“Your Islam criticized it, now you come to pray to him? Are you not ashamed of yourself? You kill him for two strands of hair! … Take your Islam and go,” said Mahsa Amini’s father in a viral video.
Father of Mahsa Amini refuses to allow Islamic prayers over body of Mahsa. He's says to the mullah who's praying over her:
"Your Islam denounced her, now you've come to pray over her? Aren't you ashamed of urself? You killed her for 2 strands of hair! … Take your Islam and go." pic.twitter.com/Pzqn92Z2c2— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) September 20, 2022
Who is Mahsa Amini?
For the past few days, protests have erupted throughout Iran after a 22 -year -old woman died when detained by moral police for violating the code of Islamic clothing that was strictly upheld. Anger has seen women remove their mandatory hijab, or hijab, from covering their hair after Mahsa Amini’s death, who was picked up by the morality police over her hijab which was allegedly loose.
Some videos have appeared online that show women turning them over their heads, singing. The others have burned them or cut their own hair locks angry.
Amini’s death has made an angry many Iranians, especially young people, who came to see it as part of a hard policy on discenta and morality that was getting harder with the treatment of young women.
Protests turn into violence
According to reports, the protesters clashed with the police in several places. Not only that, thick clouds of tear gas visible in the capital of Tehran. Meanwhile, volunteers ride a motorcycle known as “Basij” in the Revolutionary Guard of Paramiliter Iran have pursued and defeated demonstrators-as they have in other protests in recent years about water rights, the country’s marriage economy and other reasons that have been suppressed with hard.
But some demonstrators still chant “death of the dictator”, which targets the government of the supreme leader Ali Khamenei and Iran’s theocracy, despite the threat of arrest, prison and even the possibility of death sentence.
Why do women protest in Iran?
On September 13, Iran’s morality police arrested Mahsa Amini in Tehran, where he visited his hometown in the West Kurdi region of the country. He fainted at the police station and died three days later. He was detained by the police for wearing a hijab too loose. Iran requires women to wear the hijab in a way that fully covers their hair when in public.
Only Afghanistan under the Taliban government is now actively enforcing the same law – even Saudi Arabia who ultraconated has played back the enforcement for the past few years.
The police denied that Amini was persecuted and stated that she died of a heart attack. President Ebrahaim Raisi has promised an investigation. However, the Amini family said he had no history of heart problems and that they were prevented to see his body before he was buried. The protest erupted after his funeral in the City of Kurdi Saqz on Saturday, and quickly spread to other parts of the country, including Tehran.
