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| Riot at ’woman-tigress hanging’ |
| 2003-11-09 |
| EFL from BBC The best case I have ever seen for not allowing Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. A riot broke out after police tried to disperse a crowd gathered to watch the rumoured hanging of a "woman-tigress", Iran’s Jomhuri-Eslami paper reports. Some 50 people were arrested after the would-be spectators turned on police who tried to disperse them in the city of Qom, said the hardline daily. It was rumoured a woman had "insulted religious values" during Ramadan. According to local folklore, anyone who commits such a crime risks having their head turned into that of an animal. A local journalist told French news agency AFP that rumours had circulated of a woman insulting Islamic values during the fasting month. Some deranged mullah must have issued that fatwah after reading A Midsummer Nights Dream between drags on a crackpipe. Her head had been turned into that of a ferocious female tiger as divine punishment, it was rumoured. "Drawings of the woman with the head of a tigress were even distributed in the city, especially in schools," said the journalist, who asked not to be named. Still drawing on paper. Didn’t they have access to digital cameras and editing software? A large crowd turned up in a square in the city to watch the hanging - only to be met by police attempting to convince them the rumour was false. In the ensuing violence, several windows of surrounding buildings were smashed, said the newspaper. Nothing like showing up to see a cat-headed woman be hanged and being shoved away by the police to anger a mob into full riot. I think the whole incident started when the mascot for LSU partied too hard on Friday night before heading to the airport... |
| Posted by:Super Hose |