Posted on 07/28/2010 4:57:10 PM PDT by nuconvert
Zahra Rahnavard, wife of opposition leader, MirHosein Mousavi said in a meeting with Karaj political activists that a faction of the Iranian establishment considers women as a “new threat.”
Kaleme website reports that Rahnavard claimed Iranian women were harassed “on the streets, in prisons and the media.”
In the course of the controversial presidential election of 2009, the video clip of the Iranian woman, Neda AghaSoltan shot to death during the Tehran street protests was posted on You Tube arousing international outrage.
Women’s presence in the election protests was highly pronounced and many of them were arrested and killed in the government crackdown on the protests.
The Islamic Republic has many discriminatory laws against women which the women’s movement claims has impeded women from attaining growth and social success.
Rahnavard went on to say that “oppression, torture and character assassination” of women has laid unprecedented pressure on women and added that “the Green Movement is fully aware that without the presence of women and close attention to their demands the goals of the Movement will remain out of reach.”
Funny, I always thought that was the other way around....
They’re a bunch of insecure fools who can’t stomach seeing a lady’s face. Her face!
Zahra Rahnavard, wife of opposition leader, MirHosein Mousavi said in a meeting with Karaj political activists that a faction of the Iranian establishment considers women as a "new threat."That's why the mullahcracy uses an old remedy, actually more than one. But I refer to "buried to the waist and stoned to death".
You could probably rid the planet of I-slam by providing every girl and woman of marriageable age in the slammite world with a 9mm semiauto pistol and 100 rounds of ammo for it. Total cost likely around $70B, it would be money well spent.
And then call to China, “Yoo Hoo! We got yer marriageable ladies right here!”
That's why you make them wear burkhas.
Cheers!
>>>>”Zahra Rahnavard, wife of opposition leader, MirHosein Mousavi said in a meeting with Karaj political activists that a faction of the Iranian establishment considers women as a “new threat.”
A “new threat”?! Apparently, Zahra Rahnavard has been living in a coma past 31 yrs. “Iranian establishment” has always considered women as a “threat”.
One can give many examples of how women have been considered as “threats” in post-Islam history of Iran i.e. the last 1400 yrs.
Even during the Pahlavi Dynasty (in total all 50 yrs of it), although a few Islamic laws were changed or adjusted to be more “women-friendly”, many remained. Mostly because of continual opposition by the Shia Iranian clerics & many religious Iranian families.
Just for one example: Mature Moslem Iranian women, 18 yrs plus, could not leave the country w/out a written & signed consent of either their father, husband or a male relative in the absence of the first two.
For the record, Zahra Rahnavard herself comes from a very religious Moslem Iranian family. Undoubtedly, a diehard supporter of a different “faction” of the same Islamic “Iranian Establishment” for “gender equality”.
BTW, execution by stoning is not unique to women in Iran. See Jafar Kiani’s execution (a man) in 2007.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6288156.stm
Women are buried up to their shoulders or neck. Men are buried up to their waist, before being stoned to death.
Now that we have affirmative action and “minority/women owned businesses” awarded contracts solely on that criterion in the United States, I consider them a threat as well. That was the plan of the people who put those pilicies and laws in place.
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