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Chess player banned by Iran for not wearing a hijab switches to US

Oct 3, 2017 9:46 am By Robert Spencer

We hear a great deal about Muslim women in the West who are supposedly harassed and discriminated against for wearing the hijab. That may happen in some cases, although such claims have often been fabricated; in any case, such loutish behavior is never justified. But who is standing for women who are harassed and discriminated against, or worse, for not wearing the hijab?

Does anyone remember Aqsa Parvez, whose Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it? Or Aqsa and Amina Muse Ali, a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab? Or the Muslim woman in Italy who was raped and beaten by her husband, and forced to wear a burqa? Or the 40 women who were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab; or Alya Al-Safar, whose Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain; or Amira Osman Hamid, who faced whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab; or the Egyptian girl, also named Amira, who committed suicide after being brutalized for her family for refusing to wear the hijab; or the Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South Australia who were told that they had to wear the hijab or be fired; or the women in Chechnya whom police shot with paintballs because they weren’t wearing hijab; or the women also in Chechnya who were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab; or the elementary school teachers in Tunisia who were threatened with death for not wearing hijab; or the Syrian schoolgirls who were forbidden to go to school unless they wore hijab; or the women in Gaza whom Hamas has forced to wear hijab; or the women in Iran who protested against the regime by daring to take off their legally-required hijab; or the women in London whom Muslim thugs threatened to murder if they didn’t wear hijab; or the anonymous young Muslim woman who doffed her hijab outside her home and started living a double life in fear of her parents, or all the other women and girls who have been killed or threatened, or who live in fear for daring not to wear the hijab?

“Chess player banned by Iran for not wearing a hijab switches to US,” by Leon Watson, Telegraph, October 3, 2017 (thanks to Vanessa):

A chess player banned from the Iranian national women’s team for attending an international competition without wearing an Islamic headscarf has joined the US team.

Dorsa Derakhshani refused to wear the headscarf, known as the hijab, during the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess tournament in February, and joined the U.S. national team.

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran has required women to wear the hijab in public places.

Dorsa’s registration has been altered on the world governing body Fide’s website and the switch to the United States Chess Federation confirmed by the president of Iran’s chess federation, Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh.

Pahlevanzadeh added that she was not a member of Iran’s national chess team. “She played for Iran only one time in 2014,” he clarified….

At the February competition in Gibraltar, her brother Borna Derakhshani, also a chess player, was paired up by a computer against Israeli grandmaster Alexander Huzman.

Pahlevanzadeh later announced that Borna was banned from playing for Iran, and that Dorsa was also banned for not wearing the hijab at that competition….

Shohreh Bayat, the general secretary of Iran’s chess federation, said Dorsa was now studying in the U.S., according to Tasnim, another semi-official Iranian news agency.

“(Dorsa) Derakhshani has not become a member of the U.S. national chess team, she just changed her federation to the United States,” Bayat said.

Dorsa will join Nazi Paikidze-Barnes, the former US champion, who refused to participate in the Women’s World Chess Championship held in Tehran, Iran, in February to protest against the country’s hijab law that makes it mandatory for all women to wear hijab in public places….

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  1. notmoron says

    Oct 3, 2017 at 9:57 am

    Good luck sister.

    Be aware of leftards

  2. Linde Barrera says

    Oct 3, 2017 at 9:57 am

    Dorsa Derakhshani is a brave woman for a banding the cursed hijab. May Jesus guide her to become a US citizen and a Christian.

  3. Linde Barrera says

    Oct 3, 2017 at 9:59 am

    Correction: should be “abandoning the cursed hijab”.

  4. mortimer says

    Oct 3, 2017 at 10:47 am

    I wonder how many Iranians would leave their Islamic hell if given the chance.

    • John says

      Oct 3, 2017 at 10:54 am

      Many if given the chance. It maybe like fleeing East Germany during the cold war.

    • mariam rove says

      Oct 3, 2017 at 11:29 am

      About 95% if not more. m

      • RonaldB says

        Oct 3, 2017 at 11:37 am

        We see the phenomenon of people fleeing an oppressive society, only to reproduce that society in their place of refuge.

        How many of those Iranians who want to leave the oppressive theocracy in Iran would truly give up Islam as the root of the oppression they dislike? Or, how many simply want a materially more comfortable life without making any particular connection between the religion of Islam and the oppressive circumstances they always seem to encounter?

        • shortfattexan says

          Oct 4, 2017 at 7:45 am

          Agreed. While one’s initial reaction is to feel sympathy for anyone who says they want to flee Iran (or any other Islamic country), the truth is if they are not also planning on leaving Islam then all they are doing is helping to destroy the West.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Oct 3, 2017 at 12:13 pm

        I’m interested if that’s true. You’re from Iran, don’t know when you last live there or visited, but your estimate seems too good to be true. What have you seen there? I’m looking to get my hopes up, mainly because North Korea can probably be contained with its nukes, but Persia cannot. Too much cash flow, and the deal from Obama/Hillary/Lurch was like manna from the heavens.

        • mariam rove says

          Oct 3, 2017 at 1:55 pm

          APF and Muz Rat:

          I was last there back in July for 3 weeks visiting my sibs and my mom. The entire country has been turned into a s..hole. No one withing my family and friends give a s.. about Islam and neither 10’s of million Iranians. They are forced into it. M

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 3, 2017 at 2:32 pm

          Important questions, APF and Ronald B.

          I don’t doubt what mariam says, but I do know that you are right–many Mohammedans bring their foul creed with them to the free West.

          When I was at Berkeley I had an art show–my first–at the International House. Iranian students demanded that my display be taken down, damaging many pieces in the process, because I had a tasteful nude fairy in one painting (never mind that you could not see anything immodest). This was in 1979, the year the Mullahs took over in Iran.

          I had assumed that any Iranian student at school in the West would feel lucky to be away from the growing oppression–instead of intent on spreading it to the places that gave them sanctuary.

          Of course, in the intervening years I have discovered just how wrong I was.

          I have no doubt that there are some who embrace the freedoms here–our Jihad Watch colleague mariam rove certainly has, and it looks as though chess champion Dorsa Derakhshani does, as well.

          But–grimly–this is not true of every Muslim coming to the free West.

      • eduardo odraude says

        Oct 3, 2017 at 6:06 pm

        The basic point — that most Muslims would leave Islam if they could — is true in the following sense: If one could prevent Muslims from enforcing Islam’s death penalty and other brutal punishments for apostasy and blasphemy, the Islamic religion would shrink relatively quickly. Muslims would be able to criticize its brutality without facing terrible consequences. At first only a few would do so, but then more and more would, until only a small and ever dwindling minority would remain Muslims. Some of you bring up the fact that Muslims bring their religion to free societies, and you conclude that Muslims would not leave the religion if they could. But you are missing something. Muslims even in free societies have to face the reactions of their own Muslim families and fellow Muslims. They can be apostates more easily in the West, obviously, than in Saudi Arabia, and yet it is not as easy as you think. You can lose all your friends and your family, and may face violence. But the situation is rather similar to communism. As soon as the deadly walls come down — the Berlin Wall, or, in the case of Islam, the deadly blasphemy and apostasy dogmas promulgated by Muhammad — the whole system collapses.

      • Kessler says

        Oct 3, 2017 at 6:25 pm

        No one withing my family and friends give a s.. about Islam and neither 10’s of million Iranians. They are forced into it. M
        ……………………….

        So none of them would care about someone blaspheming their prophet, neither of them would challenge someone deciding go leave Islam and they fully support sexual, gender and religious equality?
        Their faith is not just personal – it’s about how they view the world around them.
        I don’t believe for a second that they would abandon their affection for their bloodthirsty warlord if there was no “force. It runs much deeper than that

  5. FYI says

    Oct 3, 2017 at 11:24 am

    allah himself does not approve of chess.

    “He who played Chess is like the one who dyed his hand with the flesh and blood of swine”

    [sahih muslim book 28 no 5612}

    so there you go:and there you have allah’s obsession with pigs again..

    But then allah doesn’t like the “song of a songstress”,music,art,cartoons,logical thinking or….. God’s commandments.

    God:{Hebrew}your move
    allah…….?
    God:{sigh}Oh yeah that’s right….you only speak Arabic…
    allah…….?
    God:{Hindi}I can see a checkmate coming
    allah…….?
    God..in 3{in Japanese},2{in Chinese}..one(in English)
    CHECKMATE….I WIN YET AGAIN
    allah…….?grrrrrr

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Oct 3, 2017 at 12:15 pm

      There is no inshallah on a chess board. I played in college, and felt cold in a game with no excuses.

      • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

        Oct 3, 2017 at 12:43 pm

        Hello, APF. What you say is interesting. “There is no inshallah on a chess board.” Hmmm, consider a case where you don’t know which of several moves is the best. So you pick one at random and say to yourself, “Maybe this move will turn out to be to my advantage, inshallah.” Not a very winning way to play chess, but it’s inshallahnic.
        Also, what does it mean to “feel cold” when playing chess?

        • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

          Oct 3, 2017 at 6:11 pm

          That’s you’re gonna lose, lose so badly that you embarrass yourself, so badly that you have to quit the team. Brrrr!

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 3, 2017 at 2:36 pm

      True, FYI.

  6. gravenimage says

    Oct 3, 2017 at 2:18 pm

    Chess player banned by Iran for not wearing a hijab switches to US
    …………………..

    Hear, hear, Dorsa Derakhshani! I hope she is able to join the American team.

    I hope her brother is able to get out of Iran, as well.

    • mariam rove says

      Oct 3, 2017 at 4:07 pm

      Iran is one the most educated societies and has excellent schools. But 150K of their best mind leave Iran because it is a s….hole. with some areas with 60% unemployment. M

  7. Kasey says

    Oct 3, 2017 at 7:05 pm

    It’s not only women who need protection from Islam, it’s children as well:

    How’s this one for an example of subtle Islamic penetration into Western society

    If this is the kind of brainwashing being allowed for young impressionable minds, are our authorities in some Western nations mad, or have they already surrended to Islam?

    Sweden: a new children’s book for 3 to 6 year olds. “Grandfather has Four Wives”.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 4, 2017 at 5:49 pm

      Yes–disgusting. Oscar Trimbel wrote another one lauding the Burqa. The worst thing is that he is an Islamophilic Infidel whitewashing that foul creed.

  8. Sarah says

    Oct 3, 2017 at 8:00 pm

    Good for her. Now she needs to ditch the ridiculous religion too. Its the religion that mandates this idiotic symbol of oppression.

    Now that she’s enjoying the safety, benefits, rights, freedoms and opportunities of the United States – she should use the brains she clearly has – and dump the whole Islamic mess, full stop.

    The very fact that this whole story has come out to begin with, tells me that its the Iranians delivering a warning shot across her bow. She won’t be going back to Iran – and she will no doubt expect America to shelter her and hand her everything on a silver platter.

    The least she can do in return, is abandon the feral mess of a religion that has put her in such danger to begin with and led to her expecting America to put out its hand for her.

    She may wind up being an extremely valuable asset to the United States one day – but there’s simply no denying that when it comes to self-entitlement, Muslims take the cake every-time.

  9. Matthieu Baudin says

    Oct 3, 2017 at 9:31 pm

    “… Dorsa Derakhshani refused to wear the headscarf, known as the hijab, during the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess tournament in February, and joined the U.S. national team…”

    She looks refreshingly ‘normal’ without all the heavy headgear baggage. I don’t know why the Persian authorities go out of their way to make their citizens look like Arabs.

  10. Bowen G says

    Oct 3, 2017 at 9:50 pm

    She is now attending a college in St. Louis, Missouri… Her 15-year-old brother Borna, who is a FIDE Master, was also banned for playing Israeli grandmaster Alexander Huzman in the first round of the same tournament. No reason was given other than his student visa expired sooner than expected….
    Dorsa Derakhshani also ran into this problem as a child TV star who used to do dramatic reading of stories on Iranian TV.

  11. Mike says

    Oct 4, 2017 at 1:46 am

    She has the potential to be a REAL refugee…

  12. Ver Auger says

    Oct 4, 2017 at 6:36 am

    The covering of a woman’s hair was “borrowed”, as was so much else, from Judaism. Fierce monotheism, abjuring of pork, the Jewish Prophets, including Jesus, the Sabbath, no graven images, the very name of the Almighty (Allah and Yahweh sound at least a little similar to me). Praying while facing a holy city (in America, a Muslim facing Mecca and a Jew facing Jerusalem are facing the same direction while praying, for all practical purposes). I cannot understand how nearly an entire religion can be emulated (I forgot male circumcision, and beards) yet hated so much. I need to study this question more, I obviously missed some important lectures by Mr. Spencer. Can an answer be supplied in summary format? I hope that the very posing of this question is not offensive to anyone.

    • MasQueNada says

      Oct 4, 2017 at 11:14 am

      Ver, Islam is a “religion” like the Cargo Cult of the South Seas is a working system of air transport. In other words, just like CC adherents wear coconut half-shells over their ears to mimick the headphones used by air-traffic controllers, Muslims “borrow” the outward trappings of an actual religion or religions that they found. Their book claims that Islam was there first, but the Jews and the Christians distorted it. Ridiculous, but effective.

      Deep down, however, they know that there is nothing at the core of Islam. It’s empty ritual. Globalization is bringing us all into closer touch with each other. They see and compare, but they cannot bear to draw the obvious conclusion. Better to root out and destroy the original religion(s) so that no invidious comparisons can be made.

    • Natalie says

      Oct 4, 2017 at 2:34 pm

      To answer in a nutshell….Mohamed lived in Medina, a Jewish city so when he developed his mein kampf type view on life his only point of reference were Jewish practices. He tried to market himself as a prophet but the Jews of Medina saw him for what he was….a psychopathic bloodthirsty misogynistic pig and rejected his delusions of grandeur. Thus he hates the Jews.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 4, 2017 at 5:55 pm

      Islam adopted a lot of the superficial elements of Judaism, while completely rejecting its morals and ethical sense.

  13. michael prochniak says

    Oct 4, 2017 at 5:14 pm

    Best wishes to this woman. Consider living in the U.S.. You are extremely smart and would be an asset to the USA. Please be safe and consider moving here. If you do move here my wife, kid, and I will show you a typical Midwestern party (Racine, Wisconsin) about 750 meters from Lake Michigan in a rural area.

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