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May 28, 2006
Iran: Islamists Use Sexual Violence To Silence Critics
A report in today's Sunday Telegraph describes the ordeal which one woman pro-democracy campaigner dissident was subjected to. 40-year old Roya Tolouee was last year taken into custody on account of her support of women's rights and opposition to the inflexible theocracy of Iran. She had founded a women's group in Iranian Kurdistan and had also launched a monthly magazine. Last August she was arrested in Sanandaj at night by four men and three women, all armed. This followed her participation in anti-regime demonstrations.
She was interrogated by intelligence agents for a whole night, and then put into a cell. She was placed in solitary confinement in a prison run by the intelligence service. For six nights she was interrogated in a basement, and asked to sign papers admitting to being an organiser of the demonstrations and to identify her accomplices from a list they possessed.
She said: "When I wouldn't do what they wanted, they slapped me. But after the sixth night, the routine changed. I was left alone in a small dark room with two men. One was the assistant prosecutor and called himself Amiri. The other had a filthy mouth and said terrible things. They started slapping me again. For the rest of the night they did to me what no woman should ever experience. Amiri said, 'I'm going to hang you, but before I hang you, I will make an example of you so that no woman will dare to open her mouth here again'." Amiri then sexually assaulted her, and said that only the rule of Islam and the clerics mattered to him.
On the seventh night she was still bleeding, so they threatened to set fire to her two children for her to watch, and she gave in. "I threw myself at Amiri's feet and begged him not to harm my children. I said I'd do anything they wanted. Whatever they wanted, I would sign."
Then after a few nights she was moved to a women;s prison, where detainees were lashed, and had wounds which became infected. After 66 days, she was released on bail, but decided to escape from the country. She took her six-year old son Nima to Turkey and then Shima, her 14 year old daughter was smuggled out to her. Last month, with the help of the Alliance of Iranian Women she was granted political asylum in the United States.
Roya Tolouee was lucky to escape, but her tale, as recounted to Telegraph journalist Philip Sherwell in Washington, is only one of many more tales, which will never be heard while the evil theocracy of Iran continues.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at May 28, 2006 4:58 PM
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These women coming to the United States do they renounce Islam? Are we just protecting them so they can spread more of the Great Lies of Islam? We know Islam is non conpatible with a free Democratic Society so why do we give them aslyum when they will not renouce the evel that is the problem?
Posted by: My Brothers Keeper ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.westernresistance.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at May 29, 2006 2:35 AM
You make a very good point. When I was writing on Pakistan's honour killing problem
http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/002234.html
I came to the same conclusion. Criticising regimes or customs is meaningless if the root problem - Islam - still exists.
One of the failed suicide bombers in London on July 21 was originally an asylum seeker from Somalia, and another was from Eritrea.
Islam is always the problem. These brood mares who criticise regimes may be brave in some ways, but until they accept that Islam is an evil and dangerous faith, they are helping it to spread its poison into other societies. Is she brave enough to tell her 6 year old son and 14 year old daughter that Islam is evil? I doubt it.
Perhaps unwittingly, she is just another collaborator with the enemy of the world.
Posted by: Giraldus Cambrensis at May 29, 2006 10:04 AM
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