Abtahi’s reaction to the design of women’s attire in the operating room: These extremisms cause society to distance itself from religion.
Recently, the Secretary of the Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice stated that those working in the health and treatment sector should follow up on the attire of female patients in operating rooms. The current attire of patients in our society is not befitting of a Muslim woman, and then announced that a model design has begun to equip the promoters of virtue with governmental and legal support.
Abtahi said that these kinds of behaviors happening these days, like the requirement for female employees in Qom to wear a chador, the tunnel of fear in metro stations, reciting certain prayers in elementary schools before entering, or the issue of designing Islamic surgical attire, are all extremisms that cause serious harm to the foundations of religion.
Not only are these actions not a priority, but the community of believers should be concerned about these kinds of extremisms, which do nothing but cause disgust and alienation of the younger generation and society from religion, and poke a finger in the eye of the people.
The most significant impact of these behaviors is that society, due to these extremisms, becomes more distanced from religion and religiosity, and it creates more grounds for abandoning religion in society rather than promoting religiosity.