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Rise of the courageous women:" Tell the world of us! "


The news may reach the West, especially through media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, have been reporting foreign journalists still limited, not only tell of brutal Revolutionary Guard, but also by courageous women. Mothers and daughters, religious in a chador and girls with glitter nail polish to go together on the road. They stretch fists and fog in the sky and fight for reform. The resistance is female. Neda Agha-Soltan (27), whose death during protests in June, was filmed with a cell phone camera, gave him a face.

Selma (32) lives in Tehran and leads an online diary. The President Mahmud They insulted Ahmadinejad is a tyrant. Blogging, the setting of private messages on the Internet is banned in Iran, many of who did it still sitting behind bars. But Selma will not be silent. Her anger at the government is immense. More than men suffer Iranian women under the daily life in Iran. Ahmadinejad took the women in his first term as President of the few freedoms they had. He increased the use of moral guardians who watch whether the headscarf is in place. He made sure that women have difficulties in the job if they want to do paid overtime. He introduced a bill that relieved the men polygamy. In her Internet blog describes Selma their dream of a free society, "My daughter should have kissed her friend on the street without fear of moral guardians, you should lead the life that I have not But I fight.."

who lives in Germany exiled Iranian Behjat Moaali (60) says: "Women are the losers of the Islamic Revolution, the desire for change makes them strong and courageous.." Moaali worked the late 80s as a lawyer in Tehran and saw how considering after Khomeini seized power, the Sharia, Islamic law, entered the Persian laws. Women have been discriminated against under the Shah. With Khomeini worsened their situation dramatically. According to the Sharia a woman is half as good as a man Violations of the veil compulsory threaten lashes for adultery are stoned or death by hanging.

Many former colleagues of Behjat Moaalis were arrested in those days. The lawyer Shadi Sadr (35) went to prison. The charge: In its struggle for women's rights would Shadi Sadr on behalf of the United States overthrow the Iranian regime. What an absurd accusation: "I am fully convinced of for women's rights, not because someone ordered," said Shadi Sadr, which has become free again. But it can not work in Iran.

Behjat Moaali is in contact with her sisters in Tehran. A few years ago they were laughing when Moaali demonstrated in Germany for Iran. They thought that leads nowhere. "Today it is: Tell the whole world of us," says Behjat Moaali. Via the Internet, the green revolution spilling into the West. New means to strengthen the solidarity of Iranian women worldwide, and thus the female opposition in Iran. The fact that Iranian women do

resistance is not new. In 1979 she campaigned against the dictatorship of the Shah. In 1997, she chose Mohammed Khatami, the darling of the intellectuals who, in his office as president a loosened censorship in the arts and the press caused. In year 2006, the activists are still ongoing campaign "One million signatures calling for justice" with the aim to defend themselves against women discriminatory laws. 2009 finally they chose Mir Hussein Moussavi, and thus gave his wife Sarah Rahn Award (64) her voice. The mother of three daughters, the former dean of the women's university in Tehran, a self-conscious political scientist and sculptor. She accompanied her husband to mass demonstrations and held hands with him publicly - in Iran is a taboo. Sarah Rahn Award is due to that women went to vote.

The young generation combines an anger at the regime - and the desperate willingness to oppose rubber truncheons and tear gas. The sister of Behjat Moaali reported that protesters were locked during a rally the Revolutionary Guard in an ambush. The militia drove them into a dead end, cordoned off the street and beat to her.

The sister came home with bruises. She was in pain, but she said ". I would be ashamed to go among so many wounded and dead to the doctor for a swollen hand I'm happy if I can contribute something, that something happened in Iran"

(Carol Hoffmeister)

http://www.abendblatt.de/politik/ausland/article1322853/Aufstand-der-mutigen-Frauen-Erzaehlt-der-ganzen-Welt-von-uns.html

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Veiled Men

It is a provocation with a difference: More and more Muslim men show up on the Internet or concealed in public with a scarf around the bearded face or in a chador. That they protest against the Iranian regime.

It is a provocation with a difference: More and more Muslim men show up on the Internet or concealed in public with a scarf around the bearded face or in a chador. That they protest against the Iranian regime.

It started after 7 December, when the student Majid Tavakoli, after a dissident Speech at Amirkabir University in Tehran, was arrested. About a week ago, the state media agency Fars has published a picture of the charismatic student leader, on which he is seen with downcast eyes and glasses, covered his face with a blue cloth and a black veil. The corresponding message states that the opponents of the regime was seized by police in women's clothes when he was about to slip away after the rally.

"A man in drag - and that applies in the Islamic culture as a fundamental humiliation," says the German-Iranian human rights activist Mina Ahadi. "The feminization of the male is the largest attack, which can be compared .'s Integrity can only imagine "

The history of the flight of Majid Tavakoli, however, had a different effect: his comrades in the" green "movement has organized against the questionable humiliation, Iranian students have a solidarity campaign called" We are all Majid "was launched. About Facebook men were called to photograph with a headscarf or veil, and to the web. The underlying message: ". There is no shame to be photographed in a headscarf"

Some Internet bloggers have cut together from the hundreds of images headscarf films, of which more and more on video platforms can be seen. Everywhere the same subject: men with mustaches or glasses, in groups or alone, all veiled in a headscarf. Some flaunt it, others laugh or look at very seriously.

of Iranian private dwellings from the unique wave of protest has spread internationally. Many Iranians testify respect and admiration for the men who present themselves most with a recognizable face and veiled hair. Meanwhile, with pictures circulating on the Internet disguised men in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Germany and the United States. Some explained that their action against the female Verhüllzwang in Iran turn.

"That's funny, modern and breaks the Taboos in Iran, "says Mina Ahadi, which in Berlin has established the Central Council of Ex-Muslims". "It requires the perfect answer to the Islamic regime, which actually conceal." The best part: While the students are protesting against the humiliation of their fellow students, they practice the same criticism of the headscarf, Ahadi. "Not just because it looks ridiculous," she says. It is also interesting that humiliating men act as women to be prescribed as a requirement.

According to Ahadi had the cross-gender clothing controversy already having an impact on other Arab countries. "Many Muslims look captured on Iran." The green revolution is already a very "feminine". Most women were in bold in the front rows at the events and demonstrations by opponents of the regime. "Some have already thrown away her headscarf," she says. In Germany, told her repeatedly Egyptians, Sudanese and other Muslim admiration for it.

The wave of headscarf wearing men, meanwhile, is spreading further. The Iranian government has yet to respond in private.

(Boyes Mirror 17.12.2009) By Ferda Ataman
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/weltspiegel/Iran; art1117, 2977533

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Why protest Iranian men in the veil

Iranian opposition figures have a new hero: the arrested a week ago, Majid Tavakoli. The 22-year-old was shown zwangsverschleiert in the state media. The opponents make the double charging of the photos and support Tavakoli advantage with a highly unique campaign.

A young man with a beard looks seriously out of a black chador. An elderly man with rimless glasses with a flowered head scarf. A powerfully built student posing wrapped in a tablecloth. How it click by click it on and on, hundreds of images. As each day grows, the amount of Iranian men who can be photographed in a veil and post photos on social networking platforms like Facebook for viewing.

Iranian opposition figures have started the online campaign "Men with a headscarf," to support the leading student activist Majid Tavakoli. The 22-year-old was arrested during a student demonstration on Monday of last week. Then the state-run media published photos of Tavakoli - in a chador with a light blue veil underneath. The pro-government news agency Fars News According to the activists tried to the security forces to escape in women's clothing.

Recent student protests took on a series of demonstrations that were due to suspected fraud in the election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has broken out in June. Tavakoli held here on the campus of Tehran's Amir Kabir University made a speech.

shows a clip on YouTube in blurred images, as he stands on a podium before a crowd of demonstrators. "Today is the day when this nation calls for freedom and fighting against tyranny," he calls visibly moved. "Stand against the dictatorship and screams loud as you can against the dictatorship."

The state security forces waiting for the organization of human rights activists in Iran, according to him already, as he left the university campus. "The agents beat and injured Majid during the arrest. The passers-by were shocked by the level of violence and brutality, "it says on the website of the group.

In the picture, which appeared after the arrest, Tavakoli acts under the veil collapsed into itself. His eyes are lowered in shame. Although the record looks authentic, some human rights activists have questioned their authenticity. Others suspect Tavakoli was forced to put on the veil.

The authorities apparently intended to humiliate the public and discredit critics of the regime. But the shot has backfired: the campaign to support it began that afternoon, spreading across social networking platforms, blogs and photo communities. And are now on the Internet hundreds of covert Iranian male faces to be seen. "We are all Majid, stands at the edge of many images. An Iranian wrote on Twitter: ". True men wear the veil without fear and shame"

addition, the regime has with the image of a man zwangsverschleierten involuntarily recalled that the women in the same coercive theocracy subject every day. The opponents make this double charging of the photos advantage - and set the same time promotes the release Tavakolis and against the concealment provision for women.

"Iran will not be released before the Iranian women are not free. Iranian men: Let us headscarf in solidarity with the women of Iran Majid AND "says the entry of a young Tehran on Facebook. The regime did mean with the assumption that women's clothes would be humiliating for a man, laid bare his misogynistic attitude, criticizing many bloggers.

A college professor writes on the Internet: "I am proud to wear the headscarf of my late mother, the same head scarf, which my wife is imposed, and the same scarf, from which the backward-looking banality that rules Iran thinks that it would reduce Majid Tavakoli. We are all Majid Tavakoli - Iranian men and we're late. If we react when the headscarf has been forced upon our sisters 30 years ago, we would perhaps not at this point. "

Thus the opposition in Iran once again demonstrated how the Internet with wit and creativity as an expression of their protest use and are in a position to arms against the regime Leaders to turn themselves. What was intended as a personal attempt removal has sparked a broad wave of solidarity and identification.

abandoned instead of being ridiculous, Tavakoli has become after protester killed Neda Agha-Soltann to a second, young face of the protest movement. The 22-year-old himself was well aware of the risk he was taking: He already has sat twice in the notorious Tehran's Evin prison and was thereby exposed to Iranian human rights campaigners, torture.

"I see the tears in the eyes of my mother and the anxious eyes of my father. With all the difficulties can only wish for freedom maintain my steadfastness, "he wrote in the last entry on his Facebook page. "And I will take one more look all risks, put myself on the side of my friends with whom I have the honor, on 7 December cry out against tyranny. For freedom. "

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