A sociologist: the government has no choice but to face the issue of hijab softly
Ebrahim Fayaz, a member of the Faculty of Sociology, University of Tehran:
The space to open up never has a ceiling. That’s why people always feel that the space is closed. Part of the feeling of the space being closed is instilled in the society by some of these government men.
It is in the interest of the country that the government allows words to be spoken.
I do not give any right to the government. Many of these discussions are about privacy. One of the problems in the country is the issue of hijab and chastity. But what does this have to do with the police? Men put pressure on the police. The nature of the police has nothing to do with these things.
They created the police to fight against thieves and murderers, the same first administration of Ahmadinejad, Sardar Ahmadi Moghadam, who was the police chief, invited me and I went and spoke. I said that what you are doing is socialist. It was just the first work of the Irshad patrol.
I was against it from the beginning; I even protested in the country’s culture council and social council and said that cultural work cannot be done with sticks and clubs. When the police were involved in the hijab issue, the first thing that happened was that the thefts escalated and the extortions increased.
Hijab is just a ritual for chastity to be clean so that the family remains. If there is no family, nothing remains in the society; No history remains, no tradition, no generations, no morals and peace. All this stays with the family.
We Iranians have never had tents in the past; We have a knife. You go to Abyaneh, the north of the country, and the south. All women have knives; Because an Iranian woman wanted to work and ride a horse and wear a hijab at the same time.
See also the veiled nomadic women, how beautiful and colorful they wear. The black tent was not from us, it was from the Turks who gave it as a gift to the Qajar court and it entered Iran little by little.
We now see the number of AIDS patients growing rapidly, divorces at their peak, marriages drastically reduced, and these are all sexual issues. If you ask me what we should do to solve the problems of marriage and divorce, I would say give back the “sexual femininity” to women. We made a lot of mistakes in the field of women. What have we left behind? We wanted to control everything, but we destroyed everything together./Hamshahri
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