Iran: Morality police renew crackdown on women
with loose headscarves and those
who dare not to wear them at all
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, tightly controls the upcoming snap elections, as he does all others. Six out of 80 prospective candidates made it past the vetting process of his 12-member Guardian Council, which oversees elections and can veto legislation that parliament passes. Five out those six were described as hardliners, intended to maintain the status quo. The sixth is “a token reformist.”
The renewed crackdown on female head coverings is an apparent warning that the new president will be no different from the recently deceased Ebrahim Raisi, and a deterrence to any dissident uprising during the elections.
Another crackdown was launched in May, “just as military tensions spiked between the Islamic Republic and Israel.” Yet again, the violent crackdown was to “reassert the government’s authority.”
Expect a violent crackdown of the morality police against women every time the Islamic regime wants to reassert its authority, particularly after the mass protests over the death of Mahsa Amini nearly two years ago. The morality police detained Amini for not wearing her hijab properly and murdered her, sparking protests that threatened the regime to its foundations.
As Iran’s presidential vote looms, tensions boil
over renewed headscarf crackdown
Arab News, June 26, 2024:
DUBAI: Seemingly every afternoon in Iran’s capital, police vans rush to major Tehran squares and intersections to search for women with loose headscarves and those who dare not to wear them at all.
The renewed crackdown comes not quite two years since mass protests over the death Mahsa Amini after she was detained for not wearing a scarf to the authorities’ liking. A United Nations panel has found that the 22-year-old died as a result of “physical violence” wrought upon her by the state.
Amini’s death set off months of unrest that ended in a bloody crackdown, and for a time morality police disappeared from the streets. But now videos are emerging of women being physically forced into vans by police as lawmakers continue to push for harsher penalties. Meanwhile, authorities have seized thousands of cars over women having their hair uncovered while also targeting businesses that serve them.
The renewed hijab push, which police are calling the Noor — or “Light” — Plan, began before President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash, and whoever wins a vote to replace the hard-line cleric on Friday will have an influence over just how intense it becomes — and how Iran responds to any further unrest…..
As I have mentioned many times, the more devout a Muslim is, the more insane they are. We can add 'hateful' to that character list. The closer a Christian is to God, the more like Jesus he becomes. The closer a Muslim is to Allah, the more evil he becomes.
Mali: Sharia police accused of subjecting women
to rape, forced marriages and sexual slavery
You might almost get the idea that Sharia allowed for rape, forced marriages and sexual slavery. To say that in the West is “Islamophobic” and earns you the contempt of all decent people. But in Mali, they know better.
ICC convicts Mali Islamist for Timbuktu atrocities
by Stephanie van den Berg, Reuters, June 26, 2024:
THE HAGUE, June 26 (Reuters) – Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted a Malian Islamist on Wednesday of war crimes and crimes against humanity for being a central figure in the Islamic police of Timbuktu during a 2012 rebel takeover.
In a summary of their verdict, the judges said Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz played an important role in the Ansar Dine Islamist group, which took the city on the fringe of the Sahara desert in 2012 and tried to impose sharia Islamic law….
“Al Hassan has been found guilty by majority decision of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including torture, cruel treatment and outrages upon personal dignity, for the public flogging of 13 members of the population” of Timbuktu, Presiding Judge Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua said.
Al Hassan has pleaded not guilty to all charges, but has not denied he was a member of Ansar Dine. His lawyers have argued he was trying to maintain order in a chaotic situation after the rebel takeover of Timbuktu.
Clad in a traditional West African yellow robe and white head dress, Al Hassan, 47, showed no emotion when the court also convicted him of religious persecution and the war crimes of mutilation and participating in sham trials.
Prosecutors had charged Al Hassan with a number of gender-based crimes, saying the Islamic police terrorised the women of Timbuktu, who were subjected to rape, forced marriages and sexual slavery. While judges said rape and forced marriages did take place in Timbuktu they found Al Hassan bore no responsibility for such crimes….
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