It is not ture!

They claim that Iran is an Islamic society.  When asked why, they say:

• Because the majority of people are Moslem.

• Because of the appearance of people.

• Or because they have an Islamic government and news broadcasts from Iran say that nobody seems to have complaints or is unhappy about the laws.

This is a false picture of people’s lives in Iran put forward by the international media. It is fabricated and ordered by the ruling powers, including the Islamic Republic of Iran, and constantly regenerated by the media. The above picture, broadcast by official channels such as CNN, is a  picture which tries  to convince us that Iran is an “Islamic society.”

For the past 20 years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has organized and operated armies, prisons, police and torture chambers. It has executed 150 thousand people who protested against compulsory Islamic rules and regulations.  These people were  executed for opposing life in an Islamist society.  To get a better picture of the actual situation, read reports by groups opposing the regime, as well as Amnesty  International and the United Nation Human Rights Committee on  the violations of human rights in Iran.

According to the Islamic regime’s official statistics, hundred of  thousands of people are arrested, interrogated and punished for transgressing Islamic rules and regulations. Women are banned by law from working in many jobs. The law requires that sexes be segregated in hospitals, schools, universities, public transportation and many other public places.  Women are banned from entering many public places. The law forbids dancing and having fun, especially for  women and young girls.  Listening to western music, watching western movies, wearing modern and non-religious clothes, even in private, are against the law. To fall in love or to show public signs of affection is forbidden and having sexual relationships is banned; anyone found guilty of these ‘crimes’ is stoned to death or can be executed.

In attempting to convert Iran into an “Islamic society,” the regime has suppressed people for the past 20 years.  Despite this, it has not been successful in imposing its will on the people.  The people of Iran are being killed for defending Iran from becoming an Islamic  society.  They will not surrender in this fight.  While the regime of Iran has not been successful in changing Iran into an Islamic society, the international media, with its exclusive power, has been successful in presenting to the public the idea that  Iran is an Islamic society.

Do you believe that in an Islamic society, there is a need for imposing Islamic laws in people’s private and social lives? Do you believe that in a society in which people choose an Islamic lifestyle, the government needs to pass laws and use such brutal means of suppression and  control including the armed forces, police patrols and prisons to keep people in their “chosen” lifestyles? In your opinion,  should having the freedom to chose the style of  clothes, behavior, fun and music be considered a political crime as it is in Iran? If your answer is no, then ask the mainstream media why they call Iran an Islamic society? Does not the media rely on the same standards that the Islamic regime uses to grant legitimacy to itself.  Is the media an instrument of the ruling powers, including of the regime in Iran?

The truth is, that for the last 20 years, a regime of sexual apartheid has ruled.  Despite that, there has been a strong movement opposing the transformation of Iran into an “Islamic society.” The soldiers of this mass movement are the millions of oppressed people of Iran - who are kept subdued by the regime. Women and young people are most active in this movement. The platform of this movement is to oppose and to disobey Islamic laws and regulations in the every day lives of people.

The anti-Islam movement in Iran is the strongest movement against religion at  the present time. The extent to which people wear modern clothes other than the Islamic dress code, and the extent to which people play western music and videos, have prompted the regime to organize special patrols to control the young  “ rap listeners,” “pop music lovers” and “western styles.” To the Islamic regime, happiness and acting in a non-religious manner are huge political crimes; everyday many young people are committing  these “crimes.”

If you ask people who come from Iran about their favorite type of clothes and their favorite arts and ways of having fun, you will see how Islamic they are. These are the same people,  who, when they  live in Iran and  are interviewed by CNN, are forced to wear “hejab,” the Islamic dress code and have to “behave” themselves. Is it so hard to understand this compulsion? Is it difficult to understand “compulsory Islamic behavior”? Is it difficult to understand wearing hejab due to fear of torture and imprisonment? This is the situation that people in Iran have to deal with in their everyday lives.

In fact, the media that portrays Iran as an Islamic society, protects the Islamic regime - a regime of execution and imprisonment. The media, which introduces the system created by the Islamic regime as a system that is preferred by millions of  people of Iran, is a liar. Perhaps it is trying to help this oppressive regime continue to rule over the people of Iran.

To acknowledge that Iran is an Islamic society is against the very anti-Islamic movement that demonstrates itself and its opposition to the Islamic lifestyle in the streets. Iran is not an Islamic society. To say it is, is a lie. The truth is that in Iran sexual apartheid  and oppression of people rules.