NO HEJAB

get your facts right

Hey Multiple Personality Disorder,

Not checking your facts makes everyone look bad. Article 102 of the constitution doesnt say anything about lashing bi-Hejabis:

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It proibably says it in some other document, but not in the constitution.

Somebody didnt do their HW right.

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 I hope these kids will be OK when they return to Iran. Shirin Ebadi accepted her Nobel Prize without wearing hijab. She argued that no IRI law says that Iranian women have to wear hijab oversea.

    Thank you, Fair, for your great post! It is sad that basijis are merciless toward unarmed and defenseless women!

Delaram Banafsheh (Yolanda)

"Cactus in the Desert"

Iran's women have been most courageous in defying the evil IRI

Every voice counts! Every action counts!

Iraj Mirza

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The Pahlavis and all mullahs must disclose the source and the amount of their weal

Oh, but all this is a hoax

don't you know?

91% of Iranian people support their government.

Those protesting are a vocal minority, facing legal consequences from law enforcement.

Anybody claiming abuse or rape or crimes by the regime must be a hoax and an opportunist trying to get a visa or money.

According to WAFFEN SS MAJOR, the upholder of fascism and systematic rape and torture in the name of Islam.

I am so proud of these young ladies. I dare one coward basiji or coward fascist waffen SS major to go one on one, unarmed, on the mat against one of these ladies. They will get a good taste of what they deserve after what they have been doing to women for 30 years.

But they will never will do that. They will only attack defenseless ladies in the streets with batons while wearing protective gear:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyTDWVMHdkk

I spit on the face of such "men". I am so proud of these ladies. So proud.

And so ashamed of fascists like waffen SS Major who have no honor whatsoever. Defending rapists and murderers shamelessly.

-Fair

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 During last year's Beijing Olympic Games, Iranian swimmer, Mohammad Alirezaei, had to pretend to be sick to withdraw from the competition 'cause he was not allowed to swim against the Israeli swimmer....it is sad...the guy worked his butt off to qualify for the Olympics....IRI quashed his dream like that! :(

//www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/11/iranisrael.olympics/index.html?iref=24hours

IRI cares about its ideology more than sports and its own athletes/people! It is sad!

Delaram Banafsheh (Yolanda)

"Cactus in the Desert"

These athletes are facing severe consequences

"واکنش مجلس به دسته گل زنان کاراته کار

انتشار عکس هایی از مسابقات تکواندوی بانوان در آلمان که ورزشکاران زن ایرانی را بدون حجاب اسلامی نشان می دهد، واکنش های مختلفی را به دنبال داشته است.........هر چند برای مسولان سازمان تربیت بدنی تکذیب موضوع اولین اقدام دم دست بوده است، ولی معلوم نیست بعد از انتشار وسیع عکس بدون حجاب بانوان ورزشکار ایرانی آنها اقدام به تکذیب چه چیزی کرده اند.............در همین زمینه محمد تقی رهبر رئیس فراکسیون روحانیون مجلس با محکوم کردن برداشتن حجاب از سوی بانوان ایرانی در مسابقات کارته در کشور آلمان گفت: کشف حجاب بانوان ورزشکار ایرانی در مسابقات خارج از کشور مصیبت بزرگی است وباید برای آن خون گریه کرد. نماینده مردم اصفهان در مجلس در گفت وگوبا خبرنگار سیاسی«فردا» با تاکید براینکه مسولان سازمان تربیت بدنی باید پاسخ گوی کشف حجاب بانوان ورزشکار ایرانی در مسابقات خارج از کشور باشند، گفت: حفظ ارزشهای اسلامی درمسابقات خارج از کشور برای ملت ایران از هزاران مدال طلا وقهرمانی مهم تراست......"

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IRI's sports politics

I agree with Multiple Personality Disorder.  These girls were brave, even if in the interest of participating in the competition, their federation approved of their removal of their hejab.  After all, they would have had to face returning to Iran and the ramifications of their appearing hejab-less.

Iranian sports authorities have savagely forced Iranian athletes to follow the regime's silly politics for the past 30 years.  Hundreds of athletes have had to face omission from lists and other possible punishment when they were forced to refuse participating in competitions where their rivals were from Israel.

The photos were first released on Tabnak, a website close to Iranian conservatives.  Presumably they covered in black is to conceal their identity.

Federation rule or not

What these girls did is an act of bravery in light of Note (1) of Article 102 of the penal code on Ta'azirat (penitences), which states: , "Women who appear on streets and in public without the prescribed ‘Islamic Hejab’ will be condemned to 74 strokes of the lash.”

What these girls did qualifies as a social protest against mistreatment of Iranian women in the Islamic Republic of Iran.  Nowhere in the IRI's constitution it says "men" shall be condemned to 74 lashes if they don't wear a proper vejab, so IRI has created an unjust society for its citizens.  People who support this constitution are the ones who are desperately trying to portray IRI regime as anything but an oppressive one, especially towards women.

In what other country, other than the Islamic ones, people are being threatened in their constitution to be whipped for the way they dress?  That's what I want to know.

As is the portrayal of all dissent

by the Iranian people as a foreign plot. This is not only boorish, it is insulting to the Iranian people.

And yes, the focus should be on the girl's sports, No girl should be forced to wear the hejab in order to participate in a sport in which hejab is a problem (or any other sport for that matter).

Finally, who says this not a social protest? How old are these girls, and does the IRI not require them to wear hejab at this age?

What is misdirected Waffen SS Major, is your loyalty. Stand with your people, not with fascism. I don't see you congratulating these girls for getting to Germany, just there you are quick to defend your little IRI from any possible blemishing.

Pathetic.

-Fair

Misdirected post

The focus should be on the girl's sports, not the wearing or not wearing of the hijab.

Everyone knows the sporting event's rules ahead of time, and the girls are in Germany.

This isn't any kind of social protest so why try to represent it as such?

The desperate portrayal of anything and everything anti-IRI is really quite boorish. 

Rules are there for good reason

In martial arts competition, you spar and it is very fast and serious. Noses get broken and teeth fall out. Headscarves, bandanas, caps, etc. can get in the way of the sparring and can just be downright dangerous.

Millions of men and women train martial arts around the world, and it is no man's business to tell another woman what she is allowed to wear if her dream is to train and compete in this area. If it is too much for some sick man to handle to see these ladies' hair, then he should get the hell out of the audience and not watch.

As far as AN suing, he should answer first for crimes against humanity before he opens his big mouth.

-Fair

Yes I guess it's a

Yes I guess it's a federation rule on the sport uniform and safety measures. And it is not only for Karaté. The federations of some other sports also have some restrictions about wearing hejab during competition. Naturally it is followed to the letter, depending on the location and circumstances.

You made us Proud!

Thank you. 

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 Last year, an Iranian athlete, Karateka Sepahi, refused to remove her hijab during the Tokyo World Karate Championship and got disqualified....AN praised this lady's value big time and threatened to take legal action against the organizer.......

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now the athletes can compete without hijab.......I am just curious who blacked out their eyes in the photos? What is the reason to black out their eyes? for their protection? So they don't have to wear the hijab anymore, but they have to hide their identity?!

Delaram Banafsheh (Yolanda)

"Cactus in the Desert"

everyone missed the fact

That in order for women to take part in these competition it was mandatory to remove head cover as a safety precaution.

Otherwise they would not be allowed to compete.

Struggle for democracy and woman's rights in action!

More power to you girls!

They look older than 9 years old to me...

They are at least teenagers. What was the age limit that you say was
always allowed? In the street it is 9 years old. Do karateka older than
9 have the right to not have hejab?

In any case, good job and bravo ladies. 20 years ago women were not
even allowed to do competetive sports of any kind in Iran, thanks to
the vision of Iran's "Gandhi", Ayatollah Khomeini. Women were supposed
to do as men tell them, as they still are expected to do today in that
repressive abusive society.

-Fair

I think anyone who might dare give these ladies a hard time

...will get their ass kicked :O)

The ones

who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.  That is why you are true champions. 

This always was allowed

They are young. If they were older perhaps would be a different story (I assume they are young kids)

Bravo Ladies

You make me so proud to be Iranian. Thank you for showing the true warrior spirit and making it clear what it means to have honor.

You are the 21st century Pahlevanan and Javanmardan of Iran.

-Fair

it is time to do away with that

    Time for iranian women to break and discard their chains everywhere not just for sports .

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I am glad that they were able to compete without hejab! 

Delaram Banafsheh (Yolanda)

"Cactus in the Desert"