Blog #4: The Veiled Threat

On September 7^th the professor assigned us –a group of three people- to identify the thesis statement of "The Veiled Threat" essay and see what the author -Azar Nafasi- was trying to say on the paragraphs 15 to 18. First of all, the thesis statement is "By attempting to control and shape every aspect of women's lives, and by staking its legitimacy on the Iranian people's supposed desire for this control, the regime has unwittingly handed women a powerful weapon: every private act or gesture in defiance of official rules is now a strong political statement". On the above mentioned paragraphs Azar Nafasi is telling a story of a woman in Iran that was executed. This woman was in charge of higher education, where she tried to get more quality for education and to purge the school textbooks of sexist images of women. For doing this she was charged with "corruption on earth," "warring against God," and "expansion of prostitution." Parsa's photos never appeared on the news. No body really knows how she was killed because there are too much different stories. Her executioners "preserving" their "dignity" brought death to this woman, making her shapeless. Ayatollah Khomeini had the highest position on the clergy, so he ruled Iran. He made Iran an Islamic regime. He started to take all of the rights of the women. He justified himself by claiming that he was restoring women's dignity and rescuing them from the degrading and dangerous ideas that been imposed on them by the Americans. Using this excuse they took all of the rights of the women and taking their history down. Its impressive how today some places have such regime, and that does not have of the real concept of what is rights.