John Esposito dislikes satanic clothing, too
"Police confronted rascals and thugs who appeared in public wearing satanic fashions and unsuitable clothing." Fashion Update from Tehran: red tights and pitchforks are all the rage for the winter!
Sharia Alert from the Islamic Republic: "49 arrested for 'satanic' clothes," from Reuters, December 4 (thanks to JE):
POLICE have arrested 49 people this week in a northern Iranian city during a crackdown on "satanic" clothes, according to an IRNA news agency report. The measures are the latest in a country-wide campaign against Western cultural influence in the Islamic Republic, where strict dress codes are enforced."Police confronted rascals and thugs who appeared in public wearing satanic fashions and unsuitable clothing," Qaemshahr city police commander Mahmoud Rahmani told IRNA.
Mr Rahmani also said that five barber shops were shut and 20 more warned for "promoting Western hairstyles".
In the past, such crackdowns have lasted a few weeks or months, but the current campaign was launched in 2007 and has not let up.
It includes measures against men sporting spiky "Western" hairstyles or women wearing tight trousers and high boots....
Good Grief, can we wait until after breakfast to be confronted by a pic of evil Esposito? Now I've lost my appetite, and my husband just finished frying up a pan of hickory-smoked bacon.
Trousers ae satanic? Wow. It was a uniform for women back during the Shah's reign. And isn't Ahmedinejad's haircut pretty "Western?" And his clothes too? Iran is so insecure, as they should be, since its Islamic veneer is wearing quite thin. Shoot, half the women in Iran have gotten nosejobs (bad ones) and bleached their hair.
Hmm.
Red tights and pitchforks are the rage in Iran, huh?
Funny ...
Ironically, torches and pitchforks are becoming vogue in America.
* sigh * Glenn Beck rules ...
Take heed muslimahs! The new fashion protocols have been issued by the center of Islamic wear - Iran! This winter's look is the coverup! Make yourself look like a giant black cotton Hefty bag! It's the in look for you, muslimah! It protects you from getting enough vitamin E from the sun! Which is important as nine out of ten mullahs agree that women sunbathing is haram!
In today's busy world, do you want to be haram or halal? Check with the local religious police to make sure you won't be tortured or killed due to a fashion mistake.
Remember - Allah knows best.
It protects you from getting enough vitamin E from the sun!
I reserve the right to be wrong, but I believe it's vitamin D that the sun provides.
Muslim women (and children) and rickets:
http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003892.html
You are correct, Richard. Dark-skinned women need the most Vitamin D; more than men, more than whites. They can pass rickets on to their kids if they're covered-up while pregnant.
Vitamin E, vitamin D - I was in the neighborhood.
I've read (somewhere) of the adverse health effects of Islamic clothing. Where is the WHO on this?
Tanstaafl and others--
Here are some past Dhimmi Watch postings about the Vitamin D issue:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/009087.php
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/017155.php
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/017430.php
The nasty thing about rickets is that in bad cases it deforms the pelvis, damaging - or completely destroying - a woman's ability to give birth normally.
Result: higher rates of obstructed labour; if modern medicine (C-section) is unavailable, mother and baby both die.
I wonder how many millions of women and babies have died, down the centuries, because of Muslim veiling and seclusion of women giving rise to severe cases of rickets?
Those who had access to a women-only courtyard where they could sit unveiled for part of the day and soak up the sun, would be OK; and those in places or at times where Islamic practice slacked off and covering was not so strictly enforced; but what of all the others?
All-over veiling + seclusion = rickets = deformed pelvis and difficulty or impossibility of normal labour in a significant proportion of women;
+ men permitted and encouraged to beat wives (leading to a high rate of murders of women by husbands);
+ promotion of marriage to underage girls who are then maritally raped and impregnated (preteen and early teen mothers suffer the highest incidence of maternal and infant death);
+ (in some regions) permission and perpetuation of FGM (which causes death at time of procedure, or afterwards because many who survive the procedure then suffer from chronic infections, and are highly likely to endure complications in labour)...
add all those assaults together
(not forgetting the insane rape laws and the high rate of 'honor' murders of girls and women by husbands/ brothers/ uncles/ sons/ male cousins, often for purely imaginary 'crimes')
and the astonishing thing is that ANY women manage to stay alive within the Islamosphere, at all.
Take away modern medicine and western 'aid' and 'welfare', and I doubt Muslim populations, if prevented from parasitising others, would increase: the sheer number of practices that seem geared quite deliberately to cause incredibly high female, maternal and infant mortality, suggest instead a process of slow-motion suicide.
Keep this story (and the many others like it) on file for the Obama-Ahmedinejad summit where the Prez-without-a-necktie inevitably will tell the media that "people have many rights and freedoms in Iran."
Years ago Michael Ledeen predicted imminent revolution in Iran. He based his predictions (plural, because they appeared several times) on the growth of the protest movement in the universities, and the growing support it was receiving in the cities. But the rulers jailed the leaders and infiltrated the movement, and it became leaderless and directionless and petered out.
I wonder if these apolitical actions, such as the weird clothing and the other small violations of the regime's code of behavior, may in time succeed where the explicitly political movements failed. A pinprick here, a pinprick there; the mullahs can't police all of them. Meanwhile each violation that the people get away with encourages them to push a little further and provides an example to other people.