Summer approaches in Iran, and the temperatures will start rising dramatically. So will police interventions to ensure proper shari’a wear for women. The Iranian government announced that, as they do every year, they will start cracking down on women who react rationally to the heat by not wearing a head-to-toe sack:
Iranian police have begun a summer campaign to ensure women do not flout the nation’s sharia dress code as temperatures soar. …
Under sharia, imposed in Iran after the 1979 revolution, women are obliged to wear a head-to-toe black chador or cover their hair with scarves and choose long, loose-fitting clothes.
Women who “violate” the law can receive lashes, fines or imprisonment. Mahdi Ahmadi, a police spokesman, said: “Police have started to confront those women who appear in public in an inappropriate way.”
Have they ever! The police announced that they have already issued 1,300 warnings about immodest dress, and it’s only mid-April. If a strand of hair makes an appearance, the Iranian police will be there to defend Iranian men from the dastardly display.
It could be worse. The police will merely beat women who continue to flout their sexuality by dressing unlike an old lady in mourning. The Basijis have received free reign to kill people who they determine to be “morally corrupt”, courtesy of the Iranian Supreme Court. So far the Basijis have restrained themselves to the most egregious social violations, such as a man and woman walking together, but Iranian women have no protection against them if they start killing every woman who dares to dress in muted pastels.
At some point, one has to think that the Iranian people will get so disgusted by these oppressive laws and their brutal application that they will act to rid themselves of the lunatics who impose them. So far, however, they seem too cowed by their masters to do much of anything, but it is this younger generation that holds the promise of rebellion against the mullahcracy. We hope that comes quickly.
One quibble, Captain. Little old ladies in mourning are allowed to show their faces. But I suppose we shouldn’t be cultural imperialists about it, afterall Bush is the real terrorist — he doesn’t want women to have abortions while the mullahs don’t want women to have abortions or show their faces outside of their houses. And why does Bush keep insisting a woman’s place is in the Secretary of State or the Supreme Court.
I’m glad we’re not Iranian, Ed!
One quibble, Ed. In a hot, dry, shadeless environment, a full-length, long-sleeved, loose-fitting robe with a loose head scarf keeps you much cooler than shorts and a t-shirt. (Not to mention protecting you from sunburn!)
But the idea of it being *required* is another matter, of course.
I can”t understand why we can’t talk to these people. They seem so reasonable.
Maybe we can put Nancy Pelosi in a sack and send her over there to have tea with them.
In solidarity, the other Democrats should don sacks as well. Over their heads. Plastic please.
There’s plenty of resentment among Iranian youths already, and half the population is under 30. The Iranian economy is collapsing in slow motion. The question is, can we drive it to collapse, or help the Ireanians themselves foment revolution, before the mad mullahs get the bomb?
There’s plenty of resentment among Iranian youths already, and half the population is under 30. The Iranian economy is collapsing in slow motion. The question is, can we drive it to collapse, or help the Ireanians themselves foment revolution, before the mad mullahs get the bomb?
Here, that could only happen if you wore a mink coat while smoking, and driving your Bush/Cheney-stickered Hummer, unseatbelted, in summer rush-hour traffic, with the air-conditioning and patriotic country music turned way up. I’d never do that myself. I’m afraid I’d get beaten to death by a peace activist.
I have great respect for Iranian advocates for democracy, they constantly live in an environment of political repression, never knowing if they have angered some mullah who will order their gruesome death or imprisonment. If only they could bottle a tiny fraction of their courage and faith in democracy and send it to Reid.
Summer Heat Got You Down? Try Wearing A Sack
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
Summer approaches in Iran, and the temperatures will start rising dramatically. So will police interventions to ensure proper shari’a wear for women. The Iranian government announced that, as they do every …
Sharia Law in Iran = Democrats should wear plastic bags over their head. Mr. NegativeDonkey has become the Ann Coulter of this sight. He must ratchet up the degree of outrageousness in his futile attempt to say “hey everybody, look at me. I can degrade the Democrats (who aren’t really human anyhow) better than anybody. I’m so impressed with your skill Mr. NegativeDonkey. Mr. NegativeDonkey, have you ever heard of civil discourse? Didn’t think so.
“Honey, if you want supper tonight, wear my burkha to town and buy the food, then come home and cook over a hot fire. See how YOU like it all summer long.”
All Democrats who want to have civil discourse with bloody islamic dictators should have to spend a really hot summer wearing head to toe black sacks before the civil discourse can be allowed to proceed.
Without toilet paper. Without air conditioning.
Without petrol.
I bet they’d all be as civil as Alec Baldwin and Tom Cruise, and Rosie O’Donnell.