By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

These days, freedom and liberties have become the most bandied about words in the western media, especially regarding women, who to be frank and forthright are viewed and exploited by the secular, materialistic, and irreligious cultures as nothing more than commercial and carnal objects.
These cultures have deprived women of their feminine virtues and imposed upon them the destructive mentality that the more scantily clad a woman, the more brazen in behaviour, the more obscene in the words she uses, the more loose in her morals, the more negligible of her duties as wife or mother, and the more disrespectful of religious and spiritual values, the more liberal and free she is.
Contrast this animal freedom and misuse of the word ‘rights’ in western societies with monotheistic creeds, especially of Islam, where women have honour, self-dignity, and chastity, with constructive roles to play in the making of sound and healthy societies, as dignified daughters, virtuous sisters, loyal wives, dutiful mothers, and if required in accordance with their abilities and qualifications, exemplary teachers, dedicated doctors, nurses, managers, preachers, and even scientists – all of these and various other occupations with the inalienable right to dress modestly in public within the freedom of the Hijab.
These admirable rights of women, in keeping with their God-given nature and characteristics, along with the right to own property, the right to run business, the right to vote, and the right to serve as elected representatives of the people, came to the fore in the modern world with the triumph of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979 and placing women back on the pedestal of honour and dignity by that Sage of the Age, Imam Khomeini (RA).
Moreover, no strata of society, including children, youths, and the elderly, all of whom follow the natural cycle aging and evolving from one category to the other until the end of life, have their rights, freedoms, and liberties excellently defined within the framework of time-tested and time-honoured ethical and religious values.
So where does the question of denial of rights, freedom and liberties in the Islamic Republic of Iran to any strata of society, including religious and ethnic minorities arises – as alleged by the Zionist controlled western media and the sworn enemies of the Iranian people?
Do thugs have the riot to riot, torch public and private properties, and loot banks and shops?
Do terrorists have the right to kill people, police personnel, and passersby in order to destabilize the society for ulterior motives?
Do traitors have the right to serve as fifth column and sell the country to the enemies?
Do tramps and apostates have the right to shout blasphemous slogans, attack mosques, trample sacred emblems, and burn copies of the holy Quran?
Do thieves have the right to steal, swindle, embezzle, commit burglaries, indulge in highway robbery, and other such crimes?
Do tricksters have the right to spread vices in society through lies, forgeries, usury, wine-drinking, and eating of pork and other unlawful foods?
Do thoughtless, or more properly characterless women have the right to offend public morals by uncovering their heads, burning scarves, exposing part of their bodies for the human wolves to gaze upon, having illicit premarital relations, and cheating husbands through extra-marital ties?
If these and other vices that are indeed a passport to the fires of hell and which unfortunately recently happened in a few places in Tehran and some other cities, on the instigation of the US, are called “rights, freedom, and liberties”, which are denied by the Islamic Republic of Iran, then those misled by the West’s campaign of disinformation as well as the habitual criminals, ought to consider the Godless Yazid the libertine, who indulged in all such sins and perpetrated the heartrending tragedy of Karbala, should be considered as the role model of the freewheeling modernists.