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Iran: Top cleric says women without veils must die
Iran: Top cleric says women without veils must die
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Tehran, 19 Dec. (AKI) - A top Muslim cleric in Iran, Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani said on Wednesday that women in Iran who do not wear the hijab or Muslim headscarf, should die.
"Women who do not respect the hijab and their husbands deserve to die," said Hassani, who leads Friday prayers in the city of Urumieh, in Iranian Azerbaijan.
"I do not understand how these women who do not respect the hijab, 28 years after the birth of the Islamic Republic, are still alive," he said.
"These women and their husbands and their fathers must die," said Hassani, who is the representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in eastern Azerbaijan.
Hassani's statements came after two Kurdish feminists in Iran were accused of being members of an armed rebel group and of carrying out subversive activities threatening the security of the state.
It is believed that his statements and the arrests could spark a fresh crackdown on women who do not repect the Islamic dress code in Iran.
Thousands of women in Iran have already been warned this year for their "un-Islamic dress" such as wearing tight, short coats and skimpy headscarves.
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Remember...This ain't some some individual loonie like the head of the Westboro Baptist Church saying this stuff...The fact that he's a top Muslim Iranian cleric would be equal to a Catholic cardinal saying this stuff...
And the fact that his stements "could spark a fresh crackdown on women who do not repect the Islamic dress code in Iran" shows that what he says may be state-sanctioned...
The Religion of Peace... 
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