Iran Unrest: Negligent Interference

The opposition to the hijab is old in Iran, but after the death of a twenty-two-year-old girl named Mahsa Amini, this protest has taken the form of a revolutionary.

Mahsa was killed when she was in the custody of the guards of Islam. These people roam the streets of Tehran in search of girls who are not wearing their hijab and burqa properly.

After capturing Mahsa, the guardians of these Islam dragged him in their car. The witness was his brother, who was with him at the time. He says that his sister was beaten up inside the vehicle, due to which she fainted and she died a few hours later in the hospital.

Mehsa has become a symbol of this movement against the hijab of Iranian women. Women all over the world are raising their voices in favour of Iranian women, but the situation in our great India is that more voices are being raised about the right to wear hijab. Recall that this movement started in Karnataka, when the hijab was banned in educational institutions.

The protest against this order was started by some five-six girls, who later came to know that they had a direct relationship with the jihadi organization Popular Front of India (PFI). There was no doubt that there were many big forces behind these girls, because as soon as their protest started, huge processions of women wearing burqa took out in many cities of the country demanding the ‘constitutional’ right of hijab.

In the last week, many PFI leaders have been arrested and raids have been conducted on their offices and homes. It is good that the Ministry of Home Affairs has swung into action, but this work should have been done much earlier because the PFI has only one objective and that is to radicalize Islam in India and sow the seeds of Jihadi ideology among ordinary Muslims.

The hijab has been cleverly used by this institution to spread its jihadist ideology and many left-wing intellectuals and politicians have been caught in their clutches besides Muslim women. Such people have created a lot of hue and cry on social media, to prove that hijab is not forced, women wear what they wear.

When asked if this is true, why are little girls seen wearing hijab and burqa, they have no answer. Still, these so-called soldiers of human rights are created.

After listening to his words (and abuses), I remembered the last sati that happened in India in 1987, Kanwar, who was eighteen years old, in Devrala village of Sikar district. Roop Kanwar was well educated and had only been married for eight months. This sati was supported by many educated women, including a couple of princesses who were widows themselves.

If they protested, then illiterate women, who participated in a public meeting at India Gate, said that if it is mandatory for women to have sati, then it should be for men too. I was present in that meeting convened by George Fernandez and even today I remember the words of a Dalit woman – ‘We are being told that being Sati is written in our scriptures. If so, I say these scriptures should be burnt.

In every religion, in every religious tradition, there are some things which are wrong. These are often things that are considered essential only for women and not for men. Instead of supporting these things, a voice should be raised to remove them. I am surprised when educated, educated women who like to progress themselves raise their voices in favour of the hijab.

Muslim women in India who feel that they wear hijab and burqa of their own free will should look towards Iran and Afghanistan in their neighbourhoods to see how many atrocities are happening to women regarding these things. After doing this, she should join her voice with those Iranian women who are putting their lives at risk and burning their hijabs in front of TV journalists.

There is so much anger now against its religious leaders and so-called religious watchmen in Iran that many have begun to say that a new revolution has begun against the Tasddut that women have tolerated in Iran since Islam under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini. There was a revolution in the name in 1979.

Muslim women in India are imprisoned in orthodox thinking, so it would probably be useless to expect from them, but those leftist women politicians have been saying nowadays that hijab should be given a legal right because women themselves take this decision of their own free will, they are ashamed Should come I know very well that men take the decision to keep women in the screen, yet they are talking like this.