Ebrahim Raisi, well-known for his outstanding work as a torturer and mass executioner of political prisoners, is now the President of Iran. He’s just the man for the job, a sinister cutthroat handpicked by the sinister smiling Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. President Raisi, in turn, has just appointed the right woman to be his Vice President For Women and Family Affairs, someone who will do him, and the Supreme Leader and Islam itself, proud. Her name is Ansieh Khazali. A report on her appointment is here: “Iranian regime women’s affairs vice president supports child marriage,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, September 11, 2021
The newly appointed vice president for women and family affairs in the Islamic Republic of Iran advocates the marriage of children in defiance of human rights critics who see the practice as sexual exploitation and abuse of young girls.
But those “human rights critics” who are against the marriage of very young girls are not to be listened to; either they are not Muslims, or they are bad Muslims. Only a bad Muslim would oppose marriage to girls as young as nine years old, because that was the age of little Aisha when the Prophet Muhammad, the Perfect Man (al-insan al-kamil) and Model of Conduct (uswa hasana), consummated his marriage to her. And if nine years was deemed by Muhammad to be a proper age for a bride, every good Muslim must agree.
The Iranian regime’s President Ebrahim Raisi designated Ansieh Khazali in early September as the new official for women’s affairs. She confirmed the announcement in a September 2 tweet to her 589 followers as of Thursday. She tweeted an Arabic verse from the Koran, according to the news website IranWire. Her tweet derives from a section of the Koran in which Moses pleads with God: “O Lord! Expand my breast for me/… And loose the knot from my tongue,/ [That] they may understand my word.”
I assume that her quoting that Qur’anic verse is supposed to be Khazali’s way of saying “I haven’t the words to express my happiness” — “I am tongue-tied, my heart feels like bursting — at this great honor.”
Khazali’s Twitter account is linked to the women and family website for the Islamic Republic.
Writing for IranWire, Roghayeh Rezaei noted in lengthy analysis that “Khazali married when she was 16. She also married off her daughters when they were very young. She has said she supports child marriage, accused women who do not want children of ‘seeking comfort,’ and called women who are entitled to sizeable dowries in the event of a divorce ‘hagglers.”’…
What a perfect protector of girls’ and women’s rights Ansieh Khazali will be. She understands young brides, having been one herself, though at 16 I suppose fanatical Muslims will regard her as having been a bit too long in the tooth for their humbert-humbertish tastes; she made sure to marry off her daughters when they were “very young.” How young? We don’t know, but I’m betting they were closer to the age of little Aisha than to the age of their own mother when she was married.
She’s angry that some Iranian women selfishly are refusing to have children; she claims they are “seeking comfort” by not taking on the arduous task of child-rearing. She cannot allow herself to recognize that the precipitous drop in the fertility rates of Iranian women – now at 2.15, just hovering at the replacement level — is caused by a massive popular disaffection with the Islamic Republic, as well as despair over the financial condition of the country. Many women simply do not want to bring children into a place as morally wretched, and economically impoverished, as Iran is today.
The better-off Iranians of “the educated class” won’t be affected by the “primitive” practices that the state promotes, including child marriage; they will continue to do as they like; they are ones likely to forgo children not for economic reasons, but because of disaffection with the troglodytic regime. In Iran’s current economic condition, there are many Iranian children of impoverished parents who end up living, working, hustling on the streets. These “street children” are trying to eke out an existence, and are often, unsurprisingly, the victims of sexual abuse by adults. Some adult males “marry” the young girls they find on the streets. This is the “child marriage” that Khazali favors. Instead of promoting child marriage, Sehina Vojoudi — now safely abroad — insists that Khazali should address this problem of the sexual abuse of “street children” by severely punishing those who sexually abuse children (and that includes the middle-aged men who legitimize their own pedophilia by “marrying ” these young girls), and by getting the “street children” either back to their families, who might be given a small subvention from the state, or where possible, into temporary shelters.
As Iran’s economy crumbles, with 60% of the population now below the poverty line, the “solution” for some impoverished families is to marry off their young girls to older men. The girls at least will then be provided for, and won’t any longer be a drain on the family budget. The worse the economy becomes, the greater the rise in the number of child marriages.
Javaid Rehman, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, has urged “immediate reforms” for women and girls in the highly repressive Islamic Republic, highlighting the practice of child marriage, among other forms of severe mistreatment and exploitation of women and girls.
Rahman said Iranian ” women and girls are still treated as second-class citizens.” Iran’s regime permits girls to marry at 13 and boys at the age of 15. Children have been married at a younger age if the father issues permission….
Javaid Rehman does not – because he dares not – explain why “women and girls are still treated as second-class citizens.” It is Islam that explains this mistreatment, which goes far beyond being treated as “second-class citizens.” The Qur’an, in 4:34, allows Muslim husbands to “beat” their wives if they even suspect them of disobedience. In Islam, daughters inherit half of what sons receive. The testimony of women is worth only half that of men. Muhammad himself justifies this by explaining, in a famous hadith, that it is “because of the deficiency of their [female] intelligence.” In an observant Muslim society, women and girls will always be treated worse than men and boys.
Rehman also cannot allow himself to explain why it is legal in the Islamic Republic to marry girls as young as 13, and if permission is granted by the father, girls as young as nine can marry. Rehman dare not mention the reason for this: the example of Muhammad, the “Perfect Man” and “Model of Conduct,” who, at the age of 54, consummated his marriage – that is, had sexual intercourse with – Aisha, aged nine. What is sanctioned by the Prophet’s own behavior can be allowed to Believers for ever after.
The only women who rise high in the Iranian firmament are those who are related to powerful men, usually clerics. No women can be said to make it on their own merits in the misogynistic Islamic Republic.
She [Khazali] opposes the UNESCO’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that seeks to “eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training.”
The very idea that girls and women should be allowed to receive as much schooling as boys and men horrifies Khazali, as the fundamentalist daughter of a fundamentalist father. She knows – Muhammad himself said it – that women are “deficient in intelligence.” She knows their proper role is in the home, essentially “barefoot and pregnant,” not to join the world of workers outside the house. Why should girls and women receive educations, and vocational training, that they will have no need of in their roles as obedient Muslim wives? Receiving such educations will only make then discontent with their Islamically proper lot in life. And for Muslim women going out to work, where they might be in close contact with male non-relatives, is a danger that must be avoided.
Of course there should be — because nature has made them, and Islam confirms — “gender disparities.” The Qur’an itself says so, and the texts and teachings of Islam, not some ludicrous UNESCO Agenda for Sustainable Development, are what count.
Khazali told the Iran Student Correspondents Association in 2018 that the 2030 Agenda caused sexual harassment by a schoolmaster of a boys’ high school in Tehran because the plan enables “removing inhibitions” and “Such incidents are inevitable.”
The claim that sexual harassment by a teacher of his male pupils is a result of “the 2030 UNESCO For Sustainable Development” is bizarre. Khazali apparently believes that the “2030 Agenda” causes all kinds of libertine behavior, because it “removes inhibitions.” How does it “remove inhibitions”? By promoting the notion that girls and women should be treated equally; this gives them ideas. I still don’t understand how the equal treatment of males and females “removes inhibitions,” and still less, how it explains the pedophilia of a male, homosexual schoolmaster. The logic here is convoluted, Islamic, semi-demented beyond the wit of rational Western Infidels to comprehend.
But what we do know is that President Raisi’s appointing the monstrous Ansieh Khazali to be Vice-President for Women and Family Affairs will do great harm to Iranian girls and women. Their inferior status will be confirmed and deepened. They will be discouraged by her office from being educated, or receiving vocational training, for a career outside the house, when pious Muslim women should ideally remain at home. Ebrahim Raisi is pleased with his choice. So is the Supreme Leader. As for those girls and women whose lives will be even more severely constricted under the humorless guidance of Ansieh Khazali, why should any good Muslim in the Islamic Republic care what UNESCO thinks?
revereridesagain says
Well of course what could be more “sacred” than forcing little girls to marry and have babies to obey the will of one’s god. Or just to have babies if they “seduce” funny uncle Fred. That’s not “sexual abuse”, is it? Not in Kabul.
Or Austin.
somehistory says
You don’t equate islam, mozlums who rape women and little children, both boys and girls, behead, burn to death, drown, run over with heavy vehicles, etc. all of the people they are able who disagree
with those trying to save the lives of little children, to keep them from being suffocated in salt water or torn asunder, their tiny heads separated from their little bodies and their organs sold to the highest bidder, do you?
Of course you do.
gravenimage says
revereridesagain, you keep claiming that child rape is legal in Texas, but this is simply false.
mortimer says
She wants to protect women from abuse … not.
Child marriage is a huge crisis today because there are so many of them and the results are so harmful.
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) says:
Child marriage is a harmful traditional practice that weds young people, almost exclusively girls to men who are usually significantly older than their new bride. There are 60 million child brides worldwide. Over the next decade, this number is expected to rise to 100 million. Child brides lack even the most fundamental human rights, and they remain largely invisible to development efforts. By combating child marriage, we will increase the effectiveness of U.S. humanitarian assistance as well as give millions of girls a better chance to stay in school and live out their own dreams.
Girls who marry young are:
– More likely to live in poverty;
– More likely to die during childbirth;
– More likely to experience violence at home;
– Less likely to continue attending school.
There are currently some 60 million girls in the developing world who are married; and in several countries, more than half of the girls are married before they reach their 18th birthday.
gravenimage says
Muslim women are often as bad as the men in abusing girls.
Rufluc says
This is utterly disgusting in every way but do you hear the condemnation from the left or from any of the left wing liberals who litter Hollywood? It seems to me that Islam is a bloody good excuse to become a pedophile if you’re that way inclined, and all would be forgiven or overlooked from those on the left that seem to be blinded in every way by this evil cult (sorry I cannot call it a religion, as there isn’t a shred of holiness or righteousness with it).
If the politicians could get their act together, would it not be a good idea to stop all male Muslims from entering the West and allow only the vulnerable persecuted women & girls to come here? That would also restrict their excessive birthrate too, as I’m pretty sure the last time I checked, goats can’t get pregnant by them!
somehistory says
Such an ugly creature…inside and out.
There is no such thing as “child marriage.” No such thing as a “child bride.”
It is rape. Rape of small children. The males express their demonic lust and the females live vicariously through the males on the little children…as young as newborn. It is beyond sickening. It is satanic, demonic.
And it will soon end. It has to.
PMK says
It’s IIRAN. Did you expect anything less?
The real issue is the UN and all these international protocols civilized people are expected to abide by. The UN is a useless organization. It must stop preaching to the rest of us about human rights unless and until Islam loses its exemption from human rights conventions.
tim gallagher says
What an evil, total degenerate piece of crap this woman is. Yes, what a “perfect protector of women and girls’ rights” she will be. This child marriage that Islam indulges in is so obviously morally wrong by any enlightened concept of human rights. What a disgrace islam is. Islam creates endless evil monsters and this woman is just another of those evil and degenerate monsters. Islam, which is so full of monstrous attitudes to all aspects of human life, has to go.
somehistory says
They probably believe that with a *woman* at the wheel, they can make the raping of small children okay in the eyes of others.
It is common practice for a rapist to have a female attorney…supposed to play with the minds of the jury, saying that he must not be guilty of such an awful thing against the female victim, because his attorney is also female.
So, with this awful creature supposedly working for “women and families,” in what stands for the “minds” of those maggots in charge in iran, it has to be for the perception. If a “woman” is for children being sex slaves to old males, it must be okay for the rest of the people.
tim gallagher says
You’re probably right, somehistory, about putting a woman in the position. But child brides and pedophilia are just basic islam, the disgusting and degenerate religious ideology that it is, so I guess that whoever they put in charge of this ministry for women and family affairs was going to go along with Islam’s evil stance on the rape of children. Anyone that stepped out of line on this issue would be wiped out by thee scum that run that country. It is extraordinary that Muslims can possibly think that marrying off and raping young girls is OK. It seems to me to be so obviously morally wrong and I think it should be obviously wrong to any sane human being. But then again, everything about islam is completely wrong and barbaric and evil. Islam is one very sick religious ideology.
BTeboe says
There is no love in Islam.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
tim gallagher says
That seems to be the case, BTeboe, and what a bleak life that is – going through life without the possibility of love. Islam seems to be all about control and bullying people. It is a disgusting ideology.
gravenimage says
There are some Musims who can love–but this is despite Islam, not because of it.
tim gallagher says
I’m sure that must be true, gravenimage. There can’t be a total absence of love among the billion plus Muslims. As you say, in spite of islam’s vile nature, some people would, fortunately, rise above it. Not enough though. islam has to be just about the most hate filled ideology around these days, although I guess Nazism and Marxism/Communism have plenty of ferocious haters as well.
gravenimage says
Iran’s new Vice President for Women and Family Affairs supports child marriage
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This is hideously ugly, but should not surprise. Note that Ansieh Khazali herself was a child bride–although she was 16 and Islam is often much worse.
The official age of marriage in Iran for girls is 13–bad enough, God knows–but many girls are married off much younger. All it takes is the approval of the father.
gravenimage says
I was poking around, and ran into this hideous apologia for child marriage:
“Early Marriage in Iran: A Pragmatic Approach”
https://academic.oup.com/jhrp/article/11/3/569/5652057
It suggests that small children as young as nine can consent to be raped, and condemns the international human rights system for having “an inflexible perception of childhood”.
It lauds the “tradition” of child marriage, and even that of using girls as a “blood gift”–that is, where one tribe murders someone from another tribe, and in compensation gives them a girl to rape. *Ugh*.
I wondered what sort of publication would print something so appaling, and was disturbed to find that The Journal of Human Rights Practice is “a peer reviewed academic journal of human rights practice and activism” published by Oxford University Press. In other words, this sickening apologia of evil is able to use a mainstream platform.