Its a meme 🤠

Youre gonna be canceled for antiseptic behavior

Yes I’m talking about the requirements that exist for state & media representatives and such wear hijab (even if its “bad hijab”) in order to represent the country

The French ban is not analogous at all. Like a fabrication.

I think i am not communicating what I mean. What I am saying is that “mandatory hijab” for public facing people such as athletes representing their country or newscasters etc can be a good thing. A funny example is like look at the womens volleyball team. One might argue that this isnt even Islamically hijab anyways lol its a symbol nonetheless. Let me just post some images and quotes and you can see what I mean for the nuance.

I think there is some nuance here which is getting lost

I would push back against this framing a little bit. I feel as if the idea that Iranian hijab isn’t real and therefore many women are without, is in many ways a way of appealing to the liberals and watering down the nature of the revolution. Hijab is enforced for people who represent the nation and appear on state television and hold office. I think this is great (hijab is also defining men’s clothing too but idk if westerners even know that).

Holding onto it is a visible and tangible way to reject westoxification and reject liberalism. This isnt the place to enumerate but the position of the martyred Leader was that it should be heavily encouraged but nobody should be berated or attacked for not wearing good hijab. Here is link: https://english.khamenei.ir/news/9390

I don’t really expect many people here to grasp the nuances of what is being expressed though.

But I categorically reject the idea that all people who support compulsory hijab are backwards conservatives etc. There is a famous letter from Fanon to Ali Shariati where he observes that the characteristics of Islam make it uniquely capable of countering westernized cultural domination. In many ways “hijab is a fortress against cultural imperialism”

I believe that, instead, it is these western xenophobic clowns that are the reactionaries.

Of course we already know The takfiris like isis/al qaeda do not represent Islam but idk if war on terror brain allows people to understand that.

Lady Khadija (ra) the first follower of Muhammad (saw) and also the first class traitor !

I wrote a long reply but it got deleted when i changed tab on accident.

Anyway short version about how people should learn about how the founding of Islam was basically a revolution of the proletariat and subaltern against slave owning land owning classes of the Quraish.

How Islam was appealing because it guaranteed rights to people to the people who were slaves and protected women from horrible mistreatment of the time and forcibly redistributed wealth to the masses from the wealthy.

how Ali (as) and Hassan (as) and Hussein (as) were killed because they fought against revisionist capitalists who wanted to undo the gains of the revolution. And how this is necessary to understand the role of why for instance Sayed Abdul-Malik al Houthi announced the mobilization to reunify Yemen on the day of Ashura.

Abu Dharr was talking about capital accumulation over a thousand years before Marx!

One cannot understand the resistance without understanding Karbala and one cannot understand Karbala without understanding at least a little basics of early Islamic History.

Maybe with the terminology above, this can be legible to the marxists.

which is ironically an anti-materialist way of viewing the world.

Right. Couldn’t have said it better myself. The leadership of the resistance is way more rooted in real existing circumstances.

For example, one might ask about how the Islamic Revolution improved womens literacy so much in such a short period of time. Well, the leadership was aware that Iranian women of all ages and social/economic classes attended the mosque. So they set up womens reading programs in all the mosques, urban and rural. And women teachers were paid to run these programs for everyone from kids to grandmother’s. Seems pretty smart to me. Using the character of the masses as a way to promote social good rather than trying to mold them into whatever westernized ideation. Seems pretty rooted in materialism to me!

As you said though, such a thing gets shrouded in myth. The Iranians, the Palestinians, the Lebanese… portrayed as simultaneously magically resilient and well organized while also backwards in need of secularization. I dont have the words for this dualism but maybe you see what Im getting at.

@Jabril@hexbear.net

Something I notice about all these spaces. When I post facts about Islamic resistance, instead of people asking something “wow thats actually incredible, do you know how they did this incredible thing?” We end up stuck in a pattern of having literally the same conversations trying to explain basic concepts.

I know that I’m impressed when I see these statistics. Maybe thats because hijab made me stupid and oppressed 🤪 🫠

The user is right that my comparison wasn’t fair. So I found a better one.

You see, a democracy 😇 is when a country is operating as a forward military base for the US empire. 15 military bases and 55,000 US troops in Japan and 28,000 US troops in S Korea are just there to protect democracy 😇 from authoritarian China 😡 And DPRK 😡

And fake settler colony that has been committing genocide with US-made weapons since its invention is also very good democracy 😇

Anyways. Comparing health outcomes of countries that are economic beneficiaries of imperialist looting with a country under siege from imperialism is not making the point you think it is making.

Please take your zionism and leave.

“Democracies” and you put Japan, S Korea, and the zionist child-killing cancer on it.

Same energy lol https://youtu.be/gE2OzGfIDLQ

Zerush is very concerned about jihab and Muslamic ray guns 😔

Oppression is when life expectancy go up

Womens rights is when 19% child mortality rate

Womens rights is when literacy rate is 20%

Yeah ok.

Me, a hijabi, opening that thread for all of 10 seconds