Syrian rebels Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) - Women's Rights

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“General Leadership: It is strictly prohibited to interfere in women’s clothing or impose any demands related to their attire or appearance, including requests for modesty.

We affirm that personal freedom is guaranteed for everyone, and that respecting individuals’ rights is the foundation of building a civilized nation.”

https://x.com/Bushra1Shaikh/status/1866131911300542672

This seems like a positive statement, but obviously early days.

And even if they as a group have watered down their former Islamic fundamentalism, there is nothing to say that in the current vaccum a more fundamentalist group wont take hold.

And for anyone who didn't see the video that showed a young boy among the women prisoners freed by rebel groups, thought to have been born and only known prison as his "home". https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/syria-assad-regime-toddler-freed-underground-prisons-b1198834.html

Surely many of these fighters and their groupings were the ones that raped and enslaved the Yazedis? That really was awful.

I looked at a map, Google think one can drive from Damascus to Jerusalem in about 3 hours. Say 4 IRL. I had not realised I thought it was a bigger wider area.

Getting back to the subject (not Israel) And so it begins, softly softly, politely.

https://x.com/Nervana_1/status/1868682112255299863?t=y1Nr0dk1eLNZjf1iCU3LFQ&s=19

Just days after ousting of Assad, and the subtle hijab enforcement has begun in Syria.
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First, this girl that met Jolani and he asked her to cover her hair. 1/
She later appeared on the official Syrian TV defending Jolani and how it is “his right” to appear however he prefers.

Clearly she sees no intrusion on her right to appear however SHE prefers 🤷🏻‍♀️
But it is not just this Syrian girth!

A TV anchor appeared with Jolani, with a “minimum accepted” headscarf
https://x.com/Nervana_1/status/1868683189201596774?t=y1Nr0dk1eLNZjf1iCU3LFQ&s=19

Let me add, not just Syrians and Arabs, here are representative of the EU meeting Jolani, and look how all women are wearing headscarves!

x.com/Nervana_1/status/1868683674335813825?t=y1Nr0dk1eLNZjf1iCU3LFQ&s=194/

Hundreds of Syrian women protest against HTS spokesman’s claim that women are ‘biologically incapable’ of leadership roles. They demand secularism, democracy, and equal rights.
#Syria #WomenRightsSyria #SyriaProtests

https://x.com/The_NewArab/status/1870516772845052244?t=JpSORhbjqUiBZhPsRAgv4w&s=19

A spokesman for Syria’s new transitional authority has caused widespread outrage after controversial statements about the role and alleged “nature” of women during a TV interview.

https://www.newarab.com/news/syria-govt-spokesmans-sexist-remarks-spark-fears-women

Joan Smith has written in the Independent

At the very least, please send a sceptical female journalist to interview Syria’s new leader. Claims about how women will be treated have been met with naivety by the likes of Jeremy Bowen

Scenes of celebration in the streets of Damascus after the ignominious flight of Bashar al-Assad were moving to watch, but they also filled me with trepidation. They reminded me of Tehran after the removal of the Shah, when a popular revolution was hijacked by mullahs who rule Iran to this day with their pitiless brand of misogyny. Instead of romanticising Syria’s new leader, Western correspondents have a duty to ask searching questions. Sending sceptical female journalists to interview him, instead of jovial male interrogators, would be a start.

I agree with her.

So do I; I said as much about the Shit of Iran at the start of the thread.