The flogging of an Iranian woman who refused to wear the mandatory hijab has sparked widespread horror and condemnation.
  • Wahots@pawb.socialEnglish
    1001·
    11 months ago

    Seventy four lashes for not wearing a piece of cloth on one’s head. That will permanently scar her entire back of her body. I hope terrible things happen to those that tortured her.

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
      3230·
      11 months ago

      You want to tell me this is not the western colonizers fault and the poor people of the east are not the victims in this? That’s outrageous.

      • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3119·
        11 months ago

        🙄👌👍

        It’s amazing watching the contortionist path you people take to blame every damn problem on the planet on “the west”.

          • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.worldEnglish
            314·
            11 months ago

            Meh, the /s is very much a real person here on lemmy. If that’s /s I don’t think they’ve seen the hardliner commies on here.

          • naught@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            101·
            11 months ago

            The CIA installed a religious zealot dictator… idk why you’re being downvoted lol. Let’s all just pretend the CIA hasn’t been fucking up democratically elected governments for almost a century

            • DarthBueller@lemmy.worldEnglish
              17·
              11 months ago

              Because 40 years have passed without direct intervention in their government and they’re just as bad. Will you still blame the west for Iranian oppression in 50 years? 80? 100?

              • naught@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                9·
                11 months ago

                It depends! Obviously the US isn’t entirely at fault. After our shenanigans there was like permanent war in the region (also mostly the US) which never helps. The destabilizing effects are still present and can be traced back to the US in no small part.

                Slavery was outlawed over 100 years ago in the US yet we are still dealing with the ramifications. Stuff doesn’t just happen in a vacuum

                edit: I should also note the US propped up a dictator who was corrupt and overthrown by religious zealots. They have been ruled by extremists ever since. It seems like a direct connection to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

                • DarthBueller@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  21·
                  11 months ago

                  All I know is that at some point, it goes from a valid criticism to a way to attack the US without giving ANY agency to the bad actors in Iran who have been far worse than the shah. Many many Iranians in Iran at this point consider the US and Israel allies in opposition. Downvote me straight to hell but it’s a fact.

          • DarthBueller@lemmy.worldEnglish
            26·
            11 months ago

            Oh! So after forty years, it’s still the west’s fault? How many decades pass before a culture gets to own its own shitty behaviour?

  • Kalkaline @leminal.spaceEnglish
    45·
    11 months ago

    This woman is a badass. She is spitting in the face of an authoritarian regime. What an inspiration for all of us.

    • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5114·
      11 months ago

      I get so angry seeing women in western democracies defending this barbaric subjugation of women.

      All religions suck, but Islam never having gone through any kind of reformation is a special kind of fucked up when it comes to women.

      Worst of all is seeing my liberal friends defending Islam, like some kind of PC pissing contest completely abandoning our brothers and sisters living in these theocracies.

      • blazeknave@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        11 months ago

        No reformation? You’re in a sub thread about Western Muslim women not wearing hijab.

        I, Jew, have dated and had sex with said Muslim women. That’s pretty reformed big dog.

    • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
      364·
      11 months ago

      Because context never matters anywhere, right? \s

      In the West, it is a choice, and that is good. That’s what Iranian women also want: choice.

      This echoes the argument against the prohibition of abortions. Pro-choice means that women can have the option to choose to have an abortion, not that they will be getting them for breakfast.

    • Nudding@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2912·
      11 months ago

      What about cutting off the end of every baby boys dick because some cereal magnate wanted kids not to masturbate 100 years ago? Sounds like ass backward savagery, too.

      • DarthBueller@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        11 months ago

        Are the mullahs still getting publicly disrespected and gunned down? That was epic, seeing those bloody effers getting a tiny taste of the brutality they’ve been doling out capriciously for the last 40 years. They’ve done wonders to make many Iranians go from marginally religious to adamantly anti-Islam, political or otherwise.

      • whoisearth@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        True dat. Anecdotal. I’m in Canada and one of my daughter (11) friends is Iranian. Have her parents in my phone and watch particularly her dad’s WhatsApp status. Wish I new Farsi cause goddamn they are pissed at the government there big time.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    14·
    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Mazyar Tataei, Heshmati’s lawyer, told local newspaper Shargh that his client was detained at her home in April by so-called morality police, who confiscated her mobile phone and laptop and placed her in detention for 11 days.

    In a harrowing story, she said she was eventually handcuffed and forced to wear a headscarf, shackled to a bed in a room that resembled a “gruesome” medieval torture chamber, and whipped on her shoulders, back, waist, thighs, calves and buttocks.

    Heshmati said she tried not to show pain during the ordeal, whispering the words “In the name of women, in the name of life, the clothes of slavery are torn, our black night will dawn, and all the whips will be axed…”, while lashes rained down upon her and the shackles bruised her wrists.

    The term “inappropriate condition” likely refers to an image depicting her walking on the streets of Tehran without a headscarf, wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt and a long skirt.

    Following the widespread reactions to the news, characterised as “violence and brutality by the authorities of the Islamic Republic”, various figures expressed their condemnation, including artist and politician Zahra Rahnavard, who, along with her husband former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, has been under house arrest for years since 2010.

    In response to the escalating reactions to her story, Roya Heshmati shared a new post on Instagram, expressing gratitude for the solidarity shown.

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    • XIIIesq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      306·
      11 months ago

      Hundreds of millions of people practice Islam peacefully. This is about an authoritarian state using Islam as a tool.

      Would the world be better without religion? Probably, but realistically we’d still find other stupid things to divide ourselves over and other tools for authoritarian states to control their citizens with.