Chess player banned over hijab switches to US

Islam is the religion of tolerance, until it isn't, which is all the time.

A woman chess player from the Iranian national chess team was banned for allegedly attending an international competition without wearing a hijab (headscarf). This could potentially throw male Iranians into a sexual feeding frenzy from looking at her hair and visualizing themselves running naked through the strands.

So she has joined the U.S. team, an Iranian news agency reported Monday.

Interestingly, not one American even looked at her hair as she moved her rook to bishop 5.

The semi-official rag, ISNA, reported that Dorsa Derakhshani stood steadfast like a rock and refused to wear the hijab during a February competition in Gibraltar. 

Then she joined the U.S. national team and kicked Iranian butt.

After the wonderful Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran became a theocracy in which strict Sharia law was installed. Gays and lesbians were killed, pick-pockets and thieves had their hands cut off, adulterers were stoned to death 
along with anyone who refused to comply with the holy holy Sharia laws.

Since the Islamic Revolution, women were required to wear the hijab in public places.

It was a great time and fun for the whole family.

Anyway, the Mehr news agency said the president of Iran's chess federation, Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh (his friends call him "Mike") said that Dorsa had changed her national federation to the United States, not unusual among chess players.

"Mike" added that Dorsa wasn't a member of Iran's national chess team and said, "She played for Iran only one time in 2014."

Dorsa left Iran and moved to Barcelona in 2015 where she received an invitation to a chess club that also paid for her studies.

She was awarded the titles Woman Grandmaster and International Master by the World Chess Federation in 2016.

In the Gibraltar competition, her brother Borna Derakhshani, also a chess player, was paired up by computer against Israeli grandmaster Alexander Huzman. Due to Islamic anti Semitism clearly seen in the Quran, Pahlevanzadeh later announced that Borna was banned from playing for Iran [because he played with a Jew], and Dorsa was also banned for not wearing a hijab at that competition.

Iran has a policy of not competing against Israeli athletes because they can't stand to lose and usually do.

Shohreh Bayat, the general secretary of Iran's chess federation, said Dorsa was now studying in the United States and is allowed to wear whatever she wants because of the freedoms we have and Iran doesn't.


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