Yaako Warrior wrote:
> Seized - for showing their hair (head hair that is)
>
> In the past few days hundreds of Iranian women have been bundled off the
> streets and arrested. Officially, they were breaking the 'correct'
> Islamic dress code. But, as Simon Tisdall re****ts, the real aim is to
> keep women second-class citizens
>
> Wednesday May 2, 2007
> The Guardian
>
> The Iranian government's latest act of oppression against the nation's
> women has taken the form of a high-profile police drive to enforce
> "correct" Islamic dress codes. In its first few days, last week, the
> "bad hijab" crackdown netted several thousand young women on the streets
> of Tehran, with many receiving a warning and several hundred being
> arrested. Policewomen dressed in black chadors bundled detainees into
> buses that had been stationed on street corners in advance, before
> carting them off to police stations. The women were accused of
> presenting an immodest appearance - allowing their hair to show beneath
> the obligatory headscarves, wearing manteaus too short to conceal their
> hips, or wearing tight, revealing jeans and heels.
>
> Those arrested face possible trials and jail sentences. There have even
> been suggestions that women may be exiled from the city if they
> reoffend. And it is not only in Tehran that this is happening - the
> crackdown is being pursued nationwide.
>
> At issue are alleged offences against Islam and sharia law. But the
> reality is somewhat more complicated. In Iran, the comfort of women is a
> source of male discomfort.
>
> Sae'ed Mortazavi, Tehran's public prosecutor, made this clear when he
> told the Etemad newspaper: "These women who appear in public like
> decadent models, endanger the security and dignity of young men".
> Mohammad Taqi Rahbar, a fundamentalist MP, agreed, saying, "Men see
> models in the streets and ignore their own wives at home. This weakens
> the pillars of family."
>
> A spokesman for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has tried to distance his
> boss from this politically embarrassing controversy. And the fa****on
> purge has not gone entirely unchallenged. Some academics have been
> arguing that hijab standards should be maintained by persuasion rather
> than force. But, as usual in Iran, the police, like other arms of the
> pervasive security apparatus, do not appear to have taken any notice.
>
> The "bad hijab" crackdown has happened in a country where the historical
> tendency to treat women as the property of their fathers and husbands
> has never really gone away. Iranian women's lack of equality is written
> into law, and, in a thousand customary ways too, they face daily,
> cru****ng discrimination.
>
> Bring up the inequalities that Iranian women face, and many Iranians
> will point out that in some Arab Muslim countries, such as Saudi Arabia,
> treatment of women is comparatively worse. In Iran women can vote, stand
> for most public offices, drive, even smoke in public. It is also argued
> that social boundaries, (relaxed during the reformist presidency of
> Mohammad Khatami from 1997 to 2005), have not assumed their former
> rigour despite fears that they would do so following the fundamentalist
> victory of two years ago, when Ahmadinejad was elected president.
>
> In pre-Khatami times, and especially during the latter years of
> Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founding father of the Islamic republic and
> Supreme Leader of Iran between 1979 and 1989, modern western dress was
> not tolerated at all, fewer women's s****ts were allowed, and sentences
> of stoning to death for adultery were more common.
>
> Life is better for women in Iran now, but inequalities persist. For
> example, their inheritance and divorce rights are inferior to those of
> men, so, when a family legacy is divided, the women get less than the
> men. Women need written authorisation from their father or husband to
> get a pass****t; their court testimony is considered half as weighty as a
> man's; and they may be forced to submit to male polygamous
> relation****ps, which are allowable (although increasingly rare) under
> sharia law.
>
> Women are encouraged to go to university and stay on to do higher
> degrees, but not, it is widely believed, to actually join the workforce
> (where, it is claimed, they are often omitted from official unemployment
> figures). While professional jobs are scarce for men and women alike,
> there is cultural and social pressure on girls to stay at home or get
> married once they finish full-time education. A fully qualified female
> civil engineer, for example, said she had a choice of teaching or
> getting married when she graduated. The idea of her actually being
> allowed to go out and build a dam or a bridge was laughable. In the
> event, she emigrated to the US and got divorced.
>
> And, just in case a woman should forget her place, if she travels on
> public trans****t, she must go to the back of the bus. Even on the
> hottest, busiest days in Tehran, women of all ages can be seen crammed
> into the back, many wearing full black chadors, mostly standing shoulder
> to shoulder, burdened with shopping bags, while the less crowded front
> of the vehicle is occupied by men, apparently oblivious to the situation
> behind them.
>
> Social rules also demand that a woman must not shake hands with a male
> acquaintance, in public at least. And, to avoid offence, or worse, she
> is well advised to look demure and keep her eyes down. To behave
> differently is to invite disrespect or even harassment and arrest by the
> ubiquitous Basiji militiamen, a several million-strong officially
> approved vigilante force that styles itself as the guardian of Islamic
> mores.
>
> Many women bravely defy these rules where they can. And many Iranian
> men, especially the younger ones, are aware of the injustices and
> absurdities and do what they can to forge relation****ps based on
equality.
>
> Talking to Jina (not her real name), a 24-year-old student of English
> literature at a Tehran university, it is difficult to be optimistic
> about the prospects for young women.
>
> Jina says she loves her studies. She would like to pursue an MA, then a
> PhD, and her father is sup****tive. But her face clouds as she speaks. "I
> don't know what job I can do, what job they [the government] will allow
> me to do. There are so few chances for women and so many people are out
> of work ... But it's no use protesting. All my friends feel the same."
>
> She would like to travel to the west, she says, to visit London and the
> US, to see for herself where Jane Austen and F Scott Fitzgerald lived.
> The Great Gatsby is a familiar text for Iranian students, but it is
> taught not for the beauty of its language but to demonstrate the
> decadence of western society and morals.
>
> The chances of Jina and most of her generation making such a journey,
> symbolic or otherwise, are slim to non-existent under the present
> political dispensation. More enlightened senior clerics, such as Grand
> Ayatollah Yusef Sa'anei, whose fatwas (religious rulings) argue the case
> for gender equality, are ignored by the ruling fundamentalists. (In one
> of his most significant fatwas, Ayatollah Sa'anei ruled that competence
> and piety outweighed masculinity as criteria in considering
> appointments. "Islamic law does not allow any discrimination on the
> basis of race, nor does it condone discrimination on the grounds of ***
> and ethnicity," he declared.)
>
> Iranian women are still a long way from equality, and fighting for their
> rights is a perilous task. Last June an estimated 100 women staged an
> equal rights demonstration in central Tehran. Several dozen were
> arrested and some were recently jailed, provoking protests from
> international human rights organisations. They and other activists are
> being sup****ted by the One Million Signatures Campaign, which was
> launched last August. Apart from highlighting the plight of those in
> jail, the campaign seeks to advance the cause of equal legal rights for
> women in Iran.
>
> "Iranian law considers women to be second class citizens and promotes
> discrimination against them," say campaign organisers. "Women of lower
> socio-economic status or women from religious and ethnic minority groups
> suffer dispro****tionately from legal discrimination. These unjust laws
> have promoted unhealthy and unbalanced relation****ps between men and
> women and have had negative consequences on the lives of men as well."
>
> Jina's *****sment is blunter. Iranians, she says, are living in a
> "society of lies" where most people, female and male, are disempowered
> and constantly afraid - afraid to say what they think, wear what they
> want, and be who they really are. "I can't do anything," she says. "I
> just try not to let them hurt me".
>
> ****skin mohammadans to be wiped out soon
>
> Gary the mighty Yaako warrior.
>
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