She walks with her head held high, her hair blowing in the wind, wearing a bra and high-rise panties. She hugs her crossed arms tightly against her body as if to give herself the strength to defy all the prohibitions, and confront the fundamentalists.
Can we imagine for a moment the courage it takes for this young woman, her name is Ahou Daryaie, to stroll like this in front of her university in Tehran in Iran?
Two years ago, the moral police killed Mahsa Amini, she was 22 years old. Religiously crazy militiamen beat her because they couldn't stand the way she wore the veil. His death led to an unprecedented protest movement in Iran.
Ahoue Daryaie was also arrested with incredible violence. Immediately, these crazy people from God tried to make her look crazy. Madness is what these militiamen always brandish in an attempt to extinguish women's desire for emancipation. But the only madness of this young woman, who has become the embodiment of courage throughout the world, is that of wanting to be free.
Everywhere, women's freedom is threatened. In Afghanistan, the Taliban banned them from school, sports, work, singing, gardens, parks, public baths. They have even added a ban on praying out loud among themselves.
The only right they have left is to disappear like ghosts behind this veiled prison that is the burqa.
Let us measure how lucky we are to have been born in France. A country where we can dress or undress as we please. To study. To work. Divorce. Abort. Abortion… Even in the largest Western democracy, the United States, this fundamental right to dispose of one's body is threatened, made almost impossible in certain states.
So let's not turn our eyes away from the courage of Ahou Daryaie and let us never forget that women's rights, which were so difficult to win, can be taken away in no time.
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