Petition Signatures Against ‘Unveiled and Naked’ Women Collected at Eid al-Fitr Prayer
The media outlet “Bamdad No” published photographs regarding the collection of petition signatures against “unveiled and naked” women at the margin of the Eid al-Fitr prayer ceremony.
A statement that the regime published under the title “Popular Demand for Implementation of the Law on Chastity and Hijab” on a scroll and installed it for signature collection at the location of the Eid al-Fitr prayer reads as follows: “Removing the hijab is forbidden in Islamic and political terms. We, Eid al-Fitr prayer participants, for whom this blessed Eid represents a return to the pure divine nature, representing all Muslim and zealous people of Iran, make a serious request and explicit demand from all authorities and officials of the sacred Islamic Republic system, particularly the esteemed President and members of the esteemed government cabinet, the esteemed Speaker and representatives of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, the esteemed Head of the Judiciary, the esteemed Prosecutor General of the country, the esteemed Commander of the Basij Organization, the esteemed Commander of the Law Enforcement Force, the esteemed Director of Islamic Republic Radio and Television, the esteemed Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, the esteemed Head of the Islamic Propaganda Organization, the esteemed Head of the Headquarters for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice, and other relevant institutions and bodies, that based on the existing laws on chastity and hijab in the country, immediate and intelligent action be taken regarding the abnormal situation and law-breaking of unveiled and naked women throughout society and to reform dress codes in governmental centers and offices and public places, particularly commercial, recreational, sports, educational centers and public transportation, and that you provide full and comprehensive support for those promoting virtue and preventing vice and advocates and propagators of the pure Islamic culture of chastity and hijab.”
Some people who participated in the Eid al-Fitr prayer also signed this statement. This statement was released by the government itself but under the title “Popular Demand” while the hijab is not the primary and fundamental problem of society. Those who design the regime’s rotten scenarios appear oblivious to the people’s awakening—a people who no longer believe the regime’s lies.
More significant events than the unveiling of women have occurred in Iran over the past seven months, events that were even more criminal: arrests, suppression, shooting in the eyes of protesters, shooting at the genitals and faces of women, executions for demanding rights, false accusations against protesters, spraying people with military weapons, killing children, chemical attacks on schools and student poisonings, and in some cases students being placed in comas, and many other crimes that have now entered the eighth month—yet no statement has been issued to address these issues under the title of “Popular Demand.”
Now the issue of hijab, which even many clerics under the regime’s control have disagreed about, and some of whom have stated that those promoting virtue do not have permission to insult and even beat unveiled women, has become a “Popular Demand” and all organs are being asked to address it.
Seeking justice, protesting the economy, poverty, unemployment, addiction, addressing the perpetrators of the killing of people, and so on—none have a statement titled “Popular Demand” to be addressed, but unveiling is such an important issue that a statement should be issued and signatures collected for it to be addressed.
The rule of justice that the system constantly references means that only the hijab issue should be addressed and for the rest of the people’s demands and protests, execution and imprisonment sentences should be issued. A system that has ignored all the people’s demands and focused on the hijab issue.
Truly, who are those who signed this statement?
