This was me as a little girl, forced into hijab. And this is me after I broke free.
In Iran, I was told: wear the hijab or be kicked out of school. Resist, and you can be arrested, beaten, lashed, or imprisoned, or killed it in the hand of morality Police.
Then I came to the West and was told: be careful telling your story, it might cause “Islamophobia.”
I am a woman from the Middle East. I have lived under Islamist ideology. I have every right to fear it, criticize it, and speak about it.
Don’t silence us in the name of tolerance. Let us talk.
Apparently, we’ve reached the point where forcing a woman to disappear under a burqa is “cultural sensitivity,” but criticizing it is intolerance.
Wear one for a day. Then explain to Afghan women why this is their “culture.”
Five years of Taliban rule: No school, No university. No work. No freedom. Now, even a woman’s voice is treated as forbidden. Morality police patrol the streets with guns and whips to make sure women disappear.
If your idea of tolerance requires women to surrender their faces, voices and freedom, you’re not defending diversity, You’re defending an Apartheid against women!
@UAGApartheid@EGACampaign
Mehdi Roshani، a young Kurdish man from Malekshahi who went to the streets demanding basic rights and was tortured so severely is about to be hanged.
A witness who saw him in prison said:
"If you saw his body, you would be horrified. There was not a single uninjured spot. It was covered with marks of electric shocks and whips."
He was arrested on January 21. Transferred to Tehran. Held in total isolation for months. Tortured for forced confessions. Released on bail, then re-arrested two weeks later.
Now the Islamic Republic wants to execute him, using those confessions as "evidence." But he didn’t confess also his body was destroyed.
His family is too poor to afford a smartphone in order to fight for his life.
@corriereveneto Come può il @Corriere dar spazio alla protervia classista di certi gioiellieri più ignoranti che ricchi? Siete tutti ridicoli, da #tokatzian, che si fotta, al "giornalista" che non capisce nemmeno quali volgari bestialità scrive.
Di osceno, in tutto ciò, trovo solo il fatto che questo cialtrone possa impunemente insultare chi ha meno soldi di lui (probabilmente perché non si è ritrovata a ereditare una merda di gioielleria di famiglia).
#Tokatzian#Venezia#vainculo
@SpioneValerio Veramente osceno che questo spocchioso si permetta di pontificare, ma soprattutto che il @Corriere lo pubblichi. Ignoranti sarete voi, commercianti lagnosi e superbi, e giornalisti compiacenti.
@GianlucaZanell2 Come no, una ferale supercazzola.
Occhio all'effetto youtuber complottista, resta sul tuo terreno: approfondimento e precisione, senza fantasie.