This kind of thing, and worse, has taken place in the Islamic Republic of Iran since its inception. But the fact that we are now seeing videos of it more or less regularly indicates the deep dissatisfaction that the Iranian people have with the Sharia regime. That dissatisfaction is only growing, and that regime may be reaching its last days.
“Female morality police in Iran are seen dragging a woman off the street and into their car,” by George Martin and Khaleda Rahman, Mailonline, May 3, 2018:
This is the horrifying moment a woman in Iran is dragged off the street by the country’s fierce ‘morality police’.
In the clip, the woman can be seen grappling with an officer on the street in one of Tehran’s student areas.
As the pair struggle, other police officers rush to assist their colleague, who is wearing a traditional hijab, before hauling the student off the street.
They shove her into the back of their unmarked car as she screams out for help from passers-by.
The person who shot the harrowing footage late said: ‘I’m a student on Amir Kabir University. This street is close to our university. The area itself is popular hangout place between girls and boys to socialise and to smoke.
‘On my way back from university, I realised that the morality police was dealing heavy-handedly with boys and girls.
‘When ordinary passers-by were drawing closer to the car of these policemen and policewomen, they faced threats of arrest and were told to mind their own business.’
This is by no means the only case of brutal treatment by Iran’s so-called ‘morality police officers’ however.
A young woman was recently assaulted by a gang of female police officers who deemed her headscarf ‘insufficient’ because it only loosely covered her hair.
Terrifying video showing her being savagely beaten was broadcast widely on social media – provoking an outpouring of public sympathy.
In response to the violent attack, a brave woman posed next to a police car without her hijab while a whole family removed their headscarves in solidarity….
Susan B. says
It is time for Iranians to overthrow this islamic theocracy. When islamic oppressors in Iran are overthrown, other islamic countries will follow suit. I am convinced that many muslims in islamic countries are chomping at the bit to be freed from the hell of islamic law. No apostasy laws, no islam.
gravenimage says
If only. In fact, most Muslims unsurprisingly support Islam and Shari’ah. It is not the case that most Muslims reject Islam.
mortimer says
GI is correct that ‘most’ Muslims support Sharia.
In Iran 66% of people support Sharia a lot or somewhat and only 19% strongly oppose it.
The 2/3 support for Sharia is the rule in most Muslims countries, but Pakistan and Afghastlistan have higher support.
Since Muslims have VASTLY different views about DEMOCRACY and LAW, most Muslims do not make good candidates for citizenship in Western countries.
Muslims who want Sharia, should not be allowed into Western countries and should never receive citizenship.
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer.
RichardL says
In Egypt there is no morality police because the mob is doing its work. Non-covered women who go to supermarkets or walk on the street get berated, touched, spat at, besten up, and, if no one is around, raped. I find Egyptians, Gazans, and Pakistanis much much worse than the Saudis I have met. Qataris are just too stupid and lazy to act. Iranians, those I have met in the west, all hated islam. Iftyat rehime falls, it will be fast.
gravenimage says
Not all Iranians in the West hate Islam. Iranian Muslims shut down my first art show–held at Berkeley’s International House–back in 1979 because it had a tasteful nude in it.
Richard says
Of course that is true. They have lived in Islam under sharia all their lives. They believe in it and are comfortable in it. I knew a lovely family of Persian Orthodox Jews who escaped the persecution of Iran and moved to Los Angeles, but they were quite comfortable with the Persian culture and wanted to continue living that way in California because they were used to it. When I was a small child, I was on a movie set for Circus Boy, for a scene where a lion is supposed to leap on someone and attack him. The lion was in a cage and was quite comfortable in his cage. The only way they got him to “attack” the actor was to put him in his cage in front of the actor and have another empty cage behind the actor with its door open. They had to literally push the lion out of his cage with heavy poles, whereupon he made a beeline for the empty cage, leaping in the air to get over the actor. In the film it looked like he leapt on him. That is the way most people are. We are comfortable in our cages and don’t want our comfort disturbed. That is also a major reason so many resent this web site telling the truth about Islam. It disturbs their peace of mind.
gravenimage says
There are a few brave and principled people who question the vile creed of Islam, even those who grew up with it. This is quite rare, though.
Walter Sieruk says
This harsh brutal vicious misogyny of this”mullah regime” of Iran has no limits to its cruelty.
That heinously cruel and murderous Islamic tyranny of Iran is very brutal and vicious to the Iranian people. Especially regarding females. Both girls and women. For example 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
This example of the harsh cruel misogyny of this tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran is a strong reminder that in the book entitled HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD, by William Wagner on page 208 the reader is informed that “The creation of the Islamic republic in Iran has had the effect that many from that country have become disillusioned with Islam and are looking to leave.” This is a point worth pondering.
gravenimage says
So true, Jay Boo–the idea that Islam is actually moral–a creed that sacralizes pedophilia and rape–could not be more grotesque. But even some in the West buy this.
Matthieu Baudin says
“…That dissatisfaction is only growing, and that regime may be reaching its last days…”
Hope springs eternal, however the incredible bravery demonstrated by ordinary young Persians still has to find a route through the totalitarian state apparatus. The Islamic Republic welcomes the shedding of blood and has taken the art of sadism to new heights in the administration of its prisons. It’s not hard to feel a pang of guilt for urging on the young in this David and Goliath struggle.
roberta says
The mullahs will nuke their own country before the give up control.
Richard says
Your point cannot be stressed enough. I don’t mind someone killing me because of religious differences. I may respect the person’s religion, if it is decent, even though I may disagree with it. What is intolerable and indeed sickening is what you refer to: a religion of rape and child molestation. It really can’t sink any lower.
WESTPAC Spy says
I say those Western women who think it’s wonderful to wear hijabs in solidarity with their “sisters” should all be treated the same way as the beautiful young woman in this video. If they want to bear a religious “brand” that marks them as a man’s property and inferior, worthy of being beaten, then let them have it. Let’s only treat women like Aayan Hirsi Ala with respect.
Sorry. But not sorry. I see the women of the “intersectiontal feminist” gub’mint of Sweden visiting Tehran dutifully wearing the hijab and by doing so selling out those who should be their sisters if they believed a damned word that they say and I want to hurl. Let the feminists live the dream, not my sisters who want to be liberated from the nightmare.