The arrest of a relatively elderly university professor, with dual Iranian and Canadian citizenship, became the headlines of many Canadian and international media. The line that the media narrates about the story of his arrest is more or less that an experienced and respected professor of “Anthropology” at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, traveled to Iran in February to follow up on personal matters. IRGC intelligence was arrested. Some of these media also explicitly called this IRGC’s action a form of weakening the government’s position in relation to the West. Relatives of Homay Hudfer started a massive media campaign to put pressure on the security-judicial apparatus of the country.
In an interview with BBC Farsi, Mrs. Katayoun Hudfar emphasized many times that her sister is a “non-political” person who traveled to Iran only for personal reasons. According to the usual practice of the western media in this type of cases, the arrested person is immediately introduced as suffering from all kinds of acute and dangerous diseases. Katayun Hudfar also claimed that her sister is suffering from a rare neurological disease and has terrible migraine headaches. So, according to Katayoun Hudfer’s claim, the Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Organization has arrested a respected university professor who is “old” and suffers from several types of diseases, and who traveled to Iran for “personal” work.
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In a conversation with the Voice of America, Ketayon Hudfer talks about Homay Hudfer’s illness!
But the contradiction begins immediately. Amanda Ghahremani, Homay Hoodfar’s niece, who is interviewing with the media as her family’s spokesperson, made it clear in her first statement in an interview with CBC News that Mrs. Hoodfar wanted to The elections (the assembly and experts) “have the privilege of conducting their anthropological research closely.
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Humay Hudfar’s niece’s conversation with CBC
On the other hand, “Hadi Ghaemi”, the spokesperson of the anti-Iranian organization “Human Rights Campaign for Iran” in New York (which is one of the main sources of Ahmad Shahid’s biased reports against Iran) says the following about this arrest: “The arrest of Mrs. Hudfar is another sign of intolerance and suspicion towards people with dual citizenship who travel to Iran and only want to help their motherland with their academic work.” The New York Times quoted her family as saying that the purpose of her trip was “to conduct historical and anthropological research on the role of women in government (in Iran)”. Up to this point, at least, it turned out that contrary to Mrs. Hudfar’s sister’s claim, the issue of “personal reasons” for traveling to Iran was not involved at all. In fact, he set foot in his “motherland” to pursue “research” on the eve of Iran’s elections, which he has been focusing on full-time in recent years, along with teaching at Concordia University. “Margie Mandel”, an economics professor and Hudfer’s colleague at this Canadian university, said in an interview with the “Global News” newspaper of Montréal that Ms. Hudfer worked on her research 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: “She documented the difficult conditions and violations of women’s rights, but also carefully recorded the achievements of women in various fields, through movements and otherwise.” But is Ms. “Homai Hudfer” just a researcher and university professor and a deeply non-political element? Homai Hudfar, born in 1329 in Tehran, went to England to continue his studies after obtaining a bachelor’s degree from Tehran University. Before he immigrated to Canada 30 years ago to study for a doctorate and live, he also studied in Egypt for a while. Hudfer was one of the founding members of Women Living Under Muslim Laws, an international solidarity network for feminists throughout the Islamic world, in 1984. He is considered a senior member of this organization. But what is volume and what is its mission?
A look at the records, thoughts and anti-security actions of “Huma Hudfar” + photos and videos
According to the definition on its website, this organization has been responsible for “networking” for women’s affairs activists and women’s rights activists in Islamic countries for three decades. The main specialty of this “international network” is to inculcate western values such as feminism, sexual freedom, and LGBT among Muslim women. In fact, this institution and its affiliated institutions do not hide that their main goal is to weaken the role of religious foundations and Islamic beliefs and principles governing the lives of Islamic women (what they call “fundamentalism”): “Providing information, support and A collective space for (feminist) women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and traditions derived from Islam.” A look at the antecedents, thoughts and anti-security measures of “Huma Hudfar” + photo and video of one of the meetings and feminist networks of the Volum Foundation in Iran, where Homa Hudfar was its link abroad, although this organization has attractive slogans such as “development of gender justice” , “equality” and women’s rights and to unite women in Muslim countries, but as it is clearly stated elsewhere in its “statement of goals”, the main goal is nothing but “to work with women activists throughout “Global South” (developing countries) to create a sustainable and (simultaneously) transformative feminist leadership in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. A look at the records, thoughts and anti-security actions of “Homa Hudfar” + photos and video of this stream under the title “Iranian Women’s Charter” reproduces and communicates the guidelines for networking and organizing women’s activists, the volume together with the “Women’s Resource Center” (originally named ” (Pakistan-based Gah Corporation) and the Institute for the Empowerment of Women (IWA) manage a joint program entitled Women’s Empowerment and Leadership for Democratization (WLDD) funded by hidden parastatal foundations. In countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, with funds that are usually provided by the parliament of these countries, they pursue the work of promoting feminism and “de-ideology” among Muslim women.
In fact, since the beginning of the 1980s, when the strategy of Westerners turned from directly mocking and humiliating Muslim women through “hijab” and other Islamic values, to trying to attract and “converge” these women into Western culture, “transformation from within” “and “gradual metamorphosis” was placed on the agenda of Western cultural policymakers in relation to Muslim societies. In this new strategy, we no longer see direct insults to Islam and religious rituals such as hijab by western governments and politicians and cultural institutions supported by this government as a practice. In the new paradigm, there is nothing wrong with a Muslim woman remaining a Muslim and even adhering to the hijab as an Islamic symbol, but in a creeping process, with long-term and patient organizational, networking and cultural work, the “content” of Muslim women’s Muslimness The place of Islamic values and foundations of Islamic life is replaced by western content. In other words, women who are in the sphere of activity of institutions like Volumal, even keep their Islamic hijab (even chador) for years, but inside they go through a cultural brainwashing process that eventually leads to the formation of a “mentality”. completely western” from the concept of “woman” and “femininity”. And of course, when the basis of belief in an issue like “hijab” weakens and collapses, the distance between being veiled and discovering the hijab will be only a flip (we have seen and are seeing many examples of it in recent years).
In addition to Volum, Ms. “Homai Hudfar” is also a member of the board of directors of an organization called “Alternative Links”. His sister “Katayoun” (who was mentioned earlier) is also a member of the board of directors of this institution. This foundation, which is registered as a charitable and non-profit foundation in London, as usual for this type of institutions, aims to “establish communication and empower local and indigenous women’s movements and NGOs in Muslim countries that are involved in the development of democracy, gender equality and improving the economic status of underprivileged groups work” The three main axes of “Alternative Links” activity are: 1. English language training and communication and information technology skills for women activists 2. Research for action 3. Economic empowerment for disadvantaged groups, focusing on women, looking at the backgrounds, thoughts and Anti-security measures of “Homa Hudfer” + photo and video “Lack of command of the English language is usually an obstacle for local activists in different countries in networking and participating in local and international events.” For this reason, “Alternative Links” is preparing a series of texts and pamphlets in plain English, the purpose of which is to meet the specific needs of activists and those interested in women’s rights issues, especially in southern (developing) countries. Again, according to its own statement, this institution, under the management of Mrs. Hudfar, seeks to train information and communication technology skills to increase “linkages” and “exchange of information” between local organizations and domestic activists with their counterparts in the “international community”. to facilitate A look at the records, thoughts and anti-security actions of “Homa Hudfar” + photo and video of the meetings of this foundation is not only limited to Iran and is followed in developing (Muslim) countries and especially in Pakistan. An academician, a university professor doing “purely” academic work, is an agent of such institutions, with such stated goals. But he does not remain only within the framework of his defined cultural and scientific role and performance, and has repeatedly entered the field of politics and stated his explicit political positions. And this, of course, is a precedent. In the following, we discuss examples of the political activism of this Iranian-Irish-Canadian “researcher”. A look at the records, thoughts and anti-security measures of “Huma Hudfar” + photo and video of Ms. Hudfar’s Iranian passport. In 1998, “Volumel” organization published a book by Homa Hudfar with the title: “Activists of the health sector in Iran as social activists: Can government non-governmental organizations be a factor for democratization?” In other words, this university “anthropologist” lady, in 1998, that is, when topics such as “soft war”, public diplomacy tools and influence were not discussed to the extent of today, she identified health sector activists in developing countries as agents. It introduces the potential of advancing a political program, i.e. “democratization”. It is not unlikely that when, years later, the “Alai brothers” entered the country in the form of the “Fighting AIDS” project, but in practice to obtain information and advance other programs, they had already read books and instructions such as this book by Mrs. Hudfer. In 2000, Volumel published another book by Ms. Hudfer: “Public Participation in Civil Society: A Guide to Political and Social Activities” of this non-political academic figure, in this book, which was co-authored with “Nilofar Mobhra”, a Canadian-Afghan filmmaker and writer. Written by Al-Asl (actor of the film Safar Kandahar Mohsen Makhmalbaf), it deals with the general principles of preparing and promoting various types of public mobilization, along with analyzing the methods and examining the limitations and effects of each of these methods of public mobilization around social issues! In an article titled “Islamic Politics and Iranian Women’s Search for Equality” (6/31/2010), Hudfer clearly expresses his approach towards Iran and the Islamic Republic. In the abstract of this article, we read: “The union of a strong and autocratic government with religious laws and institutions, after the 1979 revolution, has led to the formation of a dual government structure in which non-elected and unaccountable officials and institutions, the majority of which are not They believe in democracy, not on the basis of equality between men and women (or Muslims and non-Muslims), they can monitor elected officials and institutions. The fundamental question is how a religious government will be able to democratize society and create equality between men and women. In his television interview with “Doug Savage” from the “Institute of International Affairs” (IWA) on the topic of “Women and Politics in Iran” (11/11/2010), he clearly opposed the Imam to the political and social rights of women. introduces and believes that the victory of the Islamic revolution did not have any result except a backwardness in the social and legal status of women. In this interview, she mentions with a kind of regret the White Revolution of the Shah of Iran, a revolution that, according to her, greatly improved Iranian women, a progress that stopped with the Islamic Revolution. As the last example of the political function of this academic element, we can mention the publication of the book “Electoral Policies and Gender Quota” last year, before the parliamentary elections in Iran. In this book, which is written in English, he examines the ways in which women enter electoral contests in order to win more seats and “feminize the face of the parliament” and gives recommendations for launching social and political campaigns for women in the countries in developing countries, especially Islamic countries. A look at the records, thoughts and anti-security measures of “Homa Hudfar” + her photo and video in December of last year, on the website of “Mahboboh Abbasqolizadeh”, one of the well-known anti-revolutionary figures and promoter of feminism and LGBT, three lectures addressed to Feminists of Iran presented: “Electoral policies”, “Electoral policies and gender quotas in parties” and “Women’s struggles and campaigns to enter the political arena”. It is worth noting that Mrs. “Homa Hudfar” has repeatedly acted as a link between extreme anti-revolutionary figures such as Mahbobeh Abbas Qolizadeh, Shadi Sadr, Mahnaz Parakand, Mehsa Bahraini and others like them with European so-called human rights organizations such as “Hifus” and “Volumel” and The political party Democrats 66 of the Netherlands and the party of the Sies of Germany have acted. For example, the letter of introduction of “Shadi Sadr”, anti-revolutionary feminist, to “Hifus” foundation was written by the same lady Homa Hudfer.
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