This may seem at first glance to be gratuitous, rude, juvenile, etc. But it must be seen against the backdrop of 40 years of women being harassed, threatened and imprisoned for not wearing hijab.
These days Iāve been receiving many videos from inside Iran where schoolgirls & boys knock turbans off clerics as part of anti regime protests.
Removing the turbans of clerics has turned into an act of protest after regime killed hundreds of innocent protesters. #MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/guoOrwIhca— Masih Alinejad š³ļø (@AlinejadMasih) November 2, 2022
If you really want to know why knocking off turbans of clerics has become a sport in Iran, just watch this video, then you will understand their anger the teenagers. For years clerics have been harassing women in the streets for hijab.#MahsaAmini
https://t.co/vbbAjr0Avy— Masih Alinejad š³ļø (@AlinejadMasih) November 6, 2022
#Iran: Following the "Knock the turban off" trend, Iranian Shiite clerics started appearing in public without their turbans
I see a lot of symbolism here – the ongoing protests started because demonstrators wanted to fight for a woman's right to walk in public without… (1/2) pic.twitter.com/cYuBLGJtw1
— AbuAliEnglish (@AbuAliEnglishB1) November 6, 2022
“Youths in Iran hit and strike turbans of Islamic clerics in protest against hijab, videos viral,” OpIndia, November 6, 2022:
Visuals of young Iranians knocking clericsā turbans off their heads have gone viral on social media as protests over the execution of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in Iran intensify. As part of the ongoingĀ protestsĀ against the authoritarian government that makes hijabs obligatory, many videos of schoolboys and girls striking clericsā turbans and running away have gone extremely viral on social media.
In one video that has gone viral, a young lady can be seen approaching a man wearing a traditional robe from behind and striking his white turban hard enough to cause it to fall to the ground. The Muslim preacher bends down to pick up his headpiece as the woman departs without turning around.
International anxiety over Iranās response to the protests has increased, prompting a new form of protest. Iranās authoritiesĀ warnedĀ demonstrators to leave the streets, yet demonstrations nonetheless took place. Social media users posted videos demonstrating that the protests are still going strong.
The publicās worries about Iranās response to the demonstrations are growing as a result of this unique display of contempt for the nationās religious establishment. According to reports, hundreds of people were killed by Iranian security forces during the protests that broke out when Mahsa Amini, 22, died while being held by Iranās morality police after being arrested for improperly donning her headscarf….
It is worth emphasising that women in Iran areĀ forcedĀ to wear a hijab, which covers the head and neck and hides the hair, under Islamic law, which has been in place since the 1979 revolution. While Iranian women battle to be emancipated from the restrictions of headscarves, the hijab is used to further the Islamic agenda across the world.
Ari Dale says
No, no, and no again. One style of barbarism does not justify another.
Wellington says
Knocking off a turban is hardly barbaric compared to what the Shiite mullahs have done to the Iranian people over the past four decades. Might as well contend that burning a Nazi flag is as barbaric as incinerating scores of people in ovens.
gravenimage says
+1
Westman says
With such non-reasoning, would we all be speaking German, Japanese, and Italian? Humans have always become “barbaric” when there was no other way left.
Iran has a false “democracy” controlled by power-hungry religionists whose main joys are the subservience of women and feigned condescension for the worshipful while jailing and killing their critics – just as Muhammad did. Power is their drug.
It’s irrational to think the Iranian people won’t punish the Mullahs for their 42-year reign of tyranny. There will eventually be a revolution and with it comes barbarism. The French had their way of dealing with the former elite, Iran will have its own.
Even Israel may find it necessary to end the Khamenei Regime as an act of survival if Iran’s nuclear program continues.
A person under 30 is likely to see barbarism far beyond their expectation in a lifetime. We are currently one step away from world war, if anyone cares to notice. Powers that oppose the West are growing their weapons and armies with the intent of expansion. It’s going to be interesting but not peaceful.
ntesdorf says
Knocking off turbans is not ‘barbarism’. Sharia and Jihad are barbarism.
david1508 says
Wrong, wrong and wrong again. The Iranian people have stood down & allowed the barbarism of this Islamic regime to oppress them for a long time. They have had enough, the only way they can win is with brute force of the people.
gravenimage says
Knocking off a turban is *nothing* like murdering girls for not wearing Hijab.
somehistory says
They aren’t beating, nor are they killing these mozlums who would have them murdered for not wearing something *properly* over their hair.
In the U.S., this could be prosecuted as an assault, although it likely wouldn’t be unless it was seen as a White person *hating* a poc.
But it is likely that the clerics will just come down harder on the young women and those who support them because they can’t stand being told that they are wrong. Even in such a basically harmless way.
Barbara says
These clerics are nothing more than petty tyrants. They love their power and will force it on everyone. They are not even elected officials. They seem to nothing more than self-appointed dictators.
ąæInfideląæ says
Watching the second of the above videos, it was hilarious when one of the women told a cleric, “If you are aroused by a few strands of hair, try & look the other way”
PRCS says
“they canāt stand being told that they are wrong”
Islam is a totalitarian theocracy. Per Qur’an, they’re NOT wrong. That’s the problem.Nothing we can do about that –over there.
But we can, and must make clear: religious laws which conflict with US law have no place in OUR governance.
tim gallagher says
Good to see them treating the clergymen of this vile religion, islam, with the respect they deserve – that is, none.
ąæInfideląæ says
Precisely! Normally, my reaction to something like this, if done to a non-muslim, would be the same as that of Ari Dale above. But given what the Iranians youths have been going through, I fully endorse what they are doing. In the above video, the coup de grace was seeing one turban tossed in the trash
Walter Sieruk says
Youths knocking the Turbans off the heads of the Muslims clerics of Iran is rather humorous protests against those cruel oppressive tyranny supporting imams and mullahs.
That doesn’t say much for those Muslim clerics if they so angry and upset over a that non-violent form of protest.
In fact, those mullahs and imams to so very terrible that many of them condone and encourage a violent bloody and murderous response by those dictators on power in the Islamic regime. Yet those same Muslim clerics have an emotional fit when young people knock off their turbans.
Those Muslim clerics are terrible.
gravenimage says
Islamic Republic of Iran: Youths knocking off turbans of Muslim clerics as part of anti-regime protests
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Good to see this kind of non-violent pushback from ordinary Iranians–and that they realize that Islam is the problem.
ąæInfideląæ says
I just hope they actually realize that, and don’t think that the “mullahs are the problem, but they are actually distorting islam”
ąæInfideląæ says
Watching the latter video of the various clerics abuse various girls, I found it funny at the midway mark, when one of them told one of the girls to go live w/ Masih Alinejad in England, and the girl responded that Masih lives in the US, not in England
somehistory says
these girls are very courageous. the “government” is voting to murder all of the protestors they didn’t already murder.
ąæInfideląæ says
Yeah, but to do that, they’re having to import militias from Afghanistan, Lebanon, et al. The IRGC is fully stretched by the look of it