[ April 23, 2024 ]
A female chess player from Iran switched allegiance to the U.S. team after a brouhaha over her failure to wear a headscarf during competition.
Dorsa Derakhshani refused to wear the required Islamic head covering, the hijab, during a February face-off in Gibraltar.
When Iran reacted in anger, she joined the American chess team.
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The Washington Post has more:
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran has required women to wear the hijab in public places.
However, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported Monday that the president of Iran’s chess federation, Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh, said that Dorsa had in fact changed her national federation to the United States, which was not unusual among chess players.
Pahlevanzadeh added that she was not a member of Iran’s national chess team. “She played for Iran only one time in 2014,” he clarified.
Dorsa left Tehran and moved to Barcelona in 2015 after she received an invitation by a chess club that also supported her studies, according to ISNA.
She was awarded the titles Woman Grandmaster and International Master by the World Chess Federation in 2016.
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20 Comments
6 years ago
Good for her! Iranian leaders are crazed monsters.
6 years ago
Can she be trusted to compete at her full capacity and not throw a game for Allah’s Praise ?!!
Looks like a great opportunity to embarrass U.S. team, or Iranian Leadership !!?
6 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Can she be trusted to compete at her full capacity and not throw a game for Allah’s Praise ?
To reach that level in chess, you need too much pride in yourself and too much respect for the game to do that. Her FIDE rating would suffer, her reputation in the world of chess would suffer, and the satisfaction she takes in her own achievement would be diminished.
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
What you describe is ‘Honor’,… what have we ALL witnessed, as examples of Honor for Islam ?!!
6 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
I submit, sir, that you appear to think by sticking a name on something, that you are saying something intelligent about it. FYI, there is nothing insidious about the concept of honor.
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
There is when islam applies it. Or have you not noticed their bastardization of the concept? I have no problems with the concept, just how they see it and interpret it and use it as another excuse for their constant violence. Naturally the fact that ?90% of the targets are women shows their total LACK of any real capacity to even reflect it.
6 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
Here’s an example of that: There is this beautiful girl who was murdered by her family in England. And before they proceeded to do so, the slimballs who were supposedly sent to do “an HONOR” killing, RAPED her First before they killed!!!! This, IS how these savages “honor”…
Prior to that, her father lured her into their place and attempted to get her drunk so he could kill her easily but she run away. And these criminal scumbags claim they do not drink alcohol!!! But it was ok for this gangster to attempt to get his own daughter drunk b4 he savagely kill her. And why is aaaaall of that?!?!?! because she run away from her torturing raping thug they forced her to marry and she met someone she innocently fell in love with after she left!!!!
These scumbags stashed her body in a luggage case and buried her in their own yard. Enjoy!
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
He is absolutely right about that. And even if she allowed to be who she decides to be, if she ever gets there, these criminals will automatically use that as YET another pretext to allow Is-garbage-lam to continue to spread, when they are, not, NOT only reciprocating, but persecuting the other religions around the world. And that cannot be allowed to happen.
6 years ago
Reply to
Daizys Loyd
In addition to being a run on sentence. Try remedial English, Daizys.
6 years ago
Bravo to Dorsa!
I don’t know- and it’s not particularly important- whether or not she still considers herself to be Muslim, but she has an independent (and very good) mind. She’s the kind of person Islam crushes and who Americans should welcome to our shores.
Unfortunately, given the world situation, I would argue in favor of banning the immigration of Moslems. So if she still is Moslem, I’d love to have a week with her to convince her of the error of her ways (better yet, give Anni Cyrus a day).
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Agree. If she wants to flee the islamic country for freedom then she must quit that failed idealogy too.
Or deport her back like Israel has started doing now http://bit.ly/2uJe4D4
You can’t have freedom and follow the intolerant bigoted idealogy at the same time.
6 years ago
If she denounced Islam,I’d marry her & help her become a US citizen 😉 Hard to find a smart woman these days!!!
6 years ago
Reply to
John Tune
Hard to find a smart woman these days!!!
Less-than-bright comment, John.
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Hmm it sounds more like they are too smart, But one has to appreciate his patriotism.
6 years ago
I hope she’s not planning on going back to the Iranian Islamic Repugnant.
6 years ago
Iran is fighting in one country that they were invited too from the legal government… And America is involved in 9 countries wars and over throws at the present time. She jumped from the skillet to the frying pan,
6 years ago
It’s disgusting that some Western women are proudly embracing the hijab while so many Muslim women are being forced to wear it every day in dozens of Islamic countries around the world.
If they like it so much, then they should wear it every single day, and suffer the same penalties women in Muslim countries do for removing them.
