given sentences of a year in prison and 91 lashes after they were convicted in 2014 of positing videos of themselves dancing to the Pharrell Williams song “Happy.”
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But obama had a deal...
Primitives
Yet people tell me when I say that Islam is evil that it’s only a few bad apples. Islam is evil and needs to be wiped out.
Obama would have supported the mullah’s in this one. Whenever he was faced with a choice between freedom and Islamic tyranny, he always sided with the tyrants. Every time.
That is the typical liberal response: "They aren't all that way." My response is that enough of them are. Islam is evil.
They don’t realize that Islam is a war plan.
They need an Iranian version of “Footloose”.
If she dances like Elaine Benes, I can understand.
Or not....
Oh come on, he was great in Animal House.
Yes, well, this may not be “scandalous” but at the risk of sounding like Jackie Chiles, it is both salacious and lascivious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m58FBVszhos
See post #9
Libs must be really conflicted over this one. Cultures being “equal” and all…
I’m happy to suspend the sentence, however.
That girl could wink at me any time she wants...
So not guilty!
> Libs must be really conflicted over this one. <
Not at all. Please refer to my handy PC hierarchy list. As you can see, Muslims outrank feminists.
Muslims
Gays
Racial Minorities (except Asians, they’re treated like whites)
Feminists
Straight white females
Straight white males
She looks like Michael Jackson. 100 lashes!
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