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Sharia Alert from the Islamic Republic. "Iran bans magazines for showing 'corrupt' foreign stars," from AFP (thanks to Mackie):
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran has banned nine lifestyle and cinema magazines for publishing pictures of "corrupt" foreign film stars and details about their "decadent" private lives, the student ISNA news agency said Sunday.The publications were banned by the press commission watchdog for "publishing photographs of corrupt foreign artists and details about their decadent lives."
They were also "publishing advertising for forbidden medicines and articles that were contrary to morality and offensive to the ethnic minorities," the agency quoted the commission as saying....
Such magazines regularly print articles and pictures of foreign film stars, as well as of Iranian actresses in the kinds of loose headscarves and tight-fitting clothes that are frowned upon by the Islamic authorities.
The latest issue of Donya-ye Tasvir carried articles about several Hollywood female stars including Naomi Watts, Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, all accompanied by pictures.
Iranian actresses have to observe the country's Islamic dress rules when they appear in films but this has not stopped many from becoming feminine screen icons in the Islamic republic....
Posted by Robert at March 17, 2008 4:23 PM
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"Forbidden medicines"? Just what do they mean, antipsychotic drugs?
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at March 17, 2008 4:57 PM
the kinds of loose headscarves [...] that are frowned upon by the Islamic authorities
"Loose" headscarves are considered decadent? Did Allah regulate exactly how tight the headscarves have to be? I shouldn't laugh, he probably did.
Posted by: special_guest at March 17, 2008 5:23 PM
Lions and tigers and bears! Oh my!
Posted by: traeh at March 17, 2008 6:01 PM
traeh,
Lions and tigers and bears! Oh my!
Is that from
The Wizard of Jihad?
We're off to see the Wizard
The Terrible Wizard of Jihad
We hear he is a Whiz of a Wiz
If ever a Wiz there was
If ever, oh ever, a Wiz there was
The Wizard of Jihad is one because
Because, because, because, because, because
Because of the terrible things he does
We're off the see the wizard
The Terrible Wizard of Jihad
at March 17, 2008 7:38 PM
You've gotta love those crazy thought police...so endearing, so deadly.
"...in the kinds of loose headscarves and tight-fitting clothes that are frowned upon by the Islamic authorities."
Are they kidding? Frowned upon is something your mother does when you say something mean or you slap your little sister. Every time I've ever read about an Iranian woman with a loose headscarf walking down a street in Iran, she is grabbed by the Hefty bag brigade and thrown into a van, never to be heard from again.
Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at March 17, 2008 7:49 PM
I'm surprised there's no mention of Madonna or Britney.
Posted by: PorkFatRules at March 17, 2008 9:54 PM
I think Hamas already called dibs on them, PorkFat.
Posted by: Marwan'sDaughter at March 17, 2008 10:27 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw6r_o3GQE4
Posted by: Hugh at March 17, 2008 11:31 PM
Reese Witherspoon - the star of Legally Blond is on their watch list? Oh yeah, she is one to keep an eye on because she and that movie are so corrupt. They should re-title it as: Illegally Blond Unveiled.
Posted by: champ at March 18, 2008 12:49 AM
...Lions, and tigers, and bears...
Could it be Dan Simmons' Hyperion collection?
Posted by: Excommie at March 18, 2008 3:18 AM
"Iranian actresses in the kinds of loose headscarves and tight-fitting clothes that are frowned upon by the Islamic authorities."
Those jezebels! How can a pious Iranian muslim keep his thoughts on the Qur'an, when they are running around in those loose headscarves? Gosh!
Posted by: tanstaafl at March 18, 2008 8:32 AM
Well, Naomi Watts did make a movie with a giant ape, and we know that apes are considered unclean animals. I think the King Kong should be the symbol of the anti-jihad movement.
Posted by: Balrog at March 18, 2008 10:10 AM
Reese also produced the film Pig Nose.
Posted by: Nick Danger at March 18, 2008 2:15 PM
er, "Penelope"
Posted by: Nick Danger at March 18, 2008 2:16 PM
and Nicole signed the full-page ad the ran in the LA Times in 2006 condemning Hizb-allah & Hamas,
also, she's taller than any of them.
Naomi? Well, they must have seen Mulholland Drive.
Corruption!
How many little girls did you hang today, Iran?
at March 18, 2008 2:34 PM
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