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'A Woman Without Hijab Is Like A Chair With Three Legs'

July 30, 2010
"A woman without hijab is like a chair with three legs," says an Iranian government poster in support of the compulsory hijab for women.

For other views on the hijab, read this and this and check out our video project, "Why I Wear the Hijab (or Don't)."

-- Golnaz Esfandiari
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by: Hamik C Gregory from: Reno, NV USA
July 31, 2010 16:00
"A woman without hijab is like a chair with three legs". Really!
If the statemant above is correct, then my mother must be the president ot the French Republic.
Men who run the Islamic Republic are in the habit of making careless remarks.
They thrive on insulting sophisticate Iranian woman!
It must be so that as soon as God created the Woman, She quickly became a “chair with three legs”, because He forgot to cover Her body with pieces of clothing. Really!
He never did, of course! It’s only in our imagination! And for some of the ideologues in Iran the thought of it is a figment of their disturbed mind.
Keep women in virtuous hejab and virginity while many Iranian men go about philandering!
This is the cultural reality! This is the real demeaning picture which is the most insulting to Iranian women!

by: amazed from: USA
July 31, 2010 16:21
A woman without a hijab...is a beautiful thing.

Freedom and equality for Iranian women!

If Muslim men can't control themselves when they see a wisp of hair on the head of a woman, they should be ashamed of their lack of self control...and then go back to their caves. Pathetic.

Men just want their control...laughable.

by: Amused from: The Netherlands
August 01, 2010 08:33
What? Check out that picto-equation on the poster. The globus cruciger minus a chador-covered woman (or a nun) equals a three-legged chair. That translates into: Christ's (the cross) dominion over the world is only perfect as long as there are plenty of religiously observant women. Hmmmm .....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Denmark_globus_cruciger2.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globus_cruciger

by: Bill Webb from: Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
August 01, 2010 15:11
Peoples sexual attraction to the opposite sex has certainly been a wildly successful mechanism for insuring the propagation of the species. It is a sad testament that certain segments of society cannot get beyond their caveman instrincts without something like the hijab.

by: Ed from: Bellevue, WA
August 03, 2010 20:43
Are Islamic men so weak and and immature that the sight of a woman's hair makes them lose control?

by: HS from: Seattle, USA
August 03, 2010 20:50
The poster actually says ""Woman without Hijab is like a chair with three base." So the sophisticated Islamic Republic of Iran of 74 million people couldn't find one person whose English was good enough to write that simple phrase correctly?
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by: Amused from: The Netherlands
August 04, 2010 06:02
Not to mention the fact that the symbol for women is upside down!

by: Rowdy from: VA
August 03, 2010 20:53
Let Muslims keep their 7th century customs in their own countries.

by: SK from: US
August 06, 2010 03:32
Some chairs have 2 legs...

Stools have 3 legs...

Iranian hardliners are like people with no brains...

by: Colleen Clark from: USA
August 06, 2010 16:44
Three legs are more stable than four. Euclidean geometry defines a plane by three points.
Ergo - society would be more stable if women did not have to cover themselves up.
     
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