Neglected Sins and Hyperbolizing Hejab

In Islam there are wide variety of acts considered to be sins, and naturally must be avoided by Muslims. Among sins some are regarded as major sins, meaning to be more serious and must be observed more carefully. Though there are different opinions on numbering and grading them, most scholars' list contains items in common, namely; Interest (Riba),which is strictly forbidden, yet we can see being widely practiced and tolerated handsomely in most of Muslim states. The question is why then, Hejab matter despite being not a direct major sin appears to be the favorite topic of Islam related discussions inside and outside Islamic communities today? What really makes this issue superior comparing with many other obligations we are to observe as Muslims?
A sign of piety or a personal decision, or even an emblem of an ideology or a political manifest. Every individual may have a certain impression of it. However, watching people -particularly men- describing passionately the disobedience in lady's outfit they witness now a days in public, would provoke a Freudian look on the case too. It seems that commenting about women's hair or clothing instinctually is desirable for fellow men. In other words, it is a part of our human nature to be attracted by the opposite gender. Many of us unconsciously hide behind socially acceptable terminology and instrumentalize ethical duties by expressing our concern over Islamic values, to satisfy our restricted innate zeal.
Frankly speaking, who among those very much concerned with Hejab, does not close eyes to the obvious major sins he witnesses in every day life?

Comics prepare for a real war

The film 300 directed by Zack Snyder has won special attention worldwide. The movie is a semi-animation retelling the story of Thermopylae, a Greco Persian war. Movie's theme overall describes the Persians to be barbaric. Although the director himself claims, "no parallels between the film and the contemporary world were intended", there are many who do not share the idea with him. Iranian officials are amongst those who believe there have certainly been some other intentions behind the idea for producing such film. Iran's Government's spokesman considers it as hostile behavior which is the result of cultural and psychological warfare. The potential outcome for such pressure from US is perceived to be uniting the world's judgment against Iran.

Another news making 2007 film here in Iran is Ekhrajiha (The Outcasts). The Outcasts is the story of a bad-mannered group of five that join the Iran Iraq war with a non-spiritual intention. They evolve morally and even two of them became Martyrs. Directed by an unknown filmmaker and at the same time a political right wing activist famed for taking hostile acts against his opponents. In his two earlier documentaries, he exceptionally criticized the current situation In Iran. He surprisingly passed over all possible punishments by the system which had not tolerated much minor deeds by others in past. Though the Outcasts satisfies audience who evaluate it a mere comedy, obviously Dehnamaki did not mean only to make people laugh. Then the question is, to whom Dehnamaki is talking. Now that the ruling class: State, Parliament and Judiciary have one voice with the real powers in Iran. Franchised Dehnamaki does not aim to mock anybody, because people whom Ekhrajiha may possibly be satirizing, (i.e. effective policy makers, like influential war veterans) soundly praised the film. Then what could be the message of the movie?

The films Ekhrajiha and 300 have many things but one in common, one to attack one to defend. They both were excellent box office; both directors were beginner in feature films, they both received a wide variety of concerns. The focal difference is that the 300 seem to be trying to win world's public opinion for taming an evil spirit, while the outcasts strive to restore the declined resistance spirit among forgotten majority especially youngsters for any imminent foreign attack.