US Soccer Star Aly Wagner Urges Solidarity With Iranian Women During Live World Cup Broadcast

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Have the islamophobia police charged and convicted Aly Wagner yet? But she is right, even if no Western feminists dare to say so. The Iranian women who are daring to take off their headscarves in public are the real “feminists.” They are fighting for a fraction, a sliver of the freedoms their Western “sisters” enjoy. As David Kurten points out, punishments for removing a hijab have always been brutal – Islamic regimes are known to physically beat women for non-compliance with their dress codes. This is true not only in the Middle East, but increasingly on a local level in the West.

“US Soccer Star Aly Wagner Urges Solidarity With Iranian Women During Live World Cup Broadcast,” by Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, June 15, 2018:

Retired US women’s soccer star Aly Wagner on Friday issued a heartfelt plea for the rights of Iranian women, as she commented during a live broadcast of Iran’s opening clash with Morocco in Group B of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

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Criticizing the Tehran regime’s ban on women attending soccer matches — a policy imposed in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution — US national women’s team veteran Wagner remarked that “there has to be more movement in that country in support of the women, and equal rights.”

“Perhaps we could pipe this broadcast into the [Iranian] president’s office,” the Olympic Gold Medal winner and two-time women’s World Cup finalist added.

Wagner’s fellow match commentator, Derek Rae, opined that there was a “certain irony” in the ban.

“I say that because Iran has a great women’s futsal team,” Rae pointed out, referring to the country’s recent successes in the popular indoor variant of soccer.

Rae also noted that Iran’s captain, Masoud Shojaei, had become the first Iranian professional soccer player to openly call for an end to the ban on women’s attendance.

“They should set a course that women are also allowed to come to stadiums in the future,” Shojaei told Iranian news outlet Varsesh3.com this week….

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Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

why MSM does not cover the abuse of iranian women while #metoo ‘hores get carpet bombed ?

After facebook, twitter , even Google joins lslamofascist gang to suppress conservative
free speech http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs

saudi/qatar/OIC/iran own/fund part of twitter, Fox Network, fund CNN, MSNBC , buy out politicians , bureaucrats in education dept to push islam in schools/ colleges. Easiest way to brainwash and takeover country and shutdown free speech !

oceanfloor1
oceanfloor1
5 years ago

GOAL, Aly! Don’t stop with women’s attendance at soccer matches. EVERYTHING the Dark Age regime in the Islamic Republic of Iran does to women needs to change.

James Jones
James Jones
5 years ago
Reply to  oceanfloor1

What an absolute disgrace the ” womens movement ” has become. The attitudes and the categorizations they rightly addressed at their outset were hijacked by militants in their ranks and from unlimited access to abortion to todays insane support of the likes of Sarsour, has turned them into nothing but hypocrites and lefty loons. Good for Aly Wagner for calling them out, now she will see for herself how despotic ” feminism ” has become, once the hate tweets start coming her way. Right has become wrong, and wrong, right.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

The Iranian women actually seem to be fairly secular…compare them with women from Pakistan, for example, who would never dream of going against their government or religion.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago

Aly is right; unlike those of the self-serving Western Women’s movement, she is standing shoulder-to-shoulder with her female, Iranian football players. Wagner’s solidarity is refreshing in an otherwise narcissistic sports world. Regarding the Fascist-Feminists, they will be in a hissy; their preference is to keep Muslim women as second-class or third -class citizens underfoot of the misogynistic Islamic cult and regime, Iran.
One imagines she will suffer from weighted criticism and threats not solely from Muslims but the loathsome Western feminists who would rather switch, maintain Islam’s the status-quo than fight for their Muslim sisterhood.

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