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Iran Is Arresting Models Who Pose Without Headscarves On Instagram (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Tehran cybercrimes court said the country has arrested eight people working for online modeling agencies deemed to be "un-Islamic." The women models were arrested for starring in photos on Instagram and elsewhere without wearing their headscarves, which has been required in public since 1979. A total of 170 people have been identified by investigators for being involved in online modeling, including 59 photographers and make-up artists, 58 models and 51 fashion salon managers and designers. The court's prosecutor Javad Babaei announced the the threats on TV, claiming modeling agencies accounted for about 20 percent of posts on Instagram from Iran and that they had been "making and spreading immoral and un-Islamic culture and promiscuity." He added, "We carried out this plan in 2013 with Facebook, and now Instagram is the focus."
Perhaps some enterprising Persian can invent headscarves that look like... hair.
All it seems to exist for is as an excuse to exercise control over people's lives, and as an excuse for violence. My philosophy? So long as you're not breaking any laws or causing anyone else harm, do whatever pleases you. Why does it have to be any different than that?
Women are property with no rights, gays should be stoned to death, people who leave the faith are executed by family members. This is what life is like in Iran since the Islamists took over. This is what Islamists want for the world.
But for some reason you gullible westerners would rather get outraged at keeping boys out of girls toilets. You almost deserve it.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Exactly. A lot of people just aren't getting this. Trump isn't really conservative, and he's proving that many Republican voters aren't either. They don't care for the religious BS that idiots like Santorum push (like trying to ban contraceptives), and they're not for the hardline economic conservatism that "let's eliminate taxes on the billionaires" candidates like Marco advocate. They apparently don't even care much about which bathroom trans people use. They don't see the Democrats as working for them instead of the Wall Street bankers and Hollywood, and they're usually not college educated and are having a hard time with employment, so Trump is the first candidate in a long time who seems to speak for them, so that's why they're rallying around him no matter how much he flip-flops.