Iranian Feminist on How Western Liberals
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Wrap
[Ed: Are Making Women’s Lives Worse in Her Country.] Masih Alinejad has a blunt message for Western feminists trying to help her country’s women: You’re making it worse. “I keep hearing in the West especially, Western feminists who go to my country — the female politicians — we don’t want to break the country’s law,” Alinejad said at TheWrap’s Power Women Breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, noting that many well-intentioned foreigners choose to wear veils when traveling in Islamic-dominated countries like Iran. “Women of Iran don’t want to be slaves,” she said. “They don’t want to be told by men or the law of the Islamic Republic of Iran what to wear.”
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Sunday 17 June 2018 - 01:45:14