Posted on 11/12/2007 6:00:38 AM PST by MNJohnnie
ranian police have unveiled a list of "vices" -- including makeup, un-Islamic dress and decadent movies -- being targeted in an ongoing moral crackdown, a conservative newspaper reported on Monday.
The list was published in the Jomhuri Eslami newspaper as part of a police drive launched in April which has seen the arrest of "thugs", raids on underground parties, seizures of satellite dishes, and street checks of improperly dressed individuals.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last week urged police to keep up its crackdown on social vices, saying they must "fulfill their duties regardless of some opposition and propaganda."
Some moderates have questioned the need for the moral crackdown but conservatives have applauded police for a drive they say is popular with the public and necessary to improve security in society.
"The list of illegal behaviour against the security and morality of society which will be pursued by police... has been announced," the Jomhuri Eslami said.
The list, which does not make any reference to gender, highlights the fight against extortionists and drug dealers as well as what it terms "inappropriate" clothing which is short, tight or seethrough.
Thousands of women have been warned for wearing tight, short coats and skimpy headscarves and for flouting the Islamic dress code, which requires every post-pubescent woman to cover their hair and body contours.
"Wearing boots with short pants, wearing hats or scarves which do not fully cover hair and neck instead of the proper head veil and putting on unusual make-up that contradicts public chastity (is forbidden)," the list said.
"Wearing Western-style clothes and insignias of deviant groups (usually a reference to referring to Satanists or rappers)," was on the list alongside "production and distribution of decadent movies as well as private home-made videos."
Iran has in recent months stepped up executions of criminals rounded up in the drive, in a clear warning to those deemed a menace to societ
Nothing on the list about little children, goats, or honor killings?
I guess pedophilia is a virtue, not a vice, in Iran.............
Yeah, and Mushariff is more evil than the mullahs, etc,etc.
Where’s NOW and all the femnazis? Rosie where are you? Wow I just saw a tumbleweed roll by.
The rats of the “Islamic Revolution” are quickly turning Iran into a Taliran concentration camp, Like Afghanistan was.
Are the Iranian people so weak and broken of a people, they cannot fight back against their own oppressors? Even among the Iraqis and Afghanies, there were *some* valiant souls who took up struggle against those who oppressed them, even though their oppressors claimed to be doing the will of God with their evil.
This is why dictators ALWAYS disarm the people.
The acme of Democrat wet dreams..to live like Paris, Morten Downey Jr, and the rest of the Hollywood leeches.
I’ve got some they can add:
Smoking in public at say a bar or pub.
Drinking more than 2 beers in a hotel bar/restaurant.
Wearing pants that expose your underwear in public.
Placing a religious themed display on your yard during Christmas.
Instructing your children that homosexuality is immoral and a perversion of the sex act.
Our own nation has a “vice list” that many have not seen yet.
Oh, so makeup is offensive but uncontrolled facial hair isn’t? Puh.
There are always ways. No dictator can rule without the consent of the people, unless the dictator is willing to engage in wholesale and indiscriminate mass killing of
the populations.
a train switch here, a control panel there, a factory of a regime supporter burns to the ground, work slow downs...
It is a matter of will..Will the Iranian people continue to put up with what the oppressors do to them, without even random acts of sabotage? How can you remove a dictators forces if you cannot even make them fearful to waljk the streets? We are winning in Iraq, because the Iraqi *people* have had enough of the Al Qaeda and the criminals and the Iranian trash in their country, killing *them*. It is the Iraqis that are rooting out and no longert sheltering the thugs, that are giving us our true long term successes... the ones that will get them back their country, without a dictator, or assasin pigs, or even *us* having to be there to keep it all from falling apart again....Iraq *is* moving towaeds freedom, even as Iran sinks into a Hitleresque prison state.
What's going to be even funnier will be the Left's panic in horror when they finally succeed in establishing an Islamic theocracy in the West and realize that they're back in colonial Massachusetts, most of them wearing scarlet letters (if they're lucky).
Those of us who abhor the sleaziness and excesses of the Left--sexual promiscuity, decadent movies, cultural sleaze, etc.--are going to have a good laugh!
They'd be up in arms if someone made underwear mandatory for wearers of short skirts.
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