[BLOOMBERG] Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili said his nation must defend the rights of women as mothers and resist the approach of Western nations where they are counted as an "economic tool.""Keep them as breeding stock. Men shouldn't have to compete against them. It's undignified."
"Women's core identity lies in motherhood and her role should be defined within that framework, not in an economic context," Jalili, who's also Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, told a female audience at a political rally late yesterday.
"Truly valuable wimmin bear nothing but sons, and lots of them."
Jalili, one of eight candidates cleared by Iran's brass hats for the June 14 presidential election, is considered a possible front-runner. President Mahmoud
Short RoundAhmadinejad, who's completing his second four-year term, isn't eligible to run.
Which is just as well, since even Fearless Leader is tired of Short Round.
Western nations are proponents of individuality while in Islam the focus is on the family, Jalili said, according to the state-run Fars news agency.
That's the difference between a primitive society and a modern society, isn't it? The West looks at the mind (occasionally finding none) while primitives look at the pee-pee.
"The West says society should work to its full potential, and since women constitute half of the population, their work power cannot be ignored and should be included in the economic cycle," Jalili said.
Seems to make sense to me, but I'm not a primitive. Keeping them as breeding stock seems kind of limiting.
"Making use of women as an object and lowering her greatness to the level of a workforce and economic tool is very different from how they are viewed in Islam," Jalili said. "We are backers of women's rights, especially in comparison to the West."
With that sort of logic, I'm surprised more Mohammedans don't blow themselves up.