Five Iranian Girls burn themselves as sign of political protest

Iranmania ^ | 2/23/03 | Iranmania

[freedom44]

TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - Five Iranian girls from different villages around the southern city of Shiraz burned themselves to death last week because their families refused to let them work, the conservative daily Jomhoury-e-Eslami reported on Sunday.

All the girls, aged between 14 and 23, died in hospital after setting themselves alight, the paper said, quoting a social worker as saying they were suffering from cultural and economic deprivation.

Iranian women in the smaller towns and villages where age-old social and religious customs are stronger enjoy less freedom than those in the larger cities.

Half the population is aged under 30, putting cultural and religious restrictions under severe pressure.

[freedom44]

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[MHGinTN]

This is so tragic! Islam suppresses women's rights and devalues them as human beings. Where are the NOW hags? hah! They couldn't get enough publicity to enter this fray.

[tet68]

putting cultural and religious restrictions under severe pressure.

Well, I hate to quibble but shouldn't that be.

Cultural and religious restrictions put THEM under severe
pressure.?

[friendly]

The outcry against muslim abuse of women from the liberal American feminazis is deafening. ... Gosh I can't hear a peep.

[UncleSamUSA]

Wonder what the "peaceloving" Human Rights activists in socialist West Europe have to say about THIS.

I'd say its a tragic, but all too expected result of repressive Islamic societies.

[McGavin999]

Oh my God, what a tragic thing. My heart breaks for them and for their families. I can't even imagine the kind of dispair that would drive you to something like this.

[dfwgator]

Another gift from that "Nobel Peace Prize" winner, Jimmy Carter.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Where are the NOW hags

NOW is preoccupied with waging a war of genocide against the most defenseless of the American people!!

[DontMessWithMyCountry]

Well, I can't either. When I was 18, my father still wouldn't 'allow' me to work. Not kidding (and I'm fourth-generation American). However, good fortune was with me in that I wasn't mentally unstable, so the option of self-immolation never crossed my mind as a method of 'protesting' his 'oppressive, cultural' edict. While the incident is tragic, it's a real sweep to attribute it to the country's 'oppression'.

[JoJo Gunn]

Actually, the N.A.G.S. only care about golf....

[freedom44]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/849690/posts

I suggest you watch the video off that link and then say it's not related to political oppression of a population wanting freedom.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Self immolation was the beginning of the end in Viet Nam.

[tessalu]

I can understand why one had rather to die than to live under Islam and it's oppression, but there should be some other way out. I pray for God to set the people free, for if he does not, who will?

[stboz]

The mullahs are finished and they know it. It's meerly a matter of time until they fall.

Think about Islamic dominoes........first the mullahs in Iran, then the Wahhabist slime in Saudi Arabia.......then.......

[DontMessWithMyCountry]

I suggest that you take other factors into consideration. Have you considered that these girls and young women had ANOTHER reason for their killing themselves? I HIGHLY doubt it was because they were 'not allowed to work'. THINK. They VERY likely had OTHER reasons for this, which would cause their emotional stability to be disturbed. THINK about the PROBABLE familial problems that have NOTHING to do with 'working'. If they want to promote in the media the issue of oppression in the country, at least focus on ALL factors, and don't ASSUME that this was their reason. I do not live in a vacuum, and am fully cognizant of the OVER-ALL oppression in Iran (not just towards WOMEN). But, that does not mean that I am not going to analyze ALL reports for their relative degree of credibility in part or in whole, because you cannot ASSUME that, because a particular piece of 'news' says what you WANT to hear, it IS truthful (in its entirety), while DISMISSING other pieces of news that do not "FIT" what you DESIRE to hear or see. Know what i mean?

[oyez]

I remember how the media made such a big deal of that. I can remember three signature photos they ran on VN. The Viet Namese girl fleeing the burning vilage, the shooting of the Viet Cong insurgent and the Zippo monks. I wonder why they don't have photos of this? It wasn't too difficult to get in VN.

[mhking]

No humor.

Just damn.

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

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