By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The politicians and press personnel of the West are either living in a topsy-turvy world where facts and realities cannot be understood or are libertine to their very core regarding the dignity and rights of women, and certainly not ‘liberal’ as they claim.
At the same time, they are totally devoid of any spiritual values, let alone being
Christian since Christianity holds Mary the Mother of Jesus to be role model for women, and strongly denounces Jezebel, Herodias, Salome and all those who degrade feminine virtues.
These agnostic, misogynistic, carnal, and commercial attitudes of even the leaders of the regimes in the West is fully evident when they accuse Iran, which restored to women their dignity and virtue following the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, as violator and suppresser of women’s rights.
This bad joke, which has assumed political proportions, has gone so far that the recent scattered incidents of burning of headscarves in a few cities of Iran by a handful of characterless women who it is clear have neither religious principles nor family honour, is being hailed in the West as ‘the women’s revolution in Iran’.
The heads of state of the US, France, and some other regimes in the West are trying in vain to project this act of lawlessness and violation of public morals as the ‘demand for freedom’ by the women of Iran, who they claim have been living in a suffocated atmosphere for the past forty-three years.
Nothing could be so far removed from the truth. The all-popular Islamic system of government in Iran has promoted the cultural, social, economic and political status of women as a pivotal factor in not just policy making, legislation, and national planning, but also in sports, in the media, in the entertainment field, and in the industrial sector – within the full freedom that Hijab affords in public life.
Another point to note is the high rate of literacy of women in Iran compared to world countries. For instance, women and girls account for more than half of all university students and currently 73 percent of medical professionals and 49 percent of doctors in the Islamic Republic are female.
Iran women, attired in the Islamic code of dressing are fully active abroad as diplomats. Examples in this regard are the Islamic Republic’s Permanent Deputy Representative to the United Nations in New York (Zahra Ershadi), and the ambassador to Denmark (Afsaneh Nadipour who recently was the target of an abortive attack by a criminal who raising the absurd slogan of freedom of women was allowed entry into the embassy in Copenhagen by the Danish security).
The overwhelming majority of Iranian women are pious and patriotic as could be seen on every occasion of the past four decades and also during the recent riots by some thugs, terrorists, traitors, and morally-loose women, when millions of females of all ages attired in the Islamic code of dressing in public staged marches across the country several times to force out the US-supported vandals and miscreants from the scene.
Isn’t this freedom of women and the spectacular display by Iranian women of their birthrights?
So what does the West want by distorting the realities in Islamic Iran and assembling in front of the UN and Iranian missions abroad, some scantily clad women claiming to be Iranian (a questionable claim) and demanding ‘freedom’ of Iranian women?
No true Iranian lady residing in the West, even if she doesn’t wear the headscarf, will ever insult the dignity of Islam or violate Iranian cultural norms through near nude dressing and shouting of obscene slogans.
All this means, the Western politicians and media are scared stiff of the impact of women’s real rights and freedom of the Hijab on women throughout the world, as is evident in not just the so-called Third World where thanks to the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, women have rediscovered their lost rights, but in Europe and the Americas as well.
To sum up, freedom in the jargon of the spiritually bankrupt West means, the violation of religious and ethical norms through all freewheeling acts, such as drinking wine, using narcotics, mouthing blasphemies, disrespecting decent ladies, and not just taking off headscarves but (excuse us) disrobing, dancing erotically, flouting barely covered bodies, and perhaps the freedom to copulate in public.