Follow @TheCircumvent Two Islamic scholars concerning dancing: Dr. Su’ad Salih, professor of Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) at al-Azhar University: Islam is a religion of moderation; it does not prevent singing and dancing, but it forbids anything that stimulates people’s desires, whether it be among… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent In a description of the footage, the activists wrote: ‘This woman is savagely beaten up by morality police as punishment for her insufficient hijab. And they tell us hijab is a “small issue”.’ A “small issue,” indeed. While… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent Al Arabiya, April 15, 2018. According to the latest report of the Amnesty International as reported in Iran Focus website, among all the recorded executions worldwide last year, more than 51 percent were carried out in Iran. Although… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent Two Islamic scholars concerning dancing: Dr. Su’ad Salih, professor of Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) at al-Azhar University: Islam is a religion of moderation; it does not prevent singing and dancing, but it forbids anything that stimulates people’s desires, whether it be among… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent While CNN encourages Americans to wear the hijab in solidarity with Muslims, Muslim women in the Middle East are taking it off in protest. They are stripping off and burning their burqas. The hijab is ultimately to diminish women’s sexuality so as to not… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent Islam is feminism, right? While CNN encourages Americans to wear the hijab in solidarity with Muslims, Muslim women in the Middle East are taking it off in protest. They are stripping off and burning their burqas. The hijab is ultimately to diminish women’s… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent Christian Post, February 23, 2018. (Archive link) A groundbreaking new report by watchdog group Christian Solidarity Worldwide has exposed the atrocities Christian children face at school in several countries, from being forcibly converted to other faiths to being… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent Daily Mail Online, February 22, 2018. Another brave female anti-hijab protester has been arrested in Iran after waving her headscarf from a stick. Footage shows Shaparak Shajarizadeh standing on a traffic island in the Iranian capital Tehran and… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent Washington Times, February 7, 2018. The U.S. government has traced some of the $1.7 billion released to Iran by the Obama administration to Iranian-backed terrorists in the two years since the cash was transferred. According to knowledgeable sources,… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent I guess this Iranian woman must be an “Islamophobe”? Video from MRCTV: CNS News, February 5, 2018. (Archive link) Criticizing the “hypocrisy” of feminists, an Iranian women’s rights activist says Western media outlets will report on a Barbie… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent Meanwhile, Western female leftists like to wear hijabs in solidarity with victimized Muslims… New York Times, February 4, 2018. (Archive link) The office of Iran’s president on Sunday charged into the middle of one of the most contentious… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent Jerusalem Post, February 2, 2018. Iran got shafted in the nuclear deal with the West, while support for ballistic missiles, Hezbollah and the Assad regime remain strong and recent protests were about economics not a revolution, Iran Poll… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent While CNN encourages Americans to wear the hijab in solidarity with Muslims, Muslim women in the Middle East are taking it off in protest. They are stripping off and burning their burqas. The hijab is ultimately to diminish… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent Qu’ran 5:38: As to the thief, Male or female, cut off his or her hands: a punishment by way of example, from Allah, for their crime: and Allah is Exalted in power. Sahih Bukhari 8:81:780: Narrated ‘Aisha: The… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent NCRI, January 17, 2018. A Majlis deputy objected to the situation in Iranian hospitals and called for implementation of gender segregation in medical centers. At an open session of the mullahs’ parliament on January 14, 2018, Nasrollah Pejman,… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent Next up: Linda Sarsour and CNN to say that hijabs are empowering and that women wear them on their own volition. Al-Bawaba, January 16, 2018. Images of a Chinese musician looking mortified as her performance in Tehran is… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent Arutz Sheva, January 11, 2018. The police department in the state of Thüringen, Germany, has started distributing information pamphlets in the Farsi language, to accommodate the large numbers of refugees from Afghanistan and other Persian-speaking areas. The pamphlet’s… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent Instead of an in-house suspension, it’s detention for an hour. It still sucks. Daily Mail Online, December 27, 2017. Iranian police are taking a softer approach to breaches of Islamic rules, opting for education over punishment, according to… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent AP, December 22, 2017. Iranian police detained 230 boys and girls at separate parties in the capital Tehran on Thursday night. Officers arrested 140 of the young partygoers in a garden on the outskirts of Tehran and 90… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent A very telling story: Kamran, 26, said that when Iranian bands play in the capital, audiences sometimes defy these regulations and stand up to dance. But that didn’t happen here, he said, because the crowd didn’t want to… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent Iran HRM, December 17, 2017. Head master of a girls’ school in Eslamabad County, Kermanshah Province, shortened the students’ hair because they did not observe the compulsory veil and under the pretext of improper veiling. Using scissors, the… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent Jerusalem Post, December 17, 2017. Four Iranian converts to Christianity were arrested last Tuesday in the city of Karaj, about an hour drive from Tehran, according to Persian media reports. Two weeks before Christmas, Iranian security forces raided… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent Breitbart London, December 13, 2017. A 63-year-old Iranian asylum seeker was arrested in the German town of Öhringen after being accused of sexually molesting three young children including a seven-year-old boy. The incident, which occurred on Sunday, is said… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent The outlook of Islam upon women: An Iranian woman who files for asylum in Switzerland when she is discovered playing soccer with men without wearing a hijab. Be it inside or outside the country, be it inside or… Continue Reading
Follow @TheCircumvent A new fatwa by Egyp’s al-Azhar University says [quoting Egypt Independent] “that it is compulsory for women in Islam to wear the veil, while those who deny this are ‘extremist’ and ‘abnormal.’” Daily Mail Online, December 12, 2017.… Continue Reading