Iran has announced new rules and penalties for breaking their religious dress codes in the country.
National law stipulates that women wear headscarves and shape shrouding cloaks…and why?
Because the males cannot handle it! And they make these stupid rules. That's the real bottom line. Give them some saltpeter — though I would rather handle them with a knife!!
OK, Moving on …
Iranian authorities mean business and will exterminate this "improper clothing" and have announced that "plainclothes police will go into action" from next week.
Police have issued dress-code warnings to more than 10,000 women in the past 10 days, and many others have been briefly detained by authorities.
Since it began in late April, hundreds of women — and some men — have been detained at least briefly over their allegedly "un-Islamic" appearance. Some have signed statements pledging not to violate the dress code, while others face court cases. Barbers have been warned not to give men Western hairstyles, and young men playing loud music in their cars have been also warned.
Shops selling some types of clothes have also received warnings, and several have reportedly been shut down.
Meanwhile, the ultra-conservative group Ansar Hezbollah says that the enemies of Islam and the revolution attack Islam and spread corruption in Iranian society. They claim that not wearing veils has increased in recent years and led to such negative consequences as an increase in divorce rate (not to mention "earthquakes"!)
Tehran's police chief approves this national crackdown on women who have been 'judged' to be violating the spirit of Islamic laws.
Note: he used the word "spirit" for there in no direct command in their Koran to dress this way.
He said: "The public expects us to act firmly and swiftly if we see any social misbehavior by women, and men, who defy our Islamic values.
We are not going to tolerate this situation and will first warn those found in this manner and then arrest and imprison them."
The announcement came shortly after Ayatollah Kazim Sadighi, a leading cleric, warned that women who dressed immodestly disturbed young men and the consequent agitation caused earthquakes.
Another preacher warned Tehran's citizens to flee before the inevitable punishment for flagrant behavior was visited on the city.
"Go on the streets and repent for your sins," Ayatollah Aziz Khoshvaqt, one of the country's highest clerics, told worshippers during a recent sermon in northern Tehran. "A holy torment is upon us. Leave town."
Ridiculous and stupid.
Iran's girls football team has been kicked out of the Youth Olympic Games because FIFA rules prevent players from wearing any political, religious or personal statement garments.
Instead of accommodating this religion's archaic and neanderthal policies, all nations should outlaw this dress (like France & Belgium) have done and the isolation will do far more to bring about positive change for the repressed and abused women in that society.
Iran is at it again.
