Criticism of war on women and girls in Iran from Islamic news source

 

Another story on the return to arresting and torturing women and girls in Iran. This story, however, comes from Gulf News, a Muslim oriented media source in Dubai. Here, they use terms like "War against women", "battlefield against women and youth”, and, "campaign of repression against dissent". 

‘War against women’: Iran ramps up

crackdown as regional tensions rage

Activists report return of dreaded white vans of ‘morality police’ to city squares

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Published:  April 21, 2024 12:15AFP

Iranian women walk through downtown Tehran on April 13, 2024. Police in Iran announced a new crackdown

on April 13 on women who ignore the country's strict Islamic dress code that makes it compulsory for 

them to wear headscarves in public.

Image Credit: AFP

PARIS: Executions of convicts, arrests of dissidents and a resurgence in patrols enforcing the obligatory wearing of hijabs: Iran is stepping up repression at home as tensions flare with its arch-foe Israel, activists say.

Iranians in the Islamic republic have endured increased repression since nationwide protests were sparked from September 2022 by the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for allegedly flouting the mandatory dress rules for women.

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But the crackdown has entered a new phase as fears of a regional conflict surge, with Israel launching an apparent strike on Iran on Friday.

Activists have reported that the dreaded white vans of the “morality police” have returned to city squares across Iran, picking up women deemed to have violated the rule of obligatory hijab in force since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Tehran police chief Abbas Ali Mohammadian openly announced the latest crackdown on April 13, with local media saying it was codenamed “Nour” (“light” in Persian).

Multiple videos posted on social media — under the hashtag “jang aliyeh zanan” (“war against women”) — have shown women being bundled into vans by male police in body armour accompanied by female police agents dressed in the Islamic chador.

Streets turned into ‘battlefield’

“The Islamic Republic has turned the streets into a battlefield against women and youth,” 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and jailed rights activist Narges Mohammadi wrote in a message from Tehran’s Evin prison and published by her supporters on social media.

In one video filmed close to the Tajrish metro station in northern Tehran, a woman collapses on the ground after being apprehended by the police, telling bystanders who then seek to revive her that her phone was confiscated.

Another includes what appears to be the sound of police using electric shock against women who had been rounded up and put into a van.

“Amid increasing dissent at home and international attention focused on regional tensions, the Islamic republic is grabbing the opportunity to intensify its campaign of repression against dissent,” said the director of the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran, Hadi Ghaemi.

“Without a firm international response, the Islamic Republic will be emboldened to intensify its violence against women and its egregious violations of human rights,” said Ghaemi.

Hundreds were killed, according to rights groups, and thousands arrested, according to the United Nations, in the crackdown on the 2022 protests that represented one of the biggest challenges to the Islamic republic.

‘Opportunity to tighten grip’

Among those arrested in recent days was Aida Shahkarami, the sister of Nika Shahkarami, 16, who died during the 2022 crackdown, her mother Nasrin wrote on social media.

Aida was detained “for not wearing the mandatory hijab,” Nasrin Shahkarami wrote on social media.

Nika Shahkarami was found dead during the protests, with some family members accusing the security forces of killing her.

Dina Ghalibaf, a journalist and student at Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University, was arrested after accusing security forces on social media of putting her in handcuffs and sexually assaulting her during a previous arrest at a metro station, according to the Norway-based Hengaw rights group.

Executions, which activists say are used by Tehran as a means to instil fear into society, have also continued apace, with at least 110 people executed this year alone according to the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) group.

Among those executed in recent days were a married couple, Esmail Hassaniani, 29, and his wife Marjan Hajizadeh, 19, who were sentenced to death for drug-related charges in a joint case and hanged in Zanjan central prison on 11 April, according to IHR.

“The regime will without any doubt use this opportunity to tighten the grip inside the country,” said IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam.

“They still haven’t managed to take the control that they had before September 2022. They may have the opportunity to do so now, if all the international attention goes to the escalating tension with Israel.”

Approaching Sodom > Far-Left Scotland jumps on the bandwagon to stop puberty blockers for gender dysphoric children

 

Joining England and most of Scandinavia in realizing the horrors of puberty blocking cause far more damage than good, Scotland makes a courageously sane decision. Almost all far-left leaning countries have realized the mistake, but not Canada, nor Iceland, nor any of the Democratic States in the USA. They continue with their insane ideology of thinking they can improve on God's work.

Trans-rights advocates decry Scottish clinic's 

decision to stop puberty blockers for children

By Ehren Wynder

April 18 (UPI) -- Scotland's only gender clinic has paused hormone treatment for patients younger than 18 following a landmark review of the treatment.

The Sandyford clinic in Glasgow on Thursday said it has paused prescribing puberty blockers and other hormone treatments to children until they turned 18.

According to an update on Sandyford's website, "Referrals from the Sandyford sexual health services to pediatric endocrinology for the prescription of puberty suppressing hormones have been paused for any new patients assessed by our young person's gender service."

The clinic said the pause will not affect patients who are currently receiving treatment.

The decision follows the publication of a review by pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass, commissioned by the National Health Service of England, which reportedly found "weak evidence" for the effectiveness of prescribing hormone treatment for minors who are questioning their gender.

The report said young people have been "let down" by the "toxicity" of the debate surrounding their care.

NHS England said it would stop prescribing puberty blockers in March. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde paused starting new patients on the treatment following that decision.

Sandyford has come under attack in recent weeks for not immediately following through with the ban until now.

"The findings informing the Cass review are important, and we have reviewed the impact on our clinical pathways," said Dr. Emilia Crighton, NHSGCC director of public health. "The next step from here is to work with the Scottish government and academic partners to generate evidence that enables us to deliver safe care for our patients."

It seems Dr Crighton is not fully convinced of the error of her ways.

Vic Valentine, manager of advocacy group Scottish Trans, said the decision to pause treatment would "harm trans children and young people."

"This decision has been taken within the context where the reality of trans people's experiences and lives is questioned almost daily in some of the media and some political circles," a statement from Scottish Trans read.

"This makes us worry that the decision has been influenced by that context rather than solely through consideration of the best interests of trans children and young people."

Members of LGBT Youth Scotland also protested the decision, urging Sandyford to reconsider.

"Being transgender, especially in such a negative political climate, can have severe negative impacts on one's mental health and accessing gender affirming treatment can and has saved lives," the group said in a statement.

In reality, it has probably cost far more lives than it has saved. More than 50% of girls who transition to boys in their teens attempt suicide after the transition. That's 150 times the rate of attempted suicide in the general population of youth.

First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf said members of parliament will give an update on the government's position "in the coming weeks."

"There is a process of review that is very much under way," he said.

Yousaf earlier this week said Scottish heath boards would give the "utmost consideration" to the Cass report, adding, "When it comes to the prescribing of medicine, clinicians are best placed -- not politicians, government ministers or myself as first minister."

Scottish Conservative deputy leader Meghan Gallacher said the pause was "long overdue."

"I'm beyond fed up with this lackadaisical approach to gender care. They are failing children and young people," she said.

Puberty blockers suppress hormones that cause puberty and are often prescribed to children questioning their gender.

According to figures obtained by BBC Scotland News under a freedom of information request, 1,100 patients at the end of 2023 were on the waiting list for puberty blockers.

Seventy-one patients under 18 received prescriptions for puberty blockers after referrals from Sandyford between 2016 and 2023.

Following the pause, 43 patients in Scotland will continue to receive either puberty blockers or "gender affirming" hormones, such as testosterone or estrogen.

Wolves among the Sheep > Anglican Church of Canada sued by child sex abuse victims

 

‘They knew’: Victims of sexual abuse by Ontario 

youth leader sue Anglican Church

By Caryn Lieberman  Global News

Posted April 19, 2024 1:00 am

 Updated April 19, 2024 2:30 pm

 6 min read

A historic case of sexual abuse is cracked open and a youth church leader is charged and convicted. 

Now, the victims are seeking accountability. Here’s Caryn Lieberman.

A former youth leader at the Church of St. Bride’s in Mississauga, Ont., who was previously

convicted of sexual assaults on young boys, is now being sued, along with the Anglican

Church of Canada.

Garth Bent, who also worked as a camp counsellor at Ontario Pioneer Camp in Port Sydney, pleaded guilty in 2009 to three counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted indecent assault.

“Three men have stood up and brought a lawsuit. … The church harboured a sexual predator,” alleges Justin Linden, the men’s lawyer. Three claims filed in relation to the case are seeking a total of $19.5 million.

“They knew he was having boys sleep over. They never should have allowed it. And we sued the camp and camp staff knew that he was selecting a different boy each night on these trips to sleep in his tent.”

The three men sat down with Global News and shared their stories. Their identities are being protected.

“I was around 10 years old when I met Garth Bent, and I attended a youth group in Mississauga at St. Bride’s Church … He had asked me if I wanted to go to Ontario Pioneer Camp in Ontario. I thought it was going to be a really great idea,” recalled one of them.

“Each night, Garth Bent would choose a child to sleep in his tent — just the two of them — and that’s where the incidents would occur. I was just a child. Of course I was terrified. I was alone. I was in the middle of nowhere,” he said.

For years, he kept the abuse a secret.

“It’s just complete, numbing terror and you’re truly intrinsically frozen about what to do with it,” he added.

'I was terrified'

Ontario Pioneer Camp is a Christian summer camp that is part of a non-profit organization called Intervarsity.

A spokesperson for Intervarsity told Global News the camp was “not aware of any of the acts alleged to have been committed by Garth Bent before or during the time Mr. Bent was a camp participant.”

The camp says it “has always met or exceeded the relevant standards for its screening and training of camp staff and volunteers.”

Another victim, who met Bent at church youth group, described him as “larger than life.”

He recalled winning a competition that Bent held for the boys in the church youth group.

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Men sexually abused by youth church leader speak out

“Whoever could hand out the most brochures was going to win a night to go to Garth’s place,” he said.

It was there that he said he was sexually abused.

“I was terrified,” he said.

“He was given the full confidence of the church, and the church knew there was something very wrong with him. They knew he was having these boys sleepover. They knew that this was not appropriate and they allowed it to happen, and instead they clothed them in the authority of the church. They let him lead boys in prayer. They gave him authority, he gave him power, and he abused that power. And he did it on their watch,” said Linden.

The third victim who spoke to Global News claimed Bent “began to put his hand into my underwear and he began to masturbate me. … I felt shameful, I felt hurt, I felt scared.”

An investigation begins

It was decades later that he went to police in Peel Region to report the sexual abuse.

“Probably about 25 years had passed before he came, basically through our door to make a complaint about this offence,” said Det. Bruce Thomson, with the special victims unit.

“He had struggles with things in his life as a result of the actions of Garth Bent: psychologically, emotionally, physically. And his motivating factor, though, above all, was that he didn’t want to see anyone else be a victim at the hands of Garth Bent,” he added.

Thomson took statements from the victims and began to investigate.

“The charge back then was indecent assault on a male. That’s been changed. It would now would be sexual interference in the Criminal Code and with that information I had reasonable grounds and laid a charge against Garth Bent,” said Thomson.

Bent eventually received an 18-month conditional sentence.

What? And a gold watch, too?

Thomson referred to that as a “slap on the wrist.”

“Instead of spending 18 months in prison at a provincial facility, you get to serve it in the community. … You’re allowed to go to work, you can go grocery shopping at least once a week, you can go to a place of worship once a week, and then the rest of the time you spend at home,” said Thomson, adding, “unfortunately it doesn’t serve as a specific or a general deterrent to have other people not to engage in these behaviors.”

“I do not feel that justice was done,” said one of the victims.

But that's Canadian Justice! It's fair for the rapist, not so much for the victims.

'It destroyed me'

The men described how the sexual abuse has impacted their lives.

They shared similar stories of addiction, drugs and alcohol.

“It destroyed me … I don’t want in Canada for what happened to me to happen to another kid,” said one of the men.

“I ended up being homeless for a few years. I was smoking crack. … I got addicted to gambling. You name it, I was addicted to it. Anything that would take me away. I couldn’t sit still by myself with my thoughts,” said another.

“My work has suffered. My relationships have suffered. My daily routines have suffered. Everything gets altered,” explained another man.

Bent has denied the allegations of sexual abuse in his statement of defence. Both his lawyer and the Anglican Church of Canada declined to comment.

The church has denied knowledge of Bent’s alleged sexual abuse in its statement of defence.

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The Church of St. Bride’s in Mississauga, Ont. Global News

“The criminal case is against the assailant, Garth Bent, the civil case is against the organizations that harbored him and that gave him authority, and the only way to call them to account is through a civil claim because they’re not charged with any criminal offenses. And if you don’t bring these civil cases and you don’t turn the light on what they did and allowed to happen, it just continues,” said Linden.

Because, they have no discernment, they are not listening to God, they have no shame or guilt for their sins, and they have no fear of the Judgment of God. They are in for a very rude awakening.

“They’ve come forward and they’re prepared to tell their story … it takes a long time to stand up. And now they’ve stood up and they’re prepared to be counted,” said Linden.

Thomson said he believes there could be more victims who have yet to contact police or seek help.

“He had unfortunately access to many, many victims. And I’m sure the ones that I’ve been able to come across, I’m just touching the tip of the iceberg,” he said.

“Certainly if they would want to come forward, we are more than willing and would be glad to hear from them. There’s no right or wrong answer. Everyone has to make their individual decision. But if they even want to talk about it and see what their options are, we’re always more than happy to do so.”

Islamic Insanity > Muslim mom in Texas disciplines daughter by beating, choking, and burning her

 

Texas mom accused of choking teen daughter for

not wearing hijab in social media post, pleads guilty

Click2Houston, April 16, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

KINGWOOD, TX – A Kingwood mother accused of beating and choking her daughter when the teen did not wear her hijab in a social media post, has three years of community service ahead of her.

Sittarh Khan is accused of beating, choking, and burning her 14-year-old daughter in October of last year. She was upset with her for not wearing her hijab and overcooking pita bread, according to Harris County prosecutors….

“The defendant, upset the complainant did not wear her hijab at school, beat and choked the complainant, causing her to lose consciousness,” the hearing officer said during Khan’s probable cause hearing shortly after her arrest….

The injury to a child charge stems from an incident over pita bread. Khan allegedly got upset about the bread being overcooked and “forced the complainant’s arm onto a hot oven rack, causing her to have three burn marks,” the hearing officer said.

Khan’s plea agreement includes deferred adjudication for three years. During that time, she has to complete 100 hours of community service, donate $100 to the Houston Food Bank, cannot use drugs or alcohol and must attend a 4-hour anger management class.

A 4 hour class to undo whatever Islam has done to her is like a flea trying to stop a raging elephant. The photo above reveals the loveless stare of a bitter woman who, unfortunately, is trying to make her daughter turn out just like her. God help that poor girl and the millions like her.

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Texas: Muslim mom pleads guilty to beating, choking, burning

teen daughter for not wearing hijab, overcooking bread

APR 19, 2024 3:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER

The daughter is the victim here, but it is hard not to have sympathy for Sittarh Mazhar Khan, who was likely treating her daughter the way she herself was treated when she was a teenager. The abuse of women is hard-wired into Islamic texts, and so has gone on unchallenged for generations.

The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” — Qur’an 4:34

Muhammad’s child bride, Aisha, says in a hadith that Muhammad “struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: ‘Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?’” — Sahih Muslim 2127

An another hadith states: “Rifa`a divorced his wife whereupon `AbdurRahman bin Az-Zubair Al-Qurazi married her. `Aisha said that the lady (came), wearing a green veil (and complained to her (Aisha) of her husband and showed her a green spot on her skin caused by beating). It was the habit of ladies to support each other, so when Allah’s Messenger came, Aisha said, ‘I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women. Look! Her skin is greener than her clothes!’” — Sahih Bukhari 7.77.5825