Indy100 reports that an Iranian chess champion has been kicked off the national team for not wearing a hijab at a competition in Gibraltar.
Dorsa Derakhshani, aged 18, has already won the Asian chess championships three times in a row.
On February 1 chess’ international governing body FIDE ranked her the 9th best under 21 female chess player on the planet.
During the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2017 which finished on 2 February, Derakhshani did not wear a veil.
As a result the Iranian chess authorities have banned her from playing for their national team, or playing in games that happen inside the country.
That kind of thing is why I detest this poster:
Hijab is not a symbol of liberation or solidarity or We the People or any other concept that belongs on the left. It’s a symbol of the suppression and muffling of women.
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Agreed… and am also fucking pissed that we live in Trumpworld where it seems best to keep that criticism a bit on the DL (in the US). If only we can bury the trogs so we can get back to pointing out the problems with the religion without fear of further legitimizing the Islamophobia of the far right.
Also, a young man was booted out of the Iranian team for the terrible crime of having played against a Jewish opponent in an earlier round of the competition.
Religion. Spreading tolerance and peace since never.
The young man in question is her brother. Two liberals in one family; the horror!
I blame the parents.
It’s all about ‘sisterhood’ and solidarity. Who on EARTH would ever, or could ever, be against ‘sisterhood’? All of the symbols, themes and vocabulary of female emancipation have been co-opted by the enemies of that emancipation and are now used to promote the most misogynistic form theocratic fascism ever devised.
Empowerment in Suffragette City.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-women-hijab-30-day-solidarity-muslim-women-1.3991622?cmp=rss
But, but, but, it’s a choice! It’s liberating! It’s so empowering in the freedom from men’s judgement that it provides! It’s…
Yes. The poster is Orwellian—slavery is ‘liberating’, Jeeez.
Typical of the contemporary ‘Left’, such as it is these days.
John @ 5
Of course they haven’t. Some have, but nowhere near all.
Not sure if you saw this: http://nicemangos.blogspot.com/2017/01/hijab-glorification-thoughts-on-shepard.html
Eiynah writes:
Thank you for explaining so well the problem with that poster. The *intent* is to highlight the vile, discriminatory policies of the Trump administration, yes, but placing the emphasis on a misogynistic practice is REALLY problematic. Oh, and of course, one must notice the woman’s full, red lips, and mascaraed eye lashes – aren’t those haram? Why did the poster makers not place her in full niqab?
@#10 clamboy:
I’m going to posit that she’s supposed to be representative of the assimilated American Muslim woman; she wears the hijab but otherwise is just there to reinforce an American standard for female beauty.
Or something?
Shit. We’re still paralyzed by the ‘don’t play into the hands of’ gag.
Mention the Purges, or the Great Terror?…’playing into the hands of’ Fascists.
Fight against Franco?…’Premature Anti-Fascist.’
Protest against Segregation?…pinko Fellow Traveler.
Mention Rotherham or Rochdale?…Islamophobe.