It is nothing short of remarkable to see what the brave women of Iran are willing to sacrifice for the rights of women. They are risking nothing less than life and limb. The West should be taking note, as women’s rights are being trampled by the woke, and even many feminists advocate for Islamic female coverings. Some even celebrate World Hijab Day.
“Iranian women post images without hijabs despite crackdown,” by Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera, April 11, 2023:
Tehran, Iran – Scores of Iranian women are posting images of themselves online while not wearing the hijab, as a police deadline for cracking down on violators of the country’s compulsory dress code is approaching.
Social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram – which Iranians access by circumventing government blocks – have been flooded in recent days with images of mostly young women posing wearing their garments of choice in Iran’s warming spring weather.
Some are only ditching their headscarves, but others are also doing away with the loose-fitting gowns that laws passed shortly after the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution require women to wear. A few have even photographed themselves wearing shorts and skirts in public, risking arrest.
Many images are posted anonymously, but some women have shown their faces as well, as they pose in city streets, in shops and malls, at work and universities, or in front of mirrors. A number of men have also snapped themselves wearing shorts in public – which is also illegal – in solidarity with the women.
A growing proportion of women in Iran have abandoned their mandatory hijabs since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country’s so-called “morality police” last September, which triggered months of protests across the country.
The authorities have since refrained from heavily cracking down on the hijab issue, with the white and green vans of the morality police all but disappearing from public view.
But, despite that, the upper echelons of power in Iran have recently emphasised that hijab – an issue central to the identity of the Islamic Republic – is not something they are willing to compromise on….
tim gallagher says
Good on these brave women for giving the middle finger to the knuckle dragging mullahs who run iran and who think that people should live life in 2023 in the way that people used to live back in 7th century Arabia. I hope these brave protesters in Iran do win. What a drag on human progress islam is. I get the feeling that many Iranians want to live a pleasant, modern human life and will need to ditch islam in order to achieve that goal.
Keith O says
Tim,These women & the rest of the population shouldn’t just give them the finger, they should be delivering the pineapple of retribution, blunt end first and no lube.
tim gallagher says
No doubt about that, Keith O. Unfortunately I can’t see the demonstrators in Iran winning against the knuckle dragging mullahs, but it would be fantastic if they did win and ditched islam. what a great step forward for humanity it would be and it might inspire other people to ditch barbaric islam and all its bullshit.
Walter Sieruk says
Good for those women standing up to those Muslim despots in that tyrannical opressive Islamic regime of Iran. They are very brave to post those photos. Not that many Westerners in a similar tyranny would be so courageous..
For those Iranian women might be arrested ,imprisoned and terrible beaten for resisting that regime of Islamic misogyny.
Therefore its very fitting to reiterate that this heinously cruel and murderous Islamic Islamic tyranny of Iran is very brutal and vicious to the Iranian people. Especially regarding females. Both girls and women.As observed in those Sharia based laws forcing women to wear the symble of Islamic oppression and misogynistic garments known as the hijab.
Therefore it should be known that a former Muslim revealed that “The IRI system recognizes women as dependent upon men and incomplete human beings who need to be supervised and controlled by men and the State. This author further exposed that “Women are created for the purposes of giving pleasure to men and child bearing – functions that confine them to the home” This is a male Chauvinistic as can possibly be.
In addition this writer further makes it known that “The IRI legal system still retains traditional patriarchal bias that can be described as nothing but systemic subordination of women , which is undoubtedly a human rights violation .”
This author further reveals that “Iran is of what Islamic fundamentalists desire, an Islamic State, and the consequence of achieving it “State Terror. Instead of utopia, Iran is an Islamic totalitarian nightmare…” and “the Islamic Republic of Iran exists and operates as what every Islamic fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by Sharia …What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premises; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1]
This heinous Islamic has been also exposed by another author who was born and lived in a Middle Eastern nation for many years. She wrote “Female freedom and independence is one of the greatest sins in Islam…” and “Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [2]
All this is wicked, unjust and misogynistic to the extreme. Islam had not regard for human life, regardless of what the apologists for this religion will claim.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM BY Ibn Warraq. pages 345-347.
[2] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel pages 62, 172
Walter Sieruk says
Those audacious and bold young Iranian women are very audacious and bold to post those photos of females not wearing that symble of Islam misogyny , the hijab.
They could even be murdered by those men of are that regimes thugs in uniform for standing up against tyranny.
When it comes to the hijab laws in that tyrannical Islamic regime it does get much worse than Woman being prosecuted [ persecuted ] and businesses being shut down if women don’t submit to wearing the hijab.
For that horrendous misogyny of that Islam’s tyranny regarding the hijab can does even result in deliberate cold blooded first degree murder of peaceful young women.
For example, example of such callous despicable heartless anti-female evil is when a teenage girl in Iran was talking to her boyfriend on the phone and then the Islamic state “police” walked over to her and shot her dead. They did that wicked and malicious thing to her because she was talking to her boyfriend and they also didn’t like her clothing. [1]
That was a clear cut case of murder and vicious Islamic madness by Iran’s Islamic state “ police”, who call themselves the “Revolutionary Guards”, they got away with their hideous and malice –filled evil because the mullahs as well as other villains in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime.
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili page 240
Walter Sieruk says
Daring and valiant those women are for posing those photos
Furthermore, one of the “reasons” the hijab laws are so cruelly enforced in that “mullah regime of Iran has been revealed by a scholar of Islam who revealed in her book “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islam ideology.” ” [1]
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, pages 171.
tgusa says
I’m with these Iranian ladies but from afar because if I went there and supported their cause the tough guys would gang up together and try to kill me in an instant.Now if I had some friends along…
gravenimage says
Iran: Women post photos without hijabs despite harsh government crackdown
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*very* brave women. Everyone in the West should be supporting them.