Politicians from Netherlands promote the hijab in Iran while Iranian women are sent to jail for protesting the compulsory hijab


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Politicians from Netherlands promote the hijab in Iran while Iranian women are sent to jail for protesting the compulsory hijab


The Guardian wrote:Tehran hijab protest: Iranian police arrest 29 women
New wave of protests spread across country, sparking personal freedoms debate
Police in Iran’s capital have arrested 29 women accused of being “deceived” into joining protests against a law that makes wearing the hijab compulsory.
Women across the country have been protesting by climbing onto telecom boxes, taking off their headscarves and waving them aloft on sticks.
Although women in Iran have fought against the hijab for nearly four decades, the new wave of protests has grabbed more attention and sparked a debate rarely seen before over personal freedoms.
One recent image taken from Mashhad shows a religious woman, in full chador, standing on a telecoms box holding up a headscarf, in solidarity with women who - unlike her - don’t want to wear it.
Tehran police said on Thursday that the campaign had been instigated from outside Iran through illegal satellite channels. “Following calls by satellite channels under a campaign called White Wednesdays, 29 of those who had been deceived to remove their hijab have been arrested by the police,” the semi-official Tasnim news, which is affiliated to the elite Revolutionary Guards, reported on Thursday.
The reformist Shargh newspaper covered the protestsunder the headline “Reactions to the removal of headscarves in the streets”. Such discussions have rarely reached national newspapers, which operate under heavy censorship, but comments by judicial officials allowed Shargh to write about the matter.
Soheila Jolodarzadeh, a female member of the Iranian parliament, said the protests were the result of longstanding restrictions. “They’re happening because of our wrong approach,” she said, according to the semi-official Ilna news agency. “We imposed restrictions on women and put them under unnecessary restrains. This is why ... girls of Enghelab Street are putting their headscarves on a stick.”
Iran’s prosecutor general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, described the protests on Wednesday as “childish”, “emotionally charged” and instigated “from outside the country”.
Masih Alinejad, a US-based journalist and activist, started the White Wednesdays campaign in May 2017, encouraging women to wear white headscarves or take them off in protest at the rules.
“The Iranian police announced in 2014 that they’ve warned, arrested or sent to court nearly 3.6 million women because of having bad hijab, so these arrests are not new, if people are protesting it’s exactly because of such a crackdown,” she told the Guardian.
Iranian officials have accused her of receiving money from foreign governments to fund her two separate anti-compulsory hijab campaigns – the first one is My Stealthy Freedom. Alinejad denied it, saying that although she works for the US government-funded Voice Of America service, she has received no funds for either of her campaigns.
Washington Post wrote:Sweden’s ‘feminist’ government criticized for wearing headscarves in Iran
Over the weekend, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven led a Swedish delegation to Iran. Lofven was received warmly by the Islamic Republic's political elite — Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei tweeted positively about his meeting with Lofven, adding that Sweden had a “good reputation” in Iran — and the two countries agreed upon a number of trade-related deals.
Back home, however, coverage of the Swedish government delegation's trip to Tehran has focused on something else. As Sweden's media noted Monday, a number of female officials who joined the trip, including Trade Minister Ann Linde, chose to wear Islamic headscarves while in Iran.
According to Expressen newspaper, there were 11 women on the trip out of 15 total in the Swedish delegation. The women were photographed wearing headscarves “almost all of the time” they were in Iran, with the exception of a number of events that took place at the Swedish Embassy.
By law, women are required to cover their hair and wear loose-fitting clothes when they appear in public in Iran, a country governed by a conservative Islamic elite. Many choose to wear loose-fitting hijabs, like the one worn by Linde in the picture above.
These rules require international visitors to dress modestly even if they are only in the country for a short time.
Lofven's Swedish government describes itself as a “feminist government,” and it has spoken of the need for a “feminist” foreign policy. Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch, a human rights group and frequent critic of Iran , noted this apparent contradiction in a tweet shared Sunday night.
@HillelNeuer
Walk of shame: Women of Sweden's "first feminist government in the world" don hijab as they walk past Iran's Rouhani
https://www.unwatch.org/walk-shame-swed ... jabs-iran/ …
Masih Alinejad, a journalist and activist who started a Facebook page that invited Iranian women to share photographs of themselves without a hijab, also criticized the Swedish delegation.
“By actually complying with the directives of the Islamic Republic, Western women legitimize the compulsory hijab law,” Alinejad wrote on Facebook. “This is a discriminatory law and it's not an internal matter when the Islamic Republic forces all non-Iranian women to wear hijab as well.”
Alinejad later shared to Facebook a recent image of Sweden's deputy prime minister Isabella Lovin signing a document with an all-female staff behind her. That image recently went viral, as many viewed it as a criticism of President Trump's abortion policies. “Trump's words on women are worthy of condemnation; so are the discriminatory laws in Iran,” Alinejad wrote.
Speaking to Expressen, Linde said she had not wanted to wear a headscarf. “But it is law in Iran that women must wear the veil. One can hardly come here and break the laws,” she explained.
Other Swedish politicians were more critical. Jan Björklund, leader of the opposition Liberals party, told Aftonbladet newspaper that the headscarf is “a symbol of oppression for women in Iran” and that the Swedish government should have demanded that Linde and other female members of the delegation be exempted from wearing it.
Iran's rules on female attire often draw the ire of international visitors — just last year, U.S. chess star Nazi Paikidze made waves after refusing to travel to Iran to play in the world championships because she would not wear a hijab. For female politicians, it represents a bigger challenge, however, as flouting the rules or refusing to travel to Iran could damage relations with the country.
Almost all female politicians who visit Iran cover their hair when they appear in public, but in some cases that has not stopped criticism. Marietje Schaake, a Dutch member of the European Parliament, was criticized by Iranian conservatives for wearing relatively tight clothes and a headscarf that did not cover her neck during a visit to the country in 2015.
The year before that, Italy's then foreign minister, Emma Bonino, was reported to have briefly not worn a headscarf after arriving in the country, which resulted in a back and forth with the conservative Iranian press.
Questions over Islamic attire on diplomatic visits are not limited to Iran. In 2015, first lady Michelle Obama was pictured without a headscarf in Saudi Arabia, where conservative religious dress is customary but not required by law for foreigners. While other female dignitaries visiting Saudi Arabia in the past had also chosen to not cover their hair, Obama's attire sparked criticism on social media from a small but vocal group of Saudi conservatives.
Linde told Aftonbladet that she will “of course” not be wearing a veil when she visits Saudi Arabia next month.
Kyllä kai sanoa saa, mutta väliä on sillä että miten.turn up the bass wrote:Käytän etuoikeuksiani ja valta-asemaani länsimaisena valkoisena heteromiehenä ja tykittelen aiheesta, vaikka käsittääkseni minulla ei oikein ole puheoikeutta näissä jutuissa.
ja täts it. supporttia heille jotka vastustaa pakollista huivia ja myös heille jotka vastustaa täyttä bänniäRasmus-mafioso wrote:turn up the bass wrote:voi käyttää huivia ja olla käyttämättä ja sekä huivin käyttäminen että käyttämättömyys ovat henkilökohtaisia vapauksia, joiden suhteen kaikki painostaminen ja moralisointi on tuomittavaa ja ihmisten oikeutta valita itse vaatteensa tulee kunnioittaa.
jos paikallinen laki on esim että homot saa heittää katolta alas niin se on sitten asia erikseen ja laki kun on laki ja täts it sitten niinRasmus-mafioso wrote: Paikallisten lakien rikkominen on sitten asia erikseen, varsinkin lainsäätäjiltä.
En tiijä hommien taustoista että osaisin kommentoida esim. että oliko noiden huivien pitäminen tarpeellista mahdollisesti itsessään tarpeellisten / hyödyllisten järkkäämiseksi nyt ja jatkossakin, joten en ota tähän (tai näihin) yksittäiseen tapaukseen mitään kantaa.Rasmus-mafioso wrote:Kyllä kai sanoa saa, mutta väliä on sillä että miten.turn up the bass wrote:Käytän etuoikeuksiani ja valta-asemaani länsimaisena valkoisena heteromiehenä ja tykittelen aiheesta, vaikka käsittääkseni minulla ei oikein ole puheoikeutta näissä jutuissa.
Omasta mielestäni kysymyksenasettelu on edelleen pohjimmiltaan pöljä. Feministi voi käyttää huivia ja olla käyttämättä ja sekä huivin käyttäminen että käyttämättömyys ovat henkilökohtaisia vapauksia, joiden suhteen kaikki painostaminen ja moralisointi on tuomittavaa ja ihmisten oikeutta valita itse vaatteensa tulee kunnioittaa.
Paikallisten lakien rikkominen on sitten asia erikseen, varsinkin lainsäätäjiltä.
Rasmus-mafioso wrote:Omasta mielestäni kysymyksenasettelu on edelleen pohjimmiltaan pöljä. Feministi voi käyttää huivia ja olla käyttämättä ja sekä huivin käyttäminen että käyttämättömyys ovat henkilökohtaisia vapauksia, joiden suhteen kaikki painostaminen ja moralisointi on tuomittavaa ja ihmisten oikeutta valita itse vaatteensa tulee kunnioittaa.
Pöydällä nakki ja pullo vodkaa wrote:ja täts it. supporttia heille jotka vastustaa pakollista huivia ja myös heille jotka vastustaa täyttä bänniä
kiitos kontribuutiosta. onneksi osasit kopsata jonkun muun ajatukset seuraavaan viestiin, jotta vaikutat fiksulta.Nilkki Nilkkerssön wrote:Vittu miten typerä topic.
täts it!crybaby wrote:jos paikallinen laki on esim että homot saa heittää katolta alas niin se on sitten asia erikseen ja laki kun on laki ja täts it sitten niinRasmus-mafioso wrote: Paikallisten lakien rikkominen on sitten asia erikseen, varsinkin lainsäätäjiltä.
millä tapaa tää on tulenarka kysymys?jalo villi wrote:huivia iranissa saa käyttää ihan vapaasti eli enemmän symppaan kyllä feminististä huivinkäytön vastustusta ainakin iranin kontekstissa
mutta joo tää on niin tulenarka kysymys et sen enempää ei oikeen osaa ottaa kantaa
juuh ei tarvitse näin yksinkertaista asiaa toistella tarpeettomasti varioiden vähän ilmaisua eikä tuossa edes mitään erityisen fiksua ole, josta mitään pisteitä heruisi.turn up the bass wrote:kiitos kontribuutiosta. onneksi osasit kopsata jonkun muun ajatukset seuraavaan viestiin, jotta vaikutat fiksulta.Nilkki Nilkkerssön wrote:Vittu miten typerä topic.