Andy Bannister sends along a letter from today's Sunday Times (UK):
The tolerance of the West is justified only up to the point when it does not undermine the efforts of other societies struggling against the concept of political Islam, including the hijab (Comment, News Review and Letters, last week).As an Iranian woman I witnessed at first hand how we suffered from our
naive tolerance 30 years ago when the hijab came into the political
arena of the Iranian opposition.
We too thought it would disappear. Nobody said a word for fear of being
considered a partisan of the Shah. And many preferred it to the
miniskirt anyway. But it did not end there, as we all know well.You do not tolerate the wearing of black shirts in your schools; nor
should you tolerate the hijab. Both are used to promote ideologies that
are dangerous to our way of life.Afsaneh Khalat-Bari
London W9
Hurrah for you Ms. Khalat-Bari! And good for The Times for printing it.
Afsaneh Khalat-Bari's comments:
We too thought it would disappear. Nobody said a word for fear of being
considered a partisan of the Shah. And many preferred it to the
miniskirt anyway. But it did not end there, as we all know well.
My comments: and what we have seen in Iran since those days has not been pretty - the women who supported the overthrow of the Shah were lied to - they have now had the ultimate pleasure of living a hellish life under the Mullahs and Sharia! I remember when one of the Mullahs said that women must keep their hair covered in public due to sex rays coming from their hair and that women must not ride bicycles since it was so sexual and would incite the men! Don't men have any control ober their sexual impulses in Islam (yes, I know that they do not according to the Quran and the Hadiths - that it is the women who must be kept under control not the man!)......read what these Mullahs have said - if it weren't so serious for those living under these criminal religious despots, I could laugh about it!
jihan