Hijab for Increasing Sexual Imagination!

An Op-ed on Raja News, an online news source with close ties to the Iranian regime, stated that “the Hijab increases the sexual imagination!” This absurd explanation has become a new joke between Iranian online activists.

Iranian blogger Alireza Rezai mocked the statement saying, “Please don’t stimulate our sexual imagination!” with an attached picture of a fully-covered Fatemeh Rajabi, one of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s most outspoken female fans and the wife of the former chief of the Iranian Parliament, Hadad Adel.

A popular Iranian cartoonist similarly used the statement to satirize the way extremists regard an elderly woman.

The head of the Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that 100 people have been executed in the last month alone for rape, gang rape, and adultery in Iran. Iranian reporter, Roya Karimi Majd, updated her Facebook status: “First, they forced Hijab on women; perhaps for increasing the sexual imagination and then, execute those who over-fantasized!”