>Before anyone starts a flame war, I want to remind you that HN guidelines require you to either respect other people's culture and religion or keep quiet.

It does not.

What you propose- either accepting or being quiet- is the least hackerly perspective I have ever heard. This is the most contrary to open society & open debate bit I've heard on HN in a long while and it deserves no respect & deserves clamboring as a threat to civil society. Booo!! Hackers debate & discuss, have opinions. We can appreciate cultures & diversity without agreeing to authoritarian enforced mandates, and we dont have to be quiet when we find behaviors & authority to be disgraceful & out of line.

Narrowing down to the topic level, from your gross discharacterization, he hijab specifically is controversial & I think many opinions are due. Even within Iran there is a huge & wide part of the society going on strike & which has been loudly protesting this & other legal impositions as gross & unbefitting. To say that this is the culture denies the population & oppressed any voice. That seems vulgar & inappropriate.

The legal imposition of the hijab is not an old culture. It legally began in April 1983. But it was broadly unenforced for a while until the creation of the morality police, for which this was a primary enforcement concern. This was not a longstanding bit of culture, to force everyone to behave this way.

This entire comment is made up, just like the shit they’re forcing on these women.

Can you point to where, because I don't see it in guidelines.

Not really, but the HN moderator might find the comment "boring". Usually it is loosely based on the guidelines, but sometimes it is just subjective. Much like the headscarf issues in the middle east.