Sharia Alert: Yes, even this is a police matter. "Iran police 'target mannequins'," from BBC News, September 22:
Iranian police have warned shopkeepers not to display female mannequins without a hijab, or showing bodily curves, Irna news agency reports.
Display of bow ties and neckties, and the sale of women's underwear by men are also banned, the police said.
The move is part of a crackdown on Western influences and enforcement of dress codes in recent years.
"Un-Islamic behaviour" has been targeted since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's first election in 2005.
"Using unusual mannequins exposing body curves and with heads without hijabs [Muslim veils] are prohibited to be used in the shops," police said in a statement carried by Irna.
Correspondents say that in the past such campaigns usually only lasted throughout the summer, but last year's crackdown, including on tight trousers for women, was still continuing in the winter.
Iranians who violate dress codes for the first time are generally cautioned, but repeat offenders can face court action and "guidance classes".
Iran is going to the dogs. Mannequins are allowed at all? If a mannequin is not a representation of the supposedly Allah-created human form, nothing is.
While the Jafari Shia school of law predominates in Iran, it is interesting to see what another prominent manual of Islamic law holds in this area:
"The reason for the unlawfulness of pictorial representation is that it imitates the creative act of Allah Most High, as indicated by the hadith related by Bukhari and Muslim that A'isha (Allah be well pleased with her [wasn't he ever] ) said, "The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) returned from a trip, and I had draped a cloth with pictures on it over a small closet. When he saw it, he ripped it down, his face colored, and he said,
" ' ' A'isha, the people most severely tortured by Allah on the Day of Judgement will be those who try to imitate what Allah has created,' ".
(Reliance of the Traveller w.50.2)
I guess the lax Iranian hierarchy will be at the tail of a long queue, even longer than Customs at LAX.
And should the slutty mannequins have wigs, w.51.1 has that covered, so to speak, as well
Goodness gracious, Iran, is it too much to ask for some consistency?
"Using unusual mannequins exposing body curves and with heads without hijabs [Muslim veils] are prohibited to be used in the shops,"
Better have mannequins without heads pour encourager les autres.
And since when have mannequins had bodily curves?
Mat 23:25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
unislamic behavior = love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance
islamoleery, not islamophobic
Hey if the mannequins are too curvy just throw some chadors over 'em.
If a follower of the profit mo' were to violate a mannequin, how would the shop ever be able to recover it's honor? Send the 'westernized' offending display to the recycling plant?
But, aren't statues considered idolatrous in Islam? Then, would not *any*
mannequin be "un-Islamic"? Food for thought for the assorted mullahs, eh
I wonder why Allah never told Mohammed that sex with mannequins was haram.
Must be 'Bald Britney Spears Syndrome'
I agree with the ban on bow ties and neck ties.
Iranians must feel as if they live in a zoo..