tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post1364669830213794303..comments2024-03-29T00:44:42.046+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Jacinda’s Hijab.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-8855360640808905682022-10-30T13:33:37.727+13:002022-10-30T13:33:37.727+13:00Thanks @'Phil Saxby' - it's a good cal...Thanks @'Phil Saxby' - it's a good call-out and you are quite right.<br /><br />Ayatollah Ali Akbar Massoudi Khomeini is a prominent religious leader and <i>not</i> the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as I had credited! <br /><br />My previous statement attributing Ayatollah Khomeini's comments to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei were in error & that supports @'Kit Slater' in questioning that statement too!<br /><br />I stand suitably corrected! :)Lozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12064567381918975446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-4636614569254271892022-10-29T19:55:14.334+13:002022-10-29T19:55:14.334+13:00Loz: reading the link you supplied, it's clear...Loz: reading the link you supplied, it's clear you have confused Ayatollah Khomeyni with Ayatollah Khamenei. <br /><br />Only one of these is the Supreme Leader. Phil Saxbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-48359430100556026562022-10-22T13:06:51.358+13:002022-10-22T13:06:51.358+13:00@Kit Slater
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeyni'...@Kit Slater<br />Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeyni's <a href="https://english.khamenei.ir/news/5422/Hijab-gives-women-freedom-and-identity-Ayatollah-Khamenei" rel="nofollow">official website</a> gives an interesting cultural insight into what hijab represents: "Women of our society should observe hijab (modest dressing), modesty and [Islamic] principles, both for the sake of the hereafter and for the sake of maintaining national dignity and progress. This is a duty."<br /><br />Prior to Vatican II, the Catholic church had similar interpretations of scripture that required observation of the habit although the habit itself evolved through interpretation with time. From our modern, western cultural perspective we now frame female head covering through a gender equality perspective and religious doctrine itself as largely irrelevant. Iran however, as a religious state, interprets attacks on the observation of hijab as a direct attack on the legitimacy of religious teaching. <br /><br />Ayatollah Khomeyni <a href="https://www.iranintl.com/en/202209244911" rel="nofollow">told reporters categorically</a> that "the hijab police's treatment of Iranian woman is against the teachings of Islam," adding that "Only judges can rule about the hijab, but even they cannot tell a woman that your hijab is not consistent with the dress code and punish them." <br /> This advocates a tolerance toward a strict interpretation of modest dressing (hijab) but not a suggestion that hijab can be ignored. <br /> <br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqsqk_1I4jA&t=2152s" rel="nofollow">Breakthrough News</a>, also did a fascinating investigation into this with Navid Zarrinnal, a Columbia Univ. PhD and Iranian scholar at Stanford University.Lozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12064567381918975446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-35915048616653431562022-10-21T23:31:21.531+13:002022-10-21T23:31:21.531+13:00Loz - "It should be remembered that Iran'...Loz - "It should be remembered that Iran's Supreme Leader is known to be a supporter of relaxing Iran's dress code restrictions..."<br /><br />Well, I didn't remember this so looked it up - all evidence is to the contrary. And that's what I remembered.<br /><br />Any references, Loz? There's a credibility issue here.Kit Slaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09442343410371307800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-29155223772685946622022-10-18T14:44:33.350+13:002022-10-18T14:44:33.350+13:00In 2021 Australia had 16 deaths of people in Polic...In 2021 Australia had 16 deaths of people in Police custody. The US hasn't released official statistics since 2011 when 689 people died while in Police custody. Accepting the unquestionable tragedy 22-year-old Mahsa Amini's death, the exact details or cause of her death (if the official coroner’s report isn't believed) will never be known to us.<br /><br />Mahsa Amini died on September 16th. The following day, Iran’s president publicly ordered an investigation into the death. It should be remembered that Iran's Supreme Leader is known to be a supporter of relaxing Iran's dress code restrictions, yet hundreds of regime-change activists took to the streets in Iran with chants of “death to the dictator”. <br /><br />On September 18th the United States entered the fray with a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council demanding accountability from Iran for what it stated was an "appalling and egregious affront to human rights". Exactly why Mahsa Amini's death is a matter of US National Security is worth contemplation. The next day, the US was followed by NATO allies. EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell condemning Amini's death as "unacceptable", German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in condemning the arrest. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen would later follow suit.<br /><br />The members of the White House National Security Council, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Antony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Jake Sullivan etc should be household names after the catastrophe in Ukraine and repeated attempts to fan the flames of conflict with China. Trying to isolate and destabilise Iran has long been a US National Security goal and Mahsa Amini's death has been cynically used for that purpose. <br /><br />As the global dominance of the Washington consensus is rapidly disintegrating, the emerging BRICS rivals are coming under increasing attacks under a well-worn message that Western powers simply promote freedom and human rights against tyranny and injustice is being sung. <br /><br />Watch this space for some human rights issue to emerge with Turkey next.<br />Lozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12064567381918975446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-3063629209974551592022-10-17T19:56:50.442+13:002022-10-17T19:56:50.442+13:00I had to think about that.
You can't have your...I had to think about that.<br />You can't have your cake and eat it. You can't embrace difference and reject it just because it stinks?John Hurleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-51597396437926135992022-10-17T16:08:52.866+13:002022-10-17T16:08:52.866+13:00I do not profess to be an expert in the wearing of...I do not profess to be an expert in the wearing of a hijab but a good mate, married to a muslim, told me that in most muslim countries the hijab is elective as "modesty" is the goal. He also stated that it is the Saudi interpretation, read Bedouin, that requires the hijab and as mosques are being funded throughout the world the hijab becomes part of the deal. Wear it, enforce it or no money.<br /><br />I have travelled through a few muslim territories in the past without seeing the hijab. I have also seen muslim women arrive in "Arab Street" Soi 3 Sukhimvit in Bangkok all blacked out and re-emerge from the hotel in miniskirts and heels 😎Gary Petersnoreply@blogger.com