This is first in a series of articles I am writing as Women’s Issues Examiner for Examiner.com Read the entire article at Examiner.com and let me know your thoughts.
All actions have sympathetic threads that will – eventually – connect us with their effects. This past week I’ve watched the evolution of the election protests in Iran. Thousands upon thousands of women and men are taking their lives into their hands by giving voice to their unrest. They are protesting and challenging their government, actions that we in America take for granted. The images are difficult to look at – people are dying for what they believe in. The immediacy with which social media is serving up news of the protests has the effect of making us feel helpless. “God is Great” is the call of defiance.
A regime that interprets laws to subjugate any portion of their population cannot be considered a government for the people.
If this show of dissent is anything, it is a revolt by people against the injustices of a regime and specifically, the segment of the Iranian population that endures the burden of the injustices comprises Iran’s women. If any change were to occur, it would need to be sweeping and involve implementation of laws that truly give women equal rights and freedom of expression. But this is a fundamentalist regime governed by religious clerics who view women as a form of evil.
Religion stands as one of the most oppressive weapons in the arsenal of governments – and yes, state and church often operate in covert unison in our democratic society. Don’t disqualify Christianity from scrutiny; the defining feature of the Middle Ages was an obedience to authority enforced jointly by political and religious institutions. An intricate bureaucracy of church and state ensured that heretics were fleshed out, their property and money seized, and the spoils divvied up; everyone had their hand in the till and it was booming business. The ideology of an all-powerful, all-forgiving God was the perfect pacifier for the poor illiterate masses beleaguered by feudal lords and a distinct lack of humanism. more…
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