Listen to #ShaparakShajarizadeh who just heard that she was sentenced to 20 years prison4protesting compulsory hijab in Iran. She is the #WhiteWednesdays activist & the #GirlsOfRevolutionStreet #شاپرک_شجریزاده
لحظه شنیدن ۲۰ سال زندان#چهارشنبه_های_سفید #دختران_خیابان_انقلاب pic.twitter.com/8Kr3I75L2W— Masih Alinejad ?️ (@AlinejadMasih) July 8, 2018
Two years in prison, followed by eighteen years of probation during which she is prohibited from protesting. Where are the feminists? They’re too busy protesting for the right of Muslimas in the U.S. to wear the hijab, which no one is disputing except a handful of louts. In fact, some of the highest profile recent cases of abuse of women wearing hijab have turned out to have been faked.
(Thanks to Masih Alinejad.)
somehistory says
In 2009 in Egypt, what’s his name said “women are free to wear a scarf”
They just arent free no to…in iran & other moslim places.
somehistory says
Aren’t free not to.
J D S says
As I stated in the previous topic of the girl dancing in Iran…More stupidity in Islam…it just worse..it would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad… pity this poor woman may God comfort her..she will have a rough time in prison..which she should not have to endure and wouldn’t except for the stupidity in Islam.
Carol the 1st says
Her face seems to register the thought, “I’ve just lost my free agency and my person-hood. Forevermore I may be permissibly treated as just another dependent milk cow in some loony-tune herder’s barnyard!”
James Lincoln says
Somehow I must have missed the loud protest about this by Linda Sarsour…
John Moe says
If this is true and not fake news (how do you tell?) it is a travesty. These fools place their religion above everything else, which is just silly. This woman should not be penalized at all for not wearing aa hijab. Judgements of this kind only make the world realize how terrible it is to live under Sharia and how unreasonable.
Susan B is getting really mad@# says
John, in Iran, girls are forced to wear a hijab from age 7; for muslims a 7 year old is a sex object after all mohammad lusted after a 6 year old who was forced to marry him.
gravenimage says
+1
KJW says
It’s not fake news! These things happen all the time in Iran. Even children’s rights activists get imprisoned. Women can’t watch soccer games in stadiums, mixed gender parties and dancing got numerous college kids last year lashed (unless they have have rich parents who can bribe off the police). The Basiji, the moral police, haunt everybody. They even give women virginity tests if suspected of sex out of marriage. It’s inconsistent and sometimes arbitrary, but they especially go after well-known people, e.g. celebrities, filmmakers, popular people on Instagram, the only social media site they can legally use. A couple of years ago they confiscated 100,000 satellite dishes because they din’t Like people watching “western” things or Un-Islamic stuff. Tons of Iranians are criminals every day…they’re made to be so they can enjoy things in life of their choosing. I have a male friend in Iran. He said, “One day I’d like to be free.” He also thinks the West is being suicidal and stupid and hates leftists. Now he’s at the point where the West deserves what it gets, though no one asked me about allowing the Arabs to walk all over us. (Iran isn’t Arab, but it’s mostly Arab doing it, though Iran is expansionary to spread Islam throughout the world in their Revolutionary way.) Manh Iranians consider the mullahs to be like the Arab Islamists and not Persian, so to speak.
I might mention that people snitch on each other. Religious girls have mental fits when (especially) pretty girls take off their hijabs in photos. Also there are plainclothes men and women Basiji who lurk around.
gravenimage says
+1
DHazard says
Dress codes are for children, like Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
The harsh brutal oppression of girls and women in this tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran has ,many times, becomes even worse the forcing females to wear hijab against their will . As this following example reveals.
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
Wellington says
EVERY non-Muslim female in the West who dons an hijab, if even just one day a year, to show “solidarity” with her Muslim “sisters” is not only a fool, but an abettor of evil. Profound shame on any non-Muslim female who does this. No exceptions.
Older Canadian says
+1
elee says
Right on Walter S and Wellington. Unfortunately this bondage seems to appeal to most of its female victims as well as to women who live in free nations. Why that should be, well, if you figure it out, enlighten the rest of us. Given that this is how things seem to work, I would not care to subject my liberties to a plebiscite with universal suffrage. Note that our Founding Fathers never proposed a women’s plebiscite on Independence.
Wellington says
Well, elee, what ultimately matters is not some inherited biological characteristic such as gender, race or ethnicity but being in possession of character, common sense and better ideas. After all, there are many shrewd and sensible women while at the same time there are many unwise and foolish men (and vice versa).
As for the Founding Fathers not proposing women’s suffrage, it wasn’t in the mindset of the time and people should be judged on the time in which they live and not by some future standard. Doing otherwise can lead to a bastardization of history. Moreover, great and positive things tend to come one at a time. For instance, the victory at Yorktown in October of 1781 effectively gave the American states independence but it didn’t end slavery, give women the right to vote or provide mankind with decaffeinated coffee that tastes as good as regular.
gravenimage says
elee, your idea that women *want* to be imprisoned for not wearing Hijab *makes no sense*.
As for bondage, while I’m not a personal fan, if anyone–male or female–wants to engage in safe and private B&D, I have no problem with it. This has nothing to do with wanting to be oppressed under Islam, in any case.
Kay says
I think the premise that women “choose” to wear hijab is based on lack of awareness of what the repercussions are for them if they chose otherwise.
And I think it is very few, albeit ignorant, western women who son hijab even for a day. It’s just that it gets publicized when they do. I agree with Wellington: no western woman should do so, even for an hour. It would be like trying on a prisoner’s number tatoo or a slave’s chains.
Carol the 1st says
Life, open possibilities, flirtation, and romance are discouraged by Islam. Time to don a shroud and settle in with your first cousin.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Mr Spencer, I checked the story, but is false. There is no law in Iran prescribing 20 year jail term for refusal to wear Hijab.
Muhammed Jacob says
I think ALL fat and ugly women should be forced to wear the ONE-EYED BURQA.
Have you seen the state of these “hippos” wobbling down the street in JEANS???????????????
They make the MICHELIN MAN look like he was on a diet.
Kay says
Why should you care? There is no compulsion to look at others’ clothing.-
gravenimage says
I see the repulsive “Muhammed Jacob” is saying that all women he wouldn’t want to use as sex slaves need to be oppressed. *Ugh*.
Kay says
What makes you think you are getting accurate or complete information?
I used to follow a church group in Iran. Their posts were always heartfelt, clearly a people being harassed and living by grace. Then their Instagram account was removed. Then it was replaced with photos of beautiful churches— incredibly beautiful churches. But I don’t think I see the complete story.
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Mr Spencer, I checked the story, but is false. There is no law in Iran prescribing 20 year jail term for refusal to wear Hijab.
…………………….
The vile Ibrahim itace muhammed is, of course, quite dishonest about women in Iran not being imprisoned for protesting the oppressive Hijab:
“Third Woman Sentenced to Prison in Iran For Removing Hijab Slapped With More Charges”
https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2018/06/third-woman-sentenced-to-prison-in-iran-for-removing-hijab-slapped-with-more-charges/
As the protests spread, the persecution is becoming more and more draconian.
Note that Ibrahim itace muhammed himself has said that women can be victimized for not wearing Hijab, which he has characterized as “naked like beast”.
GP says
Itace, you don’t give a damn do you. She is a mother with a child who needs her. I’m fed up with hearing your excuses and crap!
Eur says
Buff of course, who will believe that this can be real in a country where the cranes are used for multiple legal purposes.
Go ahead Iranian women … end the regime of the ayatollahs.
Bacherbazistan says
We should not forget Saudi Arabia where only recently women were given the right to drive.
Stacy Girl says
And you pull away from the close shot of a Saudi woman driving, she’s probably pulling the Benz into the garage.
Older Canadian says
Only if their male guardian approves, the law is not superior to the guardians wishes.
Giacomo Latta says
Correction: a dozen or so women were allowed to drive, while under the necessary supervision, of course.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Mr Spencer, I checked the story, but is false. There is no law in Iran prescribing 20 year jail term for refusal to wear Hijab or protesting against using it even if it interpreted to mean condemning it, because it is not one of the cardinals of Islamic faith like prayer. Verify your sources, please
gravenimage says
The source is above. Ibrahim itace muhammed not only has a problem with writing coherently, but with reading, as well.
GP says
Itace, you don’t give a damn do you. She is a mother with a child who needs her. I’m fed up with hearing your excuses and crap! She announced this herself and it has been verified.
Carol the 1st says
The muezzin is the rooster, he crows “Cock a doodle doo” over the hens in his sandy wasteland. It’s his raison d’etre, the highlight of his existence, his membership card in the boys club, and it will do until the next caravan raiding party gets underway.
john says
thanks
Grizzly says
Feminists!! Where are you? Shouldn’t you be helping your oppressed sister?! Damn hypocrites! You make me sick.
You’re more interested in prosecuting people for not using pronouns the way you want insist than in helping the truly oppressed.
I feel sick.
Matthieu Baudin says
Yes Grizzly, the radical feminism that we are made to tolerate daily is exceedingly obsessive about policing supposedly gender neutral speech – driven these days by deep prejudice against reasonable, balanced, men and women. These weak self centred creatures can only survive under the spotlight and while in the company of groupies. The real freedom fighters for women and girls are hard at work overseas focused on everyday life and limb issues.
Susan B is getting really mad@# says
Grizzly we are right here on JW so I have no idea why you think that we are not fighting the evil of islam. Why do you think that all women that believe that women are equal in value need to scream that they are feminist while fighting the evil of the leftest and islam. By the way I think your battle is with indoctrinated leftest who come in many different genders.
gravenimage says
+1
GP says
Yes Grizzly, the far left feminists are too busy ranting at protests about Trump supposedly separating children from their mothers and depriving women of the right to murder their unborn children. The hypocrisy is truly sickening. I feel sick too!
Ewanda says
“…..helping your oppressed sister!” ….. How??? I don’t hear any ideas coming from YOUR corner …. Your statement makes it sound like all one needs to do is shout a proclamation from the rooftops to unwind 1400 years of oppression. It took 40 thousand years for women to get the vote! First of all eliminate the death penalty for conscientious objection and apostasy, then eliminate the clerical element who wield the power, dictate the rules, and exact the punishment. Eazy-peezy.
6woods says
Ewanda, all western feminists would need to do to raise awareness on this issue would be to hold marches and rallies the way they do for other, much less worthy, causes. But they can’t because it will piss off their pet cockroach, Linda Sarsour, and other assorted members of the “best of people”. They might be called ‘islamophobic’, perish the thought! And besides, in this case it’s brownish men doing the oppressing, not those icky white ones, so it’s no problem.
Susan B is getting really mad@# says
6woods, do not confuse indoctrinated leftest with true feminist. The left is getting battier battier ever day.
Ewanda says
“All they would need to do is hold marches and rallies …..” I’m trying to think how that action would apply pressure on Islam in 57 countries to shame the Ideology into revising the dictates of allah who is considered perfect and unchangeable.
Even awakening an interest in support from men in the West would just be met with derision from the same 57 countries as weak men being manipulated by Western women. Would 6 million Jews marching in rallies and demonstrations have changed THAT history? …. considering that the same Ideology devised the Final Solution. I know we are all trying to come up with the missing puzzle piece that would put an end to this relentless 1400 year scourge on the Earth. Hopefully our own “Final Solution” will come up soon without resorting to bloodshed and violence.
Jean says
Ewanda
There just is no excuse for the feminists’ silence. It proves beyond doubt that feminism is not a movement for the interests of women at all, but a self-serving bunch of fat cats clinging to their own piece of juicy meat.
By their unwillingness to criticize islam they fail at the one point where feminist activism could be of service to humanity today.
In addition, by constantly demonizing Western men, they deprive Western women of their only real protection against Muslim predators. MGTOW is the product of toxic feminism. We cannot afford this senseless male-female antagonism. It only cripples the cultural defence against Islamic supremacism.
Western men and women must unite and have each others backs. No infighting. Enough with the backstabbing.
Susan B is getting really mad@# says
Jean I am a feminist and I love western men. I fight islam every chance I get??? What the hell is wrong with you?? Oh let me guess you think indoctrinated idiots are feminist. Leftest, who are made up all genders, hate everyone male and female or at least anyone that does not agree with them.
When you make all encompassing sweeping statements you are doing the same thing leftest do which is spew rhetoric. In the ears and out of the mouth with no processing in the mind. We have critical thinking skills for a reason.
Jean says
Susan B is getting really mad
I am not attacking you. I like your comments and the fine way you stand up for women. It’s uplifting that there are people like you out there. Keep it up.
But perhaps you should rethink your allegiance to the ideology of feminism? I am criticizing feminist organizations for being silent about Islam’s war on women. This is a fact. They are – consistently all over the western world – either silent about, or actively protecting, islamic rapists by stating as their official point of view that rape culture is something common to all men and has “nothing to do with islam”. By that strategy, they prevent effective dealing with the problem. They sacrifice the victims.
I see no reason why a person who is committed to equality between men and women should need to identify with the feminist movement, which is indeed tainted with Marxist ideas and contains many flawed premises. It has been tainted for a long time. Ever since it dubbed itself ‘feminism’, logically a supremacist term. (If it were really about equality, wouldn’t it have chosen a name that included men?) In short, I don’t consider feminism an honest champion of equality. And I don’t think the feminist framework is conducive to a healthy communication between the genders. That is just my opinion.
A recommendation: Please read up on Erin Pizzey’s story. It is an illustration of all that is wrong with feminism. Pizzey founded the world’s first women’s shelter. And what did she receive from feminists in response? A medal? – No. Death threats!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1167483/Erin-Pizzey-When-Andrew-Marr-accused-terrorist-like-bomb-going-chest.html
Susan B is getting really mad@# says
Jean, you and other posters are trying to assume that it is feminist that are evil. How about the western male sex slavers in western countries, how about pornography that dehumanizes girls and women? How about all the men who have no problem with raping or using sex slaves, ie underage victims of pimps? How dare you put this on women and not men! Do you have any idea of the number of women and girls that have been raped and abused in western countries? I was one of them so I know that there are some western men who hate females almost as much as mohammedans do. As long as we live in a culture that has little respect for girls and women and considers them as sex objects not as human beings, we need feminism, not the indoctrinated fools on the left but true defenders of females. You actually think that women are in control of the NWO? You actually think that women are in charge of islamic oil money? You actually think that women are in charge of the MSM? What universe are you living in?
Jean says
Susan B
I warn against feminism exactly because I care about women – and about the issues you mention most of all. I never “put this on women and not men”. Nor did I ever state that “women are in control of the NWO” or in charge of Islamic oil money. These claims are ludicrous. You seem to be debating someone else entirely, but I’ll answer anyway.
Please do not conflate feminism with womanhood, this is two different things. Feminism is an ideology which has established its own organizations with real power to influence society. I accuse these organizations of not acting effectively to support women such as Shajarizadeh (who in an Iranian prison will most probably be tortured, including raped) and the millions of other women who live under Islam.
These women face horrors incomparably worse than anything women face in any Non-Muslim society anywhere on earth: FGM, acid attacks, a lifetime of rapes and beatings, confinement to the home, illiteracy, stoning, obliteration of identity through covering of their face and body, child marriage, etc. Considering this, their plight should be the one main theme of feminist organizations around the world today, if they truly had women’s interests at heart. There is no greater worldwide threat to women and girls than Islam.
So feminists should be making huge and constant, tireless protests against it. They should use all their power to liberate women from islam. It would mean the world to the unhappy women in Iran and elsewhere to see such protests from the free world. It might be the tipping point that could create a worldwide, female discarding of Islam. But it would take a massive effort on an organizational level.
Feminists should flood the embassies of Muslim countries with protests. They should display Islam’s atrocities against women on all their websites… They should make happenings. They should make conferences and speeches about this. They should be at the centre of every Counterjihad effort. But they are not! Individual women such as yourself are here, but they do not come as representatives of an official feminist organisation, they come under an alias as private individuals.
Feminist organizations should, in particular, be in absolute, collective uproar about the unprecedented, epidemic mass rapes and trafficking of British children – but they still to this day ignore it.
Sweden even has a feminist party in parliament – and they are deafeningly silent about the fact that rape statistics in Sweden reveal an incredible increase of more than 1300% of rapes per annum during the latest few years. Sweden is now # 2 in the world statistics of rape per capita. But Swedish feminist organizations never mention it. Because they cannot discuss it without acknowledging that the perpetrators are Muslim immigrants. It is more important to them to protect this group than to protect women. I underscore: We are talking about a feminist political party with seats in parliament. If they will not speak up against rape when they have such power in their hands, does it make sense for Swedish women to put their faith in feminism?
The main question is then: Who are the true defenders of females?
Look around you. Who do you see defending the British rape victims? Who goes to prison for their sake? No member of a feminist organization. The most vocal protester for women’s rights in Britain presently is a working class man, Tommy Robinson. The first group to speak out for the abused girls was the EDL – a group of football hooligans. There have also been individual women speaking out – Jayne Senior, who was hounded, silenced, and had her office broken into, for collecting data about the abuse and intending to publish it. But again: she was, and remained, a lone individual. No feminist organization championed her.
So I think feminism is not to be relied on. It has hijacked women’s issues and sponges upon them, but when it comes to real action for the sake of women, I do not put my faith there.
The real defence of women happens elsewhere. It is very important that people become aware of this, and don’t allow feminist organizations to aid and abet islam until it is too late. Men and women need to unite their forces in a different context, or all efforts will be made impotent by the anti-Western obfuscation strategies ingrained in the feminist organizations.
Think about all the energy these organizations have expended protesting against Trump, who poses no threat to women at all. This same protest energy could instead have been spent on the burning issue of the Islamic subjugation of women, now spreading like a wildfire in the West. Yet the energy is being consciously led elsewhere. All this is happening before our eyes.
The Islam appeasement of the feminist organizations constitutes an acute danger for all Western women. I am warning against this. Why are you defending the label of feminism in such a moment? Is it really worth it? Do you not see that we can fight the subjugation of women equally well, and even (I suggest) better without it?
The main thing now is to demand that the rule of law be upheld. That the laws already in place in Western countries are scrupulously applied according to their original intent. Justice for all the victims of Islam. We have all the means, we just don’t use them.
Susan B says
Jean, I will keep this simple, the indoctrinated leftest that claim to be feminist have no idea what feminism means. They are brainwashed children with no concept of what is going on in the world. How else can justify supporting such an obvious misogynist cult like islam.
Jean says
Susan B
I am sorry to hear about your ordeal and wish you healing. No one should be the victim of such evil.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/07/iran-arrests-teenage-girl-over-instagram-video-of-her-dancing-in-bedroom-without-hijab#comment-1939327
PRCS says
While Masih Alinejad was protesting Iran’s mandatory hijab law, idiots in the West (both Muslimas who are protected from that by secular, man made law, and the clueless feminists who promote and “celebrate” World Hijab Day as an act of solidarity.
“‘They feel beautiful’: Regina’s Muslim women host World Hijab Day”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/world-hijab-day-regina-muslim-youth-network-islamic-circle-of-north-america-1.4541530
Older Canadian says
And countries. Canada is one, our PM wants to re-open their embassy in Canada that the previous conservative government closed in 2012.
ninetyninepct says
Where is that bullshit “feminist” Trudeau on horrible news like this. Trudeau is a fake, a liar, one of the most disgusting lying self important narcissists that ever lived in Canada.
Trudeau is dangerous. Trudeau is a liar. Trudeau is making himself one of the most hated people in this country. Why does he hate Canada? Why does he hate Canadians?
I hate Trudeau. Liberals disgust me. Liberals are offensive.
Older Canadian says
I wonder if our feminist PM trudeau will give a scolding to this government when he is making trade and/or business deals with them.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
You mean Justin the Feminist Groper?
RichardL says
What’s this new thing you have with MB? Zetsche is a scumbag, sure, but Boeing (Germans from Northrhine Westphalia) did a much bigger deal with the regime. And all Major German companies have frozen their relationship with Iran. The US ambassador to Germany said so yesterday on Fox. And Grenell is a good guy.