independent:
A 14-year-old girl has been beaten and detained for wearing ripped jeans in Iran in the latest incident of police brutality against women and girls.
“There were two women and two men in a huge van and they pushed us into it with the force of their beatings,” she recalled. “Their objection was to the ripped jeans that we were wearing. There were really no other issues concerning my friends and I.”
Zahra and the other girls were released after being made to sign written pledges that they would not wear the trousers again and adhere to Iran’s strict interpretation of “modest” dress codes in the future.
“I still carry the bruises sustained from their beatings on my face,” she said. “I still feel their pressure on my arm and my ribs still hurt.”
In an exclusive interview with The Independent, her mother described the ordeal as “the worst day of my life, as if the world has ended for me”.
“I know my daughter feels the same,” she added, recalling how she helplessly followed the morality police car to the station.
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This is the kind of mindset that no outside force, no powerful military or "leader" can influence or change. This is the product of centuries of blindly following a doctrine that is rotten at the core. Best case: this will take generations to repair given the psyche and tightly held "beliefs" of the mainstream folks.
In other words, it will likely never change regardless what regime holds the batton - UNLESS people change!
Well, Of course, The iranians in iran have already begun to take the preliminary steps and Given the support they are getting from their Foreign brethren...I guess we are all set. Got Everything? yup. Let's do this
Let us make iran the most Advanced cuntry in the world LOL...
Ex_Cop
You are wrong and you know it.
A little 14 year old Iranian girl is beaten up by Islamist savages calling themselves "morality police", implementing sharia law , then you blame Iranian people. The father, mother and brother of the victim....
How would you feel if this had happened to your daughter?......
Roozbeh;
It is usually more convenient to collectively blame an entire culture or people for the ills in their society, That kinds takes the burden off the shoulders, regardless of what happens and what goes wrong. There is no such thing as an Introspective analysis and getting down to the root cause.
To some people the ridiculous principle of "your government is the reflection of what your mindset its" basically rules the day, as if there is one proven method to determine what the majority really desires in any given country. There are no hands behind the scenes...there is no external involvement....so There naturally can not be any external interference to make things better.
Like people will change over night....Or i am sorry...over the next billion decades as they prescribe and have us believe.
GR
That changed has already taken place, The proof for the desire to change has already been presented.but it will never be on the massive scale needed to usher in a regime change as advocated by our hamvatans who live overseas. Why? because you have a regime on your hand that crushed any iota of dissent. Are these people in a position to suggest a way out of this...? They are harboring a fantasy that they know too damn well will never get off the ground.
On the surface it make sense to reach that conclusion, But thinking about it practically people have gotten used to the whole thing, whether they like it or not. It is as if they are being remote-controlled and even though they cuss The IRI in public, When they go home, it is all back to normal...Living their normal lives...making plans to go on expensive vacation and pretend as if nothing is wrong.
How the heck can anyone Advocate a "change in mindset" when you are dealing with a total mess and a world of Hipocricy???
No offense here, but we are talking about Iran here! You know how the majority of iranians are and behave!
Roozbeh,
What makes you think I'm blaming people? Read the post again.
Why do you think there is a morality police? Why was there an esslamic revolution?
I am not blaming people, I am blaming mentality and what has brought us to this point in history!
What do you think caused the shameful revolution to take place? Without an assbackward metality as the enabler, where would Iran and her people be now?
Yes, deny it, it has done us a lot of good so far!
The regime/sharia, or whatever the hell else that keeps us backward are symptoms, the cause is a collective embrace of ou opprssors and their sick doctrine.
By the way, for every one person making a fashion staement, there are 10 who willingly wear the chador/hijab, have conformed to this sick murderous regime and are willing to stay that way. After all, personal gains are everything.
Stick your head in the sand and hope that otjhers will cure our ills. It's done wonderful things for us so far!
"I am not blaming People, I am blaming mentality"!!
Living miles away from iran yet claiming to know what "works"! pushing an idea based on nothing but personal prejudice, and accusing others that they "have their heads in the sand".
The last time i checked "mentality" is a pattern of behavior which is based on popular/religiously-inclined beliefs, ingrained in people, not a creature that can exist on its own. They are inseparable!
How could people be so adamant and so steadfastly stick to mundane and rotten ideas that have been tried and misrably failed throughout the history.
To these people, It does not matter how many could be killed or jailed, that is the price a nation has to pay right? so what? it takes time, so be patient, it pays off....Ultimately, we , in our "adopted" countries, just for a show of support and if you realy... reallyyy need us... rush to our twitter accounts and social network and sign one stupid petition after another, condemning the killings and arrests, just like we did in 2009. And we will do it over and over, until you ask us to stop. No seriouly, we mean it. We here, You over there, we can do this guys.
That is what they mean by change of behavior and that people need to change.