This is an open call for violence, but Tabatabei-Nejad is unlikely to face any criticism from his fellow ayatollahs for it. As far as they’re concerned, violence against women who don’t wear hijab is justified. After all, the Qur’an says to beat women “from whom you fear disobedience” (4:34) and that women should veil themselves so that they are not molested (33:59), suggesting that if they don’t wear the veil, they’re fair game for molestation.
“Make Life Unsafe For Bad-Hijabs, Ayatollahs Urge Iranian Police,” Radio Farda, October 4, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The two Friday Prayer Imams’ calls to “make the surroundings unsafe” for women who do not observe the hijab have triggered adverse reactions on Iranian social media.
Isfahan’s Friday Prayer Imam, Yousef Tabatabei-Nejad, who has a long history of calling for a crackdown on women presumed to be “bad-hijab,” once again urged Iran’s security and intelligence agents to make the “surroundings unsafe” for citizens with “loose hijab.”
Tabatabaei-Nejad, a black-turbaned cleric officially recognized as Ayatollah, is the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s representative in Isfahan, central Iran. He is also a member of the influential Assembly of Experts.
At a meeting with the intelligence and military officials on Friday, October 2, the 76-year-old Ayatollah regretfully said that some women deliberately “remove their hijab,” and the law enforcement forces should have “more authority” to deal with them.
Tabatabai-Nejad also demanded the establishment of “special branches” in courts to exclusively investigate “moral abnormality cases.”
The elderly Ayatollah, who carries the title of Sayyid (claiming to be direct descendent of Prophet Mohammad), is notorious for his belief in restricting women’s rights.
In 2016, he insisted that women’s cycling is considered “villainy” and crime as grave as drug offenses.
Echoing his colleague in Isfahan, Abolqassem Yaqoubi (Abolghasem Yaghoubi), the representative of Khamenei in the city of Bojnourd, also said in his last Friday prayer sermons, “Bad hijab is a dangerous virus, and the NAJA (Persian acronym for the Police Force) should make the life of bad hijab unsafe.”
Also notorious for his extremist comments, the white-turbaned cleric argued in July, “Modern scientists have discovered that pork contains a vitamin – a kind of microbe – that weakens the zeal of people who overeat pork. Their zeal fades, like these Westerners who, as you can see— there is no difference between men and women among them. They do not adhere to what is divinely permitted and forbidden. They pursue alcohol, gambling, pork, and all other forbidden things.”…
Kesselman says
The situation in Iran is not sustainable in the long run. A predictive sign of a depressed mood in society is women’s abstain to get babies. Drug abuse among students is rampant, fueled by cheap opium. Iran today is in a similar psycho-pathological situation as Germany in the 1930s.—When the perceived reality looks most dire a fascist reign is capable of unspeakable deeds. According to demographic tables, Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan face a virtual collapse in a generation or two. According to David P. Goldman that feeds into their apocalyptic sense of urgency thus sparkling irreversible aggressive initiatives.
somehistory says
islam is evil. This moslim creep is evil.
Women were created by God and that includes their hair. When God was creating people, He gave them one command that was “do not,” and the rest were “do.” None of them had anything to do with covering a woman’s hair.
If the moslim male can’t control himself, this is not the fault of the women, not the fault of the woman showing her hair. The time is coming…swiftly…when this infringing on the God-given freedoms by creepy moslims like him will end
He’s hideously ugly, inside and out. He should be made to cover his whole head with a burlap bag.Like the thick ones used to carry snakes.
Dave from San Antonio says
I’ll bet it wasn’t too safe for women, anyway.
Tony Naim says
Turks, Persians and Arabs from the Atlantic shores of North Africa until the foothills of the Himalayas subscribe to the same ideology. Political Islam demeans women, allows polygamy, treats them like possessions, the Islamic civic code is harshly skewed against them in favor of Men in matters of divorce, inheritance, custody, etc.Sharia promotes violence against them. Islam does not view women as EQUAL to Men in a legal sense. Christians and Jews receive similar treatment in all that vast stretch of land.
The problem is not limited to the alarming rate of immigration and spread of this ideology. The bigger problem is in the ideology itself. Let no one be FOOLED, restricting immigration does not halt its propagation. There is no peace except with its abolition.
eddie says
There is nor bigger danger to the health of a journalist than to be reporting in Iran on these evil Islamic scumbags who run the country.
Oh wait a minute: What about the dangers facing journalists reporting from the diseased White House?
gravenimage says
Does eddie have a problem with Shariah violence against unveiled women? He certainly doesn’t say so.
Despite his sneering, there *has* been a great deal of violence against unveiled and “malveiled” women in Iran:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8099235/Man-attacks-woman-not-wearing-veil-correctly-Iran.html
There are many more like this.
gravenimage says
Iran: Influential ayatollah calls on police to make ‘surroundings unsafe’ for women with ‘loose hijab’
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Just horrible, but not surprising.
Westman says
Imagine that! A religious leader asking men to make women’s lives unsafe. The correct name for this is ABUSE, and by extension, Ayatollah Yousef Tabatabei-Nejad is a woman abuser.
And what are those women’s rights marchers in the US doing for Iranian women? Never mind, it only matters if it’s about them.
Subramaniam Iyer says
EVEN IF THEY WEAR HIJAB IN FULL THEY ARE NOT SAFE THIS AYYATLOLAH NEEDS TO DEMOLISHED
FYI says
“To wear or not to wear,that is the question”
Note the implications of NOT wearing the hijab..
“If they do that{wear the hijab} it will be known that they are free and that
they are not servants or whores”
TAFSIR IBN KATHIR 33:59
Wear hijab:’free'{..from hassle..}but not free to discard it of course{see IRAN}or free from being annoyed by others
Don’t wear hijab:a servant,infidel,whore,immodest,open to being annoyed by others{muslim ‘holy’ men in particular}
“It will be KNOWN…”;that hijab has a purpose, to classify.
Let’s not pretend this has anything to do with any god:this is a man-made rule invented by Arab males.
Of course it is in the koran where we see allah{=the MSP,muhammed’s sock puppet} conveniently confirm muhammed’s view about the need for women to hide away.
“o prophet!Tell thy wives and thy daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close around them {when they go abroad}.That will be better ,that so they may be recognised and not annoyed.allah is ever forgiving,merciful”
koran 33:59
Notice how allah insists this is so the women are ‘not annoyed'{which would happen if they DON’T wear the hijab as clearly they must be whores/servants or infidels according to TAFSIR IBN KATHIR}
Notice too all these whinging muslimas in the west who are NOT wearing the hijab{are they not abroad living among infidels?Does allah not INSIST they wear that hijab?}
Once there was a slave woman who had the temerity to wear a headscarf and she was beaten brutally for it by Omar ibn al khatab:”You should not clothe yourself like a ‘free’ woman’
{Book of Kanes Al Umal Fee Sunan Al A’qwal hadith 41925}
In that case you can see how it had nothing to do with modesty but with control and dominance.
BTW I find it hilarious that iranians subscribe to an ARAB god who is so linguistically-challenged that,inconveniently,he doesn’t speak their language Farsi.
allah:the great Arab Sultan in the Sky{perhapsa bit like the atheist parody god the Sky Fairy}
FYI says
And women’s cycling is considered ‘villainy”,a crime as grave drug offenses?
We know how iran’s goat faced ‘holy men’ feel about sport.
Women’s synchronized swimming,cycling,football,weightlifting etc? Forget it.
Maybe a ‘cuties’ competition would be ok;after all muhammed ,the holiest man that ever lived, we know liked them young.
{Sahih Bukhari 5:58:236}
What about..what about..Origami?
How do these islamic ‘holy men’ feel about women learning to do Origami?
A useful skill to learn..when teaching them the misogynistic koran…
Walter Sieruk says
The advice of ayatollah Tabatabei -Nejad might or will increase the brutal and cruel Islamic misogyny in Iran.
The harassment and persecution 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].
That brutal cruel Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran is full of ruthless malicious misogyny.
On the topic of this Islamic tyranny of Iran 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
Walter Sieruk says
That ayatollah Tabatabei -Nejad on Iran with his words of further oppression towards Iranian women will only encourage much ruthless actions of misogyny to worse malicious and even murderous extent than even before . If that possible that it can be worse than it is now.
For example a teenage girl in Iran was talking to her boyfriend on the phone and then the Revolutionary Guard 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