Posted on 02/07/2008 2:25:51 PM PST by george76
an Iranian magazine called Zanan ("Women," in Farsi).
Written by Haleh Esfandiari of the Wilson Center, who was imprisoned in Tehran for several months last year, "Iranian Women, Please Stand Up" told the tale of Shahla Sherkat, who bravely courted controversy as the founder of a glossy women's magazine that covered topics both political and personal.
Despite harassment from government officials, periodic censorship, and budget woes, Sherkat managed to keep the magazine open for 16 years.
But last week the government shut down Zanan, this time for good. Iranian authorities, according to an editorial in the New York Times, claim "the magazine was a 'threat to the psychological security of the society' because it showed Iranian women in a 'black light.'"
A "black light"? Give me a break!
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.foreignpolicy.com ...
There are a few women here in the USA that they should say that to.
Ok, it's a little kinky, but I can go with it.
islam is an outrage, a tragedy, and most of all, it's a crime against ALL muslim women!
Zanan has run articles on the latest theories of feminism in the West, the unjust treatment of women in Islamic societies, and the significance for Iranians of international conventions on human rights and the rights of women and children. ...
I guess you didn’t see the post about a handbill for a “white party” - dress in white for the black light effect - that a college administrator got the vapors over.
They said "Please"?
http://www.nysun.com/article/34875
Iran Death Judge Lands U.N. Seat On Human Rights By ELI LAKE Staff Reporter of the Sun June 22, 2006
WASHINGTON - Iran's delegation to the U.N. Human Rights Council faces being isolated by the envoys of free nations this week after it emerged that its leader is one of Iran's most notorious censors and prosecutors of dissidents who the Canadians hold responsible for acquitting those who raped and murdered one of their female citizens.
The infamous Saeed Mortazavi this week led Iran's delegation in Geneva to the first session of the United Nation's newly reconfigured human rights panel on Monday, even though Iran is not a member of that panel. Mr. Mortazavi is accused by the Canadian government of playing a role in the rape and murder of a woman journalist and photographer, is credited with closing more than 100 newspapers, and was responsible not only for jailing the students who led the July 9, 1999, pro-democracy demonstrations in Tehran but of clearing the security officials accused of torturing them.
To top it off, he is the lead prosecutor in the regime's legal efforts against the Iranian dissident leader, Akbar Ganji.
Already human rights groups, Iranian oppositionists, and the Canadian government have expressed outrage at Mr. Mortazavi's presence in Geneva. A group of activists still languishing in jail following his prosecution of them in 1999 will be writing a letter to the United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan, according to Amir Abbas Fakhravar, who arrived in Washington last month from Tehran, where he spent time in various prisons.
(well, I'm sure that fixed it!...sarc.)
Thank you :
Iranian women’s protest website.
Likely not :
They said “Please”?
More like a black burka.
That's......not so nice.
Maybe the mullahs could ask John McLame to ask them to “calm down”.
Aw, those Iranian women were asking for it.
Thanks george76.
Male and female security agents used truncheons and teargas to attack the women who had gathered in 7 Tir Square demanding equal rights.
“Put an end to misogyny”, the women chanted. There were also chants of “freedom, freedom”, “we are human beings but have no rights”, and “we want equal rights”.
One report said that the demonstration grew to more than 5,000 people but the protestors were forced to disperse into nearby streets because of the heavy government crackdown.
Look! They have got equal rights! The fat ugly ones get to beat up on the younger women. That's got to be progress islam-style...sarc.
My view is to be forgiving to violent regimes. Y’know, I want to urinate on the carcasses of the vanquished enemies of liberty, and say, ‘I forgive you’ just before I walk away and leave the remains for the buzzards. But that’s the kind of sweet character I am.
And clinton and the corrupt femenists said .... sound of crickets chirping.
Finally a cause she could have gotten behind !
Oh wait, she is still busy castigating the newspeople over the dirty word her daughter got called.
Weird, that’s how the LW views women. As baby buggies. They also view women as sex symbols. Nothing more.
:’) Funny how they ‘think’, isn’t it?
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