Cahaya’s Rants

It all starts with one simple sentence, spoken almost in a whisper, but which has a thunderous effect.A female police officer deployed in Tehran’s latest moral crackdown tells a woman that her manto (overcoat) is too short and infringes Iranian Islamic dress rules. “Azizam (my dear), good afternoon, if possible could we have a friendly chat, please allow us to have a small chat,” the officer, a graduate of Tehran’s police academy, tells the young woman.

“My dear there is a problem with your manto. Please do not wear this kind of manto. Please wear a longer manto from now on.”

Some are just let go there, but others are escorted to waiting minibuses with dark black tinted window panes and labelled “Guidance Patrol.”

A girl in a short white manto whose long hair was tumbling out the front of her headscarf is taken by the police to one of the minibuses on Vanak Square in central Tehran — an unexpected and unhappy end to her shopping trip.

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Look at how the young woman is dressed. Does that look like vice to you? If Iran is an example of how Islamic law is practised, Malaysia better not ask to be an Islamic state! Can you see all the Malay girls in their tight outfits but wearing their “tudungs” being rounded up by the moral police?

Is it any wonder that young people in societies like those in Iran and Saudi Arabia feel like they are being caged? Sooner or later they rebel, and one way of rebelling is the use of illegal drugs.

If you care to browse around the internet there are plenty of sexy home made (I mean x- rated!) videos of young people from Middle-Eastern countries. The moral police can arrest young people for breaking the dress code, but there are other ways that they can get around the moral police.

Are we to believe that Muslims do not visit prostitutes?  A discussion at Islamicity Forum about AIDS in Muslim countries reveal the denial that some Muslims are in - that Muslims do not involve themselves in activities that expose themselves to the AIDS virus.

There is without a doubt a great denial in the the belief and the practise of Islam among the Muslim population.

From the Spiegel:

German Brothel Removes Muslim Flags Amid Threats

A German brothel seeking to drum up business during the World Cup has been forced to remove the national flags of Saudi Arabia and Iran from an array of flags on its facade after threats from Muslims saying it was insulting their faith.

DPA The offending poster is plastered on the side of the Pascha Brothel in Cologne.

It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Europe’s largest brothel, the Pascha in Cologne, which incidentally claims to be the world’s only brothel with a money-back guarantee for dissatisfied customers, attached the flags of all 32 nations competing in the World Cup to its façade in a bid to demonstrate international flair and attract custom during the tournament this summer.

A giant poster covering the side of the seven-story, 126-apartment building showed a friendly-looking blonde woman lifting up her bra above the slogan “A Time to Make Girlfriends”, in a play on the World Cup’s official slogan “A Time to Make Friends.” Right beneath her pink panties were posters of the flags, including those of strictly Islamic Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Pascha’s manager Armin Lobscheid had also erected real flags of all the World Cup nations on another side of the building.

The campaign provoked excitement, but not the kind the management was hoping for. Men from the Muslim community came to the door complaining that showing the flags of Saudi Arabia and Iran was an insult to the Prophet Muhammad. Later, some returned in masks.

“On Friday evening we were threatened by 11 masked men who demand that we take down the Saudi Arabian flag,” Lobscheid told the Kölner Express, a local newspaper. Not wanting any trouble, the brothel obliged and removed it and the Iranian one. But that still left the flags printed on the poster.

“On Saturday night there were 20 masked men armed with knives and sticks. They threatened to get violent and even bomb the place unless we black out the Iranian and Saudia Arabian flags on the poster as well,” said Lobscheid.

The men had left before the police arrived. But to spare his establishment any more trouble, Lobscheid ordered a crane to black out the two flags as well. Lobscheid is now considering filing a complaint but also wants to hold talks with the local Muslim community.