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Demonstration erupts in Iran over dress code
Malaysia Sun
Monday 25th February, 2008
A video has emerged which shows crowds rioting against the Iranian regime.
The riot broke out in Tehran on the weekend when the Iranian Chastity Police attempted to arrest a young woman they said was inappropriately dressed.
Witnesses say the young woman resisted arrest, which caused the police to push and beat her.
The sight of the woman being beaten prompted a bystander to come to her aid, but he was also roughed-up by the security forces.
Dozens of Iranians who were present at the scene began rioting and setting rubbish on fire.
The riot was captured on numerous cell-phone cameras and shows people shouting slogans against the police and government.
The crowed reportedly called out against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Efforts by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Chastity Police to enforce the Islamic dress code on Iranian women has caused thousands of women to be detained for failing to uphold the dress code.
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| By Anonymous, 05-12-08, 11:30 PM |
From Chicago, Illinois, USAGeorge Bush won’t be president for very much longer! Americans are already celebrating! If I could shout it to the world I would! Almost 80% of Americans do not approve of what he and his administration does. He will go down in history as one of the worst, most hated presidents ever. Please do not associate Americans with him or his ideas. Anyways....... I will admit that there are some women who choose to dress like hussies in America, but let me tell you they look very tacky! They are made fun of and called attention hungry... people who dress like that have low self esteem and it shows. The media makes it seem like all American women dress like that but it is simply not true. Also, I think that it is important to put dress practices into cultural context. In America, I could walk down the streets in shorts and a sleeveless shirt and no man would look twice. I could play with my hair all day long and would never get a second glance. American men don’t see that type of thing as being sexually suggestive or even attractive. In areas of some countries, people live their lives almost completely naked... do you think that the men from those cultures find nakedness to be sexually suggestive? No, it’s just a way of life... it’s all relative. For example, when I was in Morocco last year, I felt like a movie star because of all the attention I got (I have bright blonde curly hair) and then when I went back home to America nobody cared! Call American men desensitized or whatever you wish, but I’ll say it again: what is considered modest and respectable is all relative. |
| By jamshid, 03-01-08, 01:26 AM |
tehranthanks for publishing. all the western media censored this as usual they never cover people. |
| By ChineseJew, 02-25-08, 11:13 AM |
Demonstration erupts in Iran over dress codeRevolt against the dress code has more impact than the sanction, perhaps dresses instead of bombs should be dropped. |
| By Anonymous, 02-25-08, 12:30 PM |
| every Muslim must follow the Islamic dress code and this is not only for female but also applicable about male to wear decent dress.the thing is so called civilisation has presented the evil way to dress inappropriately labeling it as freedom of..,too feel comfortable...in fact its the freedom of satan.in western countries females are being sold everywhere or they are being used to sale other things.in the television, magazine,newspaper; regardless how it looks.western people abusing their women by the rewarding them setting free so that those people can use them for their every kind of filthy lusts.what kind of womens freedom the belives in; the whole world knows.and they call it civilisation.what a joke..they have changed the definition of civilisation.running to the stone age where people and animals didnt have much differences..and its civilisation!!!so funny |
| By Anonymous, 02-25-08, 01:14 PM |
what an example of civilisation!!!MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Bethan, 56, lives in southern England on the same street as best friend Allie, 64.
more stories like thisThey are on their first holiday to Kenya, a country they say is “just full of big young boys who like us older girls."
Hard figures are difficult to come by, but local people on the coast estimate that as many as one in five single women visiting from rich countries are in search of sex.
Allie and Bethan — who both declined to give their full names — said they planned to spend a whole month touring Kenya’s palm-fringed beaches. They would do well to avoid the country’s tourism officials.
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| By Anonymous, 02-25-08, 01:19 PM |
what a civilisation of womens right...its been years but no investigation from government rather they are trying to invalidate it.mind blowing civilisationBy BRIAN ROSS, MADDY SAUER & JUSTIN ROOD
Dec. 10, 2007.
A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.
“Don’t plan on working back in Iraq. There won’t be a position here, and there won’t be a position in Houston," Jones says she was told.
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| By Anonymous, 02-25-08, 01:24 PM |
if it was Saudi arab or Iran then there would be nothing remain of the rapists except bones.western civilasion could be a civilisation but for hyenas only,just to make the flesh cheap & availableOver two years later, the Justice Department has brought no criminal charges in the matter. In fact, ABC News could not confirm any federal agency was investigating the case.
Legal experts say Jones' alleged assailants will likely never face a judge and jury.
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| By Anonymous, 02-25-08, 01:42 PM |
Iran already know about these kind of propaganda are coming from evil America & its allies Much in the vain of the “be alert, not alarmed” advertisements, the final scenes of the public service announcement from the Iranian Intelligence Ministry featured a woman calling a hotline to report some suspicious behaviour.
.....The advertisement also suggested that US tycoon George Soros, expert on non-violent activism Gene Sharp and someone called Bill Smith were working with the CIA to wage a “cultural war”.
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| By paul`, 02-25-08, 02:48 PM |
They know whats best okay?Don’t question the Government, they have this really old book that they run the country by so they know whats best for everyone alright? Silly woman shouldn’t have showed her ankles the way she did and she would have gotten a beating!
</sarcasm>
It is ridiculous that a country can be lead by a religious fanatic like Iran is, though I suppose if the US stayed the hell out of there in the 50’s we wouldn’t have this mess. |
| By fish, 02-25-08, 09:07 PM |
between the 2 extremes, there is an equilibrium based on common sense, modesty, decency and self respect Between the calling-for-trouble flimsy dresses of the west and the bundled-up-like-a-burrito Islamic dress code, there is a middle of the road dress code that is based on modesty, decency and self-respect. China has no such problem with its 1.3 billion population. Go there and you will see. It is highly hypocritical for Muslims to enforce a strict dress code but think that they are entritled to take physical liberities with women. It is shameful for men to openly and physically beat up women in public. It happened in the Stone Age, but in 2008? This lack of gender respect and intolerance as the beating in this case shows are indicative of the lack of civilization. This is gender control, and exist in small minded people. With such blatant abuse in public, there must be many women suffering in silence in the middle east. This is control and outright abuse of the weaker sex. Shame. Shame. Shame on these 'men'. |
| By Anonymous, 02-25-08, 10:26 PM |
Animals seem to have better controlWhat is it that animals do not need religious police to protect their women from their men? With most animals on the planet being nude, and still they seem to have more sexual restraint that these religious police. Could it be that this religion is for people that are less than animals? |
| By fish, 02-25-08, 10:49 PM |
It's not humanGang beating in public and gang raping in private on the weaker sectors - women and children. They go together. Surprise? Can they get help from the govt? It is the govt doing the beating here. No hope! |
| By Ramin Edalat, 02-26-08, 01:50 AM |
HOUKOUMATE-E-ESLAMI NEMIKHAYM NEMYIKHAMWatch the video on YouTube. Crowds are chanting it.
It means in Farsi
WE DO NOT WANT AN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC.
The game is up boys! |
| By Ardeshir Tehrani, 02-26-08, 10:30 AM |
It is the start of a revolution that will wipe out Islam from our beloved Iranian homelandI have seen the video and i believe it is authentic. We Iranians hate this non-iranian religion (aka Islam) that we never wanted and was forced to us by occupying Arabs in 7th century. Iranians want their country back from terrorists and they will succeed with no doubt. |
| By Azita Partovi, 02-26-08, 10:35 AM |
As an iranian woman...As an iranian woman living under islamic stupidity i want no islam in my neighborhood. Those who impose “islamic dress code” on me, never asked me if i want to be a Muslim or not. I don’t want this violent religion, so %99 of Iranians. Only Ahmedinejad a few other idiots want it. |
| By Anonymous, 02-27-08, 10:14 PM |
L'Honneur de l'Iran ??????pour information !!!!! |
| By Sammy, 02-25-08, 12:09 PM |
Shame on Iran, Chastity police??????What a joke, is this part of a fiction movie that is being nade in Iran????Human rights, human rights are being abused daily, but this time it is a very disturbing factor when it involves on how people must dress.
How can this country called Iran call itself to be civilized, when it is controlled by religious fanatics.
I ask, where is the separation between state and religion in this country called Iran?
Are we living in the 21st Century?
Chastity Police?
Where is the freedom of choice in Iran?
I believe that the Iranian leaders should hide their heads in the sand of the dessert to hide their shame to the rest of the civilized world.
I respect the freedom of religion, and each is free to practice the religion of their choice, but religious laws must not be imposed upon people, and religious laws that take away people’s basic rights are against all principles of civil human rights that each person in this planet is born with.
No religion or their laws must be superior to the basic laws that respect people’s freedom of choice.
Sammy |
| By justincase, 02-25-08, 02:30 PM |
to SammyI am giving a great restpect for that comments.I am in agreement with you on that one.... |
| By shame., 02-25-08, 03:14 PM |
Iranian people. To the Irian people. Do you learn abour Iraq, Aghan, Pakistan, Palestian and Asian. Becareful. Your country still in good shape and keep it that way. Don’t let it be like Iraq yours neighor. Iraq betrayed theirs county and they will go down for 100 years back. |
| By Sammy, 02-25-08, 03:18 PM |
All that brills is not goldClothes and the way that people dress do not determine people’s urge for sex, at times a beautiful girl in a kikini outfit might look sexy, but then when you get to know her, she has no desire to satisfy the sex urge, so people who are attracted to sex symbols are generally immature and have not arrived to the wisdom that sex is related to emotion and love rather than to physical attraction.
But we have some women who are exhibitionist who just want to see how beautiful they are and how many men they can attract, but when it comes to sex it is a different matter,some clam up and are un-responsive, and in some cases lesbians, so all that brills is not gold, for this reason a woman should be left free to choose her clothes and the way that she wants to dress.
Most people have a mis-conception about women and how they dress, seeing a woman in tight clothes that will leave nothing to the immagination automatically stimulates their evil thinking, and consider such a woman to be an easy prey, and this is where the sick minds of un-stable people goes into action, maybe for this reason Arab women cover themselves from head to toe in their dressing, because there are a lot of sick Arab minds that cannot control their emotions when they see a woman with very few clothes, but in civilized societies man has learned that each is free to dress as he or she pleases without the fear of being attracted to being raped due to her clothing.
Yes in Western societies we have rape cases, and this you will find in all societies, the only thing is, that in Western societies, we are open and these things come out on the open, where in other societies many are hidden and never brought out to be evidenced.
I still am for freedom of choice, and people should not be controlled in their dressing as long as their private parts are covered decently, and are free to decorate, color, curl their hair as they wish either covered or non-covered and free to walk, talk, and mingle with the opposite sex as they wish and not being escorted as a handicapped person.
Yes it is correct that women and their exposure of their beauty is and has been used in Western countries to sell, and promote goods, but this is something that some women want to do of their own free will and are not forced by anyone to do it, except for the love of money, as we all know some people do just about anything for money, and this has no international boundries, so we just cannot say that Western women sell themselves, because money is the international language, and it is going on since the beginning of recorded time. |
| By ~galljdaj+, 02-25-08, 09:12 PM |
CIA History of using 'Riots'...... . Various forms have been used by the CIA, for a long time. The current form of 'destabilization' has it recent roots in bringing down Milosovich, the Serbian President. And it is currently being implemented in Venezuela. Cuba has been more difficult to implement it because of the high incedence of cowards that fled Cuba. Just not enough left to be effective.
Lots of earmarks for a CIA SPONSORED RIOT in the article’s information. Its made to look spontaneous but has the marks of structure, and plan.
So the questions of Sammy and his freedom of choice, may well be misguided. It may well be more a case of imposed change by the outside interests that are attempting to subjugate Iran.
I would not jump off the bridge too quickly, in the light of day you may see there is no water. |
| By Sammy, 02-25-08, 10:14 PM |
ONLY A SCUM WOULD BEAT UP A WOMAN~galljdaj+
02-25-08, 04:12 PM
What side are you on? Are you on the side that (fish
02-25-08, 04:07 PM) has stated on his post where Arab women are beaten up in public as well as in private by the male gender?
No one is trying to impose freedom of choice or trying to subjugate Iran or any Muslim country, but free people and free societies everywhere are aware of these gutless people who are nothing but a bunch of cowards that lower their didnity to beat up women, tell me, what kind of person or I should say scum, has the courage to beat up a defenseless woman.
I am an old man, but if I see a man beat up a woman I would with all my force intervene to prevent it, this is something that most Western men would do, because it is an un-written law that a man never hits a woman, no matter what his culture practices, this is cowardly in any society, it also includes children as well, no man will strike a child, I believe these people should be taught a lesson of human dignity on how to treat women, and children, and this is where freedom of choice comes in, a woman has equal rights and is not a personal property, but a human being with individual rights, as well as legal rights under civilized laws, something that lacks in most Arab countries, where civil laws do not exist, and the religious “Sharia” laws do, which are against all civil rights, and human dignity, practiced by scums and men without honor, because a gentleman would never hit a woman, surely these Arabs that beat up women and mis-treat women are not gentlemen, no matter how wealthy they are, and how prestigious they think to be.
Sammy
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| By ~galljdaj+, 02-26-08, 12:32 AM |
Honest Justice! Sammy. My post is in no way supportive of beating up children, men, or women. Nor is supportive of destabilization. Especially destabilization that kills for profit.
Have we not just read stories of Al Qaeda using deficient mentally people for bombings? Such is the worst example. However there are examples everyday of somewhat normal people that have been encouraged into acting, not in their own wellbeing but in the mindset of those talking them into an action they would not normally engage in.
Take abortion’s history in the US. How many activists got talked into violence? and into violence of the worst kinds? Abortion laws today force religious beliefs on many people that do not believe.
There is in Iran, a US Financed destabilization program, conducted by the CIA. Such a program if some group foreign or domestic were engaged in it, would be violating US Law. I believe if OUR LAW prohibits such behavior, it is also illegal for OUR GOVERNMENT to engage in such behavior. Just as Bombing the US EARNS OUR RIGHT TO RETALIATE. Well Iraq did not bomb us, yet we bombed Iraq, and we both agree the Bombers belong at the bar in the ICC to answer was it legal or a crime.
Back to your points about freedom for peoples of the world, I support those efforts, but I do not support those goals as a means to take down another government. The Government of Iran is the Business of the Iranian People. Any! ANY INTERFERENCE is illegal on Our Government’s Part since were have laws prohibiting foreign peoples/countries from engaging in such endeavors.
Honest Justice is what my post was and is calling for. Now I do not know as yet what the case is in Iran related to this Article. Such is not yet clear. My post calls for prudence caution and advises to seek the truth, before, deciding the justness of the woman’s cause.
Of course she need not have been beatup, but the article says she resisted. In the US RODNEY KING GOT BEATUP FOR RESISTING, and that was some time back. Today resistence is just as likely to get a person killed by US Police. The last three times I have been stopped by Our Police guns were drawn or half drawn. That’s a big difference from our youth! The police today are ready to kill first. Such is how they are trained.
Remember the raped woman that violated the Saudi Law by getting into a car with men? And how she was punished not for being raped as was so widely expressed? Did she have any responsibility? Did either of the women commit their acts without knowing they were violating their own laws? I believe they both knew the laws, and violated them on purpose. In my mind, when I do such actions, I have accepted the consequences, no matter what the consequences end up being.
In my younger days many of us were beaten for challenging or demanding better pay through unionization. I was lucky to be in the group that survived, not all did! But we all knew the risks. There were times we believed the police were there to protect both sides. This was not always true! we were often enough beaten by the company men and the police.
We never had any outside interferences, and if there was, would the company and the government have had a 'right' against us? I believe they would have. We certainly faced accusations of outside interests, but we were fighting for American Choices.
So you should be able to understand I support those women, but not if they were/are 'agents' of the CIA PROGRAMS. Not Our Business nor Right. |
| By ~galljdaj+, 02-26-08, 03:06 AM |
Sammy, I disagree about no one imposing...There is another article listed, where our President wants to impose his 'ideas' on another country, and wants other nation’s leaders to support him.
In Iran it is no secret Bush is attempting to effect a regime change, which is really an act of war. He is not merely stating what he believes would be good for Iranians. He is engaged/acting on, what he has 'decided'. And such is far different than Leadership, it is about imposing his 'decisions'! |
| By justincase, 02-26-08, 06:39 AM |
To SammyEven though you are so socialist in your writing or comments I fully agreeded in your commets. |
| By Sammy, 02-26-08, 07:00 AM |
I agree with you~galljdaj+
02-25-08, 10:06 PM
I am in accord with you about this, because the Bush administration has been an abusive, arrogant, and bully administration that has broken all American principles, infact they have called him the “DECIDER” because he thinks that he is a ruling monarch, and he is the king and can do as he pleases, and international laws, or laws in general do not apply to him, through legal manuvers and abusive delegated power he is and has done as he pleases, but I do not know if he realizes that he is destroying America and the principles that it stood for, through the fear that a dictator generally uses, he has managed to con the American people to follow his un-sound principles which are destructive for America and the rest of civilized nations, truly such a person should be impeached, and then turned over to the ICC.
But its seems that no one has the legal power to do this, so once his term expires he will be living happily on his ranch and will be considered to be a champion of evil who has made a mockery of American justice as well as world justice.
Sammy |
| By Anonymous, 02-26-08, 03:04 PM |
Forced conversion.
Azita Partovi;68915:
As an iranian woman living under islamic stupidity i want no islam in my neighborhood. Those who impose “islamic dress code” on me, never asked me if i want to be a Muslim or not. I don’t want this violent religion, so %99 of Iranians. Only Ahmedinejad a few other idiots want it.
I feel for you.
The persian people are warm and friendly by nature.
I feel bad for those who do not wish the yoke of Islam upon them.
Free will is important.
It is time for Iranians to rise up and be free people. |
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