"They were even escorted when they went to the toilet, as if they were dangerous terrorists or spies that had arrived from Europe to try and overthrow the Iranian regime."
"Iran: Film on female footballers exposes more about regime," from AKI, July 25:
Rome, 25 July (AKI) - Football Under Cover is a documentary about a 2006 women's football match between Iran and Germany.The film, directed by Ayat Najafi and David Assman, tells the story of a women's football team from Berlin that travelled to Tehran to play against the Iranian women's football team.
"We decided to insert the word 'Under Cover' in the title not only because the players had to be covered from top to toe while on the field, but also because throughout the game, it felt very much like a spy story or an undercover operation," said Najafi.
The movie's co-director was recently in Rome after the film won a prize at the Berlin Film Festival and an award for freedom of expression at an OutFest film festival in Los Angeles in the US....
He said that the German players were under surveillance 24 hours a day while they were in Tehran.
"The experience for these young women can be divided into two parts - before and after the famous game," he said.
"In the days before the meeting, the women were kept under control in a way that was offensive and embarrassing.
"They were even escorted when they went to the toilet, as if they were dangerous terrorists or spies that had arrived from Europe to try and overthrow the Iranian regime," he said.
"All of that changed the moment the team from Berlin entered the stadium."
"The behaviour of the Iranian women's national team, the warmth of the fans, meant that when they were boarding the plane to return to Berlin, the players in the German team had tears in their eyes," said Najafi.
He said that the German players could see the significant difference between the Iranian people and the regime which governs the country....
"The women in Iran are determined in football as they are in all that they do in a bid to win their rights," he said.
"This determination which characterises Iranian women has become a symbol for those who believe in democracy and in the equality of the sexes, but at the same time this has made them the main enemy of the regime which fears any change," said Najafi.
Najafi said that there were many difficulties in making the film.
"Everything to do with women in Iran has become a taboo," he said.
"Any gesture, request or activity by women is seen by the Iranian authorities as suspect, something as simple as women wanting to have a football match could be an international plot," he said.
"To sum it up, the Islamic regime greatly fears the women, because they are considered a symbol of change."
The never ending Misogyny and Muslim Male ego. It is a neurosis and almost psychosis suffered by the Mohammedans. Even women Muslims display that split from rational and logical reasoning. The quest for the grandiose and schizophrenic impulse of world domination is at the heart, minds and soul of the Mohammedans. So much so that for everything there is a need to attack the infidels by the commands of the Koran.
So let's see, they are scared of women, and they beat women (including 4-year-old girls --> http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jL1k2LRp6UTkjzfQtTIfxLeTrv7w).
Boy, I'm impressed. These muslim "men" are real men
From article: something as simple as women wanting to have a football match could be an international plot,"
Not just suspicion, extreme paranoia to the schizophrenic level.
"They were even escorted when they went to the toilet, as if they were dangerous terrorists or spies that had arrived from Europe to try and overthrow the Iranian regime," he said.
Hmm...the paranoid Muslim Iranian men were afraid that there was some subversive plot for German women to, what, pee on them? While I totally believe that Iranian Muslim men who try to control every aspect of women's lives are pee-ons (LOL) I think their collective paranoia is becoming amusing as well as may become very useful to us. Could it be that the little monkey man's regime is all smoke, mirrors and B.S. and not the unholy terror that it's made out to be? From talking to exiled Iranian women here in America who have rejected their Muslim roots and it's obligatory oppression, I wonder if a little (or a big) nudge, like Hugh talks about here, couldn't push them over the edge and clean up the land so it could return to the pre-revolution days when Tehran was considered the Paris of the Middle East. I bet those girls who were thrown into black Mariah type cars by I'm-a-diner-head's Hefty Bag dressed thought police would be highly motivated to take these losers out. If we could only find a way to help them.
No more monkey man.
No more clerics.
No more Hefty Bags.
I vote for April in springtime, a bottle of wine and thou.
Isabellat.c.; the million dollar question is why the wealthy, well educated Iranian expatriates haven't already done so(?)...
That is to say, financed and organized a coup. Surly there are disaffected military and police units that would gladly throw their lot in with a popular uprising.
I don't know, DaninVan. These psychos are so scary that I think people think they have to have alot of people with them to make them work. When they see how ruthless and with no mercy whatsoever these pathetic turds treat their own flesh and blood and their own people, the thought of it is probably daunting. Look how hard it was in the beginning of Jihad Watch to get our own families to understand what we were trying to tell them about jihad and what these people are doing on our own soil.
I am heartened because when I joined ACT! for America last fall to try and do something about this, there were no chapters yet but 1500 people who were on the first town hall conference call. Now, less than a year later, we have 45,000 members in 200 chapters and we are undermining the jihadists in this country, using their own methods. If we can come from nowhere to create this kind of a coalition, I think the Iranian exiles, with a little encouragement, could make a huge impact on history. I also think if the regime in Iran fell it would give other people courage and have a domino effect on the rest of the Middle East, but then I always have a lot of hope. But I think it could be done.
'Gotta run. Enjoy your Saturday afternoon. : )
//the women were kept under control in a way that was offensive and embarrassing//
so much more the reason for germans to sell iranians more sophisticated weapons systems
Isabella - that's great news about ACT! for America.
Question for my fellow Australians on this comments floor - where do we start, to create an analogous body for Australia? Or do we already have one, but I haven't heard about it?
The Iranians have had nearly thirty years of opportunity to adjust or reject the Islamic theocracy they so joyfully initiated. Their choices are reflected in the society they inhabit: Islam, and more Islam, and yet more Islam, to the point where even the word "women" is being systematically eradicated from public discourse.
Every tender book about weeping over Lolita in Tehran, every film about the triumph of the human spirit expressed through Iranian soccer games, should be regarded not as evidence of a genuine desire for change but as a demonstration of Iranians' passive submission to Islam. The occasional tiny protest, or conference, or book, or movie seems to satisfy whatever lingering need for human freedom and dignity that some Iranians retain. The mullahs apparently recognize that allowing copious tears and ululations at soccer games will keep their females safely "under wraps" the rest of the time.
Some time ago, the New York Times ran an article where Iranians themselves admitted that they lie nearly constantly, to outsiders and to each other, as part of their "culture." It is probably best to take any expressions of frustration with the mullahs' regime with a healthy grain of salt.
Dumbledoresarmy,
I guess you're already au fait with Islammonitor.org?
Old Fred Nile is the only pollie we know of who is pressing for no more Muslim immigration but he's running a shoestring operation. Jim Wallace at Australian Christian Alliance has dropped this lobby group's anti-Islamisation platform sadly. Fred Nile's Christian Democrats provide information and meetings every month where knowledgable people lecture. One of the two Danny's prosectured under the Victorian 'hate speech' legislation gave a great presentation a couple of months ago. I don't know of any other fora.
correct 'prosectured'
should be 'prosecuted'
'prosectured' sounds like some Islamic punishment...
Islammonitor.org also provides a very helpful and attractively produced download pamphlet "Islam: Eight frequently asked questions' for anyone wishing to copy and do letterbox drops in his/her area
Hi guys,
I believe ACT! for America is getting ready to do some international work. I'll see what I can find out and get back to you.
Have an Islamic free Sunday!
"The wrong shall fail, the right prevail." ~Longfellow
http://www.english.mojahedin.org/pagesEn/index.aspx
PLEASE don't disgrace the sacred game of football by calling this silly game of international lawn fairies in silky short shorts by the same name.
The women to muslims are like dogs to non muslims - they may love them but they cannot respect them.
The monkey man should have giant statues of dhimma Cuttah in every public square. If it hadn't been for this enabler the iran might well still be free!
iran could be called the Sudetenland of islam.