Iran police start wider crackdown on un-Islamic dress

Coolio43 · 06-17-2008, 05:39 AM

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police have launched a more extensive crackdown on "social corruption" such as women flouting Islamic dress codes, the Farhang-e Ashti newspaper reported on Monday.
"In its wider crackdown which has started from Saturday, police will confront those who appear in public in an indecent way and will also seal off shops selling un-Islamic dress," the newspaper said, quoting an unnamed police official.
The dress code imposed after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution requires women to cover all their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothes to disguise the shape of their bodies.
Violators can receive lashes, fines or imprisonment.
The authorities usually launch crackdowns before the hot summer months when women like to wear lighter clothing such as calf-length pants and brightly colored scarves pushed back to expose plenty of hair.
But enforcement of strict moral codes governing women's dress became more strict since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad swept to power in 2005 with the backing of conservative clerics and the Basij religious forces who condemn such "un-Islamic" practices.
"Police will seize women with tight coats and cropped trousers and also men with Western-style hair cut will be arrested," the newspaper said.
Especially in the urban areas, many women ignore traditional head-to-toe black chadors. The Islamic dress code is less commonly challenged in poor suburbs and rural regions.
"Men with Western-style haircuts were confronted by police and also barber shops that gave them such haircuts were sealed off on Sunday," said the daily.
Some women, testing the boundaries of the law by wearing tight clothes were also confronted by morality police, located mainly at the affluent northern Tehran squares.
"Police also swept through popular shopping centers, where such outfits are sold and some of those shops were sealed off," the daily said.

Iran police start wider crackdown on un-Islamic dress | Reuters

Not only are there homosexuals in Iran, this so called religion of peace treats their woman like a lamb led to the slaughter.(See "Submission") Shall we implement the Islamic dress code as law here in the U.S?

lizarddust · 07-06-2008, 10:26 AM

Its their country and we shouldn't interfer.. Let the people stand up for themselves..

mse2212003 · 07-16-2008, 12:48 PM

Iran Are A Dangerous Country. No Mistake About It. But They Are Doing This To Show Support For Their Fellow Muslims And If Israel Continue To Try And Annex The Palestinians Then They Deserve To Be Bombed By Iran.

America Needs To Stop Supporting Israel And It's Barbaric Treatment Of The Palestinian People. It Needs To Admit That Israel Are In The Wrong And The Palestinian People Should Be Given Their Own State...it Is The Least They Deserve After America Decided In 1947 That They Were Going To Take Half Their Country From Them And Award It To The Jewish People Because Some Ridiculous Fairy Tale In The Bible Claimed That Israel Was Their Promised Land.

So Many Intelligent Americans Are Realising This, People Can No Longer Be Fooled Like Before.

Merantes · 07-16-2008, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by mse2212003

America Needs To Stop Supporting Israel And It's Barbaric Treatment Of The Palestinian People. It Needs To Admit That Israel Are In The Wrong And The Palestinian People Should Be Given Their Own State...it Is The Least They Deserve After America Decided In 1947 That They Were Going To Take Half Their Country From Them And Award It To The Jewish People Because Some Ridiculous Fairy Tale In The Bible Claimed That Israel Was Their Promised Land.

So Many Intelligent Americans Are Realising This, People Can No Longer Be Fooled Like Before.

Maybe you should read up on history so you won't be fooled either. In what way did America decide in 1947 that they were going to take away half of Palestinian lands and give it the Jews, because of "Some Ridiculous Fairy Tale In The Bible?"

First of all, it was the British who controlled these lands for the first half of the century. And in 1947, they decided to terminate the Mandate on Palestine. In response, the UN formed the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine to find a solution to the governance of Palestine. Each of the permanent powers was excluded from the decision-making process in order to remove any semblance of bias. The US, USSR, and most of the non-Muslim World voted in favor of the UNSCOP plan (a two-state solution), and most of the Muslim World (i.e., Arab League) voted against it. Riots ensued in Palestinian areas and other parts of the Muslim world. The plan was abandoned.

So it is the Muslim world's resistance the original UN plan, as much as anything, that resulted the provisional Jewish Government declaring Independence in 1948.