Will the Western feminists who don hijabs on World Hijab Day in solidarity with Muslim women who are supposedly oppressed in the West for wearing the hijab speak up for the right of Shohreh Bayat not to wear it? Of course not.
“Iranian chess referee fears return to Tehran over hijab row,” Reuters, January 16, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
An Iranian chess referee was accused of violating her country’s strict Islamic dress code after images emerged that appeared to show her not wearing a headscarf, known as a hijab.
Shohreh Bayat was recorded at the Women’s World Chess Championship in Shanghai wearing a hijab while presiding over the contest but at other times seemingly without her head covered.
Since Iran’s Islamic Revolution, women have been ordered to cover their hair for the sake of modesty. Violators are publicly admonished, fined or arrested.
Speaking to the BBC from Russia, Bayat said it’s now too risky to return and that she asked Iran’s chess federation to write a letter guaranteeing her safety on her return to Iran but they declined.
Roger Carlsen says
Related story: 16-year-old Iranian chess prodigy Alireza Firouzja is currently leading the Tata Steel Masters championship a little over half way through the tournament that features a very strong field including the top two players in the world (Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana). Firouzja recently sought and has been granted refuge in France so he can have more freedom to pursue his craft, especially since he was forced by Iranian officials to forfeit without playing some games last year against a few players, simply because they came from or represented Israel. Firouzja is also considering ultimately coming to the US, and he joins a growing number of Iranian competitors in sports, games, etc. leaving Iran and seeking asylum elsewhere because of the restrictions placed upon them by the oppressive Iranian leadership.
gravenimage says
Thanks, Roger–I had heard about that.
Again, Iran’s hatred of women and Jews is adding to its braindrain.
uniluv2go4 says
We’re still learning how repressive this religion is.
aDhimmiSaysWhat? says
I am an avid follower of chess. Alireza is the most exciting, young up and comer the chess game has seen in a while. Really smart kid. He stopped playing for Iran about 3 weeks ago, due to Iran’s ban on playing against Israelis. Like I said, smart kid. I’m a huge fan of his. Even more so now.
Wellington says
Maybe she should move to Sweden. Oh wait, that wouldn’t be such a good idea after all, now would it?
No end to the nonsense, guaranteed, until Islam—all of it, none of this nonsense any longer about Islam being hijacked by extremists and other rot along these lines— is described, characterized, portrayed, etc. as a monstrous excuse for a religion and a monumental bane to mankind.
There is no good Islam. This should be, must be, the starting point in any assessment of this wretched religion. There’s no rescuing Islam from itself. Anyone averring otherwise should not be taken seriously because they are either 1) ignorant; 2) foolish; 3) deceptive or some combination of these three.
uniluv2go4 says
Add to this the great inbreeding which will affect intelligence, and their honing in on hatred and we have a bad mix.
nicu says
But in European countries they WANT to wear hijab – to show us how many they are already : it’s clear that we got all the stone age Muslims , only !
Jim says
Does she actually believe that a letter from the Iranian Chess Foundation will somehow guarantee her safety upon returning to Iran?
gravenimage says
You are right, Jim–of course it won’t. I hope she knows this.
FYI says
allah’s hatred of boardgames…
SAHIH MUSLIM Book 28 no 5612
“allah’s apostle said “He who played nardashir{backgammon game}is like one who dyed
his hand with the flesh and blood of swine”
I mean seriously allah?It’s just a game…
Always with the pigs;allah’s obsession with pigs….and this hadith also applies to chess.
Of course allah also hates:music,musical instruments,women singing etc
FYI says
And I wonder if allah himself could play chess..with his TWO RIGHT HANDS
{sahih muslim 1827}
Maybe that’s why he doesn’t like boardgames.How about an islamic version of Monopoly {or Dar al harb}?Surely allah/muhammed would love that.
gravenimage says
True, FYI. Even if they wear Hijab and spurn playing Jews, chess players are still deemed Haram.
Roger Carlsen says
Chess was forbidden (haram) in Iran from 1980 to 1990, but it has been played ever since. Players are also not haram, and they have yearly recognized national championships. Even women have yearly national championships, and have been playing yearly since 2001.
gravenimage says
I was not referring to Iran in particular, Roger–I meant that chess is considered Haram in Islam itself. Some individual Muslim polities have been lax on this from time to time, but that doesn’t change anything.
Here is a Hadith:
t was narrated that ‘Ali ibn Abi Taalib (may Allah be pleased with him) passed by some people who were playing chess. He said, “What are these images, to which you are devoted? Imam Ahmad said: “The soundest comment on chess what that which was said by ‘Ali (may Allah be pleased with him).”
‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) was asked about chess and he said, “It is worse than dice.”
Kilauea says
Why did Allah create pigs if he hates them so much? Maybe he was just confused that day in the garden.
FYI says
Lets’s not forget that in islamic “prophecy”..
“The coming of Jesus{i.e..the muslim counterfeit one..}will be to break the cross and KILL ALL THE PIGS”
Sahih Bukhari vol 4 book 60 no 3448
WHY?
WHY should all the pigs be killed?
{This statement of course is wrong on many levels;Jesus isn’t a muslim,Jesus is JEWISH,The Parousia is not a concept muslims understand and..what on earth have pigs got to do with anything?Why should all pigs have to die?Given islam’s hatred of cartoons I hope it doesn’t include the delightful peppa the pig?
Porkageddon.
Keys says
“WHY should all the pigs be killed?”
Maybe the evil and deceitful Allah is still angry about the Gerasene incident when pigs killed themselves rather than be possessed by demonic spirits.
Mark 5:11-13 “Now a large herd of swine was feeding there on the hillside. And they pleaded with him [Jesus], “Send us [demonic spirits] into the swine. Let us enter them.”
And he [Jesus] let them, and the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine. The herd of about two thousand rushed down a steep bank into the sea, where they were drowned.
Roger Carlsen says
I don’t believe the hatred of a particular game extends to all board games. Chess has been part of Persian/Iranian history for many years, and some histories of chess place the early beginnings of chess to 6th century Persia.
There is also a national Iranian Chess Federation that heads the country and conducts/oversees many tournaments in Iran. If chess was forbidden (it was only from 1980 to 1990), then such a federation would not be allowed to exist and operate.
Also, there is no point in forbidding players from playing against Israelis if the entire game is forbidden to be played by all. The issue would be moot.
Very recently, another Iranian player forfeited a game against an Israeli in the Gibraltar Masters that’s in the early rounds.
gravenimage says
Iranian chess referee fears to return to Tehran after being photographed without hijab
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Why aren’t more Westerners sticking up for those like Shohreh Baya?
OREN WYSOCKI says
More epiphanies! Leftists don’t care about the victims of muslims, or muslim people who suffer from muslim violence and oppression, just like they don’t care about black victims of black violence, they just hate Jews and white gentiles so much that they side with brown people who murder them, and promote them to murder more of them, and use the law and threats to lock up any Israeli or white gentiles who fight back physically, legally or with words claiming any defense against being murdered, or nations who chant death to America, death to Israel, or throw the Jews into the ocean are islamaphobes and racists. In G-d I trust.
PRCS says
“Since Iran’s Islamic Revolution, women have been ordered to cover their hair for the sake of modesty. Violators are publicly admonished, fined or arrested.
Well, kudos to them for making that known.
But, good grief!
Just their hair?
Check out her ‘uncovered arms’.
And, OMG, is she wearing ear rings?
And, and–some of her chest is exposed.
I tried to keep Ahmed from seeing all that, but it was too late. He’d already done got himself a free shot.
Andy Testrino says
How easy to get into the West: don’t wear a hijab. But where are all the Muslims in the West speaking out against the hijab?
The unexpected voice says
The West couldn’t accept sexist ideology like Islam that says Women are worth half of a man women have a logical disorder or women have to cover herslf or she’ll be rape absolutely disgusting.