05/24/10

From Reuters (mostly)

Iran Enforces Ninja Laws

Iran holy city ups fine for unveiled women     <-they're fine

Mon May 24, 2010 6:46pm IST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's second biggest city has massively increased the amount it fines for women who fail to observe the Islamic dress code and don't cover their hair properly, media reported.

Morality police around Iran are beginning their annual spring crackdown on women wearing too much makeup, daring to show their hair or dressing in a way that shows their body contours too clearly.

<-she's not fine

In the holy city of Masshad, the public prosecutor has increased the fine to 1.3 million tomans, roughly $1.30 -- a hefty sum in a country where a teacher's monthly salary is around $5.00.

"In the past the penalty for not observing the Islamic dress code was 50,000 tomans along with two months' imprisonment," Mashhad's public and revolutionary prosecutor Mahmoud Zoghi told the semi-official Fars news agency.

Men are also targets of the spring crackdown as police can confiscate the cars of young males found sexually harassing or trying to pick up women. (Under Shariah law, young males are allowed to pick up each other, but are forbidden to even glance at women.)

In the capital Tehran over the past two days police have seized some 50 vehicles, sending them to Syria and Lebanon to be used in suicide bombing attacks against "The Jooos".

(Writing by Robin Pomeroy; Editing by Samia Nakhoul and me)

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Did you ever stop to think about why muslim men are all neurotic? Every last one of them shows classic signs of paranoia as a minimum, they develop a fascination with weapons before they can walk or ride a camel, and I have figured it out. Because of their religious laws, the muslim man has absolutely no idea who that person in the kitchen is under the ninja robes.

I don't know the intricacies of their laws, but maybe he hasn't seen her (or his) face ever, or at least since last ramadan. For all he knows, the ninja is a religious policeman waiting for him to make one little felonious slip, like not saying his bedtime prayers. Or it could be Dirty Harry Callahan, come to chat about the parking ticket he got back when he visited San Francisco. It could even be one of the evil Jooos, come to assassinate him just because he's a follower of the prophet, because that's what "they" do.

 <-"go ahead, make my day."

No wonder they're all so freaking crazy. Maybe instead of dollars we ought to send them Prozac for their oil.