Hijab in Iran - some comments

Filmed by a visitor to Iran in May 2008. Comments by an Iranian American, a Korean American, and a Native American. ... and some footage recycled from Iranian TV via youtube.

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[SPS148669]

Korean=Imperialist Westerner. Only Native Americans and Middle East should be freinds. After all Middle Easterners are darker skinned Europeans and Native Americans are darker skinned Asians but get hated on by the richer lighter skinned  northen cousins from Westen Europe/East Asia.

[peacenik5104]

@SPS148669 @SPS148669 Not making a whole lot of sense SPS. Don't think Native Americans on average have darker skin than Koreans ... not that anyone cares.

[zelzalosolh]

The pride of Women's hejab is that the woman is not subject to exploitation by the man. In the West, we see that the woman is constantly judged by her looks. in rap videos, but also in public life where she is constantly told to look attractive towards others. Busying themselves with Botox and constantly in fear that their husband might leave or cheat with them (in some European countries countries 70% in the working space there is sexual harassment) This has largely to do with lack of the Hijab

[peacenik5104]

hmmm. We hear this all the time, but I can't say I'm convinced. Triple talak is easy divorce. Are Muslim women never/seldom worried about being divorced? Personally speaking, it is easy see a woman's beauty with most hejab. Niqab may hide beauty, but not Iranian regulation hejab. And is there no sexual harassment in Dar al-Islam? What about the Philipino and Sri Lankan housemaids and nannies?

[peacenik5104]

Now a more important issue is the `change for equality` campaign.

[peacenik5104]

No comparison. In other countries there are no squads of cops send out every spring to keep people wearing underwear. As I keep saying, Islam is not the issue, national identity is not the issue. Not respect, not tradition, etc. It's pasdaran, lashes, fines and prison. That's the issue.

[zelzalosolh]

Forcing is a very relative word peacenik. So is a word like freedom. You are forced to keep your underwear on. We are forced to keep our Hejab's on. Its a very subjective view you have that one is somehow better than the other. Iranian women have worn the Hejab before Islam. Chador is not an Arabic word, it is a traditional Iranian dress from Sassanian times. So it is part of our national identity and mandatory by Islam. Also for the man. You should respect them rather than look down on them.

[peacenik5104]

Good for you. Good for the many that feel that way. Just don't force everyone else and then tell yourself it doesn't matter they are all manipulated anyway.

[bismillah555]

hey girls if ur muslim. u need to wear hijab cuz ur muslim muslims need to wear hijab....

[zelzalosolh]

How could you say it is old news when you just as I know very well the way in which Americans are daily manipulated. I would take this matter much more seriously than call it "Old news". The entire credit crisis evolves around how the elites brainwashed people into loans because oftheir consumeristgreed.I also walk around with long pants and a blouse because I cannot show my arms and legs. I do it with pride too because the heat in the next life is much worse in my view, and many feel that way.

[peacenik5104]

Understood that hijab is important to most Muslim women. ... but why does it have to be enforced by police? There is much to be criticized in the West, but there is also a big difference between being "constantly told to look attractive," and being threatened with fines, lashing and imprisonment, for bad hijab.