In the face of the determination of the brave women of Iran to advance the equality of women, the Shia regime continues to step up its Sharia crackdown, making an example out of two famous actresses for not wearing the hijab. They face fines or jail.
Some supporters of female coverings in Iran are trying a different tactic by promoting it as a virtue — a tactic that is similar to how the hijab is often packaged and sold in the West, under the rubric of “diversity.” The mullahs are “adopting a less physically confrontational approach, and have instead boosted efforts to promote hijab as an Islamic and family virtue.”
In normative Islam, women are deemed inferiors and are afforded no choice but to cover themselves. It is not a cultural custom as some purport, it’s a religious edict:
(Quran 24:31) And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only what is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment except to their own husbands or fathers or husbands’ fathers, or their sons or their husbands’ sons, or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or sisters’ sons, or their women, or their slaves, or male attendants who lack desire, or children who know nothing of women’s nakedness. And do not let them stamp their feet so as to reveal what they hide of their adornment. And turn to Allah together, O believers, so that you may succeed.
(Quran 33:59) O prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their veils close around them. That will be better, so that they may be recognized and not molested.
“Iran charges two actresses for not wearing hijab,” Al Jazeera, April 24, 2023:
Tehran, Iran – Two renowned actresses in Iran have been charged for not wearing headscarves, as authorities intensify efforts to crack down on people violating the country’s mandatory hijab laws.
Iranian state media reported on Tuesday that Tehran police have referred Katayoun Riahi and Pantea Bahram to the judiciary, accused of “the crime of removing their hijab in public and publishing its images in the virtual space”.
The well-known actresses could potentially face fines or prison terms if prosecuted.
Last week, photos of 53-year-old Bahram posing without a headscarf at a film screening went viral.
The 61-year-old Riahi, another veteran actress, was previously arrested in November on suspicion of “collusion against national security and propaganda against the establishment” after she became the first of her peers to post an image of herself online without a headscarf in support of nationwide protests that erupted in September.
The months-long protests began after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, died following her arrest by the country’s so-called “morality police” for allegedly not adhering to the country’s hijab laws, which were adopted shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
During the protests, several other high-profile actresses, including Taraneh Alidoosti, took off their headscarves in solidarity and were subsequently arrested, prompting support from abroad.
A growing number of women across Iran have abandoned their mandatory hijabs since the protests, with streets and public places in Tehran and elsewhere increasingly seeing women without headscarves.
The authorities had largely refrained from cracking down on the women in public in recent months, and the green and white vans of the morality police have also been taken off the streets, but a notable shift has taken place this month.
Police chief Ahmadreza Radan, appointed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in January amid speculations about his predecessor’s shortcomings during the protests, has promised to “seriously” deal with people violating hijab rules that are central to the Iranian government’s ideology……
Westman says
“…And do not let them..”, “..tell your wives and your daughters and the women..” That sums up, nicely, the Islamic view of women as kept, subordinate-to-males, creatures. Mansplainers on testosterone.
But it’s ok for women to be uncovered around, “male attendants who lack desire”, males having a certain attribute similar to a bovine steer?
Allah seems to consider humans as little more than animals with the expectation that males can’t control themselves around females. Prevention of, and responsibility for, a male’s illicit sexual activity is the total responsibility of the female.
That “other” God says humans are his greatest creation and both genders are responsible for their own actions. “Best of peoples”, is not the same as the, “Greatest Creation”
It seems that one diety thinks humans are animals and the other considers humans to be just a little lower than angels. Not a difficult choice for a woman who is allowed to make it.
However, there is full agreement that the leadership and forces of the Iranian Regime are animals.
Walter Sieruk says
Earlier the murder malicious murder of Mahsa Amini and the vicious murder of teenage girls by those thugs in uniform who are the Islamic “police’ of that abomination of a tyranny of Iran is a most unconscionable evil of that misogyny filled Islamic tyranny of Iran.
This is a horrendous evil and isn’t an isolated incident when it comes to horrific human rights violations against girls and women in that hideous Islamic regime of Iran.
That cruel vicious murder of those young girls by the hooligan “police” of that Islamic tyranny is the result of that anti-female religion of Islam.
Now the most recent sharia violation charges against those to young actresses of not wearing their hijabs further proves the truth revealed by a scholar of Islam who revealed in her book “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islam ideology.” Furthermore, the author also exposed that `” Women is Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [1]
Walter Sieruk says
The source is that above quote is [1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, pages 171,172.
Brigitte Gabriel is the founder of the patriot ani-jihad lobby organization actforamerica.org
Walter Sieruk says
The source of that quite is [1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, pages 171,172.
Walter Sieruk says
The misogyny of that Islamic regime of Iran with its Sharia supports forcing females to wear the hijab which is symbol of the misogyny of Islam.
The charges filed against those two actresses is actually absurd and unjust when considering the
actual origin of Sharia is revealed in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995 ” For that future history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” .page 150.
Therefore Sharia is of pagan origin and therefore has no value or worth.
Nevertheless the charges against those two actresses are still made for ,as it has been said that “Evil is always looking for an excuse”
That excuse is found in the misogyny of with it’s Sharia.
Furthermore, that vicious and cruel “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.
That ruthless cruel brutal heinous Islamic 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, “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 childbearing – 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, “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 dream 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]
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM BY Ibn Warraq. pages 345-347.
overman says
“It is not a cultural custom as some purport, it’s a religious edict”
Exactly. l watched a movie yesterday [made last year] called ‘Bully High’ in which a muslim foreign exchannge student actually makes a claim for this ‘cultural’ BS [it’s around the time of 9/11].. lt’s one of the most distorted examples of muslim victimhood i’ve seen in a long time. The actress who takes the role has quite an evil look [i’m not being paranoid] and if anyone watches it, take a good look at her face – she has the most deceitful eyes i’ve ever seen. There’s something definitely wrong with this woman.
They try [ridiculously] to bring the ‘race’ angle into it – because every other main actor is white [except for one japanese student: just so they can emphasize the race element..
FYI says
In the SAME passage where allah insists women wear hijabs[Surah 24:31], but a few verses back ,there is the astonishing revelation that body parts can speak{Surah 24:24}
“On that day when their tongues and their hands and their feet testify against them as to what they used to do”
In Surah 19:29-30 there is a newborn infant that can speak like an adult.
So Iranian women have to wear hijabs/Chadors on the basis of an instruction from a book whose author thinks body parts can speak.
FYI says
On that fateful day,standing before the ONE foot of allah.
‘Their hands and feet testify against them’
Abdools Right Hand :Typical leftie
Abdools Left Hand:Fascist!
Abdools Butt:Hey guys what’s going on back there I can’t see..
Abdools Right Foot:Kick that ball over there?
Abdools Left Foot:Be my guest
Abdools Head:Guys,guys,we better get our story right,this is not the time for messing about.
Deodata says
What happened to the uprising? Only 40% of the population are Muslim. Such is the power of an evil Islamic dictatorship. I was hoping they would have been overthrown by now.
OLD GUY says
Hard to overthrow a government when only the government has GUNS.