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
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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