Amid ongoing efforts by many non-mainstream writers to report the ongoing, daily atrocities committed by Muslims against disbelievers and dissidents in countries such as Shia Iran (and also Sunni Pakistan, Saudi Arabia Turkey, etc.), the mainstream media pays little attention. Thus those who trust and rely on the activist mainstream media remain largely blind to these daily realities. As a result, Islamic propaganda (advanced principally through the “Islamophobia” subterfuge) gains traction, despite the astronomical abuses that some Muslims continue to inflict on disbelievers and dissidents.
Just last month, Iran attempted to kidnap a dissident in New York city. With Biden’s weakness and the laxity demonstrated by Germany with regards to Nahid Taghavi, the brazeness of Iran (and other Islamic countries and jihadists) will escalate.
“German women’s rights activist detained in Iran and sentenced to 10 years,” translated from “Deutsche Frauenrechtlerin in Iran festgehalten und zu 10 Jahren verurteilt,” Exxpress, August 4, 2021 (thanks to Medforth):
The case of 67-year-old Nahid Taghavi makes one shudder. The German-Iranian women’s rights activist was arrested in October 2020 while visiting Iran. So far there have been no diplomatic attempts by the German government, only a single German MP (Hirte, CDU) has publicly advocated for her release. She has now been sentenced to over ten years in prison.
Despite numerous reports from Amnesty International, the German government did not attempt a single diplomatic effort in the direction of the Islamist state. The 67-year-old woman from Cologne, who had been drawing attention to the non-existent women’s rights in Iran on German soil for years, has now become a victim of the brutal Sharia justice herself.
Iranian “Sharia Court” sentenced her to 10 years and 8 months
She was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years for “membership in an illegal group” and 8 months for “propaganda against the regime,” according to the Revolutionary Court. Taghavi’s lawyer had only been given access to the files four days before the start of the trial and was unable to speak to his client. The Iranian judicial authority has not commented on the arrest or the allegations to date. According to reports, she is currently in the infamous Evin Prison in Tehran and recently contracted the corona virus.
Mother was in solitary confinement for 194 days
Nahid Taghavi’s daughter, who grew up in Germany and lives in Cologne, reported on social media of 194 days that her mother spent in solitary confinement, under inhumane conditions. In detention, Taghavi was mostly questioned about her engagement as a student and her entire résumé. No specific criminal offenses were presented to her before the trial began
Her daughter Mariam Claren has been trying to draw attention to her mother’s arrest with the hasthtags #FreeNahid and #FreeMama since last year. She keeps posting updates on Instagram and repeatedly appeals to politicians to get her mother released.
PMK says
I’m forced to ask: why did this woman go to Iran in the first place? She was surely known to Iranian officials, since she was a public figure in Germany advocating for women’s rights in Iran. Why did she put herself in harm’s way? What did she hope to accomplish?
As for the German government not pushing for her release, how much do trade issues impact their decisions? Business is business? Can’t risk offending Tehran, can they?
gregbeetham says
She was either very brave or very dumb. Most in the West are completely out of their depth with places like Iran, they have no idea what they are letting themselves in for.
It could be just a case of projecting our moral standards onto the barbarians and not realizing what a huge mistake that is; accordingly I’ll go with the very dumb classification until proven otherwise.
Hoi Polloi says
Can’t publicize a woman doing what feminists in the west refuse to do; put anything on the line for rights for women who are actually, actively oppressed by the true supremacist ideological threat. Must look away and remain silent. Merkel?
Walter Sieruk says
With that Angela Merkel as the Chancellor of Germany it’s no wonder the the German government is useless in aiding that brave female human rights activist .
Walter Sieruk says
That vicious and oppressive “mullah regime” of Iran is brutal and cruel violator of human rights. Especially regarding the human rights of girls and woman.
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].
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
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 deadly s Islamic tyranny of Iran is very much stinking with brutal vicious and murderous violence against 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
Keith O says
I notice the roaring silence coming from the feminists in the west on this womans imprisonment and show trial.
Jay says
Search for “Master Nationality Rule”. She’s Iranian & German, so when she’s in Germany, she’s legally *only* German, and when she’s in Iran, she’s legally *only* Iranian. The German state has no hold over foreign nationals on their foreign home soil, let alone diplomatic avenues or even jurisdiction of some kind. There’s nothing that German officials can do in these cases (which happen more often than people think due to e.g. Turkish-German dual nationals) except ask kindly, but since Iran is a Shariah hellhole, everyone already knows how that will work out. Taghavi apparently didn’t know international law and what can happen to nonconforming activist dual citizens when they visit an autocratic second home country… and by doing so temporarily forfeit their “safe” nationality.
Giacomo Latta says
She should have at least made Iran’s halfwit spies come and get her. This was like shooting fish in a barrel for the ayatollahs.