Young members of the Worker-communist Party of Iran who live in Iran have joined the scream! Since they would be executed for this act, their faces are covered with slogans saying ‘Long Live Women’s Freedom’, ‘No to Hejab’, ‘No to Islamic Rule’, ‘No to Gender Discrimination’ and ‘No to Islamic Reaction’. They have printed the calendar and pasted it behind them. This photo has made my day.
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March 8, 2012 at 7:37 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
For all my quarrels, this is a group with real guts.
leni
March 8, 2012 at 8:37 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Definitely.
I’m afraid for them, though.
Kaveh
March 8, 2012 at 9:12 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Ms. Namazie is nothing more than a Zionist shill and a crypto-Jew. Her agenda has always been one of promoting degenerate Western filth to innocent Iranians. These expatriated Persians are dogs. For such a secular humanist and “devout” anti-theist, I’m not surprised this Kike Jewgold peddler did not make any mention of the disgusting holiday of Purim where Jewish rats celebrate their murder of 75,000 innocent Persian women and children.
Fuck Islam, fuck Arabs, and fuck the Islamic Republic but keep your Western filth out of our motherland you filthy witch.
Peter B.
March 8, 2012 at 9:48 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
What a bigot.
Bernard Hurley
March 8, 2012 at 10:35 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Rattled Kaveh?
Sheila Crosby
March 8, 2012 at 10:36 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Anything rather than read what she says.
leni
March 8, 2012 at 10:42 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Kevah, the only filthy thing here is your comment.
michaeld
March 8, 2012 at 11:09 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
For some reason crypto-jew makes me think of a bigfoot wearing a kippa…..
Gregory Lynn
March 9, 2012 at 2:07 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Terrifyingly glad that I am not the only one.
michaeld
March 9, 2012 at 3:05 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
The feelings mutual
Martyn N Hughes
March 9, 2012 at 11:31 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Pesian_power is back then?
Rafiq Mahmood
March 8, 2012 at 11:14 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Un-welcome back, “Kaveh”, new name, same smell.
Valerie
March 8, 2012 at 11:15 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Wow. How ugly. Good reminder why the voices of women like Maryam are needed.
Greta Christina
March 9, 2012 at 12:05 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Thank you for sharing.
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March 9, 2012 at 9:12 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Anyone get the feeling this guy’s a plant? Someone trying to be taken at face value as a hideous bigot?
Alternatively, Rafiq, you say you’ve seen this guy before?
Agent Smith
March 9, 2012 at 9:45 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Dear Eliza
Please improve the conversational algorithm. I know that wasn’t a human talking.
Winterwind
March 9, 2012 at 10:08 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
It’s our dear old friend PersianWanker88, the racial supremacist and general troll. He keeps changing his IP address so that he can sneak in and spam up the place with his hateful ranting before Maryam catches him.
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March 9, 2012 at 1:03 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
88, huh? As in the neo-Nazi code?
northern light
March 9, 2012 at 10:23 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
“Fuck Islam, fuck Arabs, and fuck”
For a group of people trying to keep women covered up and be “unsexual”….you seem to an extraordinary inteest in sex words.
Ed
March 10, 2012 at 7:17 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
First, if expatriated Iranians are dogs, then you have just called Ayatullah Khomeini a dog; expect a posthumous fatwa.
Second, there aren’t any innocent Iranians.
Third, only degenerates abhor dogs.
You may now crawl back into your motherland.
JA.llah
August 23, 2012 at 11:44 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
It just pisses me off, when I read comments from islamic fanatics like you: a religion that wants to enslave all other people, that finds it lawful to kill in the name of God, a religion that wants to enslave humanity.
Everybody who read your Quran realizes how antisocial you are. Your Imams claim murdering is lawful.as long as it is covered by laws that are invented by the successors of your so called prophet. The Sharia was invented after your so called Prophet, whom you adore like a godlike figure, was finally killed.
In our time a religion which denies even the most basic human rights for their followers has got no place at all and has to be extinguished. The way your clerical and political leaders in the islamic world usually behave, they have to be tried at the Hague for crimes against humanity, manslaughter and genocide.
I absolutely appreciate the movement against your inhuman governmentsand hope they will one day succeed.
In my eyes there are only two rules by which everybody should live: If it harms no one, do it and Protect the weak from the strong.
It really is a shame that you are allowed to express your opinion here, as your leaders deny this right to anyone in your country.
The Iranian people are Slaves, living in the biggest prison with guards that are terrorists or at least support terrorists. People like you should be tried by the Sharia in western countries, then NONE OF YOU PERVS would survive.
I pray every Day for the day you folks will become rational and decide to be human again, isnteasd of being demons
Jack K1
October 3, 2012 at 5:00 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
And yet here he is openly admiring her naked body.
Peter B.
March 8, 2012 at 9:51 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
If anyone suggests staging nude protests outside Iranian embassies (in countries where that might be tolerated of course), I’ll be in it.
If anyone wants to do one here in Australia – count me in.
Imagine the publicity for the cause this would generate.
Greta Christina
March 9, 2012 at 12:07 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
And can I just say: If I had any doubts at all about being in this calendar, they have now entirely evaporated. I am so humbled and proud to be part of this, I can’t put it into words. The extremely minor risk I took with being in this calendar pales in comparison to the risk these folks are taking. Knowing that my picture is one of the ones posted up there behind them… I don’t have words. Maryam, thank you for making this happen.
Icaarus
March 9, 2012 at 2:09 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
I am wondering what the fifth sign says. You only translated 4 and to my unkeen eye all 5 look different
جانم فدای رهبر
March 9, 2012 at 2:50 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Thank GOD beacause my enemies are from stupidest peoples.
nudity is not sign of protest. It is a sign of stupidity.
Thank GOD beacause my enemies have nude body and nude and nude brains.
Martyn N Hughes
March 9, 2012 at 4:34 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
?
Bernard Hurley
March 9, 2012 at 4:52 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
جانم فدای رهبر, I guess you must feel really stupid every time you take a bath!
Peter B.
March 11, 2012 at 11:57 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Probably bathes in a burqa.
Bernard Hurley
March 9, 2012 at 8:01 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
جانم فدای رهبر you show a misunderstanding of what protest is.
Of course nudity in itself is not a sign of protest, but if someone wishes to cover me from head to foot it becomes a protest. Whatever militant political Islamists accept among themselves as appropriate sexual standards is, in as far as they are consenting adults, their own business. But they have absolutely no right to violently foist these standards on others against their will. The fact that they do so is what makes what these brave women are doing a protest.
You have made these women into your enemies; you don’t get to pick what weapons they use when they fight back!
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March 9, 2012 at 4:48 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Nude brain? I can live with that.
Peoftimt
March 9, 2012 at 5:12 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
I thought that Golshifteh Farahani’s topless photo in Figaro was beautiful, because it showed a thing of beauty- the human body. To always sexualise it is what needs questioning. The pose Ms Farahani is in enhances the natural beauty. The other woman in the news recently, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, showed bravery (I’m sure some will try to make her pay for that photo) in challenging the system, rightly or not.
I have never understood the interpretations of Islamic modesty- why is the burqa (and similar) only for women? Why are women treated little better than a working animal (you keep it alive, but you don’t give it love)? This questions should be asked, especially at the men who propose these ideas as religious or political figures. I thought the calendar idea, although provocative, was a brilliant idea; certainly braver than I am about my body!
Chantal Yacavone
March 9, 2012 at 6:49 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
You are extremely brave, I wish you the best in your fight for freedom.
Rafiq Mahmood
March 9, 2012 at 10:22 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
The word “kafir” has always irked me. A kafir is someone who is supposed to cover up, to hide the truth.
So who are the kuffar? Who are the people who have suppressed science since Ghazali? Who are the people who censor and are afraid of discourse? Who are the people who fear the sharp light of humour? Who are the people who cut off the heads of people who just don’t buy their myths any more? Who are the people who cover their faces to intimidate others? Who are the people who cover women in cloth cages and fear seeing so much as a wisp of female hair?
Nudity is our scream, our protest that in no uncertain terms we are not the kuffar. Infidels, yes, and proud of our lack of faith in old men’s tales. Coverers up, no.
We on this side of The Fence defy their cowardly covering up with our bodies, our voices and our struggle.
Rafiq Mahmood
March 9, 2012 at 10:31 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Oh and yes, as soon as I can get a decent enough photo done, I shall come into the garden too.
maxamillion
March 11, 2012 at 5:58 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
So, the guy in the shorts has been putting it about so much that he thought he might be recognised?
asadullah Mir
March 12, 2012 at 8:54 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Hi everybody,
I don’t understand what is this fuss about being naked. Big deal.
And how does it liberate a woman to be naked? Does’nt
it just make her an object of lust?
And why do some commentators here repeat the mantra that the nude body is not and should not be seen as erotic? It is. Emphatically! Why should any man be ashamed of having erotic thoughts when confronted with a nude female or her photo? I think a man might be ashamed of NOT having erotic thoughts thusly. Women’s bodies are the most beautiful thing ever seen by mankind. And no doubt provoke erotic thoughts. And nothing is wrong with eroticism.
Azzythehillbilly
fidosent
March 13, 2012 at 5:28 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
I don’t understand why are they yelling “sexual discrimination in Islam” … When a Muslim women wears Hijab its
Oppression/Discrimination and When a Nun wears similar dress, she is Pious. A christian women doesn’t have “Rights”
in her Parents property if a male child is present. Whereas Islam gives right to women for the property. Yet these
So called self styled “Revolutionist-as” yell its discrimination ….
Holy Qur’an says : “Every soul will taste death, and you will only be given your [full] compensation on the
Day of Resurrection. So he who is drawn away from the Fire and admitted to Paradise has attained [his desire].
And what is the life of this world except the enjoyment of delusion.” (Holy Quran : 3:185)
For Sure they will meet him and be rewarded for what they sowed, For God said, its not HIM that’s unjust to mankind,
but mankind itself is unjust to HIM …
M question to them ..
Have you ever read the Holy Qur’an (to understand it) Once in your lifetime ?
think once in your whole life, R U Doing it right ?
Bernard Hurley
March 13, 2012 at 6:27 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
fidosent, there was a time in Christian Europe when there were arranged marriages, child brides and women would be burned as witches or sent to live in a nunnery if they transgressed social norms. It has taken centuries to rid us of this plague and it is still not complete. But if Christianity still had political power this would still happen. Political Islam obviously oppresses women, it is clear for every one to see, and I am not interested in the pathetic excuses for it that some stupid so-called holy book may or may not contain. It amazes me that any sane adult person could be.
But Islam will go the same way as Christianity and there is nothing you or your Qur’an can do about it. So you may as well grow up, get your nappy changed, and get used to it.
Yes and there are some perverts who like to dress up as nuns – so what? Nobody forces them to do it.
C
April 20, 2012 at 1:41 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
When a Christian nun wears her habit, it’s by choice. Some nuns don’t wear habits. Some orders wear untraditional habits: see Mother Teresa. In all cases, they show their faces. Their habits are also historical relics that were commonly worn by Christian women centuries ago. No Christian woman is punished for either wearing or not wearing a habit.
In Iran and Saudi Arabia, women veil themselves by law. To go unveiled is to invite jail or worse.
An Iranian woman told of the time after the Islamic Revolution and before women were required to wear hijab. One of her male friends became Hezbollahi. He told her that he should cover herself up, lest he be tempted to rape her. After all, he was only emulating that “perfect exemplar” and sex maniac Muhammad (piss buh). I’m a Westerner who has seen many attractive women in various states of dress and undress. I have never felt tempted to rape a woman, no matter how attractive. I suppose Muslims think there’s something wrong with me.
Bert
March 14, 2012 at 4:34 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Eventually, the naked truth of this situation, will reveal itself. 3 cheers, for people that have decided that having nothing to hide, is a good way to be.
Hesham Mohamed
March 14, 2012 at 9:07 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
People who ask why muslims wear Hijab , I’ll give a small example : If there are pieces of cake one of them is covered and the other is uncovered which one will you choose to eat ?? answer this and you’ll know why women in Islam wears Hijab
Bernard Hurley
March 14, 2012 at 10:28 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Hesham Mohamed, do you have such utter contempt for women that you think of them as pieces of cake? You disgust me.
Callie
March 17, 2012 at 2:52 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Hesham Mohamed, I’ve heard this charming analogy before and it is just as repugnant each time. If it’s so important not to become a dried-out, fly-covered piece of cake, why don’t men cover themselves? Has it ever crossed your mind that perhaps I wouldn’t want some sullied tart for a husband?
I respect people’s choices to dress modestly, but having lived long-term in several Muslim societies, I found it entirely counter-productive. It turns women into walking sex-objects from head to toe; strolling through the streets there was the most sexualizing and de-humanizing experience I’ve had – and I dressed “modestly” in local clothing and covered my hair. Of course, this was not true of everyone I met – I knew many kind, wonderful, and respectful people. But the system as a whole was broken and encouraged repression and sexual acting-out of the worst kind.
Dario de Judicibus
March 18, 2012 at 7:08 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
We are all with you. Freedom!
azzy
March 22, 2012 at 2:26 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
To me this mode of protest looks like a case of “cutting off the nose to spite the face” thing.
asad
April 3, 2012 at 6:54 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
these r the sheeya of ngo in afghanistan and kabul its written in pashto and eng
kafir kafir sheeya kafir
jo na mane who bi kafir
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Jumusha
June 20, 2012 at 1:33 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Dirty filthy and cowardly. And they think they’re in the right? It’s because hoes and nobs like this, they don’t get anywhere in life.
Bernard Hurley
June 20, 2012 at 1:45 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
No it’s political Islam that’s dirty, filthy and cowardly and thinks it’s right.
Maryam Namazie
June 20, 2012 at 2:17 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Hear, hear!
Mehdi
July 8, 2012 at 1:08 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
خیلی از ما در حال مبارزه ایم. اما هر مرز و بومی باید به سبک خودش پیش بره.
هر کاری که غربیا میکنن که مناسب ما نیست.
اینجا به این کار میگن جندگی…
این افراد هم جنده بودنشون رو به اسم مبارزه معرفی میکنن…
هر هرزه گی مبارزه نیست
Maryam Namazie
July 9, 2012 at 11:27 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Err, there must be some Islamic Pasdar site you can join and comment on. Mozdur boro gomsho!
Amour
December 20, 2012 at 6:06 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
To Mehdi.
I totally agree with you.
But I couldent recognize which one were your mother in that picture.
sara
July 16, 2012 at 2:45 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Freedom, freedom of expression
There is nothing in the West
Despite Iran’s Islamic leader is always free
Islamic Republic of Iran
nima
August 3, 2012 at 6:00 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
harzegie shoma baraye azadie ma faydei nadare pas ina ro be ham rabt nadin.
shahram
October 4, 2012 at 1:38 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
ایول کارتون خیلی درسته منم باهاتونم زنده باد آزادی زن
azzy
October 4, 2012 at 6:21 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
THEY LOOK BETTER WHEN SHAVED.
nina
October 21, 2012 at 11:22 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Nude? So primitive… There aren’t diffrent like dog, cat … Meanwhile someone’s dog or cat wear cloth? How be ashame. We are human not animal…are you???
Come Back To Islam Maryam
November 14, 2012 at 10:10 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Mariam Please Come Back To Islam Allah Will Still For Give You.
Allah Is The Most Merciful.
baran
December 8, 2012 at 8:12 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Honestly my interpretation from religion is not strict and usual as it seems is now all around the world but I believe on freedom and eqaulity for men and women. However in very free cultures still limitations in morals are exist. If any love making happens on a public area definitely people were arrested by police!!!!So let us to be mindfull and do not mix issues. I am sure nowadays women are suffering from limitations in their social freedom in most of islamic countries but somethings deep inside me says protests like being nude is over-reacting to a mis-understanding of Islam!!!!
Islam or any religion rules are RAW in nature and should be cooked by scholars but not by politicians!!!!!For me looking on my concious is the best way to find out what is right and what wrong. Religions tried to remind us to refer our concious and judgment….not justifying murder,betrayal, wars and exploiment in the name of religion….
saman
December 8, 2012 at 8:13 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
ba dorrod faravan be khanum namazie aziz ,be omid roozi ke roshanfekrani chon shoma dar iran azadaneh faaliat konan ,afrade aghaboftadeh va bikheradi ke mokhalefe shoma hastan va mozdoore jomhoori islami hastan che ghalati mikonan inja??
goli
December 26, 2012 at 8:04 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
مرگ بر شمای حرام زاده. آخه کی با تصویر غیراخلاقی تغییرات ایجاد کرده . چقدر احمق هستید
DOWN WITH ISRAEL
J
February 8, 2013 at 9:39 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Well, going out naked is considered public indecency almost every where in the world. What we need in Iran is freedom of faith and belief without having a government dictating how you should think on you and monitoring if you are following them.
Just think of the kids who see their mom or another lady naked, what effect would it have on their psychological growth (actually somehow their doing the same thing the government is doing but on a different scale).
Also they should know that they are harassing the males deprived of any sexual activity in their own country (youth generation not able to get laid because of the control government has on sexual activities). By going naked they are arousing the poor guys sexually while not giving any feedback to them
(see that’s what they’re doing to someone like me, in my thirties and still virgin)
Rohit Verma
March 4, 2013 at 6:22 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
It would be great if some Iranians can hold a nude protests in from of Iranian embassy in UK, Canada, France etc
Maryam Namazie
March 4, 2013 at 7:05 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
yes agreed. I have been thinking that too.
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