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2004-07-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran cracks down on insufficiently veiled women

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Posted by Steve 2004-07-12 9:32:46 AM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Awwwww, poor little Islamists are getting erections and are embarrassed...awww...

Posted by jules 187 2004-07-12 10:03:59 AM|| 2004-07-12 10:03:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 little erections...which explains a LOT of the cultural issues they have with women

Posted by Frank G 2004-07-12 10:08:31 AM|| 2004-07-12 10:08:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Just in terms of healthy sexual expression alone the men in that world should be standing up for our side. What is the Islamic punishment for masturbation, anyway?

Posted by jules 187 2004-07-12 10:18:24 AM|| 2004-07-12 10:18:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Off with their hands?

Posted by ed 2004-07-12 10:24:42 AM|| 2004-07-12 10:24:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Or their, erm, "misunderstanding". (Hat tip: Indiana Jones)

Posted by eLarson 2004-07-12 10:27:41 AM|| 2004-07-12 10:27:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Unfortunately, I saw this coming. Despite the elections being rigged, election boycotts almost always backfire. Had they voted in force for whatever reformers they could have gotten, it would have a least put a few stumbling blocks in front of the fanatics, who now have a free hand.

Call it a modified version of the Aesop Fable of the frogs and King Log. Except in this case, the unhappy frogs have King Log replaced with King Dork.

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-07-12 10:55:10 AM|| 2004-07-12 10:55:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I'd like to see even more intrusive mullah-inspired crackdowns. These have the potential to hasten the demise of Iran's cleric rule that much quicker. (Note to GWB: Are you watching these developments? Do you have a plan?)

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-07-12 11:03:40 AM|| 2004-07-12 11:03:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 i must say im more with BAR than with Anon, on this. In Iran, the worse it is, the better it is (credit to Lenin)

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-07-12 11:36:42 AM|| 2004-07-12 11:36:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 The mullahs better cool it, or soon they themselves will be head-to-toe in a burka.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-07-12 12:18:57 PM|| 2004-07-12 12:18:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Debit Marx Credit Lenin
Debit Trotsky Credit Stalin
Debit 5 Yr Pan Credit Wishful Thinking

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Paradise

Posted by Artur Andersonovitch 2004-07-12 1:15:36 PM|| 2004-07-12 1:15:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Iran cracks down on insufficiently veiled women

We need a crackdown on INSUFFICIENTLY DEAD MULLAHS! Decap Iran's government now.

Posted by Zenster 2004-07-12 3:34:59 PM|| 2004-07-12 3:34:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 The Revolution saw "reformed" hookers using thumbtacks to pin veils on "immodest" women. I wonder how bad it'll get this time.

Posted by therien 2004-07-12 3:41:56 PM|| 2004-07-12 3:41:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Under the Taliban, the women demonstrated that just about anything can be hidden under the burka. The mullahs are heading deep into "be careful what you wish for" territory, methinks.

Posted by trailing wife 2004-07-12 6:12:46 PM|| 2004-07-12 6:12:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 TW: that could explain Arab/Islamic sexual mores in a whole new light. If they got virtuous, they'd all look the same within a few generations.

Posted by therien 2004-07-12 7:12:34 PM|| 2004-07-12 7:12:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 And Persian women can be SO purdy..... sigh.....

Posted by Wuzzalib 2004-07-12 8:45:21 PM|| 2004-07-12 8:45:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Zenster -hearty laughs

Posted by jules 2 2004-07-12 9:14:16 PM|| 2004-07-12 9:14:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Note to GWB: Are you watching these developments? Do you have a plan?

The other day, I spoke to a recent immigrant from Iran. He was a student, 19 years old. The conversation was pleasant and normal. He agreed with me that the mad mullahs were taking the country and its people back to the middle ages. He said the people are not afraid anymore of them, even though arrests are common and torture is used extensively. He even described how some youths regularly ambush those Islamic miliatiamen on motorcycles, and beat them to a pulp.

He then said something that utterly floored me. He claimed the current Iranian theocracy is backed by the US. And he wasn't joking. He believed it. I asked him if he meant the Iranian Shah, of the 1970s. Nope. He said the mad mullahs were puppets of the US.

I then understood what had happened. Temporarily I had entered a parallel universe where one could have a normal discussion with Middle Eastern (Persian to be precise) muslims. It lasted a brief moment, because as quickly as I could blink, I was pulled back into the regular universe that I was familiar with: the US, a.k.a The Great Satan, must be hated no matter what the common interests you share.

So, no matter how many plans GWB (or Kerry) may have, they will never find any friends in that part of the world. IMHO.

Posted by Rafael 2004-07-12 9:45:18 PM|| 2004-07-12 9:45:18 PM|| Front Page Top

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