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Iran is different. People trying to justify them with anecdotes like yours miss the point. What Iran is doing is ridiculous: there are minorities in Iran who are not Muslim, who've lived there for millennia even before Islam was a thing, who are now forced to wear a Hijab every day. How is that in any way justifiable is beyond me...

Edit: I can't respond to the post below, for whatever reason. Minorities in question would be Assyrians and Armenians, for example, who are Christians and who absolutely have to cover their heads everywhere they go: http://forum.hyeclub.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2144

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Could you link to story about this?

I don't doubt there is widespread oppression in Iran, but there are so many ugly rumors that go around that I want to make sure I know what I'm talking about.

Also, the hajib symbolizes all of Islam to many Western people, so I try to be careful about conflating one government's brutality with prejudice against a world-wide religion.

Maybe you could RTFA? It's all about non-Muslim women who will be forced to used the hijab if they want to attend this championship.

Hang on, you're getting a bit mixed up here.

We all agree that forcing by law women to wear a hijab is wrong. That's currently happening in Iran, and it's easy to find many stories from reputable sources to say this is happening.

We can disagree about how to fight that. This chess champion thinks boycotting the championship if she's forced to wear a hijab is one way. Other human rights campaigners say that a boycott is wrong.

But other people have made a further claim. They've said that women in Iran are raped, beaten, or murdered for not wearing the hijab. It's those claims that you want a source for.

I agree with your priorites. And I'm don't know it's false (or true); I'm just trying to learn some real, specific knowledge and not just a bunch more rumor.

> They've said that women in Iran are raped, beaten, or murdered for not wearing the hijab. It's those claims that you want a source for.

That wasn't the GGP's claim. Again, just trying to get some specific, real knowledge into the discussion (and for my own benefit).

EDIT: But I agree the GGP's claim isn't the main issue, and this discussion is becoming convoluted.

Who in this thread is talking about being murdered for not wearing the hijab? And the original comments were not about Iran specifically, neither hackuser's nor Nursie's.

You're creating a strawman, and then demanding sources for it.

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