Iranian Women Remove Hijabs in Facebook Selfie Series

[P F Tinmore]

https://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-liv...ian-women-hijab-masih-alinejad-184151910.html

 

[Samson]

Iranian politician Nina Siakhali Moradi epitomized the promise of more civil rights for the country’s women when she won her bid as an alternate to the Qazvin City Council earlier this summer. But now she’s had her election overturned by religious conservatives, who have basically barred her from office for being too hot

 

[editec]

Good for them.

Sooner or later the Iranian people will tire of their religious overlords.

I went to university with lots of Iranians and most of them were no more religious than I was.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Good for them.

Sooner or later the Iranian people will tire of their religious overlords.

I went to university with lots of Iranians and most of them were no more religious than I was.

We have been seeing that brewing in Iran for several years.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hijab is not required in most ME countries.

Examples are: Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq.

 

[Lipush]

Good for them

 

[SAYIT]

Good for them.

Sooner or later the Iranian people will tire of their religious overlords.

I went to university with lots of Iranians and most of them were no more religious than I was.

We have been seeing that brewing in Iran for several years.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hijab is not required in most ME countries.

Examples are: Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq.

It's not required by Islam nor by law in many countries where Islam is the state or majority religion but Islamic based traditions like the hajib are enforced, often violently, with gov'ts unable to protect women or turning a blind eye to the traditionalists.
The occasional attempts at liberalizing Islamic cultures in the Mideast are subject, as with Nina Moradi, to the whims of self-appointed religious police.