Facebook Posts Show Iranian Women Tossing Hijabs, Praising Freedom
Photo Credit: Fox News Thousands of Iranian women are protesting their nation’s oppressive culture by tossing aside their hijabs and taking selfies that are turning up in a growing Facebook gallery.
The page, titled “Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian Women,” has garnered nearly 180,000 likes in just two weeks. The women pictured on it are seen joyfully shedding the Muslim garb in various locations around the Islamic republic. The page was created by London-based Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad, who came up with the idea after hearing from women in her homeland who told her how lucky she is to have Facebook photos with her hair blowing in the wind.
“I guess, the idea of “Stealthy Freedoms” is a bit like the English phrase “secret pleasures,” or “guilty pleasures,” which is doing something pleasurable –like having a craving for chocolate – but one that we don’t feel comfortable in doing in public,” Alinejad told FoxNews.com.
The page is intended for women to post freedom-inspiring photos of themselves in varying degrees of defiance, from some only showing the backs of their heads to others standing in front of government offices.
Alinejad left Iran in 2009, the same year Iranians flooded the streets of Iran protesting the corruption of their government in the aftermath of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s contested re-election. The revolution failed, but an international audience got a brief glimpse into Iran’s secular and social media conscious community.
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