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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.
But they were breaking laws.
Stupid laws, yes, but they were being broken.
We should make an islamic instagram app that automatically superimposes hijab/niqab on all females in a given shot. Hek it just removes all females from pics. Also it additionally gives men long beards and a unibrow for extra piety points.
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Iran wasn't so stuck in the past.
Indeed. Before Iran became an Islamic Republic, it was an enlightened American client state, ruled by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a really great guy, who provided his people with the most modern instruments of torture, and housed his political prisoners in state of the art facilities. It is surprising how ungrateful the Iranian people are toward America, since we installed and unselfishly supported this wonderful regime for nearly three decades, and we gave them plenty of advice on how to build and run the prisons that kept all the troublemakers locked up. All we asked for in return was plenty of cheap oil.
Cops in the US will arrest women for going topless in public. What's the difference?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Both of those regimes are/were messed up in their own special way.
It's too bad that sheeple put up with such tyranny, in either case.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
How about if you kiss her on the mouth?
You are welcome on my lawn.
As mentioned, this *is* a law. But laws can be changed.
Women can be, and have been, elected to national political office in Iran. In fact, 84 of 435 (19.3%) of their national representatives are women. That isn't that great, admittedly, but at least it's--
Oh wait, those are the US house of reps numbers. Our senate has 20 women out of 100 senators, roughly the same ratio.
Meanwhile, Iranian women MPs are 21 of 290, or 7%. But before you argue how backwards that is compared to the US, reflect that it is roughly the representation the US had in the early 1990s.
So there's hope for a more representational government, both for Iran and the US.
Dump the breaking laws part and replace harm with significant harm and you got it.
Laws can be made up to be anything the rulers want it doesn't make them just.
Most actions a person makes affects someone else and may cause harm to someone else. if I go out in public showing my face some people may be offended, that can be construed as harm. However I don't consider being offended as significant harm. One of the things I see more and more people thinking they have the right not to be offended. I believe this should never be a right.
And I laugh when people complain about Baptists!!
Not even in the same ballpark.
Trump is the creation of people like you, that called every mild person you disagreed with Hitler, and thus were all vanquished.
You got exactly what you wanted, all of the mild people banished, and replaced by hard men and women who punch back twice as hard when challenged because it's the only way to stand up to people calling you Hitler - they obviously will not listen to reason, only louder bluster.
It's obviously what you wanted as you worked so hard for this to com to pass. Strange that you sound unhappy.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Third world problems.
Have gnu, will travel.
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
International, US survey, or Nautical? Statute? Roman, Italian, or Chinese?
African, or European? No, wait... that's swallows.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
"The territorial principle (also territoriality principle) is a principle of public international law under which a sovereign state can prosecute criminal offences that are committed within its borders." [wikipedia]
I would say that those women committed the picture-crime on US-based servers - no against US law. But the policemen viewing the pictures from Iran committed the immoral thing of viewing uncovered "US-based" pictures in Iran - against Iran law. I say let's sue those indecent Iranian policeman!
Well, I've got to get back to work. When I stop rowing, the slave ship just goes in circles.
For those on the other side of the pond who've never heard of it, the world's largest annual music competition - Eurovision - just voted a muslim woman as the winner. Of course, that was more a slam at Russia than anything else, since she's a Tatar and was singing about how the Russians ethnically cleansed her great grandmother.
Monkeywrench Ex Machina.
It wasn't that long ago that Christians were burning each other at the stake for being the wrong kind of Christian.
It doesn't take much for religionists to regress to this kind of mentality.