12/24/25 Guardian (just before the fertilizer hit the fan):
In December, the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, said the hijab was crucial “to preserve the dignity of women and to restrain very strong and dangerous sexual urges”, heralding the start of a new push to enforce the dress code laws.
Within days, the security forces intensified their hijab enforcement. The organisers of a popular marathon race in Kish Island, off the southern coast of Iran, were arrested and accused of “violating public decency” for allowing women to run unveiled.
If the only think that keeps Muslim men from raping women is the face and other epidermal parts are covered, what does that say about the effectiveness of Muslim moral teaching?
I understand the desire not to provoke unnecessary lust, but if Ahmad can see the skin around her eyes, he can certainly imagine her lips and other parts a little lower. Maybe Ahmad just needs blinding? I think the ayatollahs may have a serious projection problem.
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