Now that's keepin 'em in line...



Iran's women face thinly veiled threat

20apr06

SUMMER is coming, and Iran's police force is gearing up for a crackdown on women who show too much of their bodies in public.

"In our campaign, we will confront women showing their bare legs in short pants," said Tehran's police chief, Morteza Talai.

"We are also going to combat women wearing skimpy head-scarfs, short and form-fitting coats, and the ones walking pets in parks and streets," he added. Owning dogs is seen as unclean, and parading with them is off-limits.

Women "creating noise pollution" by playing car stereos too loudly also risk being jailed. Every woman in Iran, regardless of nationality or religion, must obey the dress code and cover her shape and hair outside the home.

Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, the ruling clerics have tried to keep women free of "Westoxication".

Since the election of conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, conservatives in Tehran's city council have put additional pressure on the police to get tough. Fifty patrol cars will cruise Tehran enforcing the rules.

Women who do not wear the veil can face 10 days' to two months' imprisonment, or a fine. – AFP

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People are getting tired of the Mullah's reign of power. They will unplug it soon, if Israel and the US leave them alone.

All we're doing right now is creating nationalism, and this is working against the wind of change from within.


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Destroyer Of Worlds

POO on them!!! What the helll!!!!!

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Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

Are women allowed to drive in Iran? I believe it is forbidden in some Muslim countries.

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One Love, One Inity. In the Name of The Most High Jah Rastafari. Blessed.

That law would go over well in Jamaica huh!!!

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Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

Well I would be doin some serious time over there......With my sound sytem in my car and my trunk filled with subwoofers...rockin sexually explicit rap and reggae music at full volume with my hair flowin free and my shorts and T shirts....flippin the bird to the to the mullah and oh with my big dog ridin in the passenger seat!!!!


Westoxification Rules!!!

Actually, you would probably be whipped. 80 lashes are not uncommon. Spread out over about 4 sessions.



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THey would have to catch me first.....!!!!

Women gets no rights in these middle east countries. I think they sometimes take it to another level when it comes to their Muslim religions, until it becomes an issue. that is ridiculous! I would have to get a visa out of the country where I can be free!

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Muslim men right here in the USA treat there woman like this...right here in my neighborhood!!!!

..Thats a crying shame. Most of them don't even think they are doing anything wrong either.

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No they believe they are following the wishes of Allah!

I know it's forbidden in Saudi Arabia. It was sad but funny...was there during Desert Shield...then Storm..but as we were gettin ready, had women who's mos required them to drive the rigs...as we were preparing to go into Kuwait. Yet their own women couldn't drive..

never could understand the paradox of that. And I would see some of them gaze wistfully at us in our bdu's...and their eyes were all I would see..but they spoke louder than any words...

While this is true of SOME Muslims and SOME Muslim countries, it is not true for all.

I was engaged to a Muslim man for 3 years. He was from Somalia and before the civil war there his mother held a very important job with the government there. There are many examples of women in Muslim countries in positions of power.

While this treatment seems absurd I do think it is important to remember that there are many different cultures in the world, and they are all evolving. After all, it wasn't that long ago that women were marginalized in our own western culture. Not to mention the suppression many people are still facing.

In my opinion it is not for us to force our views on them, but to let them evolve and change on their own, as we were allowed to do.

You have a very good point. Adapting over time is a lot less painful than forced change at times. And as far as Muslim nations go, Turkey is a Muslim nation and a strong democracy, and they have even had a woman prime minister I believe.