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Iran gives three women 55 years in prison for defying Islamic dress code, refusing to wear hijab

Aug 4, 2019 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Real feminism, or, if you prefer, real respect for the human dignity and rights of women, will never accept the hijab, which is a manifestation of a belief system that regards women as inferior to men and entirely responsible for male self-control, such that women are subject to being brutalized and even killed if they wear it and men find themselves lacking self-control anyway. It is a garment of dehumanization and an implied threat to women in its very essence. These women, not the virtue-signaling Leftists who don the hijab in supposed solidarity with Muslim women who are supposedly being menaced by MAGA-hat-wearing thugs in the West, who are the genuine feminists.

Her name is #YasamanAryani she is one of the youngest women’s right activist who joined #WhiteWednesdays movement against #ForcedHijab .Today Yasaman & her mother #MonirehArabshahi each got 16 yrs jail sentence for their Peaceful activities. Be her voice. pic.twitter.com/cXobnww8ds

— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) July 31, 2019

“Iran gives three women 55 years in prison for defying Islamic dress code,” by Zachary Keyser, Jerusalem Post, August 3, 2019 (thanks to the Geller Report):

Monireh Arabshahi, Yasamin Aryani, and Mojgan Keshavarz, three women who have been held in Iranian custody since April of this year for “disrespecting compulsory hijab,” have been sentenced by the Iranian Revolutionary Court to prison terms of at least 16 years each for disobeying the country’s Islamic dress code.

The women were each given five years on charges of “assembly and collusion to act against national security,” one year for circulating “propaganda against the regime” and ten years for “encouraging and preparing the grounds for corruption and prostitution.” In addition, Keshavarz received another seven-and-a-half years for “insulting the sanctities” – a total of 55 years and six months.

In Iran, shorter sentences are normally assigned for extensive prison terms – similar to how parole works in the United States, where long prison terms are given, but sometimes with the eligibility for parole after a certain amount of time. These shorter sentences in Iran average about half of the original term.

The women were delivered the verdicts in the absence of their legal counsel, according to the Iran Human Rights Monitor; legal counsel was also denied during certain stages of the indictment process, interrogations and even during the trial itself….

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Filed Under: Featured, Iran, Sharia, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Mojgan Keshavarz, Monireh Arabshahi, Yasamin Aryani


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  1. John Allan says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 3:01 pm

    Iran. Still stuck in the sand-age.

    • mortimer says

      Aug 5, 2019 at 8:50 am

      Response to JA: You mean that the WORLD still has their heads in the sand !!! The ‘Ostrich Brigade’ in charge of the media and Western feminists refuse to admit that the Islamic veil is TOTALITARIAN and MISOGYNISTIC in nature.

      It’s a reprehensible lie to say the Islamic veil is a ‘choice’. This story is the proof of it.

      • J D S says

        Aug 5, 2019 at 10:25 am

        55 years??..Jjust shows more stupidity in islam of course this is Iran. But this stupidity is in their laws and stupid people do stupid things……and in Islam there is plenty of stupidity to go around in Islam ..
        One would think that Muslims do or have advanced from centuries of stupidity…but they haven’t advanced in anything else so why should their stupidity have advanced into the modern age?
        Even murder is still on the books in Islam .

    • ninetyninepct says

      Aug 5, 2019 at 10:05 am

      Where is Trudeau on this disgusting Muslim punishment? Are we not told time and again by hijabis that it is their choice? Taqiyya.

  2. gravenimage says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 3:27 pm

    Iran gives three women 55 years in prison for defying Islamic dress code, refusing to wear hijab
    ………………………..

    These brave omen are heroes, and should be known around the world.

    • Angemon says

      Aug 4, 2019 at 5:15 pm

      Indeed.

      • mortimer says

        Aug 5, 2019 at 8:53 am

        Most Persian women are heroes. Most of them protested the veil at the outset.

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 5, 2019 at 9:20 pm

      Graven Image —

      You probably would like to read this article:

      https://www.conservativedailynews.com/2019/07/ilhan-omar-and-brigitte-gabriel-the-tale-of-two-very-different-american-immigrants/

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 5, 2019 at 11:26 pm

        Thank you, CRUSADER–I am a great fan of Brigitte Gabriell, and have rad her books. She is also the subject of one of my “Heroes Against Jihad” pieces.

  3. Antiislamicman says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 3:52 pm

    7th century nonsense that’s why they refuse to wear it. Symbol of oppression

  4. John Hawk says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 4:22 pm

    Islam is, was and ever will be about one thing only — totalitarian control. And women take the brunt of it. Compliments of the vile and morally bankrupt Muhammad and his psychotic projection Allah.

  5. Palladini says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 4:43 pm

    Islam is a Cancer, as thus it must be Eradicated, World Wide ASAP!
    Islam is NOT a religion, maybe a cult at most, but more of a Political system then a Religion
    Since the start of islam, 270 million People have been killed by muslims world wide, it is not a religion of peace.
    To back up my facts watch this video and see for yourself – https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 5, 2019 at 6:37 pm

      Listening to her joyfully exclaim, and sing; to see her shine brilliantly, it reminded me of many women who are open and courageous in Israel.

      Such a shame that Iran couldn’t be like Israel.

      Then the world could visit without fear and experience the many wonders of Persia.

  6. tim gallagher says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 6:43 pm

    These insanely harsh sentences are just so out of proportion for the supposed crime or misdemeanour (not that there is any crime in what these women have done in the view of civilised people). Islam truly is insane. There is the sane and civilised world, where, in our western nations, sentences for crimes make some sense and have some logic to them and then there is the total lunacy of Islam’s warped outlook on life and what is important in life. I have to agree with John Hawk’s comment, up above, that islam is about “totalitarian control’. I think the Islamic outlook on life is nuts. This mentality should have disappeared from humanity centuries ago and it has to go. I don’t know how we achieve it, but Islam and this type of mindset has to become extinct. And, as many commenters say, how can western feminists run their protection racket for islam? It is so bizarre and sickening that supposed feminists seem to support misogynistic Islam.

    • Paul J says

      Aug 4, 2019 at 8:51 pm

      They (the prison sentences) are harsh for one reason; to deter others from doing the same thing. FEAR is the bedrock of Islam’s doctrine.

      • tim gallagher says

        Aug 5, 2019 at 4:57 am

        I’m sure you’re right, Paul J. Terrorise them and keep them in line. As you say, Islam is all about fear. Islam is like a thug, standing over people. The sentences just strike me as so insanely severe for the wrong that these brave women are supposed to have done. I can only hope that the severity of Islam’s punishments is a sign that the whole backward ideology of Islam is fragile and is on thin ice. It probably won’t happen for ages, but it would be fantastic to see this whole stinking, backward, primitive ideology collapse. It has brought so much misery for so long.

  7. OLD GUY says

    Aug 5, 2019 at 10:47 am

    I guess that the SQUAD is not supporting women rights!

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 5, 2019 at 3:47 pm

    To imprison women for not wearing the hijab is but one part of the anti-female tyranny of this tyrannical “mullah regime” of Iran.

    For that ruthless cruel brutal heinous l regime of Iran that is so unfittingly has the word “Republic” in its title ,for its called “ The Islamic Republic of Iran” [ I R I]. On the topic of this Islamic tyranny a former Muslim revealed that “The IRI system recognizes women as dependent upon men and incomplete human beings who need to be supervised and controlled by men and the State. This author further exposed that “Women are created for the purposes of giving pleasure to men and child bearing – functions that confine them to the home” This is a male Chauvinistic as can possibly be. In addition this writer further makes it known that “The IRI legal system still retains traditional patriarchal bias that can be described as nothing but systemic subordination of women , which is undoubtedly a human rights violation .” This author further reveals that “Iran is of what Islamic fundamentalists desire, an Islamic State, and the consequence of achieving it “State Terror. Instead of utopia, Iran is an Islamic totalitarian nightmare…” and “the Islamic Republic of Iran exists and operates as what every Islamic fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by Sharia …What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premises; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1] This heinous Islamic has been also exposed by another author who was born and lived in a Middle Eastern nation for many years. She wrote “Female freedom and independence is one of the greatest sins in Islam…” and “Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [2] All this is wicked, unjust and misogynistic to the extreme. Islam had not regard for human life, regardless of what the apologists for this religion will claim.

    [1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM BY Ibn Warraq. pages 345-347.
    [2] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel pages 62, 172

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 5, 2019 at 6:40 pm

      Ibn Warraq is a good author to follow.

      As for Brigitte Gabriel:

      http://www.ActforAmerica.org/issues

      http://www.ActforCanada.ca

  9. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 5, 2019 at 3:54 pm

    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

  10. CRUSADER says

    Aug 5, 2019 at 4:43 pm

    A joy and a light has been covered over — as a hijab does.

    A shame she never made it to freedom in America as Masih Alinejad had.
    She could speak to the concerns openly and change minds among Western “feminists”.

    May the Spirit of the True God protect her.

  11. Don Bill says

    Aug 6, 2019 at 3:21 pm

    What is *really* tragic about this miscarriage of justice is the complete silence of the Main Stream Media on this story. This should be headline news, but that would be ISLAMOPHOBIC!

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