Whole lotta immorality going on in the Islamic Republic, but they're on the case. "Iran: 14,635 Arrested in Moralisation Campaign," from AKI, with thanks to Fjordman and Insubria:
Tehran, 29 May (AKI) - In the four weeks since a highly publicised government moralisation campaign kicked off, 14,635 people were temporarily detained under strict new Islamic dress code laws punishing offenders with arrest. Another 67,000 people were reprimanded by police, according to a tally kept by the local Rooz daily based on police statements. Only in airports and train stations some 1,115 people, mostly women, were arrested while 17,135 were not allowed to board planes or trains as they were not dressed properly.
Some were arrested, others detained, still others merely reprimanded. I can only wonder what degree of violation would merit each response.
This morning, on the radio, I heard an interview with Marina Nemat, author of a book 'Prisoner of Teheran'. She is an Iranian Christian who was persecuted by the regime, and lived to flee that country and make it out of there. Anybody else familiar with her work?
Why don't they take to the streets like they are doing in Venezuela???
Why don't they take to the streets like they are doing in Venezuela???
Women who can't board a plane because their ankle was showing.
Exactly what instruments are used in the "reprimand" process?
-XRDC
I hope they crack down on dirty old men (pbuh) who marry young girls.
...the seeds of revolution are growing....
The Iranians are getting what they deserve. they are more concern about what someone is wearing than they are about high inflation, high unemployment, poverty, drug abuse, inadequate housing etc,
When I read this kind of information about Islam I'm inclined to believe that there are possibly more Muslims suffering from 'Islamophobia' than the Infidel. They have every reason to fear it, because it's a dreadful ideology LOL!
The horror of being a ‘tainted’ Muslim in Iran…your government despises you and globally you are viewed with disdain for your supposed religious beliefs. LOL!
So, how did it all go down?
Those arrested were women and children?
Those detained were male Muslims?
And those reprimanded were Imams?
What...No hangings from cranes this go round?
Personally I see a positive here, if this trend continues no matter how pious or dedicated one is to Islam, there will be fall out.
...the seeds of revolution are growing....
Posted by: exsgtbrown
That's exactly what I see here, hopefully it will lead one step closer to a sane Iran.
I for one believe Iranians are too cowed to revolt. The Iranian regime routinely kills its serious opposition, and many of the potential refuseniks have emigrated, where they overwhelmingly abandon Islam. It will take real international vision to rally the oppressed of the Muslim world. A leader. Fjordman, Hirsi Ali, Robert Spencer, these are heroes, and are helping to turn the tide, but they can only do so much. We need, at a moment like cartoon crisis, for a leader like Ronald Reagan, or Churchill, Or FDR, to say the RIGHT THING. Freedom of speech trumps blasphemy laws. Freedom of religion is more important that Sharia. Respecting Islam is voluntary. Leaving Islam is a human right.
I found this video, which shows a young woman in Iran intensely resisting a "religious policewoman's" bullying. Real spirit!
http://www.darnellclayton.com/2007/05/iranian-women-are-tough.html
The more they arrest, the more arrested they show themselves to be.
Islam: a time machine that only goes backwards.
You haft ta wonder.., is it modesty, or a pagan lust for absolute control of even the most intimate of human concerns..
"Higher jihad". islamic republic evolving.
A damned good thing they got rid of the Shah and his police state apparatus.
Shah Pavali was "too western" for the crazed, bearded, finger pointing Islamic clerics....
where summertime now here I would like to put these idiots down on wreck beach our local a nude beach and just watch these Islamic itots flip right out and find that a nude woman is not asking for it and no one has any right to touch her without her consent but of course given how to deprived and depraved these men probably are they would probably take the lack of clothing as the invitation to rape it will be funny to see all the men and women down there roasting what these idiots call for brains over a fire but this is a problem with Islam in the Middle East they are so frightened that a woman might be sexually promiscuous they keep her locked up and covered from head to toe
Muslim men are terrified of women...