I guess the religious police officer got too sexually excited from seeing the 10 YEAR OLD GIRL!!!!

Posted by: freewoman at April 7, 2006 10:12 AM

I guess the religious police officer got too sexually excited from seeing the 10 YEAR OLD GIRL!!!!
Posted by: freewoman

10 years old? Where was her husband?!

Posted by: Mr Ape Pig at April 7, 2006 10:24 AM

OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!! She's a spinster!!!!

Posted by: freewoman at April 7, 2006 10:27 AM

Next up: burka in utero.

Posted by: Kim Hartveld at April 7, 2006 10:29 AM

You know how those religious policemen get all hot and 'orney seeing a 10-year old's knee.... (either gender).

Question is, what will the punishment be? Gang rape by the religious police?

Posted by: CrazyFool at April 7, 2006 10:30 AM

From the linked article:

"“What crime has my daughter committed?” he yelled, as he slapped her once out of frustration."

Only in Islam. That's it dad, bitch slap her.

Posted by: johnb at April 7, 2006 11:20 AM

slapping little girls, molestations of family members, honor killimg, i guess this is what our president finds so noble in islam, this is what is considered islamic family values.

Posted by: desidude at April 7, 2006 11:47 AM

"Mal-veiled? No excuse. For god's sake, the girl was going on eleven, and by that age, Aisha had already been married for more than a year. By the way, does the Big Book of Authentic Hadith tell us whether Aisha ever experienced any difficulty in her own attempts at veiling? Or did a grown-up do it for her? Or didn't she have to veil herself at all?

The incident at the Tehran Airport could be made into the subject of a play:

"The Maiden Mal-Veiled, or La Verdad Sospechosa."

Dramatis personae (in order of appearance) include:

Mustafa, an overbearing Turk
Ahmed, a religious policeman
Ali, a master flagellator
Omar, a wine-loving poet and praiser of dolce far niente
Leyla, a mal-veiling 10-year-old girl from Ispahan
Abdullah, a primitive Arab
Nazrat, a wily Christian
Majnoun, Keeper of the King's Bulbuls in Gulistan
Shah Abbas, a king
Shahbanou Soraya, his wife

Drama makes the whole world kin. As we sit there, in our seats, with the Infidels possibly munching on the boxes of Goobers they like, and the Muslims munching on the boxes of Raisinets that for some reason they prefer, some of us will no doubt reflect on what we used to be told in school. We used to be told that the human tragicomedy, even when depicted through the experience of a single person, with a strange name, in a distant time and space, can resonate with all of us, in anothe time and place, even here, even right now. Yes, we say to ourselves, yes, we allow ourselves to believe: it's true. One's sighs fit all.

At the very end of the play, Nazrat the wily Christian appears alone on stage, and recites something about how "if we spirits have offended/Think but this and all is mended." And then he proceeds to reveal to us not in octosyllabic couplets but now in sudden prose, that the experience of working, during the rehearsals and the performances, with so many Muslims, at such close quarters, led him, personally, to "revert" to Islam: "And I can tell you that that has made all the difference." A nice touch, that tribute to Robert Frost. And then he pointedly addresses the Infidels in the audienc, teling them that they really should go and do likewise, because "it's a win-win situation, believe me. If you do convert, you won't regret it, and if you don't, you won't live to regret it."

Suddenly, all the Believers in the audience who, while he was speaking, had been so quiet, are now on their feet, and clapping, and whistling, and stamping their feet and some of the women even ululating with pleasure. And they also looking over at us, the Infidels, as if to wordlessly say: "Hey, why aren't you clapping as much? Didn't you like the play? Didn't you like what he said?" and suddenly we are all standing on our feet too, clapping as loud as we can, and not stopping until the last clap has been clapped from the last Muslim.

This has real possibilities.

Yes, not just on the Great White Way or in the West End or at the Comédie-Française. No, I see it less as a play and more as a film, a film that will include the convert Nazrat's stirring final vos-plaudite that could potentially reach tens or evenhundreds of millions. What better way to end the Clash of Civilizations we hear so much about than to include that dramatic, and at the same time post-dramatic, plea, so that in response we can join our own hands together, and clap, and then join our hands with the hands of others, of the "others," by joining them, by thinking like and then becoming just like, them. And in so doing, we will have done our part to hasten into being that monolithic homogeneous world of the future that is so self-confidently pushing itself upon us, that world in which we will uncomplainingly walk or run or, if we are ten years old, and girls, and know how to hold our dress off the ground, not too high now, even skip along the Path of Allah?

Posted by: Hugh at April 7, 2006 11:57 AM

Amazingly, no sooner did I post above, then I received in rapid succession two phone calls. One was from Abbas Kierostami in Paris, the other from Emir Kusturica in Belgrade. They both brimmed with enthusiasm for the movie idea. I had no idea, by the way, that both of them were such fans of Jihad Watch. Each wanted desperately to acquire the film rights. Perfect, they insisted, for audiences worldwide. I suggested that perhaps they should hear more about the plot first but they both seemed to think there was no need to go into detail because, they said, with that list of dramatis personae the play more or less writes itself.

And here's the strangest part: both Kierostami and Kusturica told me that they wanted to make just one change -- and for both of them it was the same change. Instead of having "Nazrat, the Christian" come out on stage at the end, and suggest to the audience that everyone become a Muslim, they think it might be better if "Ahmed, a religious policeman" were to appear at the end, to suggest that everyone become a Christian -- just as he had. Kierostami did add "or possibly a Zoroastrian."

Ordinarily I don't like people tampering with my words or my scripts, but in this case I don't think I'd mind. After all, Kusturica and Kierostami are such talented directors. And both of them offered large and, curiously, almost identical sums for buying the rights. Should a bidding war develop, things could get even more exciting. And as you know, I'm always scrambling to make ends meet. So...

Posted by: Hugh at April 7, 2006 12:12 PM

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you can't always have the parenting thing down pat, can't always know the best combination of firmness and laughter. and there is much to be desired in how many folks treat their kids. but
the islamic fierociousness extends to parenthood, and this is not to our benefit, because the kids grow up in the image of Mohammed. ("Oh, just what we want!")

Posted by: StillBreathing at April 7, 2006 12:15 PM

I'm guessing it is spring break wherever Hugh is at, as he seems to have so much more time than usual to compose his posts.

Hugh gone wild? Only available here!

Posted by: longtime lurker at April 7, 2006 12:25 PM

“What crime has my daughter committed?” he yelled, as he slapped her once out of frustration.
Yeah, kick the s%*t out of the victim! That is the islamic way. I take from all I read that fatherly feelings just do not exist in islam.(And no, sex shouldn't be involved in fatherly feelings)

Posted by: Carolyn2 at April 7, 2006 12:40 PM

What I find incredible is that "State-run Persian Tv" should run this as a news item, as if they did not realize that it would revolt anyone who heard it (except for True Believers, of course).

Posted by: Paolo at April 7, 2006 12:45 PM

Hugh, you have me absolutely rolling on the floor with laughter. (Hope my boss doesn't see me.)

And the Clintonian touch in the second posting was a beaut. Just give me money, mo' money....

Posted by: Vee at April 7, 2006 1:03 PM

She deserved everything she got from the Policeman, the little TRAMP!

By Islamic standards this girls biological clock was on its last tick, So be fair to the Dad, he was just parading her to see if he could get any good camels before her beauty withered.

Anyway, according to Allah it is permissable to enjoy the flesh of a Woman, Toddler ,Girl or whatever they like to call them.

Posted by: Peter at April 7, 2006 1:40 PM

Hugh,

Would you be playing the part of Omar?

Posted by: Sheik er' Bouti at April 7, 2006 1:44 PM

"Would you be playing the part of Omar?"
-- from a posting above

I think of myself as one of the bulbuls in the gardens of Gulistan, whose song you hear intermittently throughout the play.

Posted by: Hugh at April 7, 2006 1:58 PM

What the hell?

This woman has been street legal for a year now. So can't the Holy Sharia cut her a little slack as she celebrates her newfound sexuality?

Let her have a little fun before she turns into an old Moslem bag. That happens when she turns 16 under the Sharia. Then it's time to start beating her.

ISLAM HAS GIRLS ISLAM HAS BOYS LIKE HIDDEN PEARLS ISLAM HAS PURTY CURLS

Allahu, you foxy 10-yr old sexpot you. You look marvelous in that Ruby Red lipstick, under the veil, that is.

Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at April 7, 2006 2:30 PM

10 years old, that's ridiculous. Oh wait a minute, how long had Aisha been married when she was 10 years old? Maybe this little girl was seen as too exciting to the "police" in Iran.

Posted by: DaveMate at April 7, 2006 3:20 PM

Look at the positive, at least they didn't stone her.

Posted by: kevin at April 7, 2006 4:40 PM

Want to see how stoopid and unsanitary veils are?
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=19991_The_Spaghetti-Burqa_Convergence&only

Posted by: Carolyn2 at April 7, 2006 7:21 PM

"Mal-veiled"?

Malevolent.

Islam's core characteristic.

The abusive leader of the violent 'god' creating vicious fathers and demented laws.

All women should leave Islam.

Then the macho Muslim men can simply blow themselves up (dressed as women, if that really 'gets them off' -as happened in Iraq today).

Despicable.

Posted by: profitsbeard at April 7, 2006 7:38 PM

Carolyn2,

That is the grossest thing I've ever seen. Check out the guy next to them. Not only do these women have to suffer the inconvenience of eating in one of those things, they look so damned stupid. And Women shouldn't be made to look that way.

The thing about the ten year old is, the reason her dad slapped her is because he let her walk out of the house that way and he could be held responsible. Islam is wrong for EVERYONE; for little ten year old girls and for the fathers that cannot protect them.

Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at April 7, 2006 8:07 PM

All women should leave Islam. Then the macho Muslim men can simply blow themselves up (dressed as women, if that really 'gets them off' -as happened in Iraq today).

If all the Moslem Maidens walked out on all the Moslem Men, young Moslem boys would scatter in terror like hidden pearls that approach one another with questioning eyes (to paraphrase God in the Koran). One hot surah, that (swt).

Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at April 7, 2006 8:48 PM

Alarmed Pig Farmer-

Gives new meaning to "pearl jam".

Posted by: profitsbeard at April 7, 2006 10:39 PM

Hugh

You a bulbul in Gulistan? I didn't know 98 year olds could suddenly develop wings and start chirping.

I prefered the Religious Policeman to either of the Dhimmis - Christian (Islamo-Christian?) or Zoroastrian. A slight twist might be interesting - what if the narrator at the end exhorted his audience to switch from Shia Islam to Sunni - or vice versa? Keep a few versions of this handy, to be made audience sensitive depending on where they ran - Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan,...

Is the Shah Abbas here Shah Abbas I or II? The latter, you might know, was a contemporary of Aurangzeb. Also, if I remember right, Leyla-Majnoun sounds like one of those Hindi film love stories, although none of them, afaik, feature 10 year olds. (Except maybe when the boy is 11).

Posted by: Infidel Pride at April 8, 2006 3:15 AM

"The abusive leader of the violent 'god' creating vicious fathers and demented laws."

This is the crux of it because the laws only protect the men, as the women are seen as extra intrusions - to the higher race of males.

We talk about Islamic people as a whole - but a lot of them feel oppressed in these Islamic countries. I met people who escaped from Iran, practically during the Iran-Iraq war. They talked about how the Islamic police - would come up and enforce the Islamic dress - for men.

For most Islamic women the best thing that will happen to them is that they will be married - as soon as possible. And if they are 'allowed' to do something else - then they are often very militant about it - I am an Islamic woman and I am a pharmacist - attitude. Though, most of them are resigned to their oppression – which has the effect of making them feel as though they are free.

Posted by: Pass It On at April 8, 2006 12:42 PM

"Leyla-Majnoun sounds like one of those Hindi film love stories..."

Leyla and Majnoon are famous characters in a Persian romance, well-known throughout the Middle East. No doubt their story was brought to Hindustan (not the other way round) and yes, they do sound as if they could be stars in a Bollywood production.

"Majnoon" is also the name of: an Iraqi oifield, some islands that Iran took from Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War (did they give them back? Probably.), and a kind of date. If you read an Oriental Tale about an Eastern traveller with his "wallet of dates," you should know that does not mean that he possesses some billfold (and certainly not one stamped "genuine pigskin") in which he keeps recorded the names of his amorous conquests (the time, the place, the rapture), but rather is carrying as his vademecum a bunch of dates, in a satchel or wallet, replenishing his supply at the next caravanserai, and then again at the next. For he is a sailor on desert seas. He is Sinbad the Sailor and Tinbad the Tailor and Winbad the Whaler. He has travelled. He is weary. He rests. I would like to express my gratitude to Mr. James Joyce, formerly of Clongowes Wood and Dun Laoighaire, and of Trieste, Zurich, and Paris, for his help in the preparation of this note.

Posted by: Hugh at April 8, 2006 3:24 PM

Alexander The Great lead an army of civilization against these Persian Savages, decisively defeating them, and turning them sufficiently Hellenic to make them respectable and civilized untill the arrival of Islam turned the clock back and made Alexander weep within his grave, I would weep in his place. by undoing his good work in hellenizing the Persians, and we still see the result today.

We need another great Conqueror.

Posted by: NicephorusPhocas at April 9, 2006 2:28 AM