The flogging of an Iranian woman who refused to wear the mandatory hijab has sparked widespread horror and condemnation.
  • Wahots@pawb.socialEnglish
    48·
    10 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
      1921·
      10 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.

  • Kalkaline @leminal.spaceEnglish
    32·
    10 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
      348·
      10 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.

      • samokosik@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        617·
        10 months ago

        I wouldn’t necessarily say that everything about religions is bad. For example, Christmas is a religious holiday and I genuinely like it because I can meet with my family, friends and we give presents to each other. So there are some nice aspects of religions.

        However, living a life only according to a religion is quite stupid. You are just making your life harder for no good reason. Arguing that you should do something because <insert a religious reason here> is quite stupid.

        Same for hijabs. If the someone wants to wear it, then they are free to do so but forcing someone to wear it is just retarded. Sorry but I think there are more practical clothes when it’s 35 degrees outside and it should be everyone’s choice what to wear (as long as certain rules are respected such as no nudity unless otherwise stated).

        Simply said: many religious practices lack pragmatic reasoning behind them and make the life harder.

        • Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.worldEnglish
          64·
          10 months ago

          Stating Christmas is a religious holiday and using the word retarded speaks volumes to your character

          • Lath@kbin.social
            41·
            10 months ago

            Come now, no need to be like that. Everyone’s a bit retarded in our own special way…

          • tjsauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
            33·
            10 months ago

            I don’t understand, Christmas originated from the Christian religion, what exactly does it say about this person’s character?

            • Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              10 months ago

              December 25 was the traditional date of the winter solstice in the Roman Empire,[45] where most Christians lived, and the Roman festival Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (birthday of Sol Invictus, the ‘Invincible Sun’) had been held on this date since 274 AD.[46]

              https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

              Using the word retarded is similar to using other derogatory slurs deemed hate speech.

            • Applesauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              10 months ago

              It didn’t though. Christmas was invented by the Christians to help convert Pagans of the time by saying that Christianity fits in with their celebrations. Christmas origins come from the Roman celebration of Saturnalia.

            • SheeEttin@programming.devEnglish
              4·
              10 months ago

              Not exactly. Most Christian holidays are redefined existing holidays. Christmas was “oh everyone already celebrates a feast around midwinter, let’s make it a celebration of the birth of Jesus so we can still do the celebration but in a Christian way”.

    • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
      81·
      10 months ago

      Because context never matters anywhere, right? 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.

      • DarthBueller@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 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
        2·
        10 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.

    • Nudding@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2312·
      10 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.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    7·
    10 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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