The Western woke Left continue to hail “diversity,” decry “Islamophobia,” and shut down what it considers to be offensive speech regarding Islam. Meanwhile, human rights abuses and sufferings sanctioned by Islamic texts continue to be rampant in the Islamic world. Women and minorities suffer the most. A prominent Iranian female human rights activist was sentenced to over eight years in jail and 70 lashes. Narges Mohammadi was arrested in November “after she attended memorial for a victim of violent 2019 protests.” As usual, the Iranian regime invented charges to justify her arrest. She was accused of “spying for Saudi Arabia.”
Jail isn’t new to Narges Mohammadi. She has already done time “at Iran’s notorious Gharchak Prison for her peaceful activism.”
You don’t hear Western woke Leftists advocating for her, but you do hear them defending the Islamic veil and screaming “Islamophobia” in unison with Islamic supremacist groups whenever discussions arise that don’t present Islam as a “religion of peace.”
Iran has been intensifying “efforts to squash growing dissent…. by imprisoning activists and human rights attorneys after grossly unfair trials, shooting to kill protesters in the street, imposing death sentences on dissidents and protesters, and causing the death of political prisoners by egregiously neglecting their medical needs.”
“Husband Says Iran Sentenced Activist Wife to Prison, Lashes,” Associated Press, January 25, 2022:
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has sentenced a prominent human rights activist to more than eight years prison, according to her husband.
Paris-based Taghi Rahmani tweeted on Sunday that his wife, Narges Mohammadi, was tried in five minutes and sentenced to prison and 70 lashes. He has said she is prohibited from communicating and has no access to lawyers. Last week, she was sent to Gharchak prison near Tehran.
Authorities arrested Mohammadi in November after she attended memorial for a victim of violent 2019 protests. Rahmani said in December his wife stood accused of “spying for Saudi Arabia.”
Mohammadi has a long history of imprisonment, harsh sentences and international calls for reviews of her case.
In May, the European Union called on Iran to reconsider her sentence of 30 months in prison and 80 lashes on charges of protesting the killing of protesters during the country’s 2019 unrest.
A spokesperson for the bloc urged Iran to look into Mohammadi’s case under “applicable international human rights law and taking into account her deteriorating health condition.” Mohammadi confirmed her sentence at the time in an Instagram post, saying she does not “accept any of these sentences.”
In the post, Mohammadi said one of the charges against her is having a party and dancing in jail.
She was released from jail in October 2020, after serving eight and a half years in prison, after her initial, 10-year sentence was commuted. In that case, she was sentenced in Tehran’s Revolutionary Court on charges including planning crimes to harm the security of Iran, spreading propaganda against the government and forming and managing an illegal group.
Before imprisonment, Mohammadi was vice president of the banned Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran.
Mohammadi has been close to Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, who founded the center. Ebadi left Iran after the disputed re-election of then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009, which touched off unprecedented protests and harsh crackdowns by authorities…..
docfreddy says
This is exactly why western 3rd-wave feminists have lost all credibility and any claim to a higher ground of ethics, righteousness, morality, and equality. How they can foment with extreme hysteria over the slightest perceived male instigated injustice here in USA, but regarding their sisters in Muslim nations where the horrific violations are too many to even list they are silent as corpses! How can any of us take them seriously.
“For millennia, the world’s great prophets and theologians have applied their collective genius to the riddle of womanhood. The result has been polygamy, sati, honor killing, punitive rape, genital mutilation, forced marriages, a cultic obsession with virginity, compulsory veiling, the persecution of unwed mothers, and other forms of physical and psychological abuse so kaleidoscopic in variety as to scarcely admit of concise description.” ~ Sam Harris
Westman says
To persecute women while considering yourself a favored son of the universe requires usurping the mantle of God.
The Iranian Regime is a cabal of usurpers who have stolen the bright future of Iran to exalt themselves and devour the citizens; justifying their evil as the desire of a deity they have never known.
mortimer says
Islam has NOTHING TO DO with human rights. In fact, the purpose of discriminatory Sharia law is to reduce and remove the rights of women and kafirs and ensure their permanent inferior position to Muslim males.
Islam is SYSTEMICALLY discriminatory, SYSTEMICALLY supremacist and SYSTEMICALLY misogynistic.
How can any modern person or any Leftist endorse or tolerate DISCRIMINATORY Sharia law?
Leftists TOLERATE Sharia by extreme acts of pretzel-like contortionism.
Muslims and Leftists are in bed with their sworn enemies.
mortimer says
The TRUTH shall prevail. We stand with Narges Mohammadi.
The mullahs who betrayed the Iranian people will swing from the lamp posts.
tim gallagher says
I am in awe of the remarkable courage that people like this woman display. I hope she stays strong. It is surprising that the scum of the earth in charge of Iran haven’t killed her. I imagine that in a country like China she would have disappeared permanently. The concept of human rights, freedom of speech, etc, are non existent in so many of these repulsive countries such as Iran, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan and so many others.
gravenimage says
Iran sentences prominent female human rights activist to eight years and 70 lashes
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Just awful–this poor woman. Will this make Biden think twice about pandering to the appalling Mullahs? Of course not…
OLD GUY says
70 lashes, thats a real beating for expressing freedom of speech and then through in 8 yrs. in an Iran prison.
Come to think of it, maybe we should take up giving lashes to these criminals that walk into stores and steal under $900. dollars of merchandise. That would free up jail space and just maybe teach them that crime doesn’t pay.