Crackdown in Iran over dress codes

bbc.co.uk ^ | 04-27-2007 | Frances Harrison

[bedolido]

Thousands of Iranian women have been cautioned over their poor Islamic dress this week and several hundred arrested in the capital Tehran in the most fierce crackdown on what's known as "bad hijab" for more than a decade. It is the talk of the town. The latest police crackdown on Islamic dress has angered many Iranians - male, female, young and old.

Hundreds of women have been arrested for "bad hijab"

[Allegra]

Bad hijab!

Bad! Bad! Bad!

[relictele]

What’s this? The Religion of Peace oppressing its women again? Surprising.

[Bigg Red]

I wonder when they’re coming for Nancy al-Botoxi.

[Allegra]

But Iranian TV has reported that an opinion poll conducted in Tehran found 86% of people were in favour of the crackdown - a statistic that is surprising given the strength of feeling against this move.

Surprising? HA! I'm willing to wager that that poll is about as honest and balanced as the ones CNN does.

Which is pretty much not at all. Rigged.

[syriacus]

This the the main reason Islamofascist males hate the West.
We treat women as equals, not as caged animals.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

This kind of lunacy is America’s best ally in Iran.

[syriacus]

The Religion of Peace oppressing its women again? Surprising

Perhaps Nancy Pelosi's visit emboldened them.
They truly realize that they've got one of the West's most powerful women under their thumb.

[george76]

[M. Espinola]

Iran's 'jihad fashion nazis' have orders to make all Iranian females conform to the official 'cloned, moth eaten, potato sack look'

"In an encounter last month on a street in Tehran, two policewomen with tightly fitting head scarves chastised a younger woman whose hair showed. Since 1979, Iranian law has specified that women and men must dress in a manner befitting Islam, and the law is interpreted very strictly at times."

There are so many non-jihadist Iranian ladies begging for freedom from the repressive madness of Iran's official Islamo gestapo.

An Iranian woman walks past during a crackdown of women by Iran's police in Tehran.

An Iranian policeman detains a woman in Tehran April 23rd, 2007 for a dress code infraction. Iran cracks down on violators annually; this year's effort has been criticized.

Authorities hold a woman on a dress code violation April 21 in Tehran. Some women reacted angrily to the crackdown, and some officials warned of a backlash.

Arrested for 'Western appearance'.

"President Ahmadinejad orders you to wear a bag on your head! Do it!

"You cannot wear this kind of shoes," she points to a pair of open-toed sandals. "Oh my God, yes, nail polish is forbidden."

"When is America going to save us from this insanity?!"

Ugly Islamic fanaticism lashing out at something she will never be - good looking :)

"Miss, you can and will look as hideous as me! All it takes is jihadist practice."

"Hold on a sec, I just got stopped by two real homely 7th century hags from Hell, I'll call you back."

[Cindy]

Captions are as good as the photos.

I feel very, very sorry for the Iranians.
I see this stuff and it makes me sick.
I pray for these people.

I also remember Jimmy Carter.
I remember him every time I
see photos like this.

[Thunder90]

I wonder what NOW thinks about this??? (Hearing pins fall)

[California Patriot]

Amazing pics. What frigging lunacy.

[M. Espinola]

"Captions are as good as the photos."

If the cations are silly, I take credit for adding those :)

"I feel very, very sorry for the Iranians. I see this stuff and it makes me sick. I pray for these people."

I agree, those photos clearly and alarmingly exemplify that apparently the bulk of the Iranian public desire a nation free of the radicalized jihad instigating Shia slave masters currently controlling oil rich Iran.

The roving patrols of female jihadist 'fashion' enforcers reminds one of the brutal indoctrinated Nazi SS women in the death camps.

"Everybody knows what improper dressing is and how one should appear in the public," Brig. Gen. Ahmad Rouzbehani, director general of the law enforcement centre for combating social corruption, told the Iranian News Agency. "Anybody who is improperly dressed must therefore expect to face up legal encounter by the police," he added.

'Improperly dressed' women in cars are not spared. The police have orders to stop cars, even on the highways, and detain the improperly dressed driver or passengers, Mehdi Ahmadi, a high ranking police official was quoted by Iranian Labour New Agency as saying. The crackdown also targets shops selling improper clothing and 65 shops were closed down by the police on the first two days of the crackdown, he said.(source)