Posted on 12/19/2007 10:06:18 AM PST by camerakid400
Tehran, 19 Dec. (AKI) - A top Muslim cleric in Iran, Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani said on Wednesday that women in Iran who do not wear the hijab or Muslim headscarf, should die.
"Women who do not respect the hijab and their husbands deserve to die," said Hassani, who leads Friday prayers in the city of Urumieh, in Iranian Azerbaijan.
"I do not understand how these women who do not respect the hijab, 28 years after the birth of the Islamic Republic, are still alive," he said.
"These women and their husbands and their fathers must die," said Hassani, who is the representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in eastern Azerbaijan.
Hassani's statements came after two Kurdish feminists in Iran were accused of being members of an armed rebel group and of carrying out subversive activities threatening the security of the state.
It is believed that his statements and the arrests could spark a fresh crackdown on women who do not repect the Islamic dress code in Iran.
Thousands of women in Iran have already been warned this year for their "un-Islamic dress" such as wearing tight, short coats and skimpy headscarves.
Make-up is that expensive in the secular Republic of Iran?
Ya know, i gotta hand it to the ROP clerics. Everytime I see things like this it draws me closer to converting from free-thinking Christian, to a brain-dead, oppressed, terrorized and mindless Muslim!! This looks like a FUN religion!!!
/sarc
Well, at least he spared the family goats. He must be a moderate.
12/18/2007
A nervous Iranian regime “lashes out” against the population
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=11068&size=A
The news of hangings - especially when these are public - are part of the regime’s propaganda to stop the people from participating in open-air protests, or even from posing the slightest opposition to authority, whether in the family or in society. Scheduled for tomorrow, in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran, is the execution of a young woman found guilty of defending herself against the violence inflicted by her husband. Rahele killed him a few years ago in order to put an end to a life of abuse. The woman, mother of two children aged 5 and 3, is asking her mother-in-law to pardon her, to spare her from the death penalty. Iran’s laws, inspired by the “lex talionis”, places in the hands of the victim’s family the fate of the person who has committed voluntary or involuntary homicide. But Rahele is herself a victim, a victim of the domestic violence practiced with impunity by husbands and fathers against their wives and daughters.
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The repression is also being unleashed against the places where people meet and where information comes from the outside: universities and internet cafes. Colonel Nader Sarkari, an agent of the state special forces (SSF), informed the official news agency IRNA that between December 14 and 15 alone, 435 coffee shops were raided, 170 were warned, and “23 persons were arrested”, 11 of whom were women. “The use of immoral videogames, obscene photos, and the presence of women wearing improper hijab are among the factors that required the imposition of restrictive measures”, Sarkari said. The closing of internet cafes coincides with a new wave of oppression against women, under the pretext of “improper dress”.
Yes kill them, their fathers, sons, brothers, first second, third, fourth, etc cousins. Also, kill anyone who has looked at or touched them. Also anyone remotely connected with them through any kinship whatsoever. And anyone who even lived in the same village or cities with those people.
Do that and perhaps we won’t have a lunatic Islamic Nuclear Dictatorship to deal with.
Maybe that is the key - ENCOURAGE their lunacy. It will make them self-destruct.
To clerk H ass ani:
OMDB!!!
But surely not the cute ones? (I’m joking folks)
A veiled threat?
Too bad it can't be applied to Hillary.
Well, I’m sure that Hillary and the other Leftists running for the Democrat nomination could reason with this equal and he would change his mind. Perhaps if we’d just all sing a few choruses of “Kumbaya”...
Either that, or he has a "special" fondness for goats (ooops!).
heh
What civilized world can tolerate this?
You’re thinking of the “Seven Veils” dance, methinks....
Hey, who knew top Iranian clerics drive cabs in Canada for their living?
Coochie-coochie-coo! Aye-yi-yi-yi!
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