Iran warns women over slack dressing

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Iran has issued more than a thousand warnings and arrested dozens in a new drive aimed at forcing women whose dress is deemed inappropriate to adhere to Islamic dress rules, officials said Sunday.
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The nationwide drive -- an annual pre-summer crackdown given greater prominence this year -- is aimed primarily at women whose coats are seen as too tight, trousers excessively short or hejabs (headscarves) overly loose.
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Since the plan started at 10:00 am on Saturday, 1,347 women have been warned and given Islamic guidance," the head of information at Tehran city's police force, Mehdi Ahmadi, told AFP.

"There were 170 arrests. Of these, 58 were released after making a written commitment and rectifying their appearance. The cases of the rest, who already had a record, were handed over to the judiciary," he said.
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Women in Iran are obliged by law to wear the hejab and a full length overcoat that covers all bodily contours. Visiting foreigners and religious minorities are not exempted.
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The Tehran police spokesman warned that men were not exempt from the crackdown.

Ahmadi said officers would also target men sporting clothes deemed too tight or hairstyles deemed too extravagant.
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*sigh*

Summer is coming :cool:

Better get covered up :o :(
 
kilo39 said:
OH surely banning someone for wearing a tshirt is the same!! :mad:

(anybody notice there's little difference between muslim extremists and rightwing extremists?)

//or shall we just start calling them disgusting right wing moonbats!!

All equal under the sun after all.
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I don't see the connection???? :confused:

This is a business asking someone to remove an item of clothing because they feel it offensive to other passengers. He could have chosen another airline (or another T-shirt). He also wasn't arrested. If someone tried to board an SAA flight (or any other airline for that matter) with a T-shirt depicting Nelson Mandela as a terrorist I would expect no less from them.

The women in Iran are given no choice - after all this is where they live. I think being arrested for a loose hejab is a far cry from being asked to remove an offensive T-shirt and when you refuse, you're told to take your business elsewhere.

IMHO of course ;)
 
Hmmmm how does the song go....

Oh yes :o


Paradise in Summer time,
Paradise in Summer time,
Paradise in Summer time is here :cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrUQPwfSeBI

:sick: :sick:

Here the woman get scantly clad and head off to the beach :cool:

There the woman who don't cover up head off to jail :(
 
And in a related story:

DAYTONA BEACH - A stay-at-home mother was arrested when she exposed her breasts to protest laws that forbid women from publicly going topless.

Elizabeth Book, of Ormond Beach, pulled down her top Saturday at a city auditorium, where she stood near four Grecian muse sculptures that are nude from the waist up.

Book, who had spread word of the protest days in advance, was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct.

The police report said Book's actions caused a traffic jam and that pedestrians blocked the city sidewalk as they watched her.

Book, who is in her early 40s, said she planned to fight the charge, which is a second-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine.

The city passed the rule barring women from being topless in public in 2002 to curb indecency at special events.

Last week, a judge threw out nudity charges lodged by Daytona Beach police against Book for going topless during Bike Week in March 2004.

Saturday's protest coincided with a busy weekend of Pepsi 400 races and Fourth of July celebrations.
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Western countries also dictate a dress code for woman. Unless you believe that people have the right to go starkers if they so desire, you really don't have the right to judge the standards of another country.
 
McSack said:
I don't see the connection???? :confused:

This is a business asking someone to remove an item of clothing because they feel it offensive to other passengers. He could have chosen another airline (or another T-shirt). He also wasn't arrested. If someone tried to board an SAA flight (or any other airline for that matter) with a T-shirt depicting Nelson Mandela as a terrorist I would expect no less from them.

The women in Iran are given no choice - after all this is where they live. I think being arrested for a loose hejab is a far cry from being asked to remove an offensive T-shirt and when you refuse, you're told to take your business elsewhere.

IMHO of course ;)
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Its just a matter of degree. It may be a far cry from yada, yada, yada but the principle is the same.
 
Nick333 said:
you really don't have the right to judge the standards of another country.
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Ah yes, as always rushing to the defense of tyrannical regimes. If the U.S were to implement such a dress code you would wet yourself with rage.

How convenient woman’s rights go out the window.

I guess the U.S had no place "judging " the standards of S.A under Apartheid.
 
alanf85 said:
I guess the U.S had no place "judging " the standards of S.A under Apartheid.
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Yup, which is why they were one of the last countries to break formal diplomatic ties with our retarded former government (though the continued to assist South Africa long after diplomatic relations were broken).

I remember the old south africa. You were not old enough to look at a Scope magazine which had more stars than the milky way, but you were old enough to die for a dumb ideology.
 
Really so you agree that the Apartheid government had a free hand to oppress blacks :eek:
 
alanf85 said:
Ah yes, as always rushing to the defense of tyrannical regimes. If the U.S were to implement such a dress code you would wet yourself with rage.

How convenient woman’s rights go out the window.

I guess the U.S had no place "judging " the standards of S.A under Apartheid.
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I'm not defending anyone. I think its fundamentally wrong to dictate how people should appear in public. I'm just saying that western countries, and specifically your beloved U.S., also dictate how people should dress in public.

At the time the U.S. instituted sanctions against apartheid South Africa they had eradicated institutionalized racism in their own country so they were quite entitled to point fingers.
 
Nick333, I don't think you even read your own article. Remember of course, Iran have a justice system geared towards men and therefore there is no hope for women - unlike in the USA which is just and equitable.

Last week, a judge threw out nudity charges lodged by Daytona Beach police against Book for going topless during Bike Week in March 2004.
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i.e. she is FREE (unlike in Iran where no fair trials are heard of).

Also the article she was arrested...she has legal recourse unlike in Iran.
 
Dominic Rooney said:
Nick333, I don't think you even read your own article.
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Evidently I've read it more closely than you did, those were separate charges for a separate incident.


Remember of course, Iran have a justice system geared towards men and therefore there is no hope for women - unlike in the USA which is just and equitable.

i.e. she is FREE (unlike in Iran where no fair trials are heard of).

Also the article she was arrested...she has legal recourse unlike in Iran.
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Its still a matter of degree. She is only relatively free, hence her having been arrested twice for exercising her constitutional right to free speech and peaceful protest.

The U.S justice system is only just and equitable in theory btw.
 
Nick333 said:
I'm not defending anyone. I think its fundamentally wrong to dictate how people should appear in public. I'm just saying that western countries, and specifically your beloved U.S., also dictate how people should dress in public.
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You think I don't know that :rolleyes: . Every country to a degree dictates how woman should dress :o . But hey keep the focus on the "west" as per usual.



At the time the U.S. instituted sanctions against apartheid South Africa they had eradicated institutionalized racism in their own country so they were quite entitled to point fingers.
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Affirmative action is discrimination. So the U.S had no right to judge Apartheid S.A according to your logic:o
 
Imagine a woman doing this in Iran. What do you think would happen to her?
 
Hey I know this is strange but I find Muslim women quite sexy when they are dressed up like that. Forbidden fruit and all that.
 
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