Each true revolution has its powerful symbols of freedom. The symbol of the current protests in Iran is a woman who took off her hijab.
This woman in #Iran took off her #Hijab to protest the mandatory Islamic dress code imposed on Iranian women. #IStandWithHer#IranProtests#Islampic.twitter.com/G6oKHIPA68
— Armin Navabi (@ArminNavabi) December 29, 2017
The woman has since reportedly been arrested, but she has quickly become one of the icons of the anti-government protests. While Western leftists ally with Islamists and glamorizing hijab repression, in Islamic countries, removing the hijab is a form of freedom.
The debate over the hijab is a microcosm of the larger debate about Islam.
Western leftists backed Islamist political movements as agents of freedom, both originally in Iran and more recently in the Arab Spring, while betraying those who actually sought freedom. The left's alliance with fundamentalists who repress women in Islamic countries remains one of its greatest hypocrisies.
UPDATE: Sources told me this woman has been arrested and detained. The spot where she was standing in Tehran is now being laid with flowers. #IranianProtests#Iranprotestspic.twitter.com/8oplxK0kEb
— Andy C. Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 30, 2017
The struggle against Iran’s tyrannical regime today is built on a proud legacy of dissent. On Women’s Int. Day in 1979 shortly after the Islamic Revolution, huge crowds of women assembled for their own #WomensMarch to protest compulsory hijab. #Iranprotestspic.twitter.com/3V2EFm9yIz
— Andy C. Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 30, 2017
This year anti-Trump campaigners in th US made a woman in a hijab their symbol of resistance, while in Iran women ripped off their hijabs to resist theocratic rule. Western activists have lost all sense of what women's liberation means. pic.twitter.com/FNfs5gfh4o
— spiked (@spikedonline) December 31, 2017
I'm afraid you're going to have to wait until hell freezes over. The unholy alliance between leftists and Islamists - both see America and Israel as the Great Satan and the Little Satan, is not about to be broken. But thanks for pointing out the hypocrisy at its core. https://t.co/ApM5uhKo3h
— David Horowitz (@horowitz39) December 31, 2017