Seeing is Believing

Women from 1970s in Islamic countries were seen very different before the Iranian Revolution. Now the women are stereotypically concidered quitter, uneducated, and generally blobbed together losing all their unique qualities.

When pictures like this are a commonly promoted image, one has to wonder, who is sponsoring these this... Are they being put out there to control public opinion or the Iranians in a negative light because they treat their women so poorly? Or is this the Americans/ Westerners promoting pictures like this because when we see the veil we immediately associate it with Islamic people and for some people jump right to the events of 9/11, feeding the War on Terror? Or are the Islamic Traditionalist sponsoring this because they are proud of their strict interpretation of the Qur'an? Or are groups fighting for female rights putting these images up to drum up support and awareness for their cause of fighting for equality?

I personally think that there are many different groups and different forces supporting these images and the single story they promote, but all of them have different motives. And some of these objectives are more obvious than others and some more effective, but when we don't have access to more than just these pictures, we see that the women don't look educated and look quite and boring, so we believe that.

~Sahale