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Wednesday January 31, 2018
Iranian women risk arrest as they remove their veils for #WhiteWednesdays

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Women in Iran are waving white clothes on the end of sticks — but it is an act of defiance, not surrender.

During the protests that rocked Iran earlier this month, a powerful image emerged of an unveiled woman waving a white veil on the end of a stick.

Vida Movahed, 31, was arrested for this act of protest. According to reports, she was detained and only released last Sunday.

Hers is not an isolated protest; more and more women are removing their hijabs — and taking the risk of posting pictures online — as part of a movement called #WhiteWednesdays.

Masih Alinejad, the creator of the movement, grew up in Iran and wore the veil from the age of seven — as legally required.


"For almost four decades, we, the women of Iran, have been unhappy about compulsory hijab," she said, "And we had the fear inside our heart."

"But now... I think the government of Iran, they have the fear of these brave women."

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Alinejad grew up in a religious family in a small village, where she was always jealous of the freedom her little brother and other boys enjoyed.
"[They were] free to ride a bicycle, free to sing, free to run, jump in a river," she told The Current's Anna Maria Tremonti.

He was "the symbol of freedom" that she envied.

In her teenage years, she found moments to remove her hijab in secret, but soon realised many women were doing the same thing in private.


Later in life, living in self-imposed exile in New York, she created the Facebook page My Stealthy Freedom, where she "asked women to publish their photos, to talk about it in public."

The page has been inundated with pictures, videos and personal stories.

Its success prompted her to start #WhiteWednesdays. Through both, Alinejad said she is giving a voice to women who are silenced in the Islamic Republic.

Ebb and flow of protest


Before the 1979 revolution, the hijab was banned in Iran.
Following the Ayatollah Khomeini's decree to cover up, 100,000 people marched bare-headed in the streets in protest.
Shahrzad Mojab, a professor at the women's studies department at the University of Toronto, was among those activists.

"I always mention in my teaching... that I am of the generation that my mother, who is in her early 80s, witnessed the forced unveiling of her mother, and also the forced veiling of her daughter."
She says that the control of a woman's body is an important part of the regime.
"When the regime calls itself an Islamic regime, women become the political cultural symbol of that regime," she said.
"And therefore monitoring, managing, punishing, disciplining a woman's body and their sexuality becomes a very important political policy."


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She sees movements like #WhiteWednesdays and My Stealthy Freedom as part of "the continuous resistance of women which has started almost 40 years ago."

The economic unrest at the beginning of the year creates a new impetus, she said, with the women's protest now becoming a cultural symbol of resistance.

"There is no way to turn back," she said. "We are hoping to see more of this spontaneous — as well as creative — way of resisting and hopefully it will turn into a more organized way of resisting this regime."

rest here :

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/...ove-their-veils-for-whitewednesdays-1.4510942
 
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The Iranian theocracy is an insult to Shia Islam ...
 
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The Iranian theocracy is an insult to Shia Islam ...
Really?

Hijab before everything is a law in Iran. Law is to be respected and followed. They can unveil themselves inside their own house for their own family.

If you are ok with watching the nice physics, curved body and beautiful hairs of your own brother's wife, don't sum up yourself with other Shias who have their faith in Zahra Athar (SA) and her father's way of life.

This is Iran where folks are following pure Islam by law. Step by step, with fighting against any kinds of corruption, we will move towards establishing an Islamic civilization.
 
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Really?

This is Iran where folks are following pure Islam by law. Step by step, with fighting against any kinds of corruption, we will move towards establishing an Islamic civilization.

There is always one ...

There is nothing in Islam that say that woman must cover their heads , kindly show us where anything like that is written.

The hijab has nothing to do with Islam.

It is simply a control devise by a dictatorship regime to oppress people and prevent them from lifting their heads.

But they will fail :

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I hope iran will clean it self from this filth
Khamenai degeneracy at best: in Syria they slaughter millions for sake of secularism and in Iran they slaughter for "Islamism".
 
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lower your gaze?
Loooool gladly looking at those two.

You would be a strict wife. I will start praying for your husband now. May Allah have mercy upon him and give him patience and above all courage for the battle of life that lies ahead.



Just joking. Don't get angry ok
 
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There is no compulsion in Religion

Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error: whoever rejects evil and believes in Allah hath grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold, that never breaks. And Allah heareth and knoweth all things.

— trans. Yusuf Ali, Quran 2:256

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