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     The article gives a general concept of the struggle between the protest of women right in Iran and the tradition values of the religion. In the article, it mentions the process of women’s practice of life and fashion style from the westernized Pahlavi dynasty to the Homeini authority which highly demands the women’s behavior in public, even to make a law to restrict them. There are both the offending side, which stands against the high- pressured government of the violation of women’s right, and also the defending side, that is, the official statement of the attitude toward their policies.

     The statements standing for the women’s right are relatively more familiar to us, that is, to improve world-wide women’s right. They also claim that improvement of women’s right is a necessary way for Iran getting their way to a developing country. On the other hand, the excuses of the government, are usually folded to outside. The government declares that they aim to protect the traditional values of the Islam, including the women’s function and status inside the family or outside the society. Furthermore, the government also denounces the imposition of the western values on the Islam women, as they are all devote willingly to their religion.In general, women’s right in Iran can be positioned into different aspects of viewpoints. It can be seen as jihad of Islam women to protest their right of freedom in amount of restrictions. As it has been changing since the authority of Homeini started, it can also been seen as an ideology of a single clique of a union of religion and politics party.

     As the different views of points flourishing more and more, there are also lots of questions worth discussing. Whether if the Iran government owns the power to invade women’s right in the excuses of religious values and taboo, or it is not proper for us to interfere or judge other culture by the system of values that is established by the dominant western society, is an important issue that need everyone to pay attention on it. Also, if we see back to our own society in Taiwan, we can still find some familiarity, though not so serious as in Iran, which somehow restricts women’s right. Although more and more improvement in the workplace, women are still usually family-bounded, and facing the glass ceiling phenomenon. So, perhaps the question if we have truly attained the equality between genders is also worth discussing

Reference:

Zou Chi (2014, May 20th) Controversy after kiss: the Islamic women’s right versus the pressure and restriction from religion and government. The News Lens. Retrieved from http://www.thenewslens.com/post/42301/