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Islamic Republic of Iran: Bike-sharing app refuses service to women

Aug 23, 2019 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

“An Iranian bike-sharing firm has provoked fury after customers noticed it was not offering services to women and they were unable to register on its app.” Reports surfaced that the app, “Bdood, based in the capital of Tehran, had faced pressure from the police and prosecutor-general’s office to stop offering services to women or be in danger of having to shut.”

 Tehran is “notoriously congested and polluted,” and Bdood was implemented to offer an easier alternative transport mode.

Women bicycling is deemed to be haram (forbidden under Islam), according to a web page on the Ayatollah Khamenei’s site, but it is not illegal. It has however, been banned in Iran’s third largest city, Isfahan.

Women riding bikes is a topic of division in Iran. Three years ago, the daughter of “a prominent cleric and former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani spoke out in favour in women riding bicycles and motorbikes,” showing that opinion in Iran is divided on the issue.

The understandable outrage over the Bdood app is just another issue to which feminists worldwide should be bringing notice, but instead, many of these feminists are busy backing the so-called “right” of Muslim women to wear the hijab in the West. They have limited knowledge about women’s rights in Islam, and care about Muslim women even less.

“Iranian bike-sharing app sparks outrage after refusing women service,” by Maya Oppenheim, Independent, August 21, 2019:

An Iranian bike-sharing firm has provoked fury after customers noticed it was not offering services to women and they were unable to register on its app.

There have been reports Bdood, based in the capital of Tehran, had faced pressure from the police and prosecutor-general’s office to stop offering services to women or be in danger of having to shut.

The Centre for Human Rights in Iran, a New-York based organisation that documents rights violations in the country, tweeted: “The Tehran prosecutor has forced Iran bike-sharing company Bdood to block women from using their bikes.

“This screenshot shows women being rejected when they declare their gender on the app. Religious officials say women riding bikes in pubic is ‘sinful’, but many do anyway.”

One user warned others on Twitter about the saga – claiming the bike-sharing company had been “banned” from offering its services to women.

“If the story is true, I’m never going to use Bdood again,” another critic said.

While there are no laws which forbid women from riding bicycles in public, prominent hard-line clerics in the country have ruled it is “provocative” and consequently goes against Sharia law.

The prosecutor in Isfahan, Iran’s third-largest city which is known as the city of bicycles due to its many cycling lanes, announced women had been banned from cycling in public in May…..

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  1. Goofy says

    Aug 23, 2019 at 12:10 pm

    Iran is now the only Muslim nation in the world after Saudi made it legal for women to Roman around without the consents of their male superiors! The women have even become accepted as drivers of automobiles! The infidel Saudis have gone a long way to insult the Prophet Muhammad who in his wisdom decided that women have only half the intellect of men! After ending their useful life as prostitutes, mothers and birth machines he deems them worthy of punishment in hell eternal. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) never allowed his child bride Aisha to ride a bike and neither should we! It is wonderful that there is still one self righteous Muslim nation on earth: Iran!

    • Mario Alexis Portella says

      Aug 23, 2019 at 1:01 pm

      Just like this pedophile sickness! How come this not considered pedophilia for Muslims? https://thegreatarchitect.blog/2019/05/06/child-marriages-in-islam-not-pedophilia/

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 24, 2019 at 11:39 pm

        Yes–horrifying. Girls can be married off at 9 in Iran.

  2. Fred Parsons says

    Aug 23, 2019 at 12:22 pm

    its a shame that muihammad didntt realize that intellect has no gender. The Germans made a similar mistake with the Jews. Intellect has no race

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 23, 2019 at 12:58 pm

    In Iran refusing l to provide a bike service, of any other service to women is bit mild when compared the other oppressive Sharia based laws and many other anti-female customs of the tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran .

    For example, 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

  4. Trick_or_Treat says

    Aug 23, 2019 at 1:00 pm

    Women riding bicycles is deemed to be ‘haram’ according to islam. Yeah, I’ve noticed just about everything is f**king haram under bloody islam except for licking allah’s arse all day long every day. Aren’t the rest of us in this world just totally and utterly sick to the back teeth of all this shit.

    • mortimer says

      Aug 23, 2019 at 1:20 pm

      Yes, ToT, and what is your intellectual argument?

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 23, 2019 at 6:54 pm

        Complaining that someone does not offer an intellectual argument against savagery and stupidity seems odd.

  5. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Aug 23, 2019 at 1:03 pm

    Islam, it seems, is anti everything except for providing its leadership anything their hearts desire. Islam has always been run by thugs.

  6. mortimer says

    Aug 23, 2019 at 1:19 pm

    But Mohammed never even imagined there would be bicycles one day!

    Bicycles are never mentioned in Sharia law manuals that were completed in medieval times. Since the doors of ijtihad are closed, the ulema should be silent on the use of bicycles by women.

    • FYI says

      Aug 23, 2019 at 1:47 pm

      But he had a winged FLYING HORSE with a woman’s face and a peacock tail..the one he flew on to Jerusalem k17:1

      who needs a bicycle when you can travel around on a fantasy flying horse?

  7. No Muzzies Here says

    Aug 23, 2019 at 2:05 pm

    This is only one of many unpleasant things that happen when you implement Sharia.

  8. Angemon says

    Aug 23, 2019 at 2:09 pm

    While there are no laws which forbid women from riding bicycles in public

    Yet…

  9. Keys says

    Aug 23, 2019 at 5:02 pm

    And what would Allah find offensive about women riding bicycles ?

    “Religious officials say women riding bikes in pubic is ‘sinful’ …
    …prominent hard-line clerics in the country have ruled it is “provocative” and consequently goes against Sharia law.”

    Why is it “sinful” and “provocative” Mr. Mullahtollah ?
    a. Allah does not desire women to have the same options as men
    b. Allah does not want women to have fun
    c. Allah has reserved some things only for men, like beating and bike riding
    d. Allah does not approve of women spreading their legs to mount the bike and pedal in
    public. Allah reserves not only that the lower parts be covered, but that women not put
    the lower parts in unnatural positions and motions
    e. Allah sees the possibility of women’s clothing getting caught in chain
    f. islam !
    g. Allah supposes woman will reveal ankle or calf when pedaling
    h. Allah knows the bike causes jiggling
    i. Allah fears mischief in the land
    j. Allah sees bike seat as like male lower parts

    What’s the specific damned reason for this insanity ?

  10. gravenimage says

    Aug 23, 2019 at 5:29 pm

    Islamic Republic of Iran: Bike-sharing app refuses service to women
    ……………………

    Women riding bikes bad–women being beaten, forcibly veiled, and stoned to death good…

  11. mortimer says

    Aug 23, 2019 at 6:40 pm

    Women in Iran drive a car, fly an airplane, but they are forbidden to ride a bicycle.

  12. Jessie says

    Aug 24, 2019 at 11:56 am

    These so called leaders have nothing on their mind but sex. I think they should be watching the men of they can’t control themselves. I don’t understand what is so attractive about a black letterbox..

  13. jca reid says

    Aug 26, 2019 at 7:19 am

    where’s Linda Sarsour & all them other feminists speaking up for these ladies?

  14. Antiislamicman says

    Aug 27, 2019 at 7:45 am

    Can you see the e stupidity this so called religion. Muslims leave Islam before it destroys your life totally.

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