Rage Against the Veil

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name = Rage Against the Veil: The Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident
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author = Parvin Darabi
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country = Iran
language = English
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genre = Biography
publisher = Prometheus Books
release_date = 1999
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 274
isbn = 1573926825
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"Rage Against the Veil: The Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident" is a book by Parvin Darabi, an Iranian critic of Islam. The book is about Parvin's sister, Dr. Homa Darabi, who on February 21, 1994 committed suicide by immolation in a city square in Tehran, Iran to protest the "slavelike" treatment of women in Iran. The book details Dr. Darabi's life leading up to this moment, addressing women's rights in Iran during the monarchy and after the Islamic Revolution. [ [http://www.prometheusbooks.com/catalog/book_385.html Prometheus Books - "Rage against the Veil".] ]

The Islamic Human Rights Commission has criticized the book stating that its assertions about the status of women in Islam lack "fact, investigation or research," and has suggested that the publisher should be boycotted. [ [http://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=700 Islamic Human Rights Commission - "ALERT: MEDIA MONITORING & REPSONSE ‘Rage Against the Veil’ & other titles".] ]

ee also

*Human rights in Islamic Republic of Iran
*Women in Muslim societies

External links

* [http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2003/02/22/35162.php ‘Rage’ tells story of personal struggle in Iran] - book review by Nancy Peek Ives from the Reno Gazette-Journal

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