Posted on 04/22/2007 5:06:27 AM PDT by nuconvert
IRAN: University Female Students Rebel Against Veil
Tehran, 19 April (AKI) - 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."
Thanks for the link. For most people it’s a revealing look at life in Iran and that’s a good thing, but I’m bothered by his ‘Iran is not a danger to us’ attitude and message.
“The more the Islamic Republic tells them to loathe the Shah or America, the more they yearn to have the Shah back, and to live in America. In this country, America is probably more popular, even now, than in any other country on the planet.”
That’s very true. The majority of the people do love Americans and may not be a danger to us, but the regime certainly is a danger to us, it’s own people and others throughout the world.
I had my questions about that too. I'm not sure I trust his analysis. And he is the conservative of the Hitchens brothers. I think I would probably trust Christopher Hitchens more on this.
(I was going to use 'stoneage' but didn't want to suggest a pun)
Women don’t have to hide their faces in Iran.
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