So no one can see their bodies as they pedal, of course. Sharia Alert from Iran: "Pedal power takes Islamic shape in Iran," from AFP, with thanks to the "Allahpundit" guy at HotAir:
Iran is to start manufacturing "Islamic bicycles" for women that conceals their figure, the government newspaper Iran reported on Thursday."This bike has a cabin which conceals half of the cyclist's body," the newspaper said. Elaheh Sofali, an architect of the project, told Iran it would encourage women's sports in the Islamic republic.
With the cabin, it is going to be heavier than the one for men. A good metaphor for the plight of women in islam.
""This bike has a cabin which conceals half of the cyclist's body,"
...sounds like just another way to use vehicle bombs...they must be running out of cars....
The bike conceals half the cyclist's body and all the cyclist's arsenal.
wouldn't it be easier just to walk...
""This bike has a cabin which conceals half of the cyclist's body," the newspaper said. Elaheh Sofali, an architect of the project, told Iran it would encourage women's sports in the Islamic republic."
....ha! ... I can just envision one of these speedy Muslim bikes competing in an Olympic bike race!.....the contestant would have to wear a burka to hide in shame....
Forget about those overblown claims of Islam's contributions to Western science and culture; this little episode hilariously illustrates the only type of creativity possible in Islam. That is, taking an infidel idea or invention, and proceeding to deform it horribly, according to one or more of the myriad Islamic pathologies.
I seem to recall old paintings depicting tents erected on camels in the old days....now how would that be...a pleasurable ride in a hot tent on the back of a stinking camel....:" hey mom, are we there yet?".
Did anyone say which half of the woman's body will be concealed. I personally prefer a good bum while I acknowledge others may like the boobs. So Mr. Sofali, which is it?
Ahhhhh.........me mind doth deceiveth me to envision these smelly, well-covered, 'meat-treats' trucking about in pious and proper 'islamo-cycle' splendor. How very sad to be a woman in those dark & angry muslim lands!
Let's not be too quick to condemn or mock the Islamic Republic of Iran on this one. Bicycles present special problems.
For example, bicycle riding can lead to innocently premature, hard-to-explain rupturing of the hymen, and when one is surrounded by practicers of, or sympathizers with, "honor" killings, that is best avoided.
Then too, the inadvertent frottage against a male bicycle's rod (I forget its technical name) could lead a female bicycle rider to have her pleasured thoughts wander in a way that simply would not be wise.
What's wrong with a little "portable seclusion," as Leila Abu-Lughod likes to call the burkha, especially around those parts that "are all the fiend's"? Hide those parts from prying eyes. And what's more, an untapped export market is waiting for this remarkable feat of (social) engineering. So, Elaheh Sofali, go tell the man in New Hampshire who invented the Segway to move over; he isn't a patch on you. All that Segway does is make it possible for some people, such as the elderly and asthmatic, to move about as they never could before. But you, Mr. Sofali, the proud possessor of Pat. No. 3,126,781 (say, didn't your patent lawyer used to be a partner at Fish and Richardson?), have made it possible for Muslim women, indeed all women, to avoid the prying laser-like male gaze of sex-maddened men. The marketing campaign should be easy. A little advertising space taken out in Arabic and Urdu and Farsi-language heart-throb magazines for women("Majnoon and Leila" is the one that has the most market share, or so I'm told, for women aged 18-35). The ad will speak simply for itself: a picture of that islamically-improved vehicle, The Bicycle Built for You, and pedalling upon it a well-burqa'ed muslimah with laughing eyes, her nether regions safely enclosed and obviously taking cosy private delight delighting in their well-cabinned "portable seclusion," and you'll be off to the races.
Let's not, fellow Infidels, get on our high horse about this. The explosive mix of women and bicycles has been a problem even for Western Man. Some may need to brush up their Shakespeare, and if they do so, they will find an apt line (and it's a fine line) in "Hamlet" about a woman and her bicycle (possibly a Raleigh, or a Humber, or some other olde-Englisshe marque):
"break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel."
Now if even good-natured Shakespeare thought that way, who are we to make mick-mockery of the fact that instead of Infidel cabinets of curiosities, the kind that the Duke or Urbino or the Duke of Wolfenbuttel might have kept well-stocked, Muslims prefer to build cabins for the lower decks, or lower depths, of their womenfolk, to keep out the curious.
Call it a cabinet-against-curiosity, and on wheels. One more telltale hint about Islam.
Mount up, girls! The Tour de Teheran is about to start. There goes the starting pistol. And they're off!
This is ludicrous.
I wonder how many the CBC will order for its "groundbreaking" series, "Little Mosque on the Prairie"?
Somewhere, a man of Farsi heritage named Farrokh Bulsara (but a.k.a. Freddie Mercury) is getting a good laugh.
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like
But Freddie's lyrics would have to be modified somewhat to suit the invention:
"Fat bottomed girls will be riding to day
But there'll be nothing for you to see, oh Nay"
Ah, that reminds me of the story of the two Muslim ladies riding their bikes on a rough and rocky road when one turns to the other and says " I've never come this way before".
Josephine,
It is ‘ludicrous’ indeed to consider "Little Mosque on the Prairie" (lol) and little burka-clad ditties skittering about on their islamo-cycles. We may not, however, be far from this ‘ludicrous’ reality with out-of-the-way ‘mosques on the prairie’ like ‘Islamberg, NY’, Buena Vista, CO and newly constructed muslim ‘prayer facilities’ at community colleges on the prairies of Minnesota. How wonderful is our ‘Cult of Multi-Culturalism’ - and how very deadly!
...HUGH,,,,ha , you are too funny!....
Tour de Teheran? Hugh, that was a hoot! Maybe, they could bike on that highway to that well in Qum.
I however suspect that it's precisely to avoid Leila/Maznoun type scenarios that this bike is in the works. Otherwise you'd have the Leilas biking, and the Maznouns sitting on the horizontal bar (is that what you meant by the male bicycle rod?), or the Maznouns biking, and the... Damn, I've forgotten which one's the male and which one's the female! Actually, I never knew in the first place.
And this automobile saving experience on a country that's swimming in petroleum (although they import half their refined petroleum).
Speaking of Freddie Mercury, does anyone know whether the following lyrics of his classic 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is Islamically inspired - particularly the word 'Bismillah'?
Are there any blueprints available for this bike.
I have some ideas on improved aerodynamics that are Islamic compliant for the female gender appropriate bicyles.
bismillah
bis·mil·lah [ biss míllə ]
interjection
Definition:
in name of Allah: an invocation of the name of Allah, often said by Muslims before beginning to do something
[Late 18th century.
I just fell off my chair LMFAO at the sight of a very badly engineered bicycle with a CABIN,I am picturing about as much of her would be sticking out the top as there would be at a stoning.The pedals concealed inside the burkhamobile so as to hide those sexy lamb chops from the drooling sex starved male half of their uuuhma.Would it have a license plate so they can be identified? after all it will have the room to accommodate it.
Also, this cannot be very safe if she gets in an accident I get the impression she is inside this thing.And after reading Hughs post above and his remark re the premature hymen rupture :0 I have come up with a donut shaped design for the seat that I am willing to sell to the Iranians if they give up their nuclear weapons ambitions.
Hugh, that was funny.
Freddie Mercury was an Indian of Parsi heritage, hardly any ties to present day Iran, and he was definitely not a Muslim. I guess the Bismillah in Bohemian Rhapsody was the result of living in India.
Oh man, I was so thinking of the lyrics to Bicycle Race. That's an awesome song. I want to ride my bicycle, bicycle, bicycle...
Heh the ironic thing about Bohemian Raphsody was that it was of the few western songs allowed in Iran because of the "Bismillah" insult.
I love Queen.
"Blinded by the Light" alert.
Re. "Bismillah": When I heard the song as a teenager, I thought they were singing, "Ick mill lack no!"
I want one for Cathy Young, stat!
(See today's JW article on her.)
As the lyrics to the old vaudeville song go:
(something like "I'm Hen-ery the 8th, I am" in spirit):
I wish that I was every girl's
Bi-cycle seat.
Wouldn't that be a lovely way
for the both of us to me.
Well, she gets on-
And I get off-
And what more can I say?
I wish that I was every girl's
bicycle seat today.
It's probably even better in Farsi.
Second rhyme above:
"...to meet..."
(getting used to a laptop's too sensitive 'touch' mousepad)
I seen the picture of a girl the last time who tried to ride her bike! Maybe this one torches itself!
Once in a while, this site really makes me laugh. I would put this story in the same category as the story about Muslim women marrying trees----laugh out loud, and then shudder in horror after the fact.
"the story about Muslim women marrying trees..."
-- from a poster above
I don't remember this story.
Were the grooms by any chance saplings belonging to the ancient and venerable family of Birnam Wood? And the nuptials, by any chance, held at the family chapel in Dunsinane?
Ah, yes, now it comes back to me.
"bismillah..."
Surely others share with me that inadvertent echo in the word "bismillah" of the Catullan line "da mi basia mille."
Speaking of which, where in god's name are those groupies I've heard so much about? I've posted here, sometimes very winningly, many thousands of times, and I still have nary a one. My mille basia are rarin' to go, to go and be returned.
Old Queen fans, eh? We're giving away our ages...
The weirdest thing about all this fear of women in sports clothes in the islamic world is that in the west, women in sports clothes aren't considered particularly sexy, just fit and athletic (or at least striving to be).
And those basia can also be suaviter in modo, that is, deep-delving suavia, if you get my J. N. Adams drift.
So hilarious, Hugh!
Why not just let them drive cars?
Old Queen fans, eh? We're giving away our ages...
Speak for yourself, I'm still young, Queen's just awesome.
"islamic bicycles"???
burka in a box?
Not sure if that sounds like a childs game or a Doctor Seuss book. pathetic
lol
exsgtbrown said
Wouldn't it be easier to just stay at home...
"Wouldn't it be easier to just stay at home...
Posted by: special_guest"
....yep, and safer too!....as they say out of sight, out of mind.....
exsgtbrown:
It ain't cars that are in short supply in the Islamic Republic, it's gasoline that's the problem. The brain trust that's run the country since they ousted the Shah has done nothing to increase oil refining capacity, while the population has increased hugely. And, of course, as the country's main export, it's the only source of export revenues so badly needed to support a very broken economy, so of course they are going to promote the use of bicycles, which then raises the "modesty" issue.
"It ain't cars that are in short supply in the Islamic Republic, it's gasoline that's the problem. "
....that is true...Iran imports most of its gasoline from Russia...Iran, as I believe, has only one gas refinery plant and it is need of repair...
....Irans sells oil to Russia, who in turn, refines the oil into gas and sells it back to Iran...
....If Iran had played its cards right, the western oil industry would be stumbling over each other to build gas refineries in Iran...
....But Iran had rather build nuclear centerfuges...
7th century morons....
Reminds me of the old Dutch joke about Mother Superior becomming more and more exasperated with the overt mirth, merriment and giggling displayed by her nuns as the group is out bicycling in the countryside one day.
"If you don't stop this immediately," she utters, "I will be forced to ask you to reattach the saddles to the seat posts!"
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We are at the dawn of a glorious, delicate, revolutionary moment in the Middle East . This will lead to the obvious progression throughout the Middle East: Freedom for all, Women's Rights, Equal Rights for all minorities and Equal Rights for the Millions of GAY MUSLIMS:
Irshad Manji. A self-identified "Muslim
lesbian," she wrote the book, "The Trouble With Islam." In her book, she
calls for the reformation of Islam. She also states, "Muslims need to
change their anti-Semitic and anti-female beliefs." She accuses Muslims of
being backward and accuses the Arabs of being the colonizers of Muslims.
Now the question arises of who has been responsible for her sudden rise to
fame. She regularly debates on Canadian television, and she has her own
program called "Queers Television." Two leading magazines describe her as
a "Feminist for the 21st Century" and a "Leader for Tomorrow." She is
being projected all across the media in North America.
These Holy and Devout Lesbians must skulk about town, seeking out other gay women in clandestine meetings in Islamic prayer groups and after Friday mosque services and must always live IN FEAR of being exposed (and maybe even stoned to death!) - JUST BECAUSE THEY PREFER SEX WITH OTHER WOMEN!
The tens of millions of Lesbians in the Muslim world are living under awful conditions of repression and the Homophobia and discrimination that they must endure is unbearable - We must help bring GAY RIGHTS TO ALL MUSLIMS NOW!
This awful injustice demands a new Jihad - the Islamists have Al-Jihad bi-al-Lisan - which means - Jihad of the Tongue, and al-Jihad bi-al-Qalam - Jihad of the Pen and also Al-Jihad bi-al-Mal - the Financial Jihad - this demands al-Jihad bi-al-Homo - THE JIHAD OF THE MUSLIM LESBIAN!
Al-Taefah al-Mansourah is now -
HOMOHU AKBAR!
JOIN THE QUEER MUSLIM JIHAD NOW AT:
http://queerjihad.blogspot.com