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More good news from Tehran Polytechnic University. But the Thug-In-Chief's minions are striking back hard. From AKI, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
Tehran, 19 April (AKI) - Female students at Tehran Polytechnic University, where students protested against Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a visit last December crying 'dictator go away' and throwing firecrackers, are staging a major protest against new regulations enabling police as of 21 April to arrest women who do not abide by the Islamic dress code. A group of 700 female students organized a rally on campus and signed a letter to the dean calling the new rules "an offence to the dignity of women" and accusing him of "wanting to extend to academia the sexual apartheid imposed by the government on Iranian society."Authorities immediately reacted on Thursday withdrawing the students' university ID cards which are mandatory to access campus and classes.
The students will now have to face a disciplinary commission which will decide whether they will be allowed to continue their studies or be expelled.
On Wednesday, Iran's police chief, Gen. Ahmad Moghaddam, said that women who do not wear the veil and don't abide by the Muslim dress code "are tools of the enemy, who tries to destroy the system by spreading a cuture which goes against Islamic values."
Posted by Robert at April 20, 2007 3:33 AM
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This is courage. Note the threat by the police chief. These women are facing arrest -- and in Iran, that means rape in prison by their brothers in Islam, followed, almost certainly, by whipping and hanging.
There is no man out there who braves the cruelties of Islam like the women who defend their own humanity in the face of these satanic brutalities.
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at April 20, 2007 4:17 AM
...Iranian students continue to be a thorn in Ahmadinejads side....maybe the students parents remember the pre-Khomeini days....When, under the Shah, people had more freedom and had better lives....
Posted by: exsgtbrown at April 20, 2007 6:17 AM
How brave these young women are ! Have any human rights or feminist groups voiced their support for these women ? I shudder to think what will happen to them.
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at April 20, 2007 7:32 AM
ImNoDhimmi:
Why would feminists be any more inclined to support Iranian women who are protesting the highly myscogenistic practice of veiling than western trade unionists have been when it comes to supporting Iraqi and Iranian workers whose rights to collective bargaining have been systemically suppressed, and, in the case of the Iranian bus drivers, gone unpaid by the state for extended periods of time while Maddinnerjacket is the patron-in-chief of Hezbollah and Hamas.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at April 20, 2007 7:40 AM
I'm not surprised that it is university students who are rebelling. While it has some rationale as a political uniform or religious badge (and also a useful issue on which to make clear male domination of females), Mohammedan moral arguments for wearing the hijab are a straightforward insult to the intelligence.
Posted by: wallyUK at April 20, 2007 9:42 AM
Mohammad required that women cover their bare breasts (a tradition in medieval Arabia, apparently), for modesty, except at home.
This "veiling" was later extended to mean the hair, and then the arms and legs, in "weaker" Hadiths.
But he was also a pedophile, and hated representational painting, so who the hell cares what he wanted?
Uber-schmuck perverted killjoy.
Posted by: profitsbeard at April 20, 2007 12:06 PM
Islamic values. Now there's an oxymoron.
In my business I have an opportunity to meet all kinds of people from various countries and belief systems. When I have met Iranian women who live in my country and I ask them about if they like it here, they always invariably tell me that they like it here but they love their country, but if they go back they will be killed. I've heard this over and over again in the past ten years. But it makes me wonder, if there is a ground swell of people yearning to be free in Iran and Iranians who are willing to rebel against their tyrannical system, wouldn't it be a good idea for us to somehow find a way to exploit these little rebellions, fan the flames and start a wild fire that would scorch the present regime and start the movement towards true freedom with some momentum? There are Iranians in America that would love to overthrow that government and probably lots of Iranians in country that would join in too. How could we support them in cleaning up their own messes so we don't have to, effectively saving our world from the threat of Iranian style Islam?
Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at April 20, 2007 8:01 PM
That might be ok to protest in a democrat society. I don't know if I would start there. There was a woman on tv from Iran pleading with America to do something, it was as if she was demanding. She said WHY haven't you Americans done anything for us women in Iran!!? Ghalib? (Seems we have our hands tied!) They need to over throw Ahmadajine!
Posted by: MZ at April 20, 2007 8:45 PM
PIGS! Chimpanzees! I can just imagine the police going after these college girls, eager to dish out "discipline" on behalf of "allah."
The only hope for the islamic world is the women. I'm more convinced of this every day.
at April 21, 2007 1:34 AM
Is it just me, or, are there actually small signs of things begining to change? I hope so. Perhaps, when Muslim men begin to show the courage of some of their women, there really will be hope.
Posted by: RIslander at April 21, 2007 2:49 PM
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