Hey Gals, Check This Out – Ahmadinejad Secretly A Pervert?

By
Omri Ceren
– December 5, 2006Posted in: Iran, Women In Islam

It is a fundamental tenet of Lacanian psychoanalysis that the more tightly one adheres to a rigid ideology, the more severe and dramatic will be one’s lapses. This is going to be fun:

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who flaunts his ideological fervour, has been accused of undermining Iran’s Islamic revolution after television footage appeared to show him watching a female song and dance show. The famously austere Mr Ahmadinejad has been criticised by his own allies after attending the lavish opening ceremony of the Asian games in Qatar, a sporting competition involving 13,000 athletes from 39 countries. The ceremony featured Indian and Egyptian dancers and female vocalists. Many were not wearing veils.

He looked at women who did not even have the common decency to wear veils? The horror.

Obviously, we’re not really criticizing Ahmadinejad because he choose not to be a pathological sexist for a couple minutes. But the whole thing is still kind of chuckle-worthy in that depressing live by extremist sexism die by extremist sexism kind of way. And don’t miss this part:

Women are forbidden to sing and dance before a male audience under Iran’s Islamic legal code. Officials are expected to excuse themselves from such engagements when abroad but TV pictures showed Mr Ahmadinejad sitting with President Bashar Assad of Syria and Ismail Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister, during last Friday’s ceremony in Doha.

By all means, enjoy yourselves. But don’t forgot that this repressed outburst exists as the underside of some of the most pathologically women-abusing societies in the history of humanity.

Further reading: Women Banned From Ahmadinejad’s Cabinet, Ahmadinejad Still Threatening To Nuke Israel, UN Still Not Caring, Iran, the IAEA, etc etc

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