Iranian Women Protest and Burn Headscarves

Nice victim blaming going on there.

Women the force that kept the sadistic cult of Isis going? Gimme a break. For every woman who genuinely supported it hundreds were abducted, enslaved, subjugated.

The risks of standing up to the religious police are huge

Men are 98 percent to blame for all this religious persecution of women down the ages, I'm not going to waste time worrying about the 2 percent of women who go along with it. Just strikes me as irrelevant to the bigger issue.

Just look at the week's news. From Iran to Russia to Mexico and Thailand, always and everywhere the problem is (a minority of) men

2% my arse. Especially if you consider mothers forcing religious practice on their children (and it was almost never fathers doing same, funny that)

Anyone who went to a convent school will have stories to tell (and in my day even boys went there until 2nd class) Vicious b*tches the lot of them. But yeah, blame men.

You ooze hatred of half of humanity. The very definition of misandry

Your arguments can be turned right around: who fought for the advancement of most human rights? Your answer is: men. Yeah, of course, because for most of modern history women had no rights. Why? Oh yeah, cos men denied them those rights. Argument null and void.

Same for upholding rights, fighting disorder: of course men did it, because men were the cause of all those things too and held the power.

Global statistics: 98 percent of all homicides are done by men. 2 percent by women. That a majority of victims are also men doesn't change anything about who the perpetrators are.

And all those teenage girls getting raped, murdered and tortured in Iran right now (some being raped before murder cos, you know, the religion says they can't die as virgins): it sure ain't women doing that.

All men? Of course not. But a sizeable minority. Just like not all Russians are to blame for what's happening in Ukraine. But Russians all the same

Outside of arming pro Western groups how can we stop this.

The days of the West being strong enough to assert control in places like Iran to force a change in their value system and culture are over and in places like Iran were only every on the surface.

Iran is like Afghanistan in many ways, even most of the people who dislike the Taliban types are still ultra religious and strict.

Looks like refineries are now on strike, protests are gaining pace. I think they've passed the point of no return, the government will be overthrown eventually. Hopefully the people of Iran can replace it with something that benefits them.

The regime is nowhere near collapse. It's not even remotely threatened. They have layers and layers of ruthless internal security apparatus, many of which are ideologically driven and very thuggish. The top layer being completely loyal to the regime.

Additionally, on the off chance that some angry women become a threat to the regime, they have shia militias dotted all around the M.E and of course Hezbollah too, which are one of the favourites in Ireland.

And don't mistake this regime for the Shah, who when push came to shove, was not willing to mow down thousands in the streets. The current regime will kill thousands without giving it a second thought.

These protests will lose steam, like all have done before.

Didn't we have a Senator just a few months back calling for Ireland to have a day to celebrate the hijab.