Dennis Prager Show - Iranian Woman Whipped For Standing Up For Her Human Rights
Aired: 2024-01-08
Duration: 07:06


=== Roya Hashmati's Stand (03:42) ===

[00:00:00]  Here's a country that is behind the attempt to annihilate Israel and create another Holocaust, Iran.
[00:00:06]  From the Daily Telegraph, Iranian woman whipped 74 times for refusing to wear a hijab.
[00:00:14]  The 33-year-old was charged with encouraging permissiveness after several terror on outings.
[00:00:23]  Roya Hashmati, 33. You know, she didn't even wear a head covering on her way to prison.
[00:00:32]  See, this is a hero.
[00:00:36]  She should be the person of the year, excuse me.
[00:00:44]  An Iranian woman received 74 lashes for refusing to wear the hijab, defying the strict dress code even as she was taken to be whipped.
[00:00:55]  74 lashes?
[00:00:57]  I could see that.
[00:01:03]  Necessitating hospitalization.
[00:01:05]  I could see that creating scarring.
[00:01:12]  Roya Hashmati.
[00:01:13]  Are you going to put the article up on my website?
[00:01:17]  It's a beautiful woman.
[00:01:19]  Your heart breaks.
[00:01:20]  And if she weren't beautiful, my heart would break too, just for the record.
[00:01:25]  But I do have eyes and I report what I see.
[00:01:31]  Roya Hashmati was charged with encouraging permissiveness after appearing unveiled on several occasions in the capital.
[00:01:41]  Is it unveiled or no head covering?
[00:01:46]  I'm curious.
[00:01:47]  You have to wear a veil in Teheran?
[00:01:52]  I think they got this wrong.
[00:01:55]  Her penalty of seventy-four strokes of the lash was carried out in accordance with the law and with sharia.
[00:02:02]  That's Islamic law.
[00:02:04]  And for violating public morals, the judiciary's Misan online website said late on Saturday, Ms. Hashmati was also reportedly ordered to pay a fine of 12 million rials, rials of the Iranian currency.
[00:02:22]  You know how much 12 million rials is?
[00:02:25]  225 pounds.
[00:02:27]  You realize, I mean, they should reconfigure their currency.
[00:02:35]  Go to the grocery store, you spend millions of rials.
[00:02:41]  How's that for depressing?
[00:02:46]  The convicted encouraged permissiveness by appearing disgracefully in busy public spaces.
[00:02:54]  Yeah, they were wrong about the veiled line, the telegraph.
[00:02:58]  They have to be careful.
[00:03:01]  It's a good paper.
[00:03:03]  All women in Iran have been required by law to cover their neck and head shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
[00:03:15]  Whippings for breaching the dress code are uncommon, although officials have increasingly cracked down on those defying the rules after the practice surged during anti-government protests that began in late 2022. The mass demonstrations were triggered by the September 2022 death in custody of Masa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd.

=== Arrested for Defiance (03:23) ===

[00:03:43]  Arrested for an alleged breach of the Islamic Republic's strict dress code for women.
[00:03:50]  During the protests, female demonstrators cast off their headscarves or even burned them.
[00:04:00]  Yeah, they killed a woman for not wearing a head covering.
[00:04:08]  As the lashes struck my body, I whispered, In the name of woman, in the name of life, dawn will come.
[00:04:19]  BBC Persian quoted her as saying, well, by the way, it's very interesting she didn't do in the name of God.
[00:04:35]  What Iran has produced is probably...
[00:04:40]  The highest percentage of atheists in young people of any country in the world.
[00:04:47]  The percentage of young Iranians who are atheists might be greater than in Finland.
[00:04:58]  My wife and I were in Australia.
[00:05:02]  Why were we there?
[00:05:04]  I guess I was there to give a speech.
[00:05:06]  Why do I go anywhere, basically?
[00:05:10]  And we were going to go to the Sydney Opera.
[00:05:15]  We did go to the Sydney Opera, but either prior to or right after, we sat outside at a beautiful cafe, and a beautiful waitress came over to our table, and we began talking to her, and I asked her where she was from.
[00:05:38]  She said, Iran, I said, are you Muslim or Christian?
[00:05:44]  Because a fair number, or Jewish, I think I even added Jewish, because there are a lot of Iranian Jews outside of Iran.
[00:05:52]  And he said, well, I was born Muslim, or I was raised Muslim, but I'm an atheist.
[00:06:01]  When religion is presented as despicably as it is in Iran, as a source of evil, It is.
[00:06:10]  Religion, see, I'm quite in the middle here.
[00:06:15]  The end of religion in America is the end of America.
[00:06:20]  The end of religion in Iran is not the end of Iran.
[00:06:24]  It would be a renaissance for Iran.
[00:06:29]  Circumstances determine things.
[00:06:32]  If you kill a person while...
[00:06:35]  Robbing them, it's murder.
[00:06:37]  If you kill a person while defending your family, it's self-defense.
[00:06:42]  I would love to see more secularism in Iran and I would love to see more Judeo-Christian religious life in the United States.
[00:06:51]  I don't believe that's complex.
[00:06:56]  My bottom line is what is good?
[00:06:58]  What promotes good?
[00:07:02]  To think that the...
[00:07:05]  My God.