No to Compulsory Veil - Rajavi, Maryam

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Résumé :
This is a selection of six speeches by Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran from 2015 to 2017 in various conferences on the topic of Islam, compulsory veil, compulsory religion and compulsory government and why anything that is forced under any pretexts is contrary to the teachings of Islam.
Maryam Rajavi argues that mysogeny is the core of Islamic fundamentalism. In the case of iran, she argues that misogyny under the cloak of religion has become systematic and persistent because it is a lever to maintain the monopolistic domination of the velayat-e faqih. Misogyny is the raison d'e^tre for dozens of the regime's suppressive agencies. It justifies the permanent surveillance operations in the streets, the actions of street patrols and the conduct of such agencies as the Office to Combat Vice, or the Morality Police Force and 20 other police entities.
Similarly, clamping down on women on the pretext of mal- veiling is one of the most effective means to repress society and silence any voice of dissent.

Biographie:
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi is the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which seeks the establishment of a democratic, secular and non-nuclear republic in Iran.

As a Muslim woman, she advocates tolerance, gender equality and separation of religion and state.

Mrs. Rajavi was politically active during and after the 1979 revolution. She received a Bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran.

She was a candidate during the first parliamentary elections after the revolution and received approximately a quarter million votes, despite widespread election fraud by the Iranian regime.

Mrs. Rajavi has appeared before many national parliaments in Europe, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Canada and a frequent guest speaker at the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as well as France's National Assembly and the Senate. She also testified before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Non-proliferation and Trade.

Her books have been translated into several languages.

Mrs. Rajavi lost two of her sisters in the struggle to bring freedom and democracy to Iran. One, pregnant at the time, was executed by the clerical regime. Another was executed by the Shah's regime. A sister-in-law was executed in Iran and a brother-in-law was assassinated by the Iranian regime's terrorists in Geneva, Switzerland.