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Sharia Alert, and more on this story: 150,000 detained so far. "Iran: Enemies 'plotting' against new dress code says Ahmadinejad," from Adnkronos International:
Rome, 27 April (AKI) - One week after police started enforcing strict new Islamic dress code rules, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that his opponents were manipulating the moralization campaign so as to create discontent. "Our enemies want a limited group of people, mostly youth, to hit the streets dressed in a vulgar manner to provoke police intervention and then use against our country the bad feelings of young people who have been mistreated by security officials," said the president.
The country's top police officer announced on Thursday that some 150,000 women ave been detained in Iran over the past week for violating strict new Islamic dress code rules.
"During the first four days [since the code came into effect] we have picked up 150,000 women who were not properly veiled, but many of them were released after they signed an admission of guilt and a formal apology," General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam said Thursday. An unspecified number of the women taken into custody were also forced to undergo psychological counseling, Moghaddam said.
“Only 13 of these women are still being held and they will have to stand trial," he explained.
Some prominent politicians have criticised the government and the security forces for the way the matter has been handled.
Some papers in Tehran ran articles recalling how the president had promised not to meddle into the dress codes of young Iranians during the electoral campaign leading to his June 2005 presidential election.
"Young men dressed Western style and women not covered well by the veil are not a problem in a country with much more serious problems," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying at the time.
The moralization campaign was at the centre of most sermons at Friday prayers.
The leader of Tehran's prayer on Friday, ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, praised the new rules saying that "in the past week the great majority of the population has felt more secure and protected by police. Anyone criticizing police will attract the ire of the population."
The head prosecutor of Tehran, Saiid Mortazavi, the magistrate who banned dozens of papers and is suspected of a role in the murder of Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi, during questioning said: "These women who infest our streets by dressing like vulgar models must be considered criminals as they threaten the security and decensy [sic] of our youth."
Mortazavi stressed that "offending Islam's sense of modesty is a crime to be [punished] with detention" under Iran's criminal law.
Posted by Marisol at April 27, 2007 7:54 PM
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Typical of fascists, you must always claim victimhood when your tyrannical visions are challenged.
Mohammad did this often, as he sewed paranoia amongst his followers by claiming that they were being persecuted if non-muslims rejected his revelations and calls to obey Islamic laws. "Kill the unbelievers as they would kill you all..." Sure, Mo.
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at April 27, 2007 8:32 PM
Ah yes, another fine example of all that "freedom of expression" in the Islamic world I've heard so much about.
Oh wait.
Posted by: staff_of_magius at April 27, 2007 8:41 PM
Hahahaha!
While the Islamo- swine are terrorizing the female (and some male) population of Iran it is US who are plotting?
Amazing stuff:
http://sheikyermami.com/2007/04/26/iran-the-burka-police-enforces-the-law/
Publiuspundit has the latest video:
http://publiuspundit.com/2007/04/video_of_the_crackdown_on_iran.php
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at April 27, 2007 9:00 PM
Summer is here ladies, put on them hot black things...or stay home!
Allah knows best!
at April 27, 2007 9:19 PM
One news program showed a mannequin with it's breasts sawed off to keep from offending.
Sick. Sick. Sick society.
Posted by: Borg at April 27, 2007 9:35 PM
These are the kind of laws that CAIR would like to enact in America.
Posted by: The Resistance at April 27, 2007 9:38 PM
"During the first four days [since the code came into effect] we have picked up 150,000 women who were not properly veiled, but many of them were released after they signed an admission of guilt and a formal apology,"
Islam is pathetic! Look at all the energy they are wasting chasing "hot legs" around. This is why we will be saved in the end. They are even dumber then we are!
Fighting your own female population is sure ticket to civilizational doom!
at April 27, 2007 10:08 PM
Did I read that right? Did Amadinejad just flatly admit that young people were being "mistreated" by his security thugs?
That couldn't be right. He must have meant to say "gently instructed." Somebody find that speechwriter and flog him.
Posted by: Marwan'sDaughter at April 27, 2007 10:15 PM
Borg-
LOL!
Dummies sawing the breasts off of dummies.
Islam's perfect metaphor for itself.
Posted by: profitsbeard at April 27, 2007 10:32 PM
13 still held. poor women, im sorry this is an international disgrace. have the U.N. come out in outrage over this? are there protests by susan sarandon and rosie o'donnell?
will hollywood make a movie about women repressed in iran and forced to cover their beauty?
Posted by: leonthepigfarmer at April 27, 2007 10:38 PM
the liberal world is guilty of genocide and mysogonistic violence.
time to go liberals.
Posted by: leonthepigfarmer at April 27, 2007 10:39 PM
Modesty?
When Muhammad had numerous wives, including a 9 year old who caused his ejaculations to go down in Islamic history?
Modesty?
When Muhammad's followers are guaranteed 72 virgins with self-correcting hymens in paradise?
Modesty?
With mut'ah marriages?
Modesty? When the Saudis are famous for raping their domestic help and engaging in orgies at every opportunity?
Modesty?
Please. There was never a more sex-obsessed religion on the planet than Islam.
Contrast the prevailing Muslim norm with a famous Buddist story about sex, desire and obsession:
"As two Zen monks walked along a muddy, rain-drenched road, they came upon a lovely woman attempting to cross a large mud puddle. The elder monk stopped beside the woman, lifted his
arms, and carried her across the puddle. He set her gently down on the dry ridge of the road as the younger monk discreetly admired her charms.
After bowing politely to the woman, the two monks
continued down the muddy road. The younger monk was sullen and silent as they walked along. They traveled over the hills, down around the valleys, trough a town, and under forest trees. At last, after many hours had passed, the younger monk scolded the elder, “You are aware that we monks do not touch women! Why did you carry that girl?”
The elder monk slowly turned and smiled. He said, “My dear young brother, you have such heavy thoughts! I left the woman alongside the road hours ago. Why are you still carrying her?"
No Muslims can possibly get the point of that story. And if they did, they couldn't remain Muslim.
at April 27, 2007 10:50 PM
Caroline
thanks for relating that buddist story. i hadnt heard that in ages and it brought back so many happy memories of my youth and home DIY buddhist studies.
i find it odd why people turn to islam which is a "violent" religion yet ignore such a real "religion of peace" which is buddhism. islam is anti west and anti establishment (meaning anti "man made idealologies/philosophies") though i dont believe in their concept of allah, which was a mental illness of mohammed. (i'm protected by the 1st amendment stating this)
at April 27, 2007 10:58 PM
It takes a very weak and unstable regime to be threatened by a skirt.
Posted by: Provoslavni at April 27, 2007 11:57 PM
A moralization campaign for a country whose top "holy" man once wrote it is fine to have sex with infants and animals. How droll.
And how pathetic.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at April 28, 2007 1:01 AM
Where are you, you pig ugly sandal-wearing feminists, womens libbers, human rights activists, Amnesty International, student activists and all manner of college lefties. Isn't it time you gave support to Iranian women who want to discard the veil? Or is it much easier and safer to diss Israel and the US instead and show solidarity with our enemies Lord Haw Haw-style?
Posted by: Spirit Of 1683 at April 28, 2007 4:36 AM
Thats right: Amnesia intentional, womans Lib-bitches and red-green perverts go into hiding when it comes to the mysogynistic cult of Islam.
Amazing. But we shall continue chipping away on their hobby-horse:
http://sheikyermami.com/2007/04/28/ahmed-in-jihad-enemies-plotting-against-new-dress-code/
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at April 28, 2007 4:45 AM
Summer is here ladies, put on them hot black things...or stay home!
Allah knows best!
tehehehe, you kuffar are pretty funny at times.
Btw people (the idiots here who keep disrespecting Islam), don't call this Islamic, there is no rule in Islam that forces you to be dressed like a ninja, even most critics of Islam will tell you the same thing, the mullahs are doing this in order to keep the population under control. The Iranian women that I have seen arrested or issued a warning to in those pictures and videos look MUCH more modest then the muslim girls I've seen in my trips to Kuwait, Turkey, and Morroco (people who have visited these countries will know what I'm talking about). The Iranian women are not violating any Islamic laws at all. The hardliners have this "crackdown" every summer (but they always end giving up after 2-4 weeks), and for three reasons only:
1) Because they're a bunch of paranoid little fucks who think that the Iranians who oppose them (like the women getting arrested and warned) are falling for "Western psychological propaganda".
2) To intimidate the anti-mullah Iranians.
3) To drive away attention from the growing rise of drug trafficking, drug addicts, poverty, prostitution, and the ever collapsing economy (prediciton is that by 2030 the Iranian economy is no more).
at April 28, 2007 5:45 AM
Well Mr Hizallah_Supporter - have you read any of the previous postings by females that used to live there? They seem to disagree with you a more than a few points.
Posted by: sheiknbake4pork at April 28, 2007 8:31 AM
sheiknbake4pork
Did I deny that Iranian women are suffering? Did you even read my post carefully? If not please do
at April 28, 2007 9:26 AM
terror supporter-
Mohammad, in the Hadiths, forced women in Islam to hide their bodies, except for their hands and face.
That pretty much covers everything.
Read your own source material before you pretend to know what the hell you're talking about.
Mohammad was a pedophile (according to your own source materials).
Follow perverts at your own risk.
It tends to end badly.
Posted by: profitsbeard at April 28, 2007 12:16 PM
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