Woman - Life - Freedom Movement in Iran 2.0

[Leonardo17]

This is a Journalist called Nazilla Marouffan. Just a 23 years Old Iranian Journalist who is posing without a headscarf making a victory sign just hours after her detention.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/iranian-woman...44903.html
 
I really like their slogan “Don’t accept slavery, you deserve the best”.
 
I could directly print this on my T-shirt and wear it, I think it’s true for all of us

[Leonardo17]

And back to the reason why I joined this forum in the first place:
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gender-aparth...51080.html
 

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As a person who grew up within a Muslim culture I made it into my duty to remind people that there is nothing more unspiritual than taking some spiritual practices and beliefs and turning them into a tool for creating mass approval of a political regime.
 
The reason for that is that there is nothing more personal than faith. And every true spiritual practitioner of any religion will describe religion as a relationship between the divine and the individual himself / herself. But I must have already said that at least 200 times so I’ll share some holyday pictures with you instead:



What looks like a black rag under the arrow is actually a man with a usual sea-short (behind) and this:



Sorry for being so graphic. But it’s like 11.30 in the morning. And these guys were like sunbathing in the “Muslim” way.

 
One short observation: It usually depends on how strong the hijab wearing woman is. But I have not seen any of them lasting more than an hour or two (for obvious reasons).
 
So the point where I want to bring this topic is this:
 
There is no one-size fits all solution to this problem. In fact different nations within the EU have different laws on this:
 
France has banned the burkini + headscarves in schools and in public service. This and Christian crosses are banned in schools and public service too. That’s because of the principle of Laicité (the strict separation of religion and politics).
 
So I’m not even talking about traumatizing and completely barbaric cultural elements. You cannot go to school with a cross in France and Belgium. It’s forbidden.
 
Germany has a different approach. They even promote the Burkini in public swimming pools (because otherwise these women may want to go to the swimming pool wearing their usual clothes).
 
Also being completely covered up in black cloth including the face is forbidden almost everywhere, for the simple reason that I may go to rob a gas station or a bank carrying whatever weapon I want if I am allowed to dress like that.
 
So I don’t really care what terror regimes do in some places of the world. But in the civilized world, I believe in the need for a serious public debate on the issue (taking an issue and making it taboo or turning it into something no one wants to talk about is another of their favorite strategies). + Yes, I think there can be rules against the hijab in some situations.
 
This last element is based on the fact that there is nothing really “spiritual” left in that issue anymore. 50 years ago, maybe. Today: I don’t think so (Not with ISIL taking some women and forcing them to have sex with teenagers so that they can get pregnant and bring new ISIL fighters to this world). I think that anyone with real spiritual intentions is able to see and accept this simple reality.
 
To make my point even more clear: There used to be a time in which women used these accessories to emphasize modesty and simplicity. But now. I mean “10 years in Jail for not wearing the Hijab”
 
Let me finish with a tale from our Famous Nasreddin Hodja. He is a funny figure in Turkish Folklore like SHangaram Pilai in India or the Baron of Münschausen in Austria going back to the time of the Mongol Invasion of Anatolia (around 1400 AD):
 

 In the time of Timur (Timur Leng / Mongol King 1336-1403 AD), the ruler Timur was very strict and anyone who commited a crime was punished by being beaten with a stick.

One day the Hodja was with him. Temur was shouting.

“Beat this man 700 times!“, “This one 1000 times!”, “This one 1200 times!”, “This one 1500 times!”

Then the Hodja spoke: “Dear King Timur, do you know everything?”,

“Of course”, shouted Timur angrily.

“No”, said the Hodja. “I think you might be very ignorant in one of these two things:

1)   The meaning of the number 1500

2)    The taste of the stick.”

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[Leonardo17]

   The death of Jina Mahsa Amini (Birthdate: September 20th 2000 – Saquız / NW Iran – Kurdish Part of Iran) Happened a year ago today. From the outside, it seems like the Mullah’s have managed to suppress the will of the people once again. Everything seems very quiet in deed. Still Journalists + Iranian Nationals abroad are testifying that everything is different from now on, and that the attitude of the Iranian people has changed in a very deep manner.
 
   I can say that I’m no stranger to this type of change or quantum leap of individuals and society. If that has happened it is possible to understand how and why the regime is getting more brutal and more repressive every day. (Go to 3:10 on the Video bellow)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oohg8SfyG1U

[Leonardo17]

The latest name is Armita Geravand. Just 16 Years old.



https://abcnews.go.com/International/ira...=103690468

 
Like the poet said:
 
This could be the first trumpet
Might as well be the last
Many more will have to suffer
Many more will have to die
 
(Lyrics from Bob Marley – Natural Mystics – 1977) 

[Leonardo17]

   According to Amnesty International, there are many gaps in the IRI version of events. The IRI is clearly trying to misinform the public. According to eye witnesses it was a female headscarf police. She ask the girl why she wouldn’t wear a headscarf. The girl replies “Am I asking you why you are wearing one” and the woman pushes her violently causing her to hit her head.
 
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2...-cover-up/
 
   What is remarkable is the level of conviction of the hijab-enforcement officer. Ordinary law enforcement officers are usually less violent than their male counterparts. And this is even more true in eastern cultures. So a woman who is (supposedly) of a middle age group does not hit a teenager like this. If she does, it means she is really brainwashed / hypnotized in whatever doctrine she is in.

[The Grand Nudger]

Here, "cop" tends to override any other identity or demo and cops act like cops, not their non cop cohort peers.

[Leonardo17]

Armita is brain-dead:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iranian-teen-...33764.html

Did someone say “savior of Muslims?”

[Leonardo17]

Armita is dead. Human right groups say she was “physically attacked by authorities... for what they perceived as non-compliance with the compulsory ‘hijab’” and “sustained severe injuries as a result of that”
 
The “theo”cracy is still claiming that the 16 year old girl had blood pressure issues.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/iranian-girl-...50353.html

[Leonardo17]

  Every two month or so there are stories of some young and beautiful women who are opposing the brutal IRI regime especially on the issue of the headscarf.
 
  The latest name is Roya Heshmati (33 years old). She was sentenced to 74 lashes + 300 $ and she refuses to wear a headscarf even while being taken to the execution of her penalty, reportedly repeating to herself “In the name of woman, in the name of life, dawn will come.”
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/iranian-woman...11912.html

[Leonardo17]

   The obsessive-compulsive disorder of the IRI is not really ending. On one hand, many women are simply not willing to wear that thing anymore and on the other, the regime seems very assertive in teaching them “the true values of Islam”.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/iranian-women...55160.html
 

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    And I was having that discussion with a stranger a few days ago. According to that person the populist government of Turkey was aiming to bring sharia rule to our country like it was the case in the IRI.
 
- “No” I said: “The kids of the Iranian revolutionary guards are all hanging out in the wealthy districts of Istanbul (that is if they are not rich enough to be In London or some other college in the US) riding classic cars and wearing stuff that is worn by any other well-off group in any other place of the world.” The only “sharia law” that exists in that country is the cult of red dollars to the disadvantage of everyone who is not a part of their nomenclature-like state structures.
 
Meaning:
 
 - Yes there was an “Islamic Law” in the middle ages that kept existing until the end of the 19th century. + The legal structure of many Arab monarchies is also partly rooted in this medieval “Sharia Law”.
 
Still there is nothing in the Sharia Law that states that people who refuse to bend to some irrational dress code has to be lashed 72 times.
 

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I will finish with a Nasreddin Hodja joke that is related to this subject (some funny folklore character that is very well known in my country)
 
   Once the Hodja was serving as the vizier of Tamerlane (Mongols Ruler who invaded Turkey in 14th century. So criminals were brought to his court and Tamerlane would pronounce the suitable punishment for each of them.
 
So Tamerlane was like:
“I order 50 lashed with a stick to this robber” and/or “I order 100 lashes with a stick to that fornicator” etc. etc.
 
So at some point the Hodja decides to intervene and says:
 
“My Lord I thing we have a problem here: It may be that his Majesty does not know the meaning of figures like 50 and/or 100; or it may me that he has never tasted the stick in his life”