Iran: Muslim climber under house arrest for not wearing a hijab

The Islamic Republic of Iran has ordered climber Elnaz Rekabi, 33, to house arrest for not wearing a head covering known as a hijab. The sentence for such unIslamic defiance could be a long prison sentence or even a death sentence because a woman showing her hair is worse than being Jewish, Christian or Hindu. Well, maybe not worse to Islamists, but you get the picture. 

A woman not wearing a hijab is considered "spreading corruption in the land" (cf. Qur'an 5:33) and that can cost a woman dearly, but the mullahs know that it's a bad look publicly at this time with what they currently have in the country. But if babbling Biden bails Iran out, and mullahs grow confident again, there's no telling what they might do to women who show their hair. 

The Times of Israel first reported "Iranian climber reportedly under house arrest after competing without hijab." 

Rekabi competed in South Korea last week and in order to have a safer, full visual field of view as she climbed, she did not wear a hijab, which is mandatory in Iran. A human rights group called for her to be protected while feminist groups in the United States were silent on the matter ever since Mahsa Amini died in the hands of Iranian moral police. [Now that's an oxymoron if there ever was one.]

Rekabi’s act of what may have been open defiance of what has been described as a lightning-rod event in Iran. Activists say it lends support to the anti-government protests and this cannot bode well for the young woman.

The Iranian rights group HRANA estimated last week that over 12,500 people have been arrested during the protests and  244 killed.

Citing an “informed source,” BBC Persian said Rekabi had been put under pressure to make a “forced confession” after her return Wednesday from the Asian Championships in sports climbing in Seoul.

Rekabi was given a hero's welcome when she returned to Tehran by her supporters. However, she did not return home after touching down at the airport.

“She was held at the national Olympics academy under the watch of plainclothes officers until she met the minister,” a BBC report said, referring to Sports Minister Hamid Sajjadi.

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Rekabi had been threatened with the seizure of 100 million rials ($312,000) worth of her family’s property unless she made the “forced confession,” the source was quoted as saying.

If she goes through with the confession, supporters will know that it was forced.

Meanwhile, alleged President Joe Biden has not condemned Rekabi's arrest and continues downing vanilla ice cream cones. And while we don't know who is pulling Biden's strings, we know that Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett are pro-Iran.

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