Looks like not all Muslim women living in Iran are too happy about having to follow that regime’s “oppressive culture,” and are not “tossing” those not-so-fashionable hijabs they are forced to wear.
In an act of defiance- which one can assume may lead to some punishment by clerics and officials of the Islamic state, or morality police- thousands of Iranian women took selfie pictures of them taking off those hijabs. The pictures were then posted to the “Stealthy Freedoms for Iranian Women” Facebook gallery page for all the world to see.
The page, titled “Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian Women,” has garnered nearly 180,000 likes in just two weeks. The women pictured on it are seen joyfully shedding the Muslim garb in various locations around the Islamic republic. The page was created by London-based Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad, who came up with the idea after hearing from women in her homeland who told her how lucky she is to have Facebook photos with her hair blowing in the wind.
“I guess, the idea of “Stealthy Freedoms” is a bit like the English phrase “secret pleasures,” or “guilty pleasures,” which is doing something pleasurable –like having a craving for chocolate – but one that we don’t feel comfortable in doing in public,” Alinejad told FoxNews.com.
Iran is governed by Sharia Law, and forbids women to venture out in public and expose too much of themselves, in fear that it will tempt men.