Iranian Officials Break Teeth of Prominent Womens Rights Activist

Nahid Jafari

**Iranian officials broke the teeth of a prominent womens rights activist, Nahid Jafari, when they bashed her head on a police van on Saturday.

The regime is refusing her medical treatment for the injury.Here are a few of the women activists arrested Saturday in Tehran. The other jailed activists are on a hunger strike.

Faces of my jailed sisters in Iran.

The crux of the problem lie in the very tenets of Islamic laws and jurisprudence. These official are just doing their job as true devotees of the faith and they would not be doing Allah's will if they didn't stop these affronts to Islam, "The fundamental problem we face in Iran is in fact in the letter and the spirit of the Shi’i law - medieval in its jurisprudence, feudal in its tenets, patriarchal and undemocratic in the very fabric of its lexicon and written into the skeletal vertebra of Iranian culture (Imperial, Leftist, Nationalist or Islamist). "

One of the Islam’s principle pillars is the “Amr-e be Maroof and Nahy az Monker” Amr means “ordering” and Nahy means “preventing”. This principle is basically the terror aspect of Islam. On this basis, terrorising the society is encouraged and authorised by the religion. According to this principle a Muslim is under the obligation to order another to adhere to the Islamic ways and if ineffective take measures to prevent the unislamic act from taking place. According to the Islamic directions, this action is necessary even if it means losing one’s life or taking others’ lives. Imam Hussein lost his life while carrying out this principle.

In Islam human rights are not recognized since they are refuted by the totality of the word of Allah; hence irrelevant to the Islamic society and ummah.

Islam requires total submission to One God (Allah), including the subjugated's sense of what is right and wrong to what God declared right and wrong. If you are not willing to accept that then you are not a muslim. It is not gauranteed that the subjugated will understand the wisdom behind each and every command and decree of God but they have to follow like a herd...talk about Manufacturing Consent methods a la Chomsky.LOL
The muslim’s god, Allah, must view his/her creation (human beings) as incompetent, feeble-minded, and untrustworthy to use their own brains ergo total control over every aspect of life, body, mind and soul...

In this way, the subjugated lose any ability to develop decision-making skills and indepedent thinking capabilities, and this leaves them more vulnerable and pliable to being manipulated by clergies, Imams, Sheiks ,and the ayatollahs alike. And that is how the business industry of Islam is maintained and perpetuated and we see the result in all muslim countries in full display, defeated as people and defeated as a civilization.

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"Not Possible to Modernize Islam"

INTERVIEW WITH FOUNDER OF "COUNCIL OF EX-MUSLIMS"

Human rights activists have formed a "Central Council of Ex-Muslims in Germany" to help women renounce the Islamic faith if they feel oppressed by its laws. Its Iranian-born founder Mina Ahadi, under police protection after receiving death threats, talks to DER SPIEGEL about its goals.

An Iranian human rights activist living in Germany has formed a "Central Council of ex-Muslims in Germany" with 40 others and has received anonymous death threats after declaring she wants to help people to leave the religion if they so desire.

Iranian-born Mina Ahadi, 50, said she set up the group to highlight the difficulties of renouncing the Islamic faith which she believes to be misogynist. She wants the group to form a counterweight to Muslim organisations that she says don't adequately represent Germany's secular-minded Muslim immigrants.

Ahadi has been put under police protection in recent days. Renouncing Islam can carry the death penalty in a number of countries including Iran, Saudi-Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan and Mauritania. In other countries people who turn their backs on the faith aren't punished by courts, but they are often ostracized by family and friends. It's a difficult subject among Muslim communities in Europe too.

Ahadi said she wants the new organization to help women who feel oppressed by the rules of the faith to find a way out. The Council will hold a news conference in Berlin on Wednesday to outline its goals.

DER SPIEGEL spoke to Ahadi.

SPIEGEL: Together with 29 other immigrants from Muslim countries you have declared that you have renounced Islam. The campaign is similar to one launched in the 1970s by women who declared publicly that they had had abortions. What is your purpose?

Ahadi: I haven't been a Muslim for 30 years. I'm also critical of Islam in Germany and of the way the German government deals with the issue of Islam. Many Muslim organisations like the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD) or Milli Görüs engage in politics or interfere in people's everyday lives. They were invited to the conference on Islam (hosted by the government in Berlin last year). But their aims are hostile to women and to people in general."

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SPIEGEL: Won't your campaign just harden the battle lines?

Ahadi: I don't think it's possible to modernize Islam. We want to form a counterweight to the Muslim organisations. The fact that we're doing this under police protection shows how necessary our initiative is.

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