
NEW ISLAMIC RULING IN IRAN
FAREWELL FEMINISM
by Marvin O’Biden
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared in a hijab to acknowledge her respect for Islamic law, while visiting Lebanon and Syria.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi followed suit.
Even Laura Bush popped up wearing the head covering while signifies a female’s subservience and submission to male authority.

Such woman should think again of gaining political recognition and respect in countries where Shiite Muslims hold sway.
One of the leading Iranian cleric said today that “Allah’s fury” will be unleashed if Iran appoints women as governors or representatives of some provinces, as was raised as a possibility by one of the country’s cabinet minister last week.
“If some people want to change the principles and values of the revolution without considering the views of clerics, they will face the fury of God and of the people,” Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpayghani proclaimed on his website.
Golpayghani was reacting to remarks by interior minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar in the holy city of Qom last week.
Naijar, when asked if Iran would consider the appointment women to prominent political positions, replied: “Yes. It is possible.”
Golpayghani said the appointment of women to such positions would represent a grave violation against shariah (Islamic) law.
“They come to Qom, the centre of Shiite Islam, and announce that they will appoint women as governors of some provinces. Do you want to fight with the Koran and the Prophet with such talks that go against shariah?” the Grand Ayaltollah asked.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has also faced stiff resistance from hardline clerics, including Golpayghani, when he appointed a woman as a cabinet member.
In recent years Iranian women have outnumbered men in universities but they still account for only around 15 percent of the official work force.
Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, women have been banned from becoming judges and suffer from legal inequalities with men in marriage, divorce and inheritance.






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