Englishman in New York27 Apr 2007 10:16 am
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Flying Circus
Sometimes the news coming out of Iran reminds me of a sketch from Monty Python. Here’s a recent BBC report on the latest Islamic dress code crackdown:
No TagsThe focus of the new campaign is to stop women wearing tight overcoats that reveal the shape of their bodies or showing too much hair from beneath their headscarves.
[…]It is not just the young and very fashionable who are being harassed this year, middle aged women and even foreign tourists are being cautioned.
One foreign journalist was stopped and the police complained the photograph in her press card was indecent, even though it was taken by the Ministry of Islamic Guidance.
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Frankly, having seen the news reports, it is the men who should hide themselves. Bellies, bad skin and beards. No excuse, really…
And this is what the feminists are fighting for? The right for men to tell them how to dress? Damn, we HAVE come a long way from the first modern women’s rights movement. Of course, not the direction I foresaw when American women were burning their bras….