Iran sentences three women to prison for 16 years each, for (gasp!) appearing with hair uncovered

One of the most common, brazen lies uttered by Muslim fundamentalists is that Islamic law (sharia) does NOT force women to wear the full-face or full-body covering.  Instead the imams claim all Muslim women do so voluntarily.

"You can't be serious, infidel!  You support the Great Satan, yet make a big deal out of a question about women dressing modestly instead of flaunting their uncovered bodies?"

Yes.  It may seem trivial to some, but by asking a question that will expose a small lie, the true nature of the regime may be revealed. 

Specifically, observers in Iran report that three Iranian women--Monireh Arabshahi, Yasamin Aryani, and Mojgan Keshavarz--have been sentenced by the Iranian Revolutionary Court to prison terms of at least 16 years each for disobeying the country's Islamic dress code  Specifically, they were charged for "disrespecting compulsory hijab."

The charges against the women stem from a video that was widely shared on social media in March, which was taken on International Women's Day. The video shows Arabshahi, Aryani and Keshavarz without their headscarves, disseminating flowers to women on the metro in Tehran while discussing their views on the future of women's rights in Iran.
In the video, Aryani hands a flower to a woman wearing a hijab and says: "one day I hope we can walk side by side in the street, me without the hijab and you with the hijab."

Subsequently following the video's release, Aryani was arrested by Iranian security officials at her home in Tehran, on April 10. The following day her mother, Monireh Arabshahi, was arrested after going to Vozara detention center in Tehran to inquire about her daughter's arrest. Keshavarz herself, was arrested "by force" on April 25 at her family home in front of her nine-year-old daughter.

A human-rights monitor claimed that when Judge Mohammad Moqisseh presented the charges he told the women, "I will make you all suffer.”

Each woman was sentenced to ten years for "encouraging and preparing the grounds for corruption and prostitution," five years for "assembly and collusion to act against national security," one year for circulating "propaganda against the regime." Qarchak, the prison where they are currently being held, is known to be one of the country's more menacing prisons due to "inhumane medical and psychological conditions."


IN A SIMILAR case a year ago, Azam Jangravi took off her hijab and waved it above her head while standing atop an electrical transformer in a busy Tehran square.  A crowd formed,and people shouted at her to come down.

For that trivial act of protest she was sentenced to three years in prison.

Even knowing she might be sentenced to prison, Jangravi believed protesting would create a better world to live in for her daughter, now eight years old.  Religious authorities also threatened to take Jangravi’s daughter away from her.

Since sharia law was imposed after Iran’s Islamic revolution 40 years ago, women have been forced to cover their hair.  Women who appear in public without the head covering are fined or arrested.

In July ILNA, an Iranian state news agency, reported that Iran had warned 66,000 drivers in the Gilan province that female passengers in vehicles were not permitted to remove their hijabs in cars.

Now:  Have you heard any western feminist organizations yelling about this violation of womens' rights?  No?  Yeah, that's what I thought.  You haven't heard about this at all until now. 

Wouldn't it be a hoot if some enterprising reporter would stick a microphone in the face of that a$$hole head of CAIR and ask him about the four women mentioned in the article above.  Even better if Code Pink or any leftist womens' organization would do the asking.

But of course it won't happen.  Western feminists never, ever criticize Islamic atrocities against women.  You might ask yourself why that is.