Empowered Middle Eastern Women and Youth…
By John A. Ross (01/11/06)
Throughout the Middle East, realist secular and sensible devout Islamic women are becoming further empowered. Sensible women and young people, in every corner of the Middle East and Central Asia, universally have real hope that their future will be free of dictatorial theological tyranny. The recent overthrow of autocratic or dictatorial theological regimes that have forced women into gender apartheid and domestic slavery reinforces the chances for positive change, despite not receiving any support from international human rights organizations.
Unwilling to accept sexist driven decisions that condemn women to social and career obscurity and rejecting attire that is demeaning, secular and sensible Islamic women are changing the Middle East. Armed with education and seasoned in dealing with secular laws and Islamic Sharia interpretations, growing numbers of women across the Middle East and Central Asia are prevailing with logic. Possessing intellectual and social awareness of Sharia interpretation vagaries, women of all walks of life are receiving support for equality from family, friends and like-minded secular believers.
Conspicuously, women in Iran are far more aggressive, or blatant, in demanding and receiving populist support for equality from family, friends and secular, especially, young males. Fearing the wrath of fathers, brothers, husbands and friends, the Mullahs controlling Iran immediately disperse, or arrest and haul off, any women that protest against the regime. As such, it is just a matter of time before the new heavy-handed Islamic President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, precipitates a violent confrontation between the secular majority and regime forces.
Last week, women in Iran celebrated their emancipation that was granted seventy years ago by rejecting the archaic Islamic interpretations that are designed to influence mores, norms and social beliefs. Displacing Islamic fanaticism with traditional nationalism, modern Iranian women and most young people who are also secular will be gravitating to the newly formed Iranian National Secular Party (INSP); in spite of the brutal Mullahs efforts to hang on to power. Educated to the standards of the Irish and Polish, far too many young Iranians languish in ill suited jobs, or remain chronically unemployed after leaving school. Harnessed into a productive workforce, the young men and women of Iran will be dramatic partners in forging the 21st Century with dynamic elements found in the West.
Sitting on a powder keg full of educated, well-informed, sensible women and young people that can see through theology used to feed greed and self-aggrandizement, the Middle East is changing. Unwilling to accept, or tolerate, an existence that is steeped in 7th Century beliefs, the ability to control most people through ignorance is fast eroding beneath the feet of present day theological despots. Grasping for ways to remain in power by seeking weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and fomenting the destabilization of neighboring countries, Iran’s manipulating Mullahs are in trouble.
Exasperated with the lies, manipulations and the predominate brutality that is always used to subjugate people, despots throughout the Middle East should rightly fear the people they abuse. Unable to harm dissenters without international visibility, Middle Eastern and Central Asian despots, lead by Iranian Mullahs, are looking at a burning fuse lit by the Internet. Consequently, the 7th Century Islamic fascist relics are threatened with being thrown, or blown onto the garbage heap of history.
Conspicuously, women in Iran are far more aggressive, or blatant, in demanding and receiving populist support for equality from family, friends and secular, especially, young males. Fearing the wrath of fathers, brothers, husbands and friends, the Mullahs controlling Iran immediately disperse, or arrest and haul off, any women that protest against the regime. As such, it is just a matter of time before the new heavy-handed Islamic President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, precipitates a violent confrontation between the secular majority and regime forces.
Last week, women in Iran celebrated their emancipation that was granted seventy years ago by rejecting the archaic Islamic interpretations that are designed to influence mores, norms and social beliefs. Displacing Islamic fanaticism with traditional nationalism, modern Iranian women and most young people who are also secular will be gravitating to the newly formed Iranian National Secular Party (INSP); in spite of the brutal Mullahs efforts to hang on to power. Educated to the standards of the Irish and Polish, far too many young Iranians languish in ill suited jobs, or remain chronically unemployed after leaving school. Harnessed into a productive workforce, the young men and women of Iran will be dramatic partners in forging the 21st Century with dynamic elements found in the West.
Sitting on a powder keg full of educated, well-informed, sensible women and young people that can see through theology used to feed greed and self-aggrandizement, the Middle East is changing. Unwilling to accept, or tolerate, an existence that is steeped in 7th Century beliefs, the ability to control most people through ignorance is fast eroding beneath the feet of present day theological despots. Grasping for ways to remain in power by seeking weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and fomenting the destabilization of neighboring countries, Iran’s manipulating Mullahs are in trouble.
Exasperated with the lies, manipulations and the predominate brutality that is always used to subjugate people, despots throughout the Middle East should rightly fear the people they abuse. Unable to harm dissenters without international visibility, Middle Eastern and Central Asian despots, lead by Iranian Mullahs, are looking at a burning fuse lit by the Internet. Consequently, the 7th Century Islamic fascist relics are threatened with being thrown, or blown onto the garbage heap of history.
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