News: Iranian vicepresident expected to resign after shaking hands

M André

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Iranians have called for their vice president to stand down after it was wrongly claimed she had shaken hands with a male politician.

State broadcasters indicated Masoumeh Ebtekar had shaken hands with a male minister at a meeting, triggering a furore.

Instead, she met German female environment minister, Barbara Hendriks, who was wearing a suit and had short hair.

Iran prohibits a religious woman from touching a man she does not know.

Press in the country had reported Ms Hendricks was a woman who “looks like a man”.

Sadegh Ghorbani, a Tehran- based journalist tweeted:“This handshake [created an] uproar for [a] few hours in conservative media & social network pages. They thought the #Germanminister is a man. #Iran.”

The German-Iranian meeting was further undermined by criticism of Iran’s record on homophobia.

Ms Hendricks, who announced she was gay in 2013, is the first lesbian in German history to serve as a federal minister.

Stop the Bomb, an organisation that seeks to end Iran’s nuclear program tweeted: “Disgraceful: Lesbian German minister happily signed deals with regime of Iran that executes homosexuals.”

Under Iran’s regime, homosexuality is punishable by death. According to a 2008 British WikiLeaks dispatch, Iran has executed at least 4,000 gay people since it was founded as an Islamic Republic in 1979.

Women's rights in Iran are also severely restricted, according to Human Rights Watch, with strict modesty laws in place.

Recent campaigns against women cycling in the country have gained international attention.

Ms Ebtekar, a prominent reformist figure, became Iran’s first female vice-president when she previously served in the same office from 1997 to 2005.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7355196.html

Skins

this **** is literally so ridiculous

El Chiko Kevo

lol this is easily the dumbest **** ever

AvrilLaQueen

disgusting! wait till SJWs who were defending this sexist act when it happened in Europe defend this one too...

Pure Heroin

Doesn't Sharia apply in Iran? Ready for her to get stoned or her hand to get cut off.

Communion

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Originally posted by AvrilLaQueen

disgusting! wait till SJWs who were defending this sexist act when it happened in Europe defend this one too...

....except didn't the Europeans punish the woman for not shaking someone's hand?

So Muslim women ain't safe in their home countries if they don't practice extreme versions of their faith, and they're not safe anywhere else if they practice any version of their faith.

All societies seem to hate Muslim women. Strength to them.

AvrilLaQueen

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Originally posted by Communion

....except didn't the Europeans punish the woman for not shaking someone's hand?

So Muslim women ain't safe in their home countries if they don't practice extreme versions of their faith, and they're not safe anywhere else if they practice any version of their faith.

All societies seem to hate Muslim women. Strength to them.

she was punished for discriminating based on sex, which you can't choose versus Iranians punishing this woman because of faith, which they can choose. A simple rationality sis

Communion

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Originally posted by AvrilLaQueen

she was punished for discriminating based on sex, which you can't choose versus Iranians punishing this woman because of faith, which they can choose. A simple rationality sis

Women don't hold the ability to discriminate men on the basis of sex, hun.

What a shame such extremism exists in Europe and the Middle East that refuses to allow women their agency and choices, either commit to a radicalized version of your faith or abandon it for the pseudo-Christian beliefs of a faux-secular society.

Hopefully Europe and the Middle East can both work towards to true secularism one day and start supporting women to do as they please.

M André

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Originally posted by Communion

....except didn't the Europeans punish the woman for not shaking someone's hand?

So Muslim women ain't safe in their home countries if they don't practice extreme versions of their faith, and they're not safe anywhere else if they practice any version of their faith.

All societies seem to hate Muslim women. Strength to them.

If you mean the muslim woman who actually chose to leave the school, the answer is no.
Nobody forced her to leave her position unlike this case.

Raster

disgusting through and through

those countries are at least 100 years in the past culturally

M André

And actually ms Ebtekar didn't shake a man's hand but a woman's, it's just that the woman is masculine looking and also a lesbian which I guess doesn't make much difference to the "sin" she committed

AvrilLaQueen

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Originally posted by Communion

Women don't hold the ability to discriminate men on the basis of sex, hun.

What a shame such extremism exists in Europe and the Middle East that refuses to allow women their agency and choices, either commit to a radicalized version of your faith or abandon it for the pseudo-Christian beliefs of a faux-secular society.

Hopefully Europe and the Middle East can both work towards to true secularism one day and start supporting women to do as they please.

Oh yes they do, hun

Being disrespectful at workplace leads to losing job. She choose to lose her job for discriminating someone based on gender.

Bangerzzz

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Originally posted by M André

And actually ms Ebtekar didn't shake a man's hand but a woman's, it's just that the woman is masculine looking and also a lesbian which I guess doesn't make much difference to the "sin" she committed

It is not a sin people thought she was a man because she looked like a man

AvrilLaQueen

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Originally posted by M André

And actually ms Ebtekar didn't shake a man's hand but a woman's, it's just that the woman is masculine looking and also a lesbian which I guess doesn't make much difference to the "sin" she committed

omg, tragic

Dessy Fenix

Wait they have a female VP?

Bangerzzz

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Originally posted by Communion

Women don't hold the ability to discriminate men on the basis of sex, hun.

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ok so what about the Muslim boy who didn't shake hands with the teacher

KillingYourCareer

Messy. Iran has the lowest mosque attendance in the Islamic world, yet they act so religious

bleuwaffle

That's just their culture you bigots !!!!

Ryann

The sexism

Communion

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Originally posted by AvrilLaQueen

Oh yes they do, hun

Being disrespectful at workplace leads to losing job. She choose to lose her job for discriminating someone based on gender.

And "respect" is one of many socially constructed social mores determined by various factors, so you admit Muslim people are purposefully deemed disrespectful while anglo-christian European acts of disrespect are normalized in Europe?

Shame Christian and Anglo-extremists think the answer to oppressive regimes in the Middle East is oppressive laws in their own lands. A complete failure similar to tone-deaf 2nd-wave feminism.