INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
when she was taken into custody for allegedly not wearing a proper hijab or maybe none at all.Sullivan has called for an investigation of
Yes, an investigation is proper, so nothing like her death happens again, although, admittedly, few, for now, know exactly what happened,
government nowadays, is a hypocritical monster
a Zionist sniper in Jenin in the West Bank last Spring? And she also happens to be an American citizen! So, on this basis alone, Sullivan,
questionable merit by him at least
Just as no American should ever be beaten or killed by police in the U.S., as many innocents have been, and many of them who were murdered
by police did not directly threaten anyone
In the U.S., this happens frequently, and once in a while, police perps are made accountable for such, but for sure, not often enough
And this matter in Iran hits on a personal level, too.Personal because for years, I have been close friends with an internationally notable
and widely respected and awarded Iranian journalist-photographer who, I hear now, simply wants to abandon her country when her country
literally needs to retain talented artists and citizens like she had been
This incident involving Mahsa Amini has cemented her wish to leave Iran
And no question, there are many sages and talented Americans who want to get out of the U.S., too, for reasons of misguided government
that has long claimed to support it but no longer seriously does as once it did
for accurate reporting is a case in point
sanctions on Russia and any other country that objects to U.S
policies overseas.) Is the entire world turning into a totalitarian, fascist, global monster?Islam, since its inception by Allah through the
Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century in Arabia has always promoted a code of modesty for all people regardless of sex, and the hijab for
And there is no question that a majority of Muslim females wear the hijab with pride in predominantly Muslim countries and often in the
(I once had an adult Iranian student in a college class in 2000 who explained this perfectly well to me, and she made a lot of sense aside
from being a top student.)In fact, since the arrival of Covid 19 in 2020, I have often worn a mask in public locations to avoid catching the
disease, even though I have been aware that it may not obviate illness
Nowadays, in public places like a high-end food store in North Carolina where I work eight hours every week, I have lately noted that maybe
35 percent so of customers wear a surgical mask
In fact, it affords a kind of personal privacy that can be compelling and pleasant
If I were a Muslim female, I could easily imagine wearing a hijab in public would likewise give me the same kind of modest, simple, and
another for many centuries in various locations as a way to demonstrate modesty in public as properly suggested by Islam, is the degree to
before Allah and to society at large
One could argue that the best way to deal with females in Iran who may be seen in public with no or an improper hijab is simply to have a
conversation with them about their immediate motivations to discern what they are thinking and why, and at worse or at most, perhaps fine
them very modestly, as if they had run a red light at an intersection?In fact, given the moronic, hypocritical reactions people like Jake
best that ANY Muslim country try to avoid feeding the propagandists in the U.S
government and its captured media
(And look at Saudi Arabia, a U.S
terms even for Tweets critical of the regime and some of its policies
object to such madness in Saudi Arabia? Sadly, no
Does it object to a cowardly Apartheid regime in Palestine where half or more of the entire population west of the Jordan River has no human
rights at all? No.Iran, it may be said, may sometimes appear to make too much of enforcing the hijab mandate, but frankly, this is no
Every deep culture has its own particular nuances and interpretations of decorum and expectations of citizens, and they should, in general
be respected as part of a world that IS happily diverse and variegated
Critique ought to be solely reserved for the degree of harshness applied to enforcement, especially when such involves anything like hijab
or dress code where there is no objective harm done by a female who may sometimes chafe at it, as in the possible case of deceased Mahsa
towards almost inevitable societal and political disintegration.
