Something big is happening in Iran. A few days ago, protests broke out and brave women have been taking their hijabs off in protest of the forced dress code. Iran heavily restricts social media, but a few videos have found their way online, like the one of this woman that was posted a day before the protests began.
This woman in #Iran took off her #Hijab to protest the mandatory Islamic dress code imposed on Iranian women. #IStandWithHer #IranProtests #Islam pic.twitter.com/G6oKHIPA68
— Armin Navabi (@ArminNavabi) December 29, 2017
Masih Alinejad, a US-based Iranian journalist, has been encouraging Iranian women to take photos and video as they walk around in public without the mandatory headscarf. She then shares them to her Instagram.
Strangely enough the major feminist groups are silent on the protests. You can check their Tweets – nothing. Just the same old #resisting and fearmongering over equal pay and reproductive rights.
Women in Iran are valiantly protesting genuine oppression. So far the silence of major feminist groups in USA is deafening. Where are you @NationalNOW @AAUW @nwlc @MomsRising #IranProtests #Iran https://t.co/T8iiwkunxv
— Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) December 30, 2017
If ever there was a time to stand with the women in Iran, it would be now. They’re on the brink of a real revolution, yet people like Linda Sarsour (who thinks a hijab is empowering) stayed silent.
Until today, that is. She broke her silence to attack conservative women for standing with the Iranians and tried to somehow tie the protests to Trump’s travel ban, when in actuality, they are about more freedom and less government oppression.
Rohingya Muslim women executed and raped in mass in Burma – not a peep out of conservative American women. Now they are all up in arms on #Iran. Selective outrage is not a good look.
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) January 2, 2018
.@Liz_Wheeler is concerned with the safety of Iranian women protesters but supports Trump who has banned Iranians from entering the United States. Selective outrage at its finest.
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) January 2, 2018
Feminists should be out there supporting these women. Instead, they’re crying about the cost of birth control and “fearing for their lives” under a fascist regime.
-K