Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Hejab




I often wonder why life is so just? And why are we condemned slaves of time?

There has been facts upon the issues when in certain times people had faced force, oppress usually defending on one title whether religious, racial, or political. On what have been observed it sounds definite that the targets promote a sort of hatred not only towards the forces and individuals performing it but also on the original basis of where it came from. In Ancient Persia in the Sassanian dynasty the religion, Zoroastrian turned to the dark side being intensified by the followers specially the clergies and its involvement in the government and politics. The death of Mazdak and his followers who themselves appeared as a result of highly difference and discrimination classes of the society, the murder of Mani the prophet, the brutal sacrifices and dictatorship all brought hate and disgust towards the religion of centuries. “The destructive key in any matter lives within it.” Hegel. The clergies brought an end to the religion of themselves.

And so today, Persians have to deal with another sort of trouble. The Majority of now Iranians are Muslims. Since the religion was confirmed by Ishmael shah the first king of Safavid dynasty the Iranians have lived a long way of Islamic life. The government, however, became Islamic as well in the Islamic revolution of Iran in 1979. Having the government on the basis of Islam, the country has faced new challenges like one, Hejab. In Islamic regulations it is demanded from women to cover the body and face as a means of chastity. The late regime tried hard to take away these coverings and was strongly opposed by women who didn't believe so. Today ladies are into a different sort of problem that is the governmental forces; even police are roughly adjusting to put back the veil and Hejab that was taken by the previous regime. So here it goes, pull and push, extravagance and dissipation and unfortunately the harm is only on the young victims of the time.

In the concern of democracy which itself originates from our motherland, it is wrong and illegal to force anyone into any religious belief or rule. When democracy doesn’t fully exit and the ones spreading it are more of undemocratic people (foreign leaders) what else can be accepted rather than this? In my country there are various classes of people with so different ideas, beliefs, and deeds. Some believe that the bad Hejab as they call it is a matter of colonization that even now exists and breaths in to our nation; some believe Islam can get hurt in our generation and never rise again if they don’t correct people now. The youth of this country, with all passion and anxiety requested one thing that was declined by the government. Being well aware of the issues they should be wise enough to understand specially this has got nothing to do with religion, it’s the people who are doing all this vicious acts not god, not the prophet and nobody but ourselves.
Their wrong doings; their limitations, must be in the first place not blamed on anything but themselves. Matters of fight for the belief, standing against oppression, are well repeated but who has the courage to step forward? And is there a real need to fight or will it better if just continue to live by the rules, whatever they are? The decision is to be made by you.

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