In Iran, they are protesting against wearing the veil.
In Canada, they are protesting in support of women who do...
IRAN: UNIVERSITY FEMALE STUDENTS REBEL AGAINST VEIL
Female students at Tehran Polytechnic University, where students protested against Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a visit last December crying 'dictator go away' and throwing firecrackers, are staging a major protest against new regulations enabling police as of 21 April to arrest women who do not abide by the Islamic dress code.
A group of 700 female students organized a rally on campus and signed a letter to the dean calling the new rules "an offence to the dignity of women" and accusing him of "wanting to extend to academia the sexual apartheid imposed by the government on Iranian society."
Authorities immediately reacted on Thursday withdrawing the students' university ID cards which are mandatory to access campus and classes.The students will now have to face a disciplinary commission which will decide whether they will be allowed to continue their studies or be expelled. On Wednesday, Iran's police chief, Gen. Ahmad Moghaddam, said that women who do not wear the veil and don't abide by the Muslim dress code "are tools of the enemy, who tries to destroy the system by spreading a cuture which goes against Islamic values."
The difference is rather important, actually. Thirty years of iron fisted and corrupt rule by the Shia Khomeinist mullahs have created a theocracy whose citizens are more agnostic and secular then devout.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, you have a Wahhabi Islam that demands as one of its precepts its adherents do not integrate into foreign society. We of course assist that by giving voice to the Saudi clerics and their devout associates in the West.
Bottom line, the entire West needs to take the same position as Turkey - a Muslim country. No veils or burkhas in government buildings or schools, period. And we will . . . sometime after the civil war in Europe is concluded.