No. 2006326
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I really don't wanna seem like I'm defending Islam, I really don't but there's narrative among western libfems and radfems that needs to die, regarding the iranian islamic revolution, there's this idea that the revolution happened cause men were worried about losing power and cause they were scared of westernization, so they deposed the progressive government and installed religious dictatorship that oppressed women, that's the general Idea and its given feminists in the west fears and anxieties about a "it could happen here" type scenario in the west and margaret atwood famously wrote a handmaids tale based on this premise and here's the thing, this narrative is false and has been manipulated by to create an insufferable element of self victimization
here's the thing people need to understand, Iran under the Shah was an oppressive dictatorship, the vast majority of men and women were farmers and workers living as peasants, anyone who spoke out against the Shah was found by a secret police, jailed without trial, tortured and either executed or forced to rot in those jails, people were literally starving, yes there was a westernized progressive lifestyle for a small urban elite of 15% of the nation, but the vast majority of Iranian women were illiterate peasant farmers, people revolted against the Shah not cause they were angry that women were wearing skirts but cause they couldn't feed their children, the Shah's regime also had arrested every liberal, communist, nationalistic and leftist political leader, so all those were left were the clerics who ended up leading this peasant movement and creating the state of Iran as it is today
I'm not defending Islam or the religious radicals here, but I hate the way feminists in the west have hijacked this tragedy and use it as a tool to feel more oppressed "Iran was a progressive country, we could lose our rights just like they did, If we aren't careful" and that's a fantasy, the cultural conditions that happened in Iran do not exist in the west.
No. 2006881
>>2006326How do you know that? I bet You're not even Iranian! Iran under Shah's rule was indeed progressive and he granted women many rights which they never had before. The reason Khomeini started opposing Shah was that he gave women the right to vote which Khomeini thought was against Sharia.
Also 'people were starving'???
Actually the years immediately before the revolution were the most prosperous for Iranians. Their per capita income had increased considerably. And after the White Revolution the ownership of the land was taken from the clergy and Khaans and was given to the farmers working on it. The revolution of '79 happened for many reasons none of which was about the economy or being poor. I encourage you to learn Persian and read Khomeini and MEK and Toudeh party and why they struggled against the Shah in their own words.