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by Uzay Bulut
• March 8, 2015 at 5:00 am
"A
woman without a veil (headscarf) is like a home without a curtain. A home
without a curtain is either for sale or for rent." — Suleyman
Demirci, head of the Promotion and Media Department of the AKP.
Women
are oppressed at home and outside; continually insulted by state
authorities or the clergy, and even beaten or murdered for not being
"obedient" enough, or for wanting to get a divorce. Why would
anyone hang around to get beaten? Worse, why would anyone be forced by
law to hang around to get beaten?
Perhaps
to many men, such a loss of control over another human being is to be
dreaded, just as the slave-owner dreads how hugely inconvenient it would
be to him if he were not to have his slaves.
Male
domination and belittling women is so deeply rooted in the Islamic
culture that most Muslim men do not even see that what they do to women
is, in reality, merely a way to justify treating them badly -- and
all under the mask of "honoring" them and
"protecting" them, supposedly for their own good!
Sadly,
locking up women in the nursery or the kitchen is not
"protecting" or "honoring" anyone. It is merely
imprisoning an unpaid servant. In this sense, it is a form of
slavery. It is simply abuse trying to pass itself off as chivalry.
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Protestors in Turkey denounce the murder of Ozgecan
Aslan, who tried to stop a man from raping her, February 2015. (Image
source: BBC News video screenshot)
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Last month, the brutal murder of the twenty-year-old university
student Ozgecan Aslan, who tried to stop a man from raping her, sparked
mass protests in across many cities in Turkey.
The burned body of Aslan, who had been missing for two days, was
discovered on February 13 in a riverbed in the southern province of
Mersin. A bus driver, Ahmet Suphi Altındoken, 26, confessed that he had
tried to rape her after she had boarded the minibus he drove. He said he
had stabbed her to death, then cut off her hands to avoid leaving his DNA
under her nails, before burning the body.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan condemned the killing by saying,
"Allah entrusted women to men, but there are feminists and such, and
they come up and say, 'What does women being entrusted to men mean'? They
say that 'this is an insult.'" Erdogan added: "You have nothing
to do with our civilization, our faith, our religion."
by Shadi Paveh
• March 8, 2015 at 3:00 am
"No
one had any idea that the executions were to be taking place right away,
not even the men themselves... The men were in iron cages, with shackled
hands and feet." — Sister of the Dehghani brothers, to the
Roozonline News Agency.
The
charges against all six men were "enmity of God," punishable by
death in Iran's penal code. They were among the 33 Sunni men currently on
death row in Iran.
"The
Iranian authorities are executing them over charges that appear to be
fabricated and after grossly unfair trials." — Amnesty
International's Director for the Middle East and North Africa.
"Ever
since the rise of ISIS, the regime has become more brazen and stepped up
executions. They do not have a care in the world; not many countries are
paying attention to Iran's human rights much any more." — Iranian
activist.
"We
have had our own ISIS here for 36 years now." — Iranian activist
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Mohannah Ahmadi drew a picture of her father's
upcoming execution at the age of four, in 2014. It shows her mother
holding hands as her father is hanged in the background of the drawing.
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Despite prolonged efforts by human rights organizations, six Sunni
men were hanged in the early morning of March 4, 2015 at Rajai Shahr
Prison in Iran.
Hamed Ahmadi, Kamal Molai, Jamshid Dehghani, Jahangir Dehghani,
Sedigh Mohammadi and Seyed Hadi Hosseini all belonged to the Sunni sect
of Islam, which is much persecuted by the mostly Shi'a Islamic Republic
of Iran.
The sister of Jamshid and Jahangir Dehghani stated to the Roozonline
News Agency that the families were unexpectedly summoned by prison
authorities for their last visit with their loved ones. "The call
was most unexpected; no one had any idea that the executions were to be
taking place right away, not even the men themselves. We were told to go
to the prison for our very last visit, so we went... The men were in iron
cages, with shackled hands and feet... we saw them for 10 minutes only --
from afar... We just looked at them, we could not touch them. That was
our last visit."
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