[ May 3, 2024 ]
Under Islamic laws enforced in Iran since the 1979 revolution, women are required to cover their hair and body in public. Today, some women have removed their scarves while driving or otherwise in public to protest the laws. (illustrative photo)
A female passenger in Tehran complained on Twitter on June 6 about a Snapp taxi driver who had forced her out of his car in the middle of a highway for not respecting the dress code.
The passenger also published the driver’s picture and details to back up her claim. In a following tweet, she maintained that Snapp had apologized to her for the inconvenience and reprimanded the driver.
Story continues below advertisementMeanwhile, two hashtags in support of the abandoned passenger went viral on Twitter. The Persian hashtags, which translate as “Boycott Snapp” and “We delete Snapp” in English, have been used more than 100,000 times since June 9.
The woman has since issued an apology to the driver, Snapp, and “all those whose feelings were hurt” after being summoned by the revolutionary court. The feminists stand with these misogynists. Sharia supporter Linda Sarsour was appointed the leader of Women’s March. Sick.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Islam.
Snapp Judgment: Iran Ride-Sharing Company At Center Of ‘Bad Hijab’ Dispute
By Golnaz Esfandiari, Radio Free Europe, June 15, 2019:
Iranians have found a new platform to fuel fresh debate over one of their society’s most sensitive topics: the so-called hijab laws that oblige women to cover their bodies and hair in conservative Islamic fashion.
Reactions have come fast and furious since a Tehrani driver for the country’s largest Uber-like ride-sharing enterprise, Snapp, refused to drive a woman to her destination because she allegedly disrespected the dress code.
The dispute has led to some calls for a boycott.
The incident first came to light via Twitter, when the customer complained that the Snapp driver dropped her off in the middle of a highway during a storm for “bad hijab.”
Radio Farda reports:
An Iranian version of Uber has triggered a heated debate over the country’s strict Islamic dress code for women known as the hijab.
A female passenger in Tehran complained on Twitter on June 6 about a Snapp taxi driver who had forced her out of his car in the middle of a highway for not respecting the dress code.
The passenger also published the driver’s picture and details to back up her claim. In a following tweet, she maintained that Snapp had apologized to her for the inconvenience and reprimanded the driver.
Meanwhile, two hashtags in support of the abandoned passenger went viral on Twitter. The Persian hashtags, which translate as “Boycott Snapp” and “We delete Snapp” in English, have been used more than 100,000 times since June 9.
Under a barrage of criticism, Snapp issued a statement, saying, they have both worked with the driver who will continue to work for the company and also addressed the grievance of the passenger for her unfinished trip.
Conservatives rushed to defend the “pious” and “dutiful” driver, bombarding Snapp with sharp criticism. The driver was identified as Saeed Abed. “Enjoining good and forbidding evil,” the conservatives argued, is the duty of all true Muslims. Therefore, the driver is a praiseworthy person who deserves an award for making the right decision, they insisted.
Snapp responded with another statement on June 10 denying it had apologized to the woman.”Snapp had planned to file a legal complaint against the passenger for her libelous comment, but as she apologized and repented for her claim, the company decided not to use its right to sue,” Snapp maintained.
Reportedly, the passenger also apologized for her earlier statements.
However, a former students rights activists, Majid Tavakkoli, disclosed that a revolutionary court had apparently summoned the passenger and later released her after forcing her to commit in writing that she would never disregard the Islamic dress code.In an orchestrated move, the conservatives hailed the driver as a “hero,” a “true Muslim,” and defender of Islam. The monopolized state-run TV network hosted the driver in a show on primetime, and the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, met and thanked him.
Some social media users derided the whole case as a setup to ruin the reputation of Snapp as the best independent taxi app in the country. Snapp’s main competitors are owned and run by present or former commanders of the IRGC who dominate the Iranian economy and who seek to monopolize the market by kicking out their rivals, they claimed.
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28 Comments
4 years ago
Muslim and woman in the same sentence will NEVER come out well for the woman.
4 years ago
“The monopolized state-run TV network hosted the driver in a show on primetime, and the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, met and thanked him.” Gee, between bombing cargo ships, building nuclear bombs and hanging gays, it’s good to see the top military man still has time to take from his busy schedule and acknowledge the little guy. The taxi driver. What a true servant of the people he is.
4 years ago
Iran went from an emerging country and one of the most enlightened in the middle east to a backwards C R A P hole after the Shah was ousted. Thanks Jimmy Carter. Iranians have nothing to look forward to except circling the comode.
4 years ago
Reply to
Kuffar
It was only some 10 months after the Shah left Iran that he began receiving treatment for lymphatic cancer in the USA (maybe even earlier in other countries), 8 months later he died of it. Some say the Shah knew about his lymphatic cancer in 1973.
According to this article (https://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-shahs-cancer-may-have-changed-history-2014-10)
‘His illness might have made the Shah more willing to abdicate the
throne, which he did in early 1979. The author raises the possibility
that the cancer may have made the Shah’s decision-making more erratic
while sapping his will to cling to power. He may have been “able to give
only part of his energy to fighting for Iran’s life, since he was
fighting for his own.”‘
What exactly would you have Jimmy Carter do at the time? Invade Iran?
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Yes. Invade Iran, support the Shah, and oppose the Mullahs. If the gutless Jimmy Carter had stood up to them 40 years ago when they first took the hostages we wouldn’t have this problem. Khameni’s rule has brought nothing to Iran except bloodshed and misery for the Iranian people and to the region. How many Americans are dead because of Jimmah’s stupidity? Obama compounded the stupidity by sending the Mullahs 150 billion dollars in ransom. God bless Trump for standing up to the barbarians.
4 years ago
Reply to
Kuffar
The Shah was busily dying of cancer, how would propping him up have made any difference at all?
4 years ago
Reply to
Kuffar
At least the peanut farmer isn’t Americas worst President any longer….the POS anti-American muslim beat him by a mile or two!
4 years ago
Reply to
Kuffar
Yo dumb ass! Iran was anti commie, pro-Western, and an ally of the US until Mohammad Mosaddegh nationalized the BP oil fields (probably due to a bad economy) which led the CIA and MI6 to over-throw him. Place been a train wreck since. We put Saddam in to ballance the power out. US and Britain have completely effed up the Middle East!
4 years ago
Reply to
JJ
Bwahahahahahahaha, yeah because the muslum Middle-East was just a model of secular democracy before the US and Britain effed it up. Idiot.
4 years ago
Reply to
Kuffar
You could be talking about the UK. The country that used to have the biggest Empire at one time reduced to an ever increasing cesspit full of Muslim filth that successive spineless governments have allowed to invade the country with their ‘religion of peace’ and bent over backwards to accommodate their every demand at the expense of the true British people, who now have to cow tow to these medieval savages because of left wing traitors that are too frightened to upset them. Theresa May being the worst traitor of all. She is responsible for the arrests and persecution of any British patriot or patriots that has the audacity to criticize this evil ideology and the contents of their disgusting book of lies.
4 years ago
Too bad Iran and Iraq didn’t wipe each other off the map in the 80s
4 years ago
Where are the feminists? Women will never be free so long as Islam exists. I’ve seen some evil things in my life but nothing comes close to this death cult.
Imagine if a psychotic serial killer like Ted Bundy or Charles Manson created a religion. It’d look exactly like Islam and millions of low-IQ inbred men would be gladly enforcing its made up retarded rules/laws.
There is only one solution, I don’t know how many decades or centuries it’ll take but we need to remove Islam off the face of the Earth.
The problem is that the West largely ignores what Muslims do to people in their countries, not realizing eventually it’ll happen here once they multiply like rats. I’ve already seen far too many hijabs in my local mall in Canada recently-it really appeared like they’re taking over.
20 years ago you’d barely see one or two. Not to mention Trudeau’s Muslim Somali immigration minister is flooding Canada with 300,000 new immigrants every year. I’ll bet you most of them are Muslims.
This is what you get when Leftists are in charge, they let barbarians in to rape you and destroy your country.
4 years ago
Reply to
Rick James
Feminists also support the business of forcing biological men into women’s bathrooms, showers and locker rooms – thus exponentially increasing the chance of women being raped and sexually assaulted (not to mention children being sexually molested or set upon by human traffickers). Anything to stick it to Western civilization, the patriarchy, whatever excuse they come up with the next minute.
4 years ago
The only thing more ignorant than a libturd is a muslim!!!! The only good one of either is a dead one!
4 years ago
The fact that the left still celebrates the hijab is a sign of how out of touch with human progress they are.
4 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
The hijab is truly a symbol of female sexual submission and slavery.
4 years ago
religion of peace. & intelligent.
4 years ago
They should fire that scumbag and nor apologize for him.
4 years ago
I would NEVER apologize FOR COMMON SENSE, which is now a SUPER POWER, since few people have it anymore. GOD DOES NOT REWARD STUPIDITY. I have been stupid……lotsa stupid in my past.
4 years ago
Not happening in this country so I could care less.
Leave Iran to the Iranians. Leave islam to the Muslims.
Not our business.
4 years ago
Reply to
Jim in Jersey
How much less? A little? A lot?
Do you mean that you couldn’t care less?
Are Jersey schools that bad?
4 years ago
Century after Century of inbreeding.
4 years ago
Muslims are Jews.
4 years ago
Could have been in the UK. Its seems driving cabs / mini cabs / taxis is popular with recent legal / illegal bearded arrivals. They know all the tricks – long way round, over-charging, switching the meter off, getting ‘lost’ blaming satnav. – customer then pays for the extra mileage, etc. I was assaulted by a cab driver recently. I refused to pay for the ‘long way round’ aka extra miles and he locked me into the cab and refused to let me out. Then in a temper he broke the glass partition between the driver and passenger seating showering me with glass. Eventually the police arrived and let me out. But karma won; due to the broken glass his cab would have been off the road until repaired. And I still didn’t pay. BTW this was in the scum run town of Slough with a too-high population of bearded / robed incomers.
