Those who have a misogynistic mindset are essentially mentally ill and need long-term treatment. A father in Iran killed his daughter because she had a boyfriend and said that she was Muslim and that it is forbidden in Islam for a daughter to have a boyfriend. How long will this sick thinking continue in sick Islamic societies?

 

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Those who have a misogynistic mindset are essentially mentally ill and need long-term treatment. A father in Iran killed his daughter because she had a boyfriend and said that she was Muslim and that it is forbidden in Islam for a daughter to have a boyfriend. How long will this sick thinking continue in sick Islamic societies?

It seems that the duality of domestic politics, misogynistic religious laws, especially the discriminatory Sharia law, and sexist culture are the two main factors behind the spread of violence against women in Iranian society.

 In recent days, the Persian-language social media space has become a scene of intense debate between different analyses and reactions to a series of shocking crimes; events that not only shocked activists, but also affected public opinion.

#Fatima_Soltani was an 18-year-old girl who, following a severe disagreement between her parents, discovered that her father was cheating on her mother...

And after Fatima's mother found out about the matter, she, along with her daughter and son, decided to leave home and live independently from her father. Fatima worked as a nail technician in a beauty salon to make ends meet, but last Thursday she was the victim of her father's horrific violence....

It is alleged that Fatima's father, who was extremely angry about the separation of his wife and children, sent a message to Fatima from an unknown number and, pretending to be a customer, found her work address and went to her...

A forty-eight-year-old man drove his Pride car to his daughter's workplace and called her. When Fatima went to her father, after a while the father dragged his daughter out of the Pride and pushed her into a stream of water, brutally killing her with multiple blows. After Fatima finished, he called her mother and told her, "I left your daughter's scars on your heart."

In recent days, Persian-language social media has become a scene of tense debate between various analyses and reactions to a series of crimes. It became shocking; events that not only shocked activists, but also affected public opinion.

First, the statements of an individual named  samuelkub with millions of followers, were published in cyberspace about the rape of several Iranian athletes in South Korea. This figure, who had previously made comments encouraging the men of an Iranian woman’s family to leave the country, was once again in the spotlight. But what worried women’s rights activists more than ever this time was the further growth of this person’s page after his sexist, misogynistic, and nationalist/patriotic responses in defense of rape and its normalization. In fact, if she were just one person, how could she not have become so important that she should now be considered dangerous and introduced because of the number of viewers she has?

Simultaneously with this wave, the news of the murder of a young woman named #Elaheh_Hosseinnejad in Iran revealed a wider perspective of the scope of insecurity for women. Elaheh was kidnapped on her way home, murdered, and her semi-decomposed body was found in a desert outside a residential area. The killer’s confession, which stated the motive for the murder was “robbery,” and especially a video of the police officer’s conversation with him, greatly inflamed society. In this video, the policeman speaks frankly and calmly to the killer: “You did well, you woman...!”, and users fall into another trap with racist sympathy and calls for severe punishment in the style of the Islamic Republic.

It must be remembered that these sentences did not come from the mouth of a single individual, but from within a system of thought and structure.

But the image of the perpetrator that emerged was surprising to many: an ordinary face, without any outward sign of evil; an ordinary citizen.

Here, Hannah Arendt’s thought about the banality of evil becomes painfully applicable. Analyzing the trial of the Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann, Arendt warns that:

“The worst form of evil may arise not from deep hatred, but from thoughtlessness, from acting according to the rules of the system, and from refusing to accept personal responsibility.”

In a society whose laws and judicial structures serve to maintain a system of discrimination and oppression - if citizens themselves do not take responsibility for ensuring .....

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The knowledge of criminal laws, especially in the field of domestic violence and violence against women, is not only not a deterrent, but may also increase the audacity to commit a crime, for example, in cases of honor killings, and sometimes following these misogynistic laws can itself legitimize the crime. The blind spot of women's physical and psychological insecurity in society is that only a percentage of citizens are legal subjects before the law, while others are considered subjects of control.

The lack of sexual and legal education, the transformation of the female body into a public and interventionist issue, the denial of women’s individuality, the lack of protective laws and deterrent punishments, and the prevalence of literature that presents women as less valuable, victimizable, and whose rights are a secondary priority, are all structures that reproduce violence against women and sexual and gender minorities. In such a situation, evil is no longer a radical or rare phenomenon; it becomes “vulgar” – everyday, normal, and in the course of affairs. Such violence is not only the product of an individual decision, but is the direct result of the systematic impoverishment of society, the deliberate elimination of consciousness, and the weakening of society’s capacity for activism, the consequences of which will involve the entire society without exception. Therefore, without support and solidarity and the creation of profound changes in the legal, educational, and cultural infrastructures, there is no hope of ending it.