Perspective is important. So is George W. Bush’s world view and the Bush Doctrine.
In searching for a story I read today about the Iranian police cracking down on women who don’t dress in black tents and look through slits in Iran, I stumbled onto a story in the Telegraph about the triumphant return of the frilly shirt. Usually I wouldn’t have cared. The liberals’ fashion division gives me gas.
They were ultra-cool on moustachioed men in the Seventies – and laughable in retrospect. But frilly shirts are now the height of chic, finds Clare Coulson
—Yay! I’m all for that look!
Then I nearly upchucked as I zoomed past a raving and fawning story on how suave and debonair George (I’m a Hollywood liberal ass!) Clooney is. No liberals are anything but suave and de boner of course, but this time I wondered aloud (and I was alone) if he read the story about the crackdown on Iranian women, and how that might help shape his world view. Then I stopped caring what George Clooney thinks about anything because I know he thinks of little more than being a Hollywood liberal ass.
Then I found the story I was looking for:
Police warn 64,000 Tehran women for slack dressing
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iranian police have handed warnings to some 64,000 “badly veiled” women in Tehran during a month-long summer crackdown on un-Islamic dressing, press reports have quoted a police spokesman.
“Over the past month, 63,963 Tehrani women have received warnings… and some have made a written pledge (to dress properly),” Mohammad Reza Alipour from the capital’s police force said.
Every post-pubescent woman in the Islamic republic is required to cover her hair and body in public, and crackdowns on un-Islamic dressers are common in summer when many women opt for cooler short, bright coats and Capri pants.
Religious and traditional women wear the chador—literally meaning “tent”—which is an enveloping black head-to-toe cover.
A large number of women in Tehran and other big cities have been pushing the boundaries in recent years by sporting skimpy head scarves that barely cover their hair and sandals showing off painted toe-nails.
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…Because nothing says stylin’ and freedom like an Iranian Islamo-fascist regime sending squads of goons out to beat women over the head for not dressing in a black tent.
I also found this story from back in June about a protest rally in Iran which no doubt inspired those Iranian freedom luvin’ government officials and police into action against half the population and, you know, freedom itself:
TEHRAN, Iran—Iranian police with batons and shields beat women’s rights demonstrators in a downtown Tehran square Monday, injuring one protester and detaining 20.
The injured woman was taken to a hospital with wounds to her face and head. Her identity and further details were not immediately available.
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