Three honor killings in less than a month have upset many Iranians, who have taken to social media to express their outrage over the treatment of women under Iran’s Islamic laws. Many Iranians are “blaming the Islamic government for policies of light punishment for the guilty perpetrators.” In response, the regime has gone into full “damage control” as it “tries to protect the sharia with its policies of light punishment for the guilty perpetrators.”
State authorities have now upped the ante, pressuring mental health workers to stop discussing “controversial” issues regarding the abuse of women publicly and to remain quiet about issues such as honor killing, violence against women, and child marriage.
Under the sharia, women are inferior, wife-beating is prescribed for women “from whom you fear disobedience” (Qur’an 4:34), and child marriage is permitted. The state-sanctioned abuse of women leaves them defenseless, as Iran authorities consider the sharia to be divine and immutable. Of course, even in Western countries today, criticizing the abuses sanctioned by the sharia is deemed to be “Islamophobic,” as the West increasingly weakens.
“Iran Pressures Psychologists To Avoid Public Discussion Of Violence Against Women,” by Fahinej Khezer-Haydari and Maryam Sinaiee, Radio Farda, July 23, 2020:
State institutions in Iran are pressuring mental health workers to avoid controversial issues such as honor killings and violence against women, wife and child marriages on social media to avoid controversies about sharia laws.
A psychologist who could not be named for her own safety told Radio Farda that recently a prominent colleague with great following on social media lost his license to practice because he had extensively discussed these issues on his social media accounts.
According to her, other mental health workers have received warnings for collaborating with feminist activists on live Instagram posts in which issues such as equality of men and women and cultural concepts such as male honor and control over female family members and relatives were discussed.
She says she was stopped from speaking at a meeting with welfare organization officers about the killing of Romina, a fourteen-year-old girl by her father in June which shook Iran. “I was told to stop talking when I said future parents must be required to attend courses on raising children and workshops about giving sex education to children,”.
“This means that women and girls are allowed to be killed and all are required to keep silent about these brutalities,” she says.
The recent honor killings — three in less than a month — outraged Iranians and became a hot topic on social media with many blaming the Islamic government for policies of light punishment for the guilty perpetrators…..
Gork says
Because the religion that must not be named condones it? Perish the thought!
mortimer says
To fail to speak a word on behalf of the OPPRESSED is WORSE THAN ANY CRIME.
Crimes against women are SMOTHERED and HIDDEN in Islamic Iran’s CORRUPT, MISOGYNISTIC MULLAHOCRACY.
Iran is one of the CRUELEST countries with respect to women.
gravenimage says
So true, Mortimer.
Chistopher Watson says
In the mid-70s I met a number of Iranian men and women on an English language course. They were very pleasant, amusing and very western. I feel so sorry that these special people are either dead or locked into inhuman marriages and lives ruled over by scum who should not breathe the same air as ordinary people.
mortimer says
Yes, an Iranian matron I met spoke nostalgically about how she and her girlfriends used to go out for drinks in downtown Tehran before the mullahs seized power.
Walter Sieruk says
That brutal and heartless Muslim father who ruthlessly murdered his own daughter ,Romina, in what he called an”honor killing” will sadly escape the punishment he truly deserves .This is because Romina’s father will escape the death penalty because he was Romina’s ‘guardian’, and Islamic Penal Code means he is exempt from ‘qisas’, or ‘retaliation in kind’, Al Arabiya reported.
Sharia law says that only ‘blood owners’ – immediate family members – are allowed to demand execution for the murder of a relative.”
This exposes the callous vicious and evil murderous spirit of Sharia law and the wickedness of that Islamic regime to Iran that is so very primitive and savage to uphold Sharia law.
In addition, the blatant evilness of not calling action for what they actually are is wrong. very wrong .
That the Muslim father did to his daughter is outright coldblooded murder .To call what he did an “honor killing” instead of calling it murder is worse than dishonest . It’s a lie of a cover up that’s a complete and total affront against all the is honest, truthful decent just and right.
To explain this another way , To call a murder an “honor killing” is just like scraping the label that reads “Danger deadly poison “off a jar poison and then replacing that label with another label that reads”Apple juice” That is no way changes the deadly substance in that jar.
Likewise, calling a murder an”honor killing ” doesn’t change what that deadly act of violence actually is . It’s still murder. .
The ayatollah, mullahs imams and other Muslim in power in Iran are too ignorant and blinded by Islam and its Sharia law to see this obvious truth.
Walter Sieruk says
Islamic “culture” is not actually a real culture but cruel savage primitive murderous system of brutal religious vicious violence. As seen in that malicious murder “custom” called “honor killing.”
Be that vicious murderous action take place in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in any other Islamic country and now even some Western nations.
About the topic of Islamic violence which, something, takes the form of the brutal cruel vicious and murderous action that is so inappropriately y called “honor killing.” This malicious misogyny is so heinous callous and malice- filled that it’s an affront to all that is good, decent and right. In addition, the author, Brigitte Gabriel in her book which is entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED on pages 171,172 , that “The shocking reality is that most Muslim men ,including those educated in the West ,have no objection to the degradation of women in their countries .Across the Muslim world, even in moderate Islamic countries, women’s’ rights are almost nonexistent…Women is Islam are considered unclean ,deemed inferior even to dirt.” In this just cited book it explains on page 176 that “Honor killings have also come to the West thanks to the rise of Islamic immigration. “
Indeed, they must be stopped !
John Hawk says
Child murder is unimaginable. Even worse is murdering your own child.
Except in Islam of course, where it’s all good.
Walter Sieruk says
To John Hawk, you have excellent point that murdering a child ,even your own child ,is ” all good” in the Islamic view of many Muslims. Of course, an rational sane man or woman ,outside the worldview of Islam, will understand the great real difference Islam between right and wrong .Child murder is wrong, very despicably wrong.
Nevertheless, within the worldview of this blatant wicked action seen as “good”
The Bible teaches “Woe to those who call evil good,and good evil…” Isaiah 5:20.[N.K.J.V.]
Furthermore, the main reason . that a Muslim father or mother could be so very callous and heartless ,to the heinous extent to call such murder an “honor killing” is explain in the Bible.
Which informs its reader that their are some people who are so extremely brutal,cruel,callous and heartless because they have had “their own conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2.
In this case that that “hot iron” is Islam.
gravenimage says
Iran: Islamic regime pressures psychologists to stop talking publicly about violence against women
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Because what is more Islamic than murdering girls?
God, I hate Islam.
mortimer says
IRAN is a WARNING TO WOMEN about what will happen if you ELECT MUSLIMS. They will oppress women
Iranian women who voted largely for Ayatollah Khomeini, swiftly REGRETTED doing so. The oppressive VEILING LAW was one of the FIRST things that ayatollah enacted.
Iranian women will have to tell their husbands, boyfriends, their fathers and sons, that they are sick of the mullahs and want them GONE. The counter-revolution will have to involve women and men working and fighting together to be free of this 7th century misogynistic Death Cult.