Post #3504428

2026-06-30 15:23 UTC

Yes in some places there are conservatives due to the way that colonialism and imperialism has impacted the world but as far as Iran goes, your quote shows that the people of Iran were sufficiently progressive to reject an attempt by some conservatives to push a conservative agenda. They were defeated in this attempt by the masses who are still overwhelmingly Muslim, but understand that the Quran says hijab is voluntary because it explicitly states religion cannot be compulsory. No one here has defended it being compulsory, Muslims by and large are not pushing for it to be compulsory, and those that do are embodying a reactionary mindset imposed on them via colonialism and imperialism. Instead of focusing on what Muslims do and don’t do it would be better to focus on ending capitalism so that people everywhere have more freedom from oppressive power structures, access to education and the ability to make decisions from a place of clarity and stability

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@AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 2026-07-01 04:55

I would push back against this framing a little bit. I feel as if the idea that Iranian hijab is not enforced and therefore many women are without, is in many ways a way of appealing to the liberals and watering down the nature of the revolution. Hijab is enforced for people who represent the nation and appear on state television and hold office. I think this is great (hijab is also defining men’s clothing too but idk if westerners even know that). Holding onto it is a visible and tangible way to reject westoxification and reject liberalism. This isnt the place to enumerate but the position of the martyred Leader was that it should be heavily encouraged but nobody should be berated or attacked for not wearing good hijab. Here is link: english.khamenei.ir/news/9390 I don’t really expect many people here to grasp the nuances of what is being expressed though. But I categorically reject the idea that people who support compulsory hijab are backwards conservatives etc. There is a famous letter from Fanon to Ali Shariati where he observes that the characteristics of Islam make it uniquely capable of countering westernized cultural domination. In many ways “hijab is a fortress against cultural imperialism” I believe that, instead, it is these western xenophobic clowns that are the reactionaries. The takfiris like isis/al qaeda do not represent Islam but idk if war on terror brain allows people to understand that.

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