We are on Focus (German magazine). Women cannot be censored
Our Facebook page has already exceeded 1 million followers. Let’s take a moment and reflect on the differences that our page has made in the world’s perception of Iranian women. One of them is the following: during the initial stages of our campaign, every time I was invited for interview by foreign news outlets covering Iran, I would be confronted with pictures of burqa-clad women (as in Saudi Arabia) that were purportedly depicting Iran. I often had to counter their erroneous depiction of Iranian women by reminding them what they thought was the Iranian way of dressing was actually not Iranian.
Let’s also be reminded once again that this page is not promoting the prohibition of the veil; I have never asked Iranian women to take a stand against the veil. I, as a journalist, have merely attempted to show the true face of Iranian women and their opposition to COMPULSORY veil. In today’s Iran, behind closed doors, away from the prying eyes of the Morality Police, or even sometimes in public, millions of women ditch their compulsory veil to dress in a way that is more representative of their true selves. We have tried relaying the voices of these millions of women to the entire world; the voices that have been censored by their own government, but are now attracting the attention of foreign media outlets. Whether we wear a hijab or not, we are all Iranian and we should enjoy our freedom of choice rather than suffer from repression for our choices
