Better Banned than Dead

The only real freedom movement in the Muslim world, ignored by the Obama adminstration and the enemedia, was in Iran and was led by women. And to this day, they are paying ….. with blood.

The devout Mullahs have banned this brave young woman from returning to Iran. What a favor they did her.

Iranian actress banned from homeland after naked magazine shoot Telegraph (hat tip Jack)

An Iranian actress has been told she is no longer welcome in her homeland after she posed naked in a French news magazine as a symbolic protest against strictures on women. What a favor the devout mullahs have done this young woman.

The nude photo of Golshifteh Farahani has been published by Madame Le Figaro magazine. The publication has attracted a wave of visitors to her Facebook page from Iran and the Middle East.

The Paris-based actress left Iran last year in protest against restrictive Islamic codes that the Iranian cinema industry has to follow under Ahmadinejad's conservative cultural policies.

Now she said the government has sent a communication telling her not to travel back to her homeland.

"I was told by a Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guide official that Iran does not need any actors or artists. You may offer your artistic services somewhere else", Farahani said.

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If only they had done the same for Shadi:

Iran: Photojournalist disappears on way to Women Soccer World Cup in Germany

Maryam Majd, an Iranian photojournalist, has disappeared on her way from Tehran, Iran, to Dusseldorf in Germany, according to Petra Landers, a former national football player. In a letter to the German Foreign Office, Landers who met Maryam Majd earlier this year during a trip to Iran, explains what happened: "When I wanted to pick her up at 10:30 am on the 17th of June 2011 from Düsseldorf airport, I realized that she was not on the plane. (Mahan Airlines confirmed that Ms. Majd was not on board). By phone she was no longer reachable because the phone was switched off. Since that day nobody in Iran or in Germany has heard from Maryam Majd." This is Majd's blog (in Persian)

Maryam Majd had expressed to Landers her interest in women's sports and the pair had planned that she would accompany Landers for two months during the Women's Soccer World Cup 2011 in Germany, in order to produce a phtographic record of the different soccer teams. Landers bought the plane ticket for Maryam Majd, purchased health insurance for her, and took care of all other formalities. On the day Maryam Majd was due to travel to Germany she called Landers from Tehran airport and confirmed that the flight would shortly be departing. 

Petra Landers adds in her letter to the Foreign Office that "The 

responsibility for the disappearance of Ms. Maryam Majd is now borne by the Iranian authorities and security forces. I am shocked and deeply concerned. I want to ask for you help in getting a response from the Iranian authorities. The political situation in Iran leads us to expect the worst."

The letter in German to the Foreign Office is attached

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And who killed this Iranian grad student in Texas yesterday? She was a vocal women's rights activist.

Iranian grad student, activist killed in Houston KSAT News (hat tip Armaros)

HOUSTON – A woman whom Houston police described as an activist on behalf of Iranian women's civil rights was found shot dead at the wheel of her car after it crashed into a townhouse garage.

Houston police said the shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. Monday in a posh development near the Galleria.According to investigators, someone walked up to the passenger's side of 30-year-old Gelareh Bagherzadeh's car and shot her in the head.

Bagherzadeh's body was found inside her running car, detectives said.

"When the officer arrived, the car's tires were still spinning," Officer J.C. Padilla said. "He had to reach in and turn off the motor."Bagherzadeh's car was found at the back of the town home complex, and police said she had driven past her parents' home near the front of the complex.

"We don't know if she was being followed at the time," Sgt. Richard Bolton said.

Investigators said Bagherzadeh was studying genetic research at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and was an only child.

Perhaps Khomeinist tool Reza Azlan knows more about Gelareh's murder…….