Today’s uprising of Muslim women could change the world

Arutz Sheva ^ | 28/12/22 | Fiamma Nirenstein

[Eleutheria5]

(JNS) On the front pages of newspapers around the world, we are now privileged to witness the extraordinary strength of women oppressed by fanatical forms of Islam. In Iran, these women are emerging as our heroines. Young and old, they are willing to expose themselves to imprisonment, violence and potential death in order to achieve liberation. In Iran, they are leading the charge for regime change and thus the end of one of the most evil dictatorships of this century.

There is no sign that these women are slowing down. Yesterday, Vida Movahed, who became known worldwide for a 2017 photo of her standing on a platform in a Tehran street without a veil, with a white scarf raised in protest, was arrested for a third time.

In Afghanistan, misogyny reared its ugly head, as the Taliban government banned women from university education and working with local and foreign NGOs.

It is remarkable that today’s loudest cry for freedom and democracy is coming from one of the most oppressed and vulnerable populations in the world—women in Muslim countries. Theirs is not only a struggle for those rights and freedoms that, since World War II, we have considered humanity’s birthright. In fact, the seeds of this revolution were sown as early as the seventh century, when the first Islamic laws restricting the status of women were enacted. In our time, these iron-fisted laws that define women’s clothing, gender roles, culture, freedom of movement and much else are, at last, under siege. A great revolution is stirring, a liberation movement that the Muslim world has never seen before.

[Eleutheria5]

Brandon? MSM? Kamala? Hillary? Anyone? Anything to say?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

She’s dead, Jim.

[oldguy1776]

They are certainly braver than their men that’s for sure...

[who_would_fardels_bear]

No surprise that the Israelis are in favor of agitation in the Islamic world.

Surprise is that no other country in the Western World is taking much of an interest except the occasional reporting of specific protests and repercussions.

[BenLurkin]

Unless they convert to Judaism or Christianity, nothing will change. Certainly not for the better.

[ifinnegan]

I think they’re anti-Muslim.

[DoughtyOne]

My how the Iran government must celebrate the existence of
Christian Jimmy Carter, and his hatred of the Pahlavi family.

It baffles the mind how disgusting a man could be, and I’m
not referencing the Shah of Iran here.

[LouAvul]

The poster is in English. Is that their language? Or is it staged for the American press?

[LouAvul]

Unless they convert to Judaism or Christianity, nothing will change. Certainly not for the better.

[Hiddigeigei]

"My how the Iran government must celebrate the existence of Christian Jimmy Carter, and his hatred of the Pahlavi family."
Yes! Under the Shah they were given a glimpse of freedom. That generation will die away.

[oldguy1776]

Converting isn’t going to change anything. When you have a theocratic dictatorship such as exists in the hard line muslim country’s this is what you get.

BTW...I’ll take an Israeli over a muslim any day. Knew several IDF para’s back in my younger days. Engineer exchange program.

[skimbell]

All of this uprising chit is probably a bad idea.
They'd be better off going about securing their liberty if they'd do it the way the conservatives in the West do these things.

They just need to vote harder...

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, women could visit the beaches in Western attire.

That evil Shah...

Leftists sure talk a good game when it come to women’s
rights.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Yeah, I’m afraid that the major change in some places will just be fewer Muslim women.

[Eleutheria5]

American press. Some Iranians know English, though.

[Eleutheria5]

The Pahlavis were usurpers, who came to power in a coup. And they also stole the Khuzestan oil fields from the Arabic-speaking Akhwazi. When the Ayatollah deposed the Shah, he did nothing to restore the rights of the Akhwazi. Oil is oil, and they continue to pump it out of the ground and use it for their own nefarious purposes, and oppress the Akhwazi.

[Eleutheria5]

The very rich and well connecteds’ daughters still get to go beaches in the skimpiest of swim suits.

[Eleutheria5]

That’ll be major. Less women, less babies to bring up in the ways of the profit.

[Paul R.]

I’d say it’s for the entire non-Farsi world, actually. The protesters don’t have a lot of levers to work with, but outside support is a straw they can at least grasp at. The most widely spoken language in the world is English and even many non-speakers have modest understanding of written English... Farsi, not so much.

(Spoken Chinese is a close 2nd to English, but I rather suspect Chinese on the poster won’t do the young lady much good!)

[joshua c]

the iranians should protest during a conservative administration

for some reason these uprisings keep happening during democrat administrations