Coral Egan

It is beyond the scope. The horror and violence and brutality. I have called myself a humanist more than a feminist because of how unbalanced things have gotten here in the West. But now, hearing the stories daily of the defencelessness of women in Iran, Afghanistan and throughout the middle East, the use of rape to destroy a people (Yezidi), the normalized ped*philia, the blaming of women for their very existence, this is why I am a raging feminist, a raging humanist with a fire in my heart for the women and girls who must submit to this horror. Freedom, dignity and justice for all.

n 2004, a journalist named Asieh Amini came across a story from a small town in northern Iran. A 16-year-old girl named Atefeh Sahaaleh had been publicly hanged. The official charge: "acts incompatible with chastity." The reality, which Amini uncovered through careful, dangerous investigation: Atefeh had been repeatedly raped by a neighbor and other men beginning when she was nine years old. She had been neglected by her family and paid to keep silent — money she used simply to survive. At 13, Iran's morality police arrested her. A judge sentenced her to one hundred lashes. Under Iranian law, a woman could be sentenced to lashings three times — the fourth offense carried the death penalty. She was 16 when they hanged her. Amini wrote the story. Her newspaper refused to publish it. Another paper refused as well. A women's publication finally agreed to run an edited version. She kept going. Born in 1973 in the Mazandaran province of northern Iran — one of four sisters who spent their childhood painting, reading, and playing outdoors — Amini had built her career as a journalist through the brief flowering of press freedom following President Khatami's election in 1997, editing a women's affairs newspaper called Zan until hardline clerics shut it down in 1999. She had known the Iranian state's capacity for silencing voices. She had not yet known the full depth of what it was capable of doing to girls. After Atefeh, she knew. Case after case began reaching her. Leyla — a 19-year-old with diminished mental capacity, herself a victim of child rape, facing execution. The judge in her case told Amini plainly that Leyla was a threat to family life because of her "sexual availability." Amini enlisted human rights lawyer Shadi Sadr, published Leyla's story, drew international attention, and helped get her out of prison and into the care of a women's organization in Tehran. One life at a time. One story at a time. Against a legal system that had no interest in being exposed. In 2006, Amini discovered that despite a government moratorium on stoning — a directive issued in 2002 that carried no binding legal force — a man and woman had been stoned to death in Mashhad for adultery. The judge claimed he answered only to Sharia law. The Ministry of Justice denied the stoning had happened. State media attacked Amini's credibility. That October, Amini and Sadr co-founded the Stop Stoning Forever (SSF) campaign — systematically documenting stonings occurring across Iran and sharing their findings through colleagues abroad who could publish without fear of arrest. The state took notice. In March 2007, Amini was among 33 women arrested during a silent sit-in at a Tehran courthouse. During interrogation she realized — with the specific clarity of someone who had been investigating surveillance — that the police had been investigating her for some time. She was released after five days. Her phones, she was certain, were tapped. Her movements tracked. She kept reporting. The sustained pressure of the work eventually took its physical toll — stress-induced symptoms that included headaches, vision problems, and muscle paralysis forced her to step back briefly while her partners reorganized the campaign from outside Iran. She recovered. She continued. In 2009, following the disputed reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Amini was among the demonstrators beaten in the protests that swept Iran. She continued reporting — under pseudonyms, in the chaos. Then came the warning: police were questioning prisoners about her. She needed to leave. She had been invited to a poetry festival in Sweden. She took her daughter Ava and she went. They did not come back. Amini settled eventually in Norway, supported by the International Cities of Refuge Network — a program that protects writers facing state persecution. From exile, she continued her advocacy, published two books of Norwegian-language poetry, and kept doing what she had always done: making sure that the stories of girls and women the Iranian state wanted silenced were heard by the world instead. She was awarded the Human Rights Watch Hellmann/Hammett Award in 2009 — the same year she fled. The Oxfam Novib/PEN Award in 2012. The Ord i Grenseland prize in 2014. Asieh Amini picked up a pen in a country that punished women for existing outside the law's narrow definitions — and she used it, at enormous personal cost, to push against every wall that pen could reach. The girl from Mazandaran who dreamed of becoming a painter and writer became something rarer and harder: A witness who refused to look away. And a voice that — no matter how many times the state tried to silence it — kept finding new ways to be heard.

I get it and it would be important to find out that his claim is also fraudulent because why are we givng this fraud any space in our brains other than seeing the legal repercussions of his hate and xenophobia. It would also help Quebec draw a clear line, threatening behaviour is sanctionable no matter what group you claim to be from here. That’s the line. This behaviour has to have legal recourse or it will normalize misogyny and discrimination towards non muslims. Dagher should also be sanctioned for protecting this behaviour.

Yes, he has made that claim, be he obfuscates, so I have no way of knowing. What I can say is that an English version of his accent would be Ali G (that character from Sacha Baron Cohen.) So if you know someone born and raised in Canada, who was speaking with a Londoner Muslim ghetto accent, that would be similar to this case. I knew that he was Arabic before I had communications with him or knew who he was because his accent was so strong. It was so obvious that I made a post asserting this fact.

Since the video of his verbal tirade towards a female officer, Mohamed Bekkali has been busy livestreaming, claiming to be both the victim of profiling and a free speech defender. The 24-year-old drives a Lamborghini. He pleaded guilty to fraud and identity fraud last year.

@michaelmalice Conditioned us to chase the virtue dopamine high as well.

Social media has conditioned people to react to information that doesn't fit into their preconceived nations not with interest or curiosity but with rage

@habman1969 Most def! They are well spoken and classy and know the game comme que des Québecois peuvent.⚜️🔥 And I’m an angloqueb. :)

I'm an English Canadian in Ontario who watches the #GoHabsGo games exclusively en francais because RDS coverage is far superior to TSN/Sportsnet. Anyone else?

@iamufohunter Envy and sadism.

Need a honest opinion, What's stopping humans to just live in peace together ?

@thesickpodcasts @TonyMarinaro BELIEVE

ONE WORD: Use one word to describe the Canadiens 4–1 win over the Lightning UN MOT : Utilisez un mot pour décrire la victoire de 4–1 des Canadiens contre le Lightning #Habs #GoHabsGo #thesickpodcast @TonyMarinaro

@realMaalouf Didn’t Canada just make hate speech a crime? Perfect person to make an example of. Stop this trend in Canada before it starts. DEPORT!

Please meet 24-year-old Moroccan national Mohamed Bekkali, the man who threatened to make a female Canadian police officer his slave. He has a long rap sheet, including identity fraud. Mohamed now claims he is being targeted and a victim of racial profiling and Islamophobia.

@EloVeut Un chef policier protège un misogyne qui incite de l’esclavage a une policière, une femme…? C’est un acte de trahison contre l’uniforme qu’il porte. DÉMISSIONEZ Fadi Dagher. Vous ne faites plus votre job.

C’est si difficile que ça, nommer le réel problème du comportement de l’homme qui a invectivé la policière? Je vais tenter quelque chose. Ce n’est pas du masculinisme, c’est de la misogynie islamiste radicale.

@damorenatural @NoGenocideJabs @mario4thenorth @WBrettWilson Just because the world is losing it’s collective mind doesn’t mean we should all just accept English as our universal language. These are two different issues. For Quebec it’s about saving theirs.

@NoGenocideJabs @ArtfulProcess @mario4thenorth @WBrettWilson Well said. I was born and raised in Quebec, and the situation has been getting worse over the years. Businesses are struggling, unemployment rising, taxes are through the roof, and the streets are full of potholes yet the only thing that seems to matter is what language you speak

🚨 BREAKING: The Air Canada CEO just “retired.” Not because of years of Official Languages violations. Not because of record complaints to the Commissioner. Not because his airline has been fined over and over for failing to serve Canadians in French. Because he posted a condolence video IN ENGLISH, after 2 of his pilots died. Parliament summoned him. Quebec's Premier demanded his resignation. And this was driven by Liberals, who are desperate to make sure they win Terrebonne. They don’t care about the dead pilots. They care about winning. Two pilots are dead. A fire truck with no transponder was on an active runway. One controller was doing two jobs! NO ONE got summoned over that. But the language of a grief video? CAREER OVER. This country has lost the plot.

@Oosikarus @mario4thenorth @WBrettWilson Hahaha Love your name A Man to Blame!

@ArtfulProcess @mario4thenorth @WBrettWilson Canada joins UK & EU nations in not being a serious country.

@plgelinas @jetpen @ZubyMusic @Polymarket I feel like EVERYTHING could be handled better right now…

@jetpen @ArtfulProcess @ZubyMusic @Polymarket But yeah a spokesperson maybe, I don't know, but it could have been handled better.

JUST IN: Air Canada CEO to resign following backlash for posting condolence video in English only.

The language history in Canada is particularly nuanced and would demand more of an explanation than it being silly. Canada is not doing well, that we can agree on but this story is simply agit prop against Quebec, which is nothing new. The CEO stepped down because he promised he would learn French and never did. He failed at his job and stepped down.

@Polymarket Canada is such a silly country.

@damorenatural @NoGenocideJabs @mario4thenorth @WBrettWilson It’s not about freedom to not learn French, it’s always been a country of two official languages, you can choose NOT to learn the second language but you may not get hired by a company that obliges knowing both languages… why is that so hard to understand?

@ArtfulProcess @NoGenocideJabs @mario4thenorth @WBrettWilson Canada has two official languages: English and French. Quebec is a province, not a separate country like Spain. People should be free to speak either official language without being judged for it.

@NoGenocideJabs @mario4thenorth @WBrettWilson Ok. I hope we do separate so “Canada” can do “Canada”, which is more and more like China… I would prefer that the language issue calms and both sides help the other to thrive but that isn’t in the cards.

The rest of Canada is fed up with Francosupremacy. Quebec hasn’t actually signed on to confederation yet we send them billions in transfer payments because they’re too sleazy & corrupt to drill for their own resources, & we have to have French on everything we buy. I’m sick of everyone sucking up to the Laurentian Mafia.

You seem to know a lot about them…? I hope you and yours have never been hurt by one. Truly. It’s enough to make us all go mad hearing that every elite in the world is a pedo. There is just too much evil being “exposed” for us to endure without becoming radicalized. But that is also the point. Let’s be anti radical together and fight the divide and hopefully find truth.

@ArtfulProcess @mario4thenorth @WBrettWilson You don’t hang around paedophiles if you are not one or want to be one, like attracts like.

@CanadaRenegade @JimJohnson81259 @mario4thenorth @WBrettWilson I wish we could see just a tiny bit of hope in our leadership but we don’t, it’s beyond tragic what is hapening to Canada and the West.

@ArtfulProcess @JimJohnson81259 @mario4thenorth @WBrettWilson God I hope so. We can all separate together. Canada is a failed country at this point.

@palmquist_debra @mario4thenorth @WBrettWilson Right and that is what is tearing the world apart. The hubris of people addicted to offering their opinion. And on that note. I’m out! I’ve had enough excitemnt for today. Peace out!

@ArtfulProcess @mario4thenorth @WBrettWilson Bc it a public forum.

@palmquist_debra @mario4thenorth @WBrettWilson Is he a pedo? We can agree on not liking him anyway, you see there are commn grounds we can find to help stop the divide that is tearing the West apart.

@ArtfulProcess @mario4thenorth @WBrettWilson Never get me near that pedo creep

@palmquist_debra @mario4thenorth @WBrettWilson Hahaha. I’m imagining you sucking on Carney’s tit right now… thanks for that image.

@ArtfulProcess @mario4thenorth @WBrettWilson Yes you are correct, would love to see Quebec leave and quit sucking on the Canadian tit.