Comments on: It’s a Crime in Iran to be a Woman

By: hainezo

hainezo — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:19:43 +0000

These ignorant, plrooy-educated mullahs are the fundamentalists of Islam and, like fundamentalists in all religions, their knowledge & understanding of the faith they claim to represent is very limited. Thus their bigotry is passed on to the next & the next generation of poor boys plucked from the fields and given the priestly cloak of respectability. Because they feel their own ignorance, these mullahs re-inforce themselves by brute power instead of intelligent leadership.As the gap in education & sophistication between the people of Iran & their mullahs continues to widen, the mulllahs will resort more & more to brute force rather than finding the humility to admit their inadequacies.

By: Bryar

Bryar — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:55:24 +0000

that If they ‘saw’ Muslems before Islam they would never be ceerovtnd. I think that’s exactly your problem. May be you lived with all sort of bad muslems and you thought that the problem is with the religion not with people. let me also tell you one other thing. even those Moslems who threatened you on this blog because you was so harsh on this clement religion are ignorants (in religion)and give a bad impression about it exactly as you do. I think you’d rather avoid talking about all religions if you want to be representative of all people. If you keep on maintaining these outdated stereotypes on Islam (or any other) your blog will be a shelter for a atiests and they are, by the way, a minority not only in the Arab world, but everywhere.Ottman

By: Jewel Simonetti

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By: WorkingShirt

WorkingShirt — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:27:03 +0000

I understand totally that it is not literally a “crime” in Iran to be born a woman or live as a woman in Iran. I mean, you do not go to jail for being born with female genitalia. You are interpreting this article incorrectly. However, this article is about the lack of rights a woman in Iran has and the fact that when a woman in Iran asserts her freedom, she will be brutally suppressed by the regime. Any country which stones women (a barbaric, medieval practice indeed) would lead any rational human being on the planet earth to believe that Iran is not a safe place for a woman to live. I am sure you would agree.
One could also ask, why in the case of adultery is only the woman stoned to death and the man gets off (as usual).
Take for instance, that men have more rights than women in Iran. Take for instance that the people of Iran do not have the right to protest and all protests in Iran have so far been brutally suppressed by the government of Iran. Those in power in Iran feel they have the right to comment on the uprisings in the Middle East (very hypocritical) but have suppressed the people of Iran when they have wanted to express their desires for more freedom and democracy (this happened in 2009 and this year).
I know many Iranian people who hate the oppressive government there and hate the lack of religious freedom in the country. The fact that fashion police exist in Iran to monitor how young women dress is another example of what people of the female gender must endure.
Many extremely talented journalists, writers, intellectuals, filmmakers have either been tortured and imprisoned in Iran or have had to leave the country.
Even the Canadian Iranian journalist Zahra Kazemi was tortured, raped and killed by the Iranian authorities in 2003. Surely you would agree that the punishment for her crime of photographing a prison in Iran was immensely out of proportion to what she actually did.
I hope, for your sake, that in your marriage your husband does not grow tired of you one day when you reach, say, 50 years of age, and he decides he want to marry a younger woman so he sets it up that it appears that you have committed adultery and it is then decided you should be stoned to death, as in the case of Soraya M. This is what happens to many women in Iran. The situation of women in Iran is not a good situation, it is one consisting of arranged marriages, slavery in the service of men, the lack financial freedom and therefore power.
There are many good articles on this site written by many writers and I hope you enjoy them. Our writers do not need luck. We have the right to express our opinions and nothing on the internet is blocked as it is in Iran. The women of Iran need luck. Lots of it.

By: مسافر تاریخ

مسافر تاریخ — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:48:54 +0000

Helloit is not a crime to be a woman in IRAN & and most of us are very happy to live in this solid.
all of the countries have some problems but it is not a crime to live or born there.
i am sorry for you and people like you.
I am an IRANIAN girl so i am one of the girls of BIG CYRUS & DARYUSH & if i could to choose my country when i was born i choose IRAN. I HOPE FOR YOU TO WRITE GOOD ARTICLE
GOOD LUCK
چو ایران مباشد تن من مباد

By: RealityCheck

RealityCheck — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:58:33 +0000

I watched The Stoning of Soraya M last night. Very moving. Stoning is barbaric and medieval. No justice system without equality before the law can be called a system of justice. This is not a cultural thing. It is universal. Rules for evidence are not rules unless they are applied equally. Until countries like Iran change their barbaric ways, they will be pariahs outside the world community. The Koran needs a more modern interpretation.

This is not an anti-Islam post.