Mahsa Amini: Iran police say woman's death was 'unfortunate'

[TheProle]

Source: BBC News

Tehran's police chief says the death of a woman in custody was an "unfortunate" incident he does not want repeated.

Mahsa Amini, 22, fell into a coma last week, hours after morality police held her for allegedly breaking hijab rules.

Witnesses accused officers of beating her, but Police Brig-Gen Hossein Rahimi denied such "cowardly accusations".

Her death sparked protests in the capital and western Iran, where two people were reportedly killed in clashes with riot police on Monday..

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62954648

[OMGWTF]

1. So. Much. Fking. Misogyny. Everywhere.

[Kittycatkat]

2. Little scaredy cat men. They make women cover their bodies,

because they can't control their own nasty thoughts. They cover the beauty god put in the world because they can't control their weak little minds. Why don't they scratch out their own eyes if they cannot bear what they see.

[OMGWTF]

5. But, some Rethuglican Talibangelist politician in the USA recently said the problem is that women

CANNOT CONTROL THEIR SEXUAL URGES. This misogynist and his ilk and fk off all the way to Fkoffsville, and then come back to Fkistanistan and fk off again. You azzholes are starting to give men a bad name. Fk off once again. The future is female!

[Kittycatkat]

9. Yes. The future is all about women taking their power back, with the support of the strong

and decent men and women of every nation. We need to get these ignorant asshats away from positions of power and control around the world.

[iluvtennis]

6. + agree. n/t

[Irish_Dem]

3. Do men get killed for what they wear?

[OMGWTF]

4. The Morality Police. Bitch, please!

Why are these pencil dicked men so afraid of women? Srsly.

[itcfish]

8. Many of the Morality Police

sadly are women

[obamanut2012]

11. You decry Iranian Moral Police who murdered a woman for her gender by using a gendered slur?

The VERY same slur I am quite sure this young woman was called as they were beating her to death?

WTF is wrong with you?

[itcfish]

7. My Niece was in Iran

a few years ago to visit her family. She was out with her male cousins having lunch and the "morality police" came and asked her what she was doing with those men (they were teenagers) They held them until their parents came to claim them and prove that they were related. They were not arrested but were detained. Morality Police my eye. They are so corrupt. BTW, the Morality Police were women.

[frogmarch]

10. NCIS

I know it isn't pertinent to the discussion, but I despise so much the Muslim custom of women having to wear hijabs that I won't watch episodes of NCIS in which the hijab-wearing character Fatima appears.

A longtime female friend of mine from Nebraska married a male student from Afghanistan when she was in college in the 1960s. My friend had blond hair and blue eyes. When she married him and moved to Afghanistan with him, she was abused by him and his family and was forced to wear not just a hijab, but a burqa, on the rare occasions she was allowed to go to the marketplace. Blond women there are said to be inviting rape by not hiding their hair.

She was desperate to escape Afghanistan with her three young children, and fortunately, she was approached secretively one day in the marketplace by someone from an underground group, who helped her and the children escape.

She and the children walked for miles through the desert, taking cover and hiding whenever they saw people, until they reached the meeting place. They were then taken many more miles by car to the American Embassy in Kabul, and from there flown to the States.

She divorced her husband and gained full custody of the children. A few years later she married a childhood friend (he lived next door to me, and his chihuahua, Squeaker, and my beagle, Boots, were besties) and they are all living happily ever after.

My husband once half-jokingly said that I wouldn't last two minutes there before someone killed me. I told him that it was probably true, but that I'd take a few of them with me.

I have Muslim cousins in Pakistan. We are not close.