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IRAN: CARTOON CELEBRITY BANNED FROM UNIVERSITY (The repression spreads -- blacklisting Iran style)
adnkronosinternational ^ | 7 May 2007 | AKI

Posted on 05/07/2007 4:43:26 PM PDT by Cornpone

Tehran, 7 May (AKI) - Nureddin Zarrinkelk, a celebrated Iranian animated cartoonist, has been expelled from the fine arts department of the university of Tehran where he taught, reports said Monday. He is accused of having made fun of a female student who was wearing the full Islamic chador covering calling her a "primitive" according to pro-government news agency Rajanews. Zarrinkelk, 70, an icon of Iranian animated cinema, will not be allowed to teach anymore as part of new punitive measures in a moralization campaign which kicked off late last month and provides for the arrest of women who do not abide by strict Islamic dress codes.

Zarrinkelk had already been banned from teaching right after the 1979 Islamic revolution.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cartoons; chador; iran; islam; muhammadsminions; primitive; primitivechador; repression; sharia

1 posted on 05/07/2007 4:43:30 PM PDT by Cornpone
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To: Cornpone

You seen one Chador you have seen them all.

2 posted on 05/07/2007 4:49:05 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: Cornpone
the fine arts department of the university of Tehran

The lower case usage speaks volumes.

That would like the School of NASCAR at Oxford University.

3 posted on 05/07/2007 4:49:44 PM PDT by oyez
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To: Cornpone; Pookie

He's no Tex Avery, but whatever.

4 posted on 05/07/2007 4:49:50 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: oyez

Good point.


5 posted on 05/07/2007 4:51:11 PM PDT by Cornpone (Islam: The world's greatest, preventable and treatable psychosis. ©2006Cornpone)
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To: Cornpone

If he’s guilty as charged, I actually agree. (Imagine a teacher here making fun of a student’s yarmulke or crucifix.) Trouble is, you can bet your sweet bippy that this crackdown is only against secularists. A teacher who made fun of some non-Islamic student or form of dress would be cheered by Tehran’s current insane regime.


6 posted on 05/07/2007 4:53:51 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: Cornpone
All I can think of of when I think of the pronunciation of Chodah is the New England way to say Chowder...Chowda!

French Chowda

7 posted on 05/07/2007 4:54:11 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776

I see they are putting more style in the larger sizes now.


8 posted on 05/07/2007 4:56:53 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Even nuns don’t dress like that anymore.


9 posted on 05/07/2007 4:57:07 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (L'Chaim!)
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To: FARS; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fedora; Fred Nerks; KlueLass; ...
Ping!
10 posted on 05/07/2007 5:16:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated May 7, 2007.)
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To: Cornpone
He is accused of having made fun of a female student who was wearing the full Islamic chador covering calling her a "primitive"

Go figure.

11 posted on 05/07/2007 5:26:32 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("Proudly keeping one iron boot on the necks of libertarian faux 'conservatives' since 1958!")
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To: AmericanMade1776

She would look better if she stepped out of a carny ride and had a blast of air blow her dress up! Like Marilyn Monroe!


12 posted on 05/07/2007 5:59:04 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross on your lawn the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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