Islamic Rites Of Spring
This is from last year, but it's a perennial -- the spring crackdown on women in Muslim countries who don't run around covered in big coats and black blankets with little peepholes -- in the desert heat. Being a woman is such fun under Islam! Nazila Fathi writes for the IHT:
Three women who have been stopped gave accounts of their run-ins with the police. All three refused to give their last names because they feared they could be identified by the police and punished.Nazanain, 28, a reporter who thought she had dressed more modestly than usual, said she had been stopped in Vanak Square in Tehran and told her coat was tight and showed her body shape.
"I just joked with them and tried to stay calm but they told me to sit so that they could see how far my pants would pull up in a sitting position," she said.
Nazanin was told by the police that they were trying to help her so that she would not look awkward and attract the attention of men.
She received a warning for her large sunglasses, her coat, her eyeliner and her socks, which they said should be longer. She was allowed to go after she signed a letter saying she would not appear in public like that again.
But a friend, Niloofar, who responded angrily to the police when she was told to fix her head scarf, was kept in a bus for five hours.
"They want to intimidate us," said Somayeh, 31, who was crying after she was stopped at the Mirdamad subway station. She was asked to call home and get her national ID number for the letter she was asked to sign.
...The government's publicity campaign has been larger this year, with the security authorities stressing on television that people are happy with the clampdown and that they consider women responsible for the chastity of society.
All the responsibility, few rights!
*sigh/smile contentedly*
Just the way Allah wanted it...
*gag*
Gretchen at March 12, 2008 9:11 AM
Solution:
Invade Iran, round up the mullahs and the religious police, and shoot every one of them through the head.
Then leave.
Tell the Saudis they have 96 hours to disband the Muttawa or we do the same to them. If they threaten the oil, flatten the capital.
I'm done putting up with these animals. I want the off my planet.
brian at March 12, 2008 3:19 PM
Rock on, Brian.
Everybody improves the planet: some by living here, some by leaving...
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doombuggy at March 12, 2008 8:08 PM
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