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[CNN]
Putting the 'jab' in 'hijab': Girls beat up Iran cleric when he tells them to
cover up - CNN.com
By Ben Brumfield and Shirzad Bozorgmehr , CNN
September 20, 2012 -- Updated 1102 GMT (1902 HKT)
CNN.com
Iranian women can be subjected to harsh punishment for small infractions of the
country's Islamic dress code.
Iranian women can be subjected to harsh punishment for small infractions of the
country's Islamic dress code.
The cleric said he asked "politely," but the girl's angry reaction and some
pugilistic double-teaming with her friend landed the holy man in the hospital,
according to an account in the semiofficial Mehr News Agency on Monday.
Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti says he encountered the girls on his way to the
mosque in the village of Shahmirzad for noon prayers in late August.
He told one of the girls to cover up, the report said.
"She responded by telling me to cover my eyes, which was very insulting to me,"
Beheshti said. So he asked her a second time to cover up and also to put a lid
on what he felt was verbal abuse.
She hit the man of the cloth, and he hit the ground.
"I don't remember what happened after that," he said. "I just felt her kicks
and heard her insults."
Beheshti, who emerged from the infirmary three days later, said he did not file
a complaint against the girls.
But he doesn't mind the local prosecutor's investigation into the matter
either, "as long as the case helps the cause of Islamic hijab."
The girls may have put the "jab" into "hijab," but fighting with morality
police or private individuals telling women to cover up is rare in small towns.
It's more common in larger cities, where women are more likely to take a stand.
What's unfortunately even more common is the harsh punishment and traumatic
abuse women endure in Iran for small infractions against the dress code.
CNN's Shirzad Bozorgmehr reported from Tehran and CNN's Ben Brumfield reported
from Atlanta.
© 2012 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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