"Iran cracks down on female models posing without headscarves online"

[bighart]

"TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian police have arrested eight people in a new crackdown targeting "un-Islamic acts" online such as female models posting images of themselves without their hair covered, state media reported Monday, part of a larger cultural struggle in the Islamic Republic over the country's future.

The arrests follow the detentions of artists, poets, journalists and activists as moderate President Hassan Rouhani's administration secured a landmark nuclear deal with world powers.

The arrests and harsh sentences handed down signal that hard-liners in the police and judiciary, who were unable to stop the accord and fear looser social norms will weaken the Islamic Republic, still hold significant power in the country.

Meanwhile, journalists, filmmakers, writers and activists also have been detained, sentenced or imprisoned."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-cracks-down-on-female-models-posing-without-headscarves-online/ar-BBt7MxV?li=BBnb7Kz


This kind of stuff just pisses me off. Oppressors just gotta oppress I suppose.

[Scootaloo]

1. Reactionary shitheads gonna reactionary shithead

[bighart]

3. Care to elaborate?

Not sure what you mean here.
I find the oppression by these hardline fundies sad. Holding on to power seems to be all they are concerned with.

[leftynyc]

2. There's a thread about this in LBN

Already somebody blaming the west for this. Same as it ever was.

[bighart]

4. Since this is in LBN do you think I should delete this post?

I just got really pissed when I read the article.

[leftynyc]

5. Up to you

I was just letting you know. Most people in the other thread are putting the blame where it belongs - on the mullahs. But some just have to blame the west because we're responsible for all the evil in the world.

[Bucky]

6. Why do I get the sense there's an orange haired mullah over there trying to "Make Iran great again"?

[bighart]

8. Does he have to keep his orange hair covered?

[Bucky]

9. not if the hair wants to be free

According to google image search, you can still see the color of their hair, even if you build a wall around their scalps

[pnwmom]

7. So much for the theory often expressed here that veiling is completely voluntary,

even among women in the most fundamentalist families.

[Bucky]

10. modern gals in Tehran

They should be covered more. That one on the right is committing the sin of filling my eyes with lust.

[FLPanhandle]

11. Only the apologists for misogamy claim it's all voluntary.

The apologists make me sick.

[Scootaloo]

12. Of course, Iran is a different country than the United States

[pnwmom]

14. There are fundamentalist families even in the U.S. n/t

[Scootaloo]

15. Yes, indeed there are

And that has what to do with Iran, and your expectation that anyone is riding out to defend Iran?

[pnwmom]

17. Women in Iran are being forced to wear veils and even some women who wear them in the US

are being forced -- but by family members rather than the government.

[gollygee]

16. I've seen that said, but only about people here in the US.

There are no legal requirements to wear anything on the head in the US.

[Warren DeMontague]

13. Yay, another victory for decency and morality!

[davidn3600]

18. But DUers have said wearing the hijab is a "voluntary act"

I just read that on DU yesterday.