If You Protest You Must Be Mentally Ill.

[sandyRoe]

The Ayatollahs in Iran are to introduce clinics to 'treat' women who refuse to wear the human.  The Soviets used the same tactic to try and deal with their dissidents.  It didn't work for them and I hope it will be a failure for the Iranians as well.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/13/iran-sets-up-mental-health-clinic-to-treat-women-who-refuse/

[sandyRoe]

^ the hijab, not the human.

[choux]

Hijab? :)

[choux]

I didn't see your correction before I typed, sorry sandy.
I guess many of us are ill to a degree but who is to say what is reasonable if we don't live in such places...

[barry1010]

The Ayatollahs would be apoplexic if they could see how some of the younger woman I see wear the hijab.

Those Iranian ladies have got guts.  

[sandyRoe]

No problem, Choux.

These clinics are really just another weapon in the armoury of oppression.

[naomi24]

Anyone who expects women to live heir lives shrouded- even just covering their hair in public - needs their bumps felt.  

[youngmafbog]

Critisising the funders of your pals eh?

Well good on you, perhaps you have seen the light.

Extreme Islam is an abomination and scourge on the World.  Soon to be here if we dont look out though, how many sleepers are in the country right now?

[Peter Pedant]

The Soviets used the same tactic to try and deal with their dissidents.

yes I remember the trials Sinyavsky and Daniel - and then they just incarcerated them in psychatric hospital

You see ma daydy said " it DOES fit the definition of delusion that we learnt in the thirties" - - - to wit " characterized by or holding false beliefs or judgements about external reality that are held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary,"

The political response was to cut off russian psychiatry. When Prof Linford Rees prof of  psych argued that 'jaw-law' was better than silence, he was (the only psychiatrist to be attacked) in the Times!

Later 1991 the russian psychiatrists said it was good to be talked to.

Mental Hospital s are meant to be better than prisons

I am not sure if this has anything to do with Iran. It may be a sign that the great and good that govern Iran recognise the ( refusal)  behaviour is not criminal but has to be handled in some way

or not

[Old_Geezer]

IMO, one thing that could happen to benefit the normal folk there is to find that some nation, fed up with Iranian action against them, took out their military and nuclear facilities, leaving the masses an opportunity to rise up. But it probably won't happen, so they're stuffed.

[Peter Pedant]

No the Americans did that in Iraq and it was a complete disaster