Failed by the feminists, the brave women of Iran
by Belinda Brown, The Conservative Woman:
With more than 60 per cent of its population under 30, high levels of education combined with high unemployment and economic breakdown, the stage has been set for civil conflict in Iran.
But the roots of the conflict lie much deeper. The harrowing story of Nazarin Zaghari Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian citizen, thrown into prison on cooked-up charges while taking her infant daughter to see her family, is the tip of the iceberg.
In Iran there are no outlets for free speech, for influencing policy, or for independent economic enterprise. Everything is controlled by a theocratic, fundamentalist Islamic State.
Its rate of executions is second only to China. Relationships must conform to the template set down by Shariah. Homosexual behaviour, adultery, sex outside marriage, all incur severe punishments including beatings and death.
But the greatest demonstration of Iran’s fundamentalism is its misogyny.
A woman’s testimony in court is worth half of a man’s. Women may not bring lawsuits if they are raped unless they have four witnesses. They do not receive the same amount of inheritance as their male relatives. Girls as young as nine may not object if their parents marry them off.
This is what real ‘gender inequality’ looks like.
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