Iran Watch: Iran Enforces Female Islamic Dress Code
Cox & Forkum: Slave to Fashion
MEMRI:Police, Improperly Clad Women Clash In Tehran.
Male and female police officers clashed with women who were not dressed according to the Islamic dress code.
The clashes, which took place at Haft Tir Square in Tehran, came during the current Iranian security forces campaign to enforce the dress code.
One girl who refused to get into the police car was beaten by police, and removed from the area by civilians who were called to the scene.
Source: Rooz, Iran, May 21, 2007
IRAN: THOSE NOT RESPECTING ISLAMIC DRESS CODE ARE ANIMALS SAYS GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL
Iranians who do not abide by Islamic dress code rules are animals, according to an Iranian government aide quoted by Iran’s official news agency IRNA. “Anyone abandoning the principles of Islamic dress codes become members of the animal world,” said Zahra Suizi, an education ministry official. In an interview on the moralization campaign launched last month by the government of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, under which women can be arrested if they do not strictly abide by Muslim dress codes, Suizi said the veil “is a moral and religious obligation.”
“The hijab (veil) represents the essence of women and it is the symbol of a population and a country,” said the government official.
News photos of Islamic dress code crackdown in Iran
From MEMRI: Video of Islamic dress code enforcement
Masih has published these two pictures from the recent Police Brutality against “improper veiled†women in Iran.
From Iran Press News:
Photos of Iranians under attack by Islamic regime’s guards for improper clothing
More photos of Islamic dress code enforcement
Video of woman being arrested as part of the dress code crack down
Video of another woman being kickd into a police car for wearing her hijad “incorrectly”
Video of Tehran university student protesting dress code and being accosted by a disciplinary guard
Gulf News: Iran rejects US criticism of dress code.
The Weekly Standard: The Subjection of Islamic Women, And the fecklessness of American feminism.
The subjection of women in Muslim societies–especially in Arab nations and in Iran–is today very much in the public eye. Accounts of lashings, stonings, and honor killings are regularly in the news, and searing memoirs by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi have become major best-sellers. One might expect that by now American feminist groups would be organizing protests against such glaring injustices, joining forces with the valiant Muslim women who are working to change their societies. This is not happening. …One reason is that many feminists are tied up in knots by multiculturalism and find it very hard to pass judgment on non-Western cultures. They are far more comfortable finding fault with American society for minor inequities (the exclusion of women from the Augusta National Golf Club, the “underrepresentation” of women on faculties of engineering) than criticizing heinous practices beyond our shores. The occasional feminist scholar who takes the women’s movement to task for neglecting the plight of foreigners is ignored or ruled out of order.
Indeed, what NOT to wear.
And American feminists?
The slilence is DEAFENING.
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