Welcome to the world that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to bring to you. Sharia Alert from The Guardian, with thanks to all who sent this in:
Iran's Islamic authorities are preparing a crackdown on women flouting the stringent dress code in the clearest sign yet of social and political repression under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.From today police in Tehran will be under orders to arrest women failing to conform to the regime's definition of Islamic morals by wearing loose-fitting hijab, or headscarves, tight jackets and shortened trousers exposing skin.
Offenders could be punished with £30 fines or two months in jail. Officers will also be authorised to confront men with outlandish hairstyles and people walking pet dogs, an activity long denounced as un-Islamic by the religious rulers.
The clampdown coincides with a bill before Iran's conservative-dominated parliament proposing that fines for people with TV satellite dishes rise from £60 to more than £3,000. Millions of Iranians have illegal dishes, enabling them to watch western films and news channels.
The dress purge is led by a Tehran city councillor, Nader Shariatmaderi, a close ally of Mr Ahmadinejad who helped to plot last year's election victory.
these are signs of the end times (for the current ruling theocracy in Iran)
This is like the Grauniad - filthy collaborators. When licking the Islamists' boots isn't plausible, state that the problem is "conservatism". It isn't. These people wouldn't know what conservatism was. The problem is Islam - and filthy leftist collaborators like the Grauniad staff.
It is a fine now, but showing a little skin will be justification for a good muslim male/female to take matters in his/her own hands.
Yea ... Had a little fun with this one.
Whatever blows your skirt up Ayatollah.
Shame the women in Iran don't walk out in droves. I don't just mean in modern clothing, I mean out of the country.
I don't mind these islamic morons putting themselves into the dark dungeon. What gets me up in arms, is that they are seeking to come here and put us in that same dungeon. They look across the ocean, see us happy, and want to come here and make us submit on our own land. That is what islam is all about. Submission. That is the actual meaning of the word.
As one man said to his two young sons, about their sister, "Before you see your sister in a burka, both of you better be dead"
Right on.
What these scumbags don't seem to get yet, and it is because of dhimmis around them, is that islamics can not claim sole providence over violence and intimidation. They believe their trump card is anger and indignation and with that they will steamroll their way into taking us over. But as Victor Davis Hanson noted in a recent article, the West is infinitely more capable at producing terror than anything imaginable in the islamic world. Damn straight.
Those that insist on enforcing women’s dress codes which, in the most conservative examples, force women to go about in what could be viewed as ‘sacks’ with eye holes cut in them are not, in my view, protecting the honour of women. Rather they are dishonouring themselves by demonstrating that they don’t have the strength of character, sincerity of spirit or personal will to control their own basest instincts. The emotional (EQ) and spiritual (SQ) quotients of intelligence seem to be lacking in many. IQ is a ‘fluke’ and is not enough, the other two quotients are essential in large amounts to overcome personal stupidity or is it that they suffer from plain old ‘dumbness’ borne of a cultural indoctrination that looks to the past and pleads for the return of the ‘dark ages’!