Anger as Iran bans women from universities

**gilliam** · #1 Aug 20, '12, 4:29 pm

Anger as Iran bans women from universities

Female students in Iran have been barred from more than 70 university degree courses in an officially-approved act of sex-discrimination which critics say is aimed at defeating the fight for equal women's rights.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...versities.html

Luigi Daniele · #2 Aug 20, '12, 4:31 pm

Cretins (the government, obviously)

skigirl1689 · #3 Aug 20, '12, 5:16 pm

Sadly, this does not surprise me in the least...Iranian women have few, if any, rights.

itullian · #4 Aug 20, '12, 5:19 pm

amazing this still goes on.

ByzCathCantor · #5 Aug 20, '12, 5:35 pm

This country is such a paradox. One day, the people will rise up ...

DarkLight · #6 Aug 20, '12, 5:41 pm

This sounds like a move from a group that knows it's losing. After all, educated women are harder to control.

MidnightSun12 · #7 Aug 20, '12, 7:41 pm

Why is that the countries in the world that need to become more liberal are moving to the right and the countries that need to become more conservative are moving to the left???

Kaninchen · #8 Aug 20, '12, 11:33 pm

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Originally Posted by DarkLight

This sounds like a move from a group that knows it's losing. After all, educated women are harder to control.

Hence all the sabre-rattling as well, of course.

Fiasco · #9 Aug 21, '12, 5:10 am

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Originally Posted by ByzCathCantor

This country is such a paradox. One day, the people will rise up ...

They rose up in the late 1970s and kicked out the Shah, and look at what they ended up with!!!

The truly brutal legacy of Ayatollah Khomeini and Co.

ByzCathCantor · #10 Aug 21, '12, 5:12 am

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Originally Posted by Fiasco

They rose up in the late 1970s and kicked out the Shah, and look at what they ended up with!!!

The legacy of Ayatollah Khomeini and Co.

Who could forget, especially Americans coming of age at that time? Yet, times are different. I know several, well educated Iranians, and you would never think they are part of the system that now governs that country.

Fiasco · #11 Aug 21, '12, 5:43 am

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Originally Posted by ByzCathCantor

I know several, well educated Iranians, and you would never think they are part of the system that now governs that country.

They must feel like they`re walking on thin ice!

What worries me is: when this brutal regime finally falls, as it must inevitably, will there be a bloodbath?

A religion firmly based on men`s sexual lust! It`s incredible!

JimR-OCDS · #12 Aug 21, '12, 3:29 pm

I read a good book about the lack of freedom in Iran called;

My Life as a Traitor: An Iranian Memoir, by
Zarah Ghahramani and Robert Hillman.

The book is book is about Zarah's arrest and torture in Evan Prison in Tehran, for staging a small protest over the firing of one of her professors from Tehran University.

Jim

**gilliam** · #13 Aug 21, '12, 5:04 pm

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Originally Posted by JimR-OCDS

I read a good book about the lack of freedom in Iran called;

My Life as a Traitor: An Iranian Memoir, by
Zarah Ghahramani and Robert Hillman.

The book is book is about Zarah's arrest and torture in Evan Prison in Tehran, for staging a small protest over the firing of one of her professors from Tehran University.

Jim

The concept that a woman's role is in the family and hidden away from the world is very much an Arab Muslim tradition and may be more a cultural thing rather than a religous theme. Early Muslim women were very much in the world (some led battles and made legal decisions.) However over time, the woman's role, culturally, became within the family unit.

Iran (actually the founders of the modern state of Iran) simply adopted this cultural trend. For them it is as much a rejection of the seduction of the West as anything else.

It isn't much of an issue if you accept the role (like men use to accept the role as "bread winner" in the USA and women accepted the role as "housewife" for centuries in the West.

An interesting book to read on the topic is:
Destiny Disrupted A History of the World through Islamic Eyes

By the way, satan, in Islam is a seducer. Satan seduces the victum to sin. That is why the USA is known as the "great satan" by the current rulers of Iran.

JimR-OCDS · #14 Aug 21, '12, 5:51 pm

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Originally Posted by gilliam

The concept that a woman's role is in the family and hidden away from the world is very much an Arab Muslim tradition and may be more a cultural thing rather than a religous theme. Early Muslim women were very much in the world (some led battles and made legal decisions.) However over time, the woman's role, culturally, became within the family unit.

Iran (actually the founders of the modern state of Iran) simply adopted this cultural trend. For them it is as much a rejection of the seduction of the West as anything else.

It isn't much of an issue if you accept the role (like men use to accept the role as "bread winner" in the USA and women accepted the role as "housewife" for centuries in the West.

An interesting book to read on the topic is:
Destiny Disrupted A History of the World through Islamic Eyes

By the way, satan, in Islam is a seducer. Satan seduces the victum to sin. That is why the USA is known as the "great satan" by the current rulers of Iran.

Problem is, there is a large part of the population in Iran which isn't Muslem, but Zoroastrianism, Christian, Jewish and whatever.

Zarah Ghahramani belongs to the Zoroastrian religion.

When I read how she was treated in prison I was appalled at the brutality. However, I had to stop myself, because what was done to her is the same as what we did to prisoners in Guantanamo Prison.

Jim