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Not wearing a hijab is very illegal.

pupppet 4y ago
Not a fair comparison. Iranian women never agreed to the hijab law and truckers were perfectly fine with the law against blocking bridges, until they weren't.
- ars 4y ago
  Neither one of your assertions is true. Most Iranian women (and Muslim women in general) support the hijab law. Not all do of course, but to claim that women are opposed to this is not true. And of course there are those who support wearing a hijab, but oppose the penalty. And what makes you think truckers were OK with a law banning protests that block a bridge? I suspect truckers have never been OK with a law limiting their protests, it just never came up before.
  - pupppet 4y ago
    So Iranian women voted in the govt who implemented the hijab law?
  - selimthegrim 4y ago
    Most Muslim countries do not have a hijab law
  - AnimalMuppet 4y ago
    Because when the protesters weren't the truckers, the truckers would be the ones being blocked by the protests. So, yeah, I strongly suspect that the truckers were fine with the law banning protests that blocked the bridge, until they were themselves the protesters.
mrguyorama 4y ago
Some laws are stupid. Believing that hair is a destabilizing force on society and should be punished to the point of disallowing you from interacting with society is generally considered stupid by modern people. Many people don't think harming your wallet for attempting to block commerce is stupid. Much of the point of modern law is to keep modern commerce going, so of course if you try and block that, you will see government push back. Just look at all the push back rail workers got from the government for daring to use their importance to ask for a better deal.
- HKH2 4y ago
  Well you are clearly not a relativist. What else should we do to change their culture? Look at all the recent changes that have been imposed upon the Middle East by the West. How on earth can a Westerner claim moral superiority in that context? We kill innocent civilians in drone strikes, but at least we don't freeze the accounts of people who don't wear head coverings, right?

Not a fair comparison. Iranian women never agreed to the hijab law and truckers were perfectly fine with the law against blocking bridges, until they weren't.

ars 4y ago
Neither one of your assertions is true. Most Iranian women (and Muslim women in general) support the hijab law. Not all do of course, but to claim that women are opposed to this is not true. And of course there are those who support wearing a hijab, but oppose the penalty. And what makes you think truckers were OK with a law banning protests that block a bridge? I suspect truckers have never been OK with a law limiting their protests, it just never came up before.
- pupppet 4y ago
  So Iranian women voted in the govt who implemented the hijab law?
- selimthegrim 4y ago
  Most Muslim countries do not have a hijab law
- AnimalMuppet 4y ago
  Because when the protesters weren't the truckers, the truckers would be the ones being blocked by the protests. So, yeah, I strongly suspect that the truckers were fine with the law banning protests that blocked the bridge, until they were themselves the protesters.

mrguyorama 4y ago

Some laws are stupid. Believing that hair is a destabilizing force on society and should be punished to the point of disallowing you from interacting with society is generally considered stupid by modern people. Many people don't think harming your wallet for attempting to block commerce is stupid. Much of the point of modern law is to keep modern commerce going, so of course if you try and block that, you will see government push back. Just look at all the push back rail workers got from the government for daring to use their importance to ask for a better deal.

HKH2 4y ago
Well you are clearly not a relativist. What else should we do to change their culture? Look at all the recent changes that have been imposed upon the Middle East by the West. How on earth can a Westerner claim moral superiority in that context? We kill innocent civilians in drone strikes, but at least we don't freeze the accounts of people who don't wear head coverings, right?