By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

 

The self-styled analysts of the West seem to be living in a topsy-turvy world where facts and realities, especially the dignity and rights of women, remain misunderstood. 

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 are 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 is nothing but falsity. 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’s women, attired in the Islamic code of dressing are fully active abroad as diplomats. The overwhelming majority of Iranian women are pious and patriotic as could be seen on every occasion of the past four-and-a-half decades. 

Is not this freedom of women and the spectacular display by Iranian women of their basic rights?

So what is West’s goal in 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.

The truth is, politicians and the press in the West are scared stiff of the impact of women’s real rights and freedom of the Hijab on women throughout the world. This 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, flaunting barely covered bodies, and perhaps the freedom to copulate in public.