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Iran: Woman left paraplegic after being shot by police over hijab (www.bbc.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A mother of two has been left paraplegic after being shot by Iranian police over an alleged violation of the country's strict hijab rules, a source with knowledge of the case has told the BBC.

"She is paralysed from the waist down, and doctors have said it will take months to determine whether she will be permanently paraplegic or not."

Arezoo Badri, 31, was driving home with her sister in the northern city of Noor on 22 July when police attempted to pull her over to confiscate her car.

The driver did not comply with the order to stop, prompting the officers to shoot, the police commander in Noor told Iran's state-run news agency, without naming Ms Badri.

The incident comes after Iranian police announced a clampdown on women defying the nation's compulsory dress code.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This entire post is about a woman that was shot and paralyzed for not wearing a hijab. Stop deflecting. It's absolutely fair to criticize bad things done in the name of Islam. Feel free to create a separate post about bad things done in the name of Christianity, I'm sure you'll have no issue finding numerous examples. But stop distracting from the oppressive environment women find themselves in in modern day Iran.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

all of those religions are intensely misogynist. that's just the islam flavor abrahamic atrocity. the christian flavor has her dying of ectopic pregnancy after being raped at age 7.

this is a problem that includes islam, but is not specifically an islam problem. they all fucking do this, and whenever people JUST talk about islam, it always victimizes the least bad muslims, refugees, and vulnerable brown people WHO AREN'T EVEN MUSLIMS, and never, NEVER fixes it, never, NEVER goes after the worst hypermisogynist pedophile pieces of shit petpetuating the atrocities. so when I see people focused on this fucking 2000s era throwback islamophobia it NEVER ends in 'we must protect people' it NEVER ends in 'we must end the evils of religion', it ALWAYS ends in the 'war of civilizations' bullshit that has people who live in my fucking neighborhood defending zionists rioting for their right to rape their victims, because most of their victims are muslim. that has people who live in my fucking neighborhood talking about exterminating the brutes and death camps and hey, who else can we put in those, maybe queers? maybe queers. (they don't say 'queers').

its why I can't take any criticism of ISLAM IN PARTICULAR (edit:unless its inclusive of the rest of that group of mind-plagues) seriously. because everything shitty muslims do, shitty christians do just as bad, plus some other crap. hell, a lot of times, their organization names ARE EVEN DIRECT FUCKING TRANSLATIONS OF EACH OTHER. it's just racism. as bad as I think these fuckers are, you're not on the same team as me. you just want an excuse to be racist, and I don't believe you actually give a shit about the victim, she's just an excuse too. please don't bring rage against religion into it if you only care about this shit when a religion you mostly associate with brown people does it. its like when qanon started talking about 'human trafficking'.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why are you lashing out at strangers? I dont know that your anger is coming off the way you think it is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

okay but... why is the splash damage from disapproving of the worst muslims with 'muslims bad' always to sikhs and secular arabs and more moderate muslims who hate this shit almost as much as you claim to, but never to the worst christians doing that exact same shit with the exact same rhetoric who the speaker smiles at every week waiting in line for groceries?