Concern over Iran female student rights

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AS Iran’s academic year kicked off on Saturday, a US-based rights group raised concern about new restrictions putting scores of university degree courses off-limits to women.

Human Rights Watch said in a statement that the restrictions extended a creeping “Islamicisation” of Iran’s universities that have been imposed under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Citing an August report by the Iranian news agency Mehr, the group said that women were barred from 77 courses in various universities, including those in computer science, chemistry, engineering, business administration and sciences.

A much smaller number of courses were also barred to men in some campuses, including studies in history, linguistics, literature, sociology and philosophy.

“As university students across Iran prepare to start the new academic year, they face serious setbacks, and women students in particular will no longer be able to pursue the education and careers of their choice,” Liesl Gerntholtz, women’s rights director at Human Rights Watch, said in the statement.

Some in Iran and elsewhere saw the restriction as an attempt to reduce women’s access to higher education and reinforce the patriarchal domination. Currently, around 60 per cent of students are female and 40 percent are male.

But the dean of Iran’s Petroleum University of Technology, Gholamreza Rashed, was quoted by the IRAN newspaper last week as blaming market forces — implying job prospects were shrinking because of Western sanctions.

He said his school was no longer accepting female students due to “the hardship of the work situation, and because the oil industry does not need female students right now”.

Iranian state media have made little or no mention of the new restrictions.

But other news websites spoke of extra curbs imposed on campuses, particularly a new push to segregate men and women into separate classes to prevent mixing of the sexes frowned upon by Iran’s ruling clerics.

Mehr last week quoted the minister of science, research and technology, Kamran Daneshjou, as saying authorities in the Islamic republic “welcome the establishment of one-gender universities, schools for only men or women”.

He said that was the direction “our religion envisions for us”.

Daneshjou dismissed Western criticism of Iran’s steps, saying: “The angrier Western media gets, the more we realise we are moving in the right direction.”

The Austraian

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16 responses to “Concern over Iran female student rights”

  1. Iran has “the lowest mosque attendance of any Islamic country” on earth, at around 2%  Why the demographic collapse happening in Iran ? Because of a collapse of faith. Iranian women bore 7 children in 1970, and an average of 1.5 today, the same as Europe. And in realistic forecasts, Iran fertility will soon fall to just 1 child per female. This is the sign of extinction like Pandas. 
    Europe took a century to make the transition to the present demographic winter. Iran has done it in a single generation.  Iranian Majoosi cleric are trying to increase their children by encouraging “Mutaa” a pre Islamic sex practice where people can do temporary marriage for an hour or day. 

    This practice was forbidden by the Prophet of Islam but the Majoosis still to this day continue this pre Islamic practice and they believe it is virtuous to screw around.They cant vilify the prophet directly for this prohibition so they attack on the companion of the prophet and accuse them that they are the one who forbid Mutaa.  Shia also believe every mutaa children is already entitled to go to heaven due to their Mutaa birth status. 

    Well by doing this they hope that they would have many children but the people lost faith in those Majoosi cleric so they use condom and the Mutaa goes on….. 

    1. Mahdi Kenaani Avatar
      Mahdi Kenaani

      so you’re saying that iran has the lowest mosque attendance of any ISLAMIC country? So now iran is an ISLAMIC country in your opinion? hahaha

      1. I wish all Iranian to be Muslims and if they are become better Muslims than the Practicing sunnis then I might feel jealous but I also will praise Allah to see them on the right path. 

        Having said than I am not the judge to tell who is on the right path but some clear deviation when we see going against the practice of the Prophet and his companions then we must point it out. This act of deviance exists not only among Shias but also among the sunnis too. Therefore the right way to rectify oneself is to go back to the Quran and read the saying of the prophet and then follow according to the instruction and if we cant comply all the things then atleast we must have a guilty feeling for our shortfalls

        When we make something permissible which is already forbidden and act upon it with good faith then it is arrogance and disobedience.

        1. Mahdi Kenaani Avatar
          Mahdi Kenaani

          if you really want to affect people in iran or any other shia for that matter the first thing you should do is to change your and your sects behaviour. I for one would never ever listen to you and for sure never ever “convert” to your religion as long as you keep lying about us and as long as you keep killing us like you are doing currently. I mean who wants to believe in a religion whose religious duty is to blow himself up in the middle of a crowd. i prefer to do mut3a even if it was haram rather than kill innocent people and i am pretty sure that allah thinks that too.
           

  2. Iran has “the lowest mosque attendance of any Islamic country” on earth, at around 2%  Why the demographic collapse happening in Iran ? Because of a collapse of faith. Iranian women bore 7 children in 1970, and an average of 1.5 today, the same as Europe. And in realistic forecasts, Iran fertility will soon fall to just 1 child per female. This is the sign of extinction like Pandas. 
    Europe took a century to make the transition to the present demographic winter. Iran has done it in a single generation.  Iranian Majoosi cleric are trying to increase their children by encouraging “Mutaa” a pre Islamic sex practice where people can do temporary marriage for an hour or day. 

    This practice was forbidden by the Prophet of Islam but the Majoosis still to this day continue this pre Islamic practice and they believe it is virtuous to screw around.They cant vilify the prophet directly for this prohibition so they attack on the companion of the prophet and accuse them that they are the one who forbid Mutaa.  Shia also believe every mutaa children is already entitled to go to heaven due to their Mutaa birth status. 

    Well by doing this they hope that they would have many children but the people lost faith in those Majoosi cleric so they use condom and the Mutaa goes on….. 

    1. Mahdi Kenaani Avatar
      Mahdi Kenaani

      so you’re saying that iran has the lowest mosque attendance of any ISLAMIC country? So now iran is an ISLAMIC country in your opinion? hahaha

      1. I wish all Iranian to be Muslims and if they are become better Muslims than the Practicing sunnis then I might feel jealous but I also will praise Allah to see them on the right path. 

        Having said than I am not the judge to tell who is on the right path but some clear deviation when we see going against the practice of the Prophet and his companions then we must point it out. This act of deviance exists not only among Shias but also among the sunnis too. Therefore the right way to rectify oneself is to go back to the Quran and read the saying of the prophet and then follow according to the instruction and if we cant comply all the things then atleast we must have a guilty feeling for our shortfalls

        When we make something permissible which is already forbidden and act upon it with good faith then it is arrogance and disobedience.

  3. Iran has “the lowest mosque attendance of any Islamic country” on earth, at around 2%  Why the demographic collapse happening in Iran ? Because of a collapse of faith. Iranian women bore 7 children in 1970, and an average of 1.5 today, the same as Europe. And in realistic forecasts, Iran fertility will soon fall to just 1 child per female. This is the sign of extinction like Pandas. 
    Europe took a century to make the transition to the present demographic winter. Iran has done it in a single generation.  Iranian Majoosi cleric are trying to increase their children by encouraging “Mutaa” a pre Islamic sex practice where people can do temporary marriage for an hour or day. 

    This practice was forbidden by the Prophet of Islam but the Majoosis still to this day continue this pre Islamic practice and they believe it is virtuous to screw around.They cant vilify the prophet directly for this prohibition so they attack on the companion of the prophet and accuse them that they are the one who forbid Mutaa.  Shia also believe every mutaa children is already entitled to go to heaven due to their Mutaa birth status. 

    Well by doing this they hope that they would have many children but the people lost faith in those Majoosi cleric so they use condom and the Mutaa goes on….. 

    1. Mahdi Kenaani Avatar
      Mahdi Kenaani

      so you’re saying that iran has the lowest mosque attendance of any ISLAMIC country? So now iran is a ISLAMIC country in your opinion? hahaha

      1. I wish all Iranian to be Muslims and if they are become better Muslims than the Practicing sunnis then I might feel jealous but I also will praise Allah to see them on the right path. 

        Having said than I am not the judge to tell who is on the right path but some clear deviation when we see going against the practice of the Prophet and his companions then we must point it out. This act of deviance exists not only among Shias but also among the sunnis too. Therefore the right way to rectify oneself is to go back to the Quran and read the saying of the prophet and then follow according to the instruction and if we cant comply all the things then atleast we must have a guilty feeling for our shortfalls

        When we make something permissible which is already forbidden and act upon it with good faith then it is arrogance and disobedience.

        1. Mahdi Kenaani Avatar
          Mahdi Kenaani

          if you really want to affect people in iran or any other shia for that matter the first thing you should do is to change your and your sects behaviour. I for one would never ever listen to you and for sure never ever “convert” to your religion as long as you keep lying about us and as long as you keep killing us like you are doing currently. I mean who wants to believe in a religion whose religious duty is to blow himself up in the middle of a crowd. i prefer to do mut3a even if it was haram rather than kill innocent people and i am pretty sure that allah thinks that too.
           

  4. In_a_Mosh Avatar

    according to god, men are superior to women. so it is ok for men to decide what women can and cannot do.

    if you want equality for women, you are disagreeing with god. decide which side you’re on. I have.

  5. In_a_Mosh Avatar

    according to god, men are superior to women. so it is ok for men to decide what women can and cannot do.

    if you want equality for women, you are disagreeing with god. decide which side you’re on. I have.

    1. nayyashAl3arab Avatar
      nayyashAl3arab

      the religions i am acquainted with do not preconise the superiority of man over woman: in catholicism the mother of God is a woman; in judaism the society is matriarchal as opposed to patriarchal societies; sikh, hindouism …. do not speak of any sexual difference; in the alawi sect the woman has a more important role than man even though it is an esoteric secret society yet many of their teachings have exudated recently. So it is easy to say things yet these things need to be true

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