Hey Gals, Check This Out - Islamists Want To Set Your Wardrobe. This is Because They Are Fascists (Bonus Ahmadinejad Material Inside)
* Way back in 1981, the first President of theocratic Iran explained why the regime was in the process of passing a law that would make wearing the humiliating hijab mandatory for all girls above six. He explained - and we're quoting now - that "scientific research has shown that women's hair emitted rays that drove men insane". Why this meant that all women had to be covered from head to toe was not for Iranian women to question. In the last 10 years, women have been growing progressively more bold and walking around with their faces uncovered. No more:
Police in Tehran have been ordering Iranian women to cover up, stopping those they perceive as "badly veiled." The crackdown followed the 2005 election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "We are certainly seeing a return to behavior we haven't seen for 10 years," Hadi Ghaemi of Human Rights Watch told The Telegraph. "Generally, the imposition of strict Islamic codes has been increasing under Ahmadinejad."... Just as women in recent years had pushed the boundaries by wearing head scarves that revealed more than they hid.
Direct state control over the body - the essence of fascism.
* We have a close friend and, being the committed progressives that we are, we sometimes try to show her evidence of how reactionary political Islam is. Invariably (and without irony) she says "well of course [insert Hezbollah TV / Iran / Saudi Arabi / etc] is bad, but that doesn't mean..." So in this case, it'd be something like "well of course Iran is bad, but that doesn't mean that..." Perhaps not. But there does appear to be something of this unseemly urge to control women that follows political Islam across international borders:
A Melbourne Muslim girl condemned by Islamic leaders for entering a beauty pageant has defied protests to be shortlisted for the Victorian final. Ayten Ahmet, 16, advanced to the top 26 of Miss Teen Australia yesterday despite an outcry from some of Victoria's senior Muslims... A spokesman for Melbourne cleric Sheik Mohammed Omran this week branded the competition, which involves swimsuit parades, as a "slur on Islam". And Victorian Islamic leader Yasser Soliman said the contest did not conform with the teachings of the Koran.
Good for the girl and her parents for standing up to these pathetic control freaks.
* A pathological patient is one who, because of a mental disturbance, exhibits behavior that is maladaptive. Like not letting in female aid workers after a natural disaster:
Conservative Muslim clerics made it clear this week that they do not want female aid workers helping those still in refugee camps after a massive earthquake last year left more than 73,000 dead. The clerics warned that if aid agencies continue to employ female workers, they will organize violent protests and cause damage to local property.
Why do they have to always be violent protests? We're not being entirely sarcastic here. They have culture. They have a written language. They have a postal system, as it is. Why can't they just organize a letter writing campaign or something? Just once.
* All of this pathological "not being able to tolerate even the sight of women" thing makes Ahmadinejad's flattery of German Chancellor Merkel's ovaries seem disingenuous. And to be honest, it's not like his letter to her was a model of women's liberation to begin with:
If it had not been for the advantages that are limited to women, such as stronger human sentiments and certain manifestations of the divine compassion and kindness, specially in the position of a mother and being at the service of the people.
The country that Merkel leads is, among other things, a member of the most powerful and successful military alliance in the history of the entire known universe. It is the world's 3rd largest economy (almost 30 slots ahead of Iran). But Mr. 12th century over here thinks that the Chancellor will be all flattered and get flustered if he compliments her for her "sentiments" and her ability to be a mother. And that wasn't even the part that Merkel found most unsettling. She was reportedly troubled by this passage even more, where Ahmadinejad implies that the Allies made up the Holocaust in order to punish Germany with "guilt":
I have no intention of arguing about the Holocaust. But, does it not stand to reason that some victorious countries of World War II intended to create an alibi on the basis of which they could continue keeping the defeated nations of World War II indebted to them. Their purpose has been to weaken their morale and their inspiration in order to obstruct their progress and power... But just imagine where Germany would be today in terms of its eminence among the freedom-loving nations, Muslims of the world and peoples of Europe, if such a situation did not exist and the governments in power in Germany had said no to the extortions by the Zionists and had not supported the greatest enemy of mankind.
Pssst... by "Zionists", he means "Jews".
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
Police in Tehran have been ordering Iranian women to cover up, stopping those they perceive as "badly veiled." The crackdown followed the 2005 election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "We are certainly seeing a return to behavior we haven't seen for 10 years," Hadi Ghaemi of Human Rights Watch told The Telegraph. "Generally, the imposition of strict Islamic codes has been increasing under Ahmadinejad."... Just as women in recent years had pushed the boundaries by wearing head scarves that revealed more than they hid.
Direct state control over the body - the essence of fascism.
* We have a close friend and, being the committed progressives that we are, we sometimes try to show her evidence of how reactionary political Islam is. Invariably (and without irony) she says "well of course [insert Hezbollah TV / Iran / Saudi Arabi / etc] is bad, but that doesn't mean..." So in this case, it'd be something like "well of course Iran is bad, but that doesn't mean that..." Perhaps not. But there does appear to be something of this unseemly urge to control women that follows political Islam across international borders:
A Melbourne Muslim girl condemned by Islamic leaders for entering a beauty pageant has defied protests to be shortlisted for the Victorian final. Ayten Ahmet, 16, advanced to the top 26 of Miss Teen Australia yesterday despite an outcry from some of Victoria's senior Muslims... A spokesman for Melbourne cleric Sheik Mohammed Omran this week branded the competition, which involves swimsuit parades, as a "slur on Islam". And Victorian Islamic leader Yasser Soliman said the contest did not conform with the teachings of the Koran.
Good for the girl and her parents for standing up to these pathetic control freaks.
* A pathological patient is one who, because of a mental disturbance, exhibits behavior that is maladaptive. Like not letting in female aid workers after a natural disaster:
Conservative Muslim clerics made it clear this week that they do not want female aid workers helping those still in refugee camps after a massive earthquake last year left more than 73,000 dead. The clerics warned that if aid agencies continue to employ female workers, they will organize violent protests and cause damage to local property.
Why do they have to always be violent protests? We're not being entirely sarcastic here. They have culture. They have a written language. They have a postal system, as it is. Why can't they just organize a letter writing campaign or something? Just once.
* All of this pathological "not being able to tolerate even the sight of women" thing makes Ahmadinejad's flattery of German Chancellor Merkel's ovaries seem disingenuous. And to be honest, it's not like his letter to her was a model of women's liberation to begin with:
If it had not been for the advantages that are limited to women, such as stronger human sentiments and certain manifestations of the divine compassion and kindness, specially in the position of a mother and being at the service of the people.
The country that Merkel leads is, among other things, a member of the most powerful and successful military alliance in the history of the entire known universe. It is the world's 3rd largest economy (almost 30 slots ahead of Iran). But Mr. 12th century over here thinks that the Chancellor will be all flattered and get flustered if he compliments her for her "sentiments" and her ability to be a mother. And that wasn't even the part that Merkel found most unsettling. She was reportedly troubled by this passage even more, where Ahmadinejad implies that the Allies made up the Holocaust in order to punish Germany with "guilt":
I have no intention of arguing about the Holocaust. But, does it not stand to reason that some victorious countries of World War II intended to create an alibi on the basis of which they could continue keeping the defeated nations of World War II indebted to them. Their purpose has been to weaken their morale and their inspiration in order to obstruct their progress and power... But just imagine where Germany would be today in terms of its eminence among the freedom-loving nations, Muslims of the world and peoples of Europe, if such a situation did not exist and the governments in power in Germany had said no to the extortions by the Zionists and had not supported the greatest enemy of mankind.
Pssst... by "Zionists", he means "Jews".
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
