'Gender Apartheid' in Iran: Hijab Laws, Protests & Revolution in 2023 | Explained

Sep 28, 2023 | The parliament in Iran has just passed new hijab laws that could see women jailed for up to 10 years for dressing inappropriately. These laws have been labelled "a form of gender apartheid" by UN experts and described as a "a despicable assault on the rights of women" by Amnesty International. …

Tajikistan Debates Ban on Arabic Names as Part Of Crackdown on Islam

Muslims pray at the mosque in Dushanbe.

THE GUARDIAN: Authorities prepare list of acceptable alternatives for parents amid warning that ‘unsuitable’ names will not be registered. Eurasianet.org reports

Tajikistan is debating legislation to ban Arabic names as part of an ongoing campaign against Islam that has seen men being forced to shave their beards and women in hijab being labelled prostitutes.

The president, Emomali Rahmon, ordered his rubber-stamp parliament to consider a bill that would forbid the registration of names considered too Arabic, an official in the Justice Ministry’s department of civil registry told Interfax.

“After the adoption of these regulations, the registry offices will not register names that are incorrect or alien to the local culture, including names denoting objects, flora and fauna, as well as names of Arabic origin,” Jaloliddin Rahimov was quoted as saying. » | David Trilling for Eurasianet.org, part of the New East network | Friday, May 08, 2015

Turkey: Good Muslim Wigs
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In Tehran, it’s the talk of the town: ”Saw off those breasts!”, say the morality police

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BBC: Thousands of Iranian women have been cautioned over their poor Islamic dress this week and several hundred arrested in the capital Tehran in the most fierce crackdown on what's known as "bad hijab" for more than a decade.

It is the talk of the town. The latest police crackdown on Islamic dress has angered many Iranians - male, female, young and old.

But Iranian TV has reported that an opinion poll conducted in Tehran found 86% of people were in favour of the crackdown - a statistic that is surprising given the strength of feeling against this move.

Police cars are stationed outside major shopping centres in Tehran.

They are stopping pedestrians and even cars - warning female drivers not to show any hair - and impounding the vehicles and arresting the women if they argue back.

Middle-aged women, foreign tourists and journalists have all been harassed, not just the young and fashionably dressed. Crackdown in Iran over dress codes (Read on) by Frances Harrison

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