Sadhguru: Neither the religious, nor the lecherous should determine how women should dress

The retributive culture of punishing someone for what they wear should be put to an end, Sadhguru said on Tuesday as he asserted that neither the religious nor the lecherous should determine how women should dress. 

Let women decide how they want to be attired, he said, referring to the anti-hijab protets by Iranian women.

“Neither the religious nor the lecherous should determine how women should dress. Let women decide how they want to be attired. May this retributive culture of punishing someone for what they wear be put to an end, religious or otherwise,” Sadhguru said in a tweet.

Protests have erupted across Iran in recent days after a 22-year-old woman died while being held by the morality police for violating the country's strictly enforced Islamic dress code.

Anger has seen women remove their mandatory headscarves, or hijabs, from covering their hair after the death of Mahsa Amini, who was picked up by morality police over her allegedly loose headscarf.

Videos online show women twirling them overhead, chanting. Others have burned them or cut off locks of their own hair in rage.

Amini's death has angered many Iranians, particularly the young, who have come to see it as part of the Islamic Republic's heavy-handed policing of dissent and the morality police's increasingly violent treatment of young women.

With PTI pinputs