Anger as Iran bans women from universities

[obamanut2012]

Female students in Iran have been barred from more than 70 university degree courses in an officially-approved act of sex-discrimination which critics say is aimed at defeating the fight for equal women's rights.

In a move that has prompted a demand for a UN investigation by Iran's most celebrated human rights campaigner, the Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, 36 universities have announced that 77 BA and BSc courses in the coming academic year will be "single gender" and effectively exclusive to men.

It follows years in which Iranian women students have outperformed men, a trend at odds with the traditional male-dominated outlook of the country's religious leaders. Women outnumbered men by three to two in passing this year's university entrance exam.

Senior clerics in Iran's theocratic regime have become concerned about the social side-effects of rising educational standards among women, including declining birth and marriage rates.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9487761/Anger-as-Iran-bans-women-from-universities.html


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Note: this is not based on anything in the Koran. It's like the anti choice forces in this country: it is just based on misogyny, using religion as the lie.

[Vietnameravet]

1. Question..

Does this group make contributions to the Republican party?

[CanonRay]

2. Any society which chooses not to use half it brains and strength

is doomed to fail.

[4th law of robotics]

3. Depends on how you define "fail"

They won't be putting anyone on the moon any time soon, true. In science, culture, standard of living, and so on they are stagnant (or regressing).

But these societies are very persistent and likely won't die off any time soon.

I think it's more likely the rest of us will at some point make an exodus from this planet and leave these guys behind to fight among the ruins.

Which they will continue to do until the sun god becomes upset and swallows the earth whole.

[Zorra]

4. Religion/Theocracy is by far the greatest threat to human rights on the planet.

[dogday]

5. No wonder that woman beat down a cleric

when he told her to cover up in Iran. She said, "you cover your eyes" and then proceeded to put a beating on the dude. Violence isn't my style, but if I had to put up with the crap these women put up with, I think I would go off on someone.