Because the US needs another excuse for the coming apocalypse.
Iran's Islamic authorities are preparing a crackdown on women flouting the stringent dress code in the clearest sign yet of social and political repression under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.From today police in Tehran will be under orders to arrest women failing to conform to the regime's definition of Islamic morals by wearing loose-fitting hijab, or headscarves, tight jackets and shortened trousers exposing skin.
Offenders could be punished with £30 fines or two months in jail. Officers will also be authorised to confront men with outlandish hairstyles and people walking pet dogs, an activity long denounced as un-Islamic by the religious rulers.
Because what a women is wearing and what she looks like is a representation of that state/government/society. Her body becomes a visual map of the state of affairs (whether it be gross displays of capitalist fetishism or conservative fundamentalism). Everywhere.
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For once, Islam has come up with something brilliant. I'm totally declaring Jihad on the people that let their dogs poop in my yard.
Since most of the original Western laws pertaining to women's rights were taken from Islam, I'd say they've come up with a few brilliant things. People like this are just abusing Islam for their own ends.
I don't get the ban on dog-owning.
In most traditionally Islamic cultures, dogs are considered unclean animals comparable to jackals and hyenas.
Cheers,
TH