Iranian women fight against mandatory Hijab

Kathmandu: News events from the Islamic State of Iran rarely appear in Nepali news media. This could have two obvious reasons. Either we are less interested in the Burqa, Niqab and Hijab affairs of the Muslim ladies from the Muslim nations or it could be that “we are interested only in that news which we are being catered/fed by generally the Indian Godi media which in itself is more than biased towards Muslim men and women folks.

India’s Islamophobic content in the mainstream media has no parallels. Unfortunately, what “our boss Indian media, for many in Kathmandu, writes on Islam or for that matter the Muslim countries acts like a base for the RAW fed and controlled Nepali media. Practically, Nepalese media borrow or for that matter foot their analysis or for that matter commentaries as per the “political “lines acquired by our “poisonous parents” in India and thus get our stories spoiled/ corrupted or at best present the views thus compiled that suits to our Indian masters who have kept in the payroll of the RAW spy agency.

Scores of my own professional junior colleagues toe the political line on international issues as “structured” by the Indian media. We, in the process, not only distort the factual events but also commit a crime knowingly that suits the core interests of India. As and when some Hindus and Muslims in Nepal clash on certain “religious” events, the Indian media propagates the Nepali events as if the Muslims in Nepal have already captured the Nepali republic gifted by India.

Certainly, our brothers from the Hindu and Muslim families at times clash with each other, however, the event in a day or two subsides and the two warring religions come to an agreement and live in peace henceforth. The Indian media blows the Nepali event out of proportion and even claims that Muslim countries, like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and even Bangladesh pump money to some Muslim fanatics to bring in rifts and fissures between the two religions who have a track record of living in harmony since the time of modern Nepal's unifier King Prithvi Narayan Shah.

In nutshell, Nepali media has already been corrupted by the RAW’s excessive pumping of “under table envelope” money. India‘s envelope journalism has made deep inroads in Nepali journalism which is what has been helping Nepal’s Sikkimisation drive faster. The speed is in progress with the ruling political leaders who are guaranteed India elevated ones.

Now Iranian events in detail:

The recent Iranian happenings, albeit sad ones, have at least shaken the Muslim world across the globe and also exposed the incumbent Iranian government for its excessive “repression” of women in various parts of Iranian society.

Needless to say, the US which has the worst of its ties with the Iranian regime on several counts more so on issues of “nuclear nonproliferation” must have enjoyed observing its somewhat inimical regime engaged in unexpected and unprecedented protests across the country.

The US's strained relations with the Iranian regime are at best being capitalized by the Russian Federation.

Those who are at the forefront of such protests and anger against what they call a rigid “repressive and dictatorial Iranian regime” controlled by some fanatic Mullahs and Moulvis.

It is all about the women of today across the globe who demand and long for freedom” from a society that, they believe, has kept the entire women folks inside Iran in a very ignored associated with abundant hatred and above all the men who control the Muslim society more so inside Iran treat women folks as a commodity which could be well over used and when the job is done, need to be thrown to the mercy of Almighty. They are subjected to several societal restrictions which we in our society can’t even imagine.

Some even say that

Iranian women are treated like inferior creatures and they don't even have their identities.

The protests in Iran continue unabated even at the time of writing this piece. (Monday).

A Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini aka Jina Amini, a young girl at 22, was declared dead on September 15 after the notorious morality police first detained the Iranian Kurdish women for allegedly breaching the Islamic Republic’s stringent dress code designed especially for Iranian women. Media reports claim that Ms Amini died in a local hospital under mysterious circumstances.

Reports further add that the Guidance Patrol, the religious morality of the Iranian government, earlier had arrested the young Kurdish girl for not wearing the Hijab as per the Iranian custom of saying strict societal obligations.

These obligations are, however, being dismissed by the “global civilized society” over these years noticeably including Nepal.

Nepal believes in the full and honorific dignity of women across the globe and thus mourns the “mysterious” death of the young Kurdish girl Mahsa

Amini.

The Guardian Daily (British media) on 27 October writes that the Iranian security forces have violently clashed with the protesters who had gathered in their thousands in Mahsa Amini’s home town to mark 40 days since Amini’s mystifying death, with reports that shots were fired.

Amini was declared dead on September 16, as stated earlier.

“Security forces have shot teargas and opened fire on people in Zindan Square, Saqqez city,” Hengaw, a Norway-based group that monitors rights violations in Iran’s Kurdish regions, tweeted without specifying whether there were any dead or wounded. It said more than 50 civilians were injured by direct fire in cities across the region. A 29 October news authored by Holly Johnston through the MENA (NATIONAL) media outlet reveals that the family of Mahsa Amini are being held under house arrest at their home in Iran, her cousin has confirmed to The National. Amini's parents and her brother have been “detained in their home” by authorities for a couple of days, said Erfan Mortazei speaking from the Kurdish region of Iraq.

The Iranian political unrest which took immediate shape after the mysterious death of Ms Mahasa Amini forced Iran to close one of its key border crossings with neighboring Pakistan in recent days amid the violent unrest in a nearby city inside Iran.

The NEWARAB on 03 October claims that the Zahedan, a Sunni city in the Shia-majority Islamic Republic, saw at least 19 people killed on that particular day which frightened the countrymen.

Meanwhile, Euronews, a Dubai-based news agency stated on 29 October that the already deteriorating security situation inside Iran has compelled the UN Human Rights office to voice its serious concern about Iran's treatment of detained protesters and said authorities were refusing to release some of the bodies of those killed, as demonstrators again called for the death of the country’s top leader.

This is the fresh demand which expects the top Iranian leader resigns at the earliest.

The UN office hints at the fact that after the death of Ms Mahasa Amini, thousands of protesters across Iran were arrested by the brutal Iranian security forces.

The rigid Islamic Republic has plunged into a sort of chaos and political uncertainty of high magnitude with the slogans being heard, “down with the dictator”, “change the rigid regime” and installing a womenfriendly command. International commentators claim that after the sudden death of the young girl at 22 a Kurdish woman “Mahsa Amini the ongoing unrest has posed one of the boldest challenges to Iran’s clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution. Notably, after the unceremonious ouster of former King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran has remained politically unstable over these decades. Reza Pahlavi was very close to the US administration for the record.

Ayatollah Khomeini, then residing in France, engineered the Iranian revolution against the Shah of Iran and finally ousted the Shah's government once and for all.

The Japan Times on October 6 reports that the Iranian schoolgirls (students) too have come to the streets to express their deep anger over the death of the Kurdish woman, Mahasa Amini, and these school girls in the streets expressed their deep anger the hatred against the Iranian regime removing their Hijabs and staging sporadic rallies in defiance of a lethal crackdown by the security forces.

The Japan Times further reports that the schoolgirls in the streets have since taken up the baton around the country, removing their Hijabs, shouting anti-regime slogans and defacing images of the clerical state's leaders. Indeed this is a daring move and that too by girl students.

"Death to the dictator," a group of bare-headed girls was heard chanting about supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as they forced a man, reportedly the principal, out of a school in Karaj, west of Tehran, on Monday, in a video verified by AFP. Another group of girls sang "Woman, Life, Freedom!" as they marched through the Karaj neighborhood of Gohardasht, adds the Japan Times.

Moved by the chaotic situation and the plight of