My entire life was consumed with finding creative ways to avoid wearing hijab without punishment and now I see some Western feminist women wearing hijab to show solidarity with Muslims...
It's just painful to watch and remember my 8 years old self.
The heartbreaking story of two young sisters who protested in Iran and were reportedly sexually assaulted in detention.
Twin sisters Taraneh and Romina Rahimi were just 20 years old. One dreamed of opening her own equestrian club. The other worked in a shoe shop.
Today, one is facing execution. The other has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
The sisters, from Isfahan, were arrested in the middle of the night. Security forces broke into their home, tied their hands and feet, put bags over their heads, and took them away.
For four months, no one knew where they were.
Their mother spent night after night searching outside courthouses, prisons, and hospitals, desperate to find her daughters. When she finally saw them in Dowlatabad Prison, both had bruised and swollen faces. Parts of their hair had fallen out or had reportedly been ripped out.
Taraneh said that while held in solitary confinement, she could hear her sister screaming and crying as she was tortured. Interrogators repeatedly struck Taraneh’s previously operated knee and threatened to sexually assault her sister if she refused to sign forced confessions.
According to Taraneh, a prison medical official told her: “You’re going to die anyway. What difference does it make whether you die with a broken leg or a healthy one?”
A complaint alleging sexual assault during detention was formally filed. Yet the court did not hold even a single hearing to investigate the allegation. Instead, the two sisters and other defendants in the case were handed death sentences and decades-long prison terms.
Confessions extracted under torture. Lawyers given just ten minutes to review an 8,000-page case file. A judge who insulted the defendants more than 20 times during the proceedings.
Two young irani women had dreams and that is why they joined the January uprising to demand Freedom. Now one faces the gallows and the other could spend the best years of her life behind bars.
Be their voice.
#TaranehRahimi #RominaRahimi
This is how Afghan women are forced to live.
Candace Owens? Silent.
Greta Thunberg? Silent.
United Nations? Silent.
Women Rights Organizations? Silent.
If it's not Israel, they don't care.
@hearnimator She obviously read all those usa slave books from the 60s and 70s. That terminology was used extensively. I read one once, it was terrible, the term she used was favored by the slave owners to describe the desirable female slaves they chose for sex.
Remember 19-year-old Diana Bahadour, who was shot and killed by the Islamic regime’s security forces for protesting for a free Iran.
She had her whole life ahead of her.
Never forget the evil of the Islamic regime in Iran.
"I don't think you are sloppy. I think you know exactly what you are doing."
Here's the moment I told a room filled with anti-Israel Oxford students about how my Iraqi and Tunisian family were ethnically cleansed from their homes.
My history isn't up for debate.
The nearly 86 year old Ex Labour MP, Maori affairs Minister Dover Samuels tells Laws :
“Shane Jones called me to come to this hikoi in Kaikohe to wake up this bloody ngapuhi iwi to the atrocities happening to our kids, but no bugger wants to do anything about it especially Māori themselves. As far as ngapuhi leadership is converned I have no faith in the born again unelected kaumātuas. Shane and I tried to shake them up about the issue but they got offended. They are too busy talking about themselves and hikois for the treaty when nothing was going to bloody happen, meanwhile the murder of children is going on under our roofs, smoking P is the culture. Māori have no leadership and it’s only them who can fix this. What has John Tamihere and TPM ever done for our people? nothing���.
Māori leadership. There is none. Māori in leadership roles have continually been a failure over and over again. More concerned about grifting and causing division. Where is the introspection ? Where is courage and truth speaking ? Nah it’s all Marxist mumbo jumbo, while these self anointed faux Māori leaders hitch themselves to the radical gravy train.
So here we have this catastrophic failure of culture, of leadership and yet the Govt is hell bent on adopting the “so called Māori approach” to everything.
I’m sorry but the Māori approach is one of failure and murdered kids. Stick it up your ass. I am of ngapuhi descent, my grandmother married Dover Samuel’s mums brother, I know that area, and it’s a write off. Gangs, drugs and violence. It’s the pits.
Mana Tahere twice backed out of an interview with Laws. He has has been anointed as some kind of ‘leader’ for Ngapuhi and apparently has a masters in indigenous leadership - the 38 year old also serves as an ‘equity’ expert on a health board in Northland. I think we can see where the problem is right there, he’s no leader.
I 100% agree with Dover Samuels and with Michael Laws when he says -
“I’m over this too many Māori children are dying, too many Māori have drug and violence issues, there is no Māori leadership”
Catalya Remana Tangimetua Pepene tragically WILL NOT be the last Māori child murdered by her own family, she is just the latest statistic while the so called “Māori leadership” trumpet ‘dEcOlonIzAT10n’ and blame everyone else but them bloody selves, take responsibility and address this toxic mess that modern Māori culture now represents.
@maria_mcgivern@pennymarienz There's no genocide in Gaza,there is in a few African nations where Christians are also being murdered by Islamists. Are you protesting that? One small sect of fundamentalist Jews have been known to spit but most Christians who visit or live there are happy. Gazans kept slaves.
This was Gaza on October 7. I am so sick and tired of people saying that most Gazans want peace with Israel. They don’t. They were kissing the ground with joy as Hamas paraded dead Jews through the streets. Remember this the next time you see someone call them the victims.
@Pete20221 Give both to NZF, they need more power to make changes with Act. That way National will have less power and the two coalition partners will be able to make a difference. Let's finally get mmp working properly.