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Iran: Top cleric says women without veils must die

Tehran, 19 Dec. (AKI) - A top Muslim cleric in Iran, Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani said on Wednesday that women in Iran who do not wear the hijab or Muslim headscarf, should die.

"Women who do not respect the hijab and their husbands deserve to die," said Hassani, who leads Friday prayers in the city of Urumieh, in Iranian Azerbaijan.

"I do not understand how these women who do not respect the hijab, 28 years after the birth of the Islamic Republic, are still alive," he said.

"These women and their husbands and their fathers must die," said Hassani, who is the representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in eastern Azerbaijan.

Hassani's statements came after two Kurdish feminists in Iran were accused of being members of an armed rebel group and of carrying out subversive activities threatening the security of the state.

It is believed that his statements and the arrests could spark a fresh crackdown on women who do not repect the Islamic dress code in Iran.

Thousands of women in Iran have already been warned this year for their "un-Islamic dress" such as wearing tight, short coats and skimpy headscarves.

Islam... the peaceful religion

TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian teenager who was said to have clashed
with her father about whether she should wear a traditional Muslim head
scarf died of injuries late on Monday, and her father told police he had
killed her.

Aqsa Parvez, 16, was found without a pulse in her home in the Toronto
suburb of Mississauga earlier on Monday. She was resuscitated by
paramedics, treated at two hospitals, and later succumbed to her
injuries, police said on Tuesday.

Her father, 57-year-old Muhammad Parvez, has been charged with murder
and was remanded back into custody after his first court appearance
early on Tuesday.

"There was a 911 call placed by a man who indicated that he had just
killed his daughter," Jodi Dawson, a constable with Peel Regional
Police, told Reuters. "Everything else is evidentiary in nature and the
investigation is in its preliminary stages at this point."

The victim's brother, Waqas Parvez, 26, was arrested and charged with
obstructing police.

The story was on the front pages of Canadian newspapers on Tuesday. The
newspapers quoted friends and schoolmates of the victim as saying she
argued with her father over wearing a hijab, the traditional head scarf
worn by Muslim females.

Photos of the teen retrieved from a social networking Web site show her
in Western dress with her long dark hair loose.

"She was always scared of her dad, she was always scared of her
brother," the Toronto Star quoted a classmate as saying.

Others were quoted as saying the girl wore traditional Muslim dress when
leaving the house in the morning, but would change into other clothes in
school washrooms.

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Hi. Welcome to my blog. In keeping with the name of the blog my main purpose here will be to highlight the atrocities that are enacted frequently in the name of religion. I'm frequently running across news about unfortunate people that are killed by religion. I will put them here and make a neat and simple area for my readers to find out about them. When it comes to religion, I am an equal opportunity offender. This will also be an outlet for me to express my distaste of religion in general.


With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg