Posted on 12/19/2007 10:06:18 AM PST by camerakid400
Tehran, 19 Dec. (AKI) - A top Muslim cleric in Iran, Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani said on Wednesday that women in Iran who do not wear the hijab or Muslim headscarf, should die.
"Women who do not respect the hijab and their husbands deserve to die," said Hassani, who leads Friday prayers in the city of Urumieh, in Iranian Azerbaijan.
"I do not understand how these women who do not respect the hijab, 28 years after the birth of the Islamic Republic, are still alive," he said.
"These women and their husbands and their fathers must die," said Hassani, who is the representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in eastern Azerbaijan.
Hassani's statements came after two Kurdish feminists in Iran were accused of being members of an armed rebel group and of carrying out subversive activities threatening the security of the state.
It is believed that his statements and the arrests could spark a fresh crackdown on women who do not repect the Islamic dress code in Iran.
Thousands of women in Iran have already been warned this year for their "un-Islamic dress" such as wearing tight, short coats and skimpy headscarves.
My understanding is that most Iranians consider themselves Zoroastrianists and hate islam and their government. At the rate these clerics are going, the people are finally get fed up. Might as well die for trying to be free as not wearing a headscarf if die you must.
From Mad Mo until today, Islam has been and is an insane murder cult.
Are you safe if you wear a John Deere or NY Yankees cap?
(And no smart comments from International Harvester or Red Sox fans!)
Women without veils must die?
I say men with dirty rags on their heads must die then.
Thanks for the ping.
Just an example of reasoned discourse from the guys Huckabee thinks we can 'domesticate' and live with.
Note to Huckabee: These guys are not skunks from Arkinsaw. You cain't make household pets out uv 'em.
Not really. He and Mohammad are going to rape the nannygoats and sell the billygoats into slavery.
Iran, the Asylum run by the patients. Something has got to give eventually. This was no Revolution, it was a take over by radical cleric outsiders who didn’t even speak farsi. Iranians will learn that Freedom is not free. The longer they wait the longer it will come.
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