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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve kammerer who wrote (13583)	5/20/2006 9:33:22 AM
From: ILCUL8R	Respond to of 32591

apnews.myway.com [emphasis mine] Iranian Lawmakers Debate Women's Clothing Email this Story May 19, 6:02 PM (ET) By TAREK AL-ISSAWI TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's conservative-dominated parliament is debating a draft law that would discourage women from wearing Western clothing, increase taxes on imported clothes and fund an advertising campaign to encourage citizens to wear Islamic-style garments. A draft received preliminary approval Sunday and lawmakers debated it this week, but the parliament has not passed the bill. If adopted, the measure would require approval by the Guardian Council, a constitutional watchdog. The measure has provoked concern outside Iran after a Canadian newspaper reported it included provisions that would require Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians and other non-Muslims to wear a patch of colored cloth on the front of their garments. The National Post, quoting "Iranian expatriates living in Canada," said the law would require "Iran's roughly 25,000 Jews...to sew a yellow strip of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear blue cloth." In Tehran, legislator Emad Afroogh, who sponsored the bill and chairs the parliament's cultural committee, told The Associated Press on Friday there was no truth to the Canadian newspaper report. "It's a sheer lie. The rumors about this are worthless," he said. Afroogh said the bill seeks only to make women dress more conservatively and avoid Western fashions. "The bill is not related to minorities. It is only about clothing," he said. "Please tell them (in the West) to check the details of the bill. There is no mention of religious minorities and their clothing in the bill," he said. Iranian Jewish lawmaker Morris Motamed told the AP: "Such a plan has never been proposed or discussed in parliament. Such news, which appeared abroad, is an insult to religious minorities here." At Iran's mission to the United Nations, a diplomat, speaking anonymously because he was not allowed to make official statements, called the report "completely false." "We reject that. It is not true. The minorities in Iran are completely free and are represented in the Iranian parliament," the diplomat said. According to the bill, a joint committee of the parliament and Cabinet ministers will decide on the tax increase on imported clothes and other details. "Promotion of Western and spontaneous styles has become a cultural problem in major cities. It needs national attention," Mahmoud Hosseini, spokesman of the cultural committee in the Majlis, or parliament, has said in comments broadcast live on state radio. According to existing law, women must cover from head to toe, but many young women, buoyed by social freedoms granted to them during the 1997-2005 rule of former President Mohammad Khatami, ignore the law. Since conservatives regained control of Iran's most powerful institutions, there have been increasing calls to implement strict Islamic laws that were largely ignored in the past. Iran's Islamic law imposes tight restrictions on women. They need a male guardian's permission to work or travel. They are not allowed to become judges, and a man's court testimony is considered twice as important as a woman's. Despite such restrictions, Iranian women have more rights than their counterparts in Saudi Arabia and some other conservative Muslim countries. They can drive, vote and run for office. The State Department said Friday it was concerned about the reports on a special clothing rule for Iranian minorities. Spokesman Sean McCormack said such a measure would be "despicable" and carry "clear echoes of Germany under Hitler." McCormack said he could not comment further because the precise nature of the proposal was unclear.

To: steve kammerer who wrote (13583)	5/21/2006 5:58:06 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

Steve... You said...."Maybe the propaganda campaign being waged to have US continue this crazy policy of destabilizing every muslim country in the mid east should take a break.".... IMO. No, The policy of destabilizing the ME should have been done many many years ago and I think the Bush administration is absolutely correct to get the enemy fighting and murdering each other instead of being allowed to become even more powerful to the point of more and even more deadly 9/11s. These ME islam religious cultures have hated and been killing each other for over 1500 years and neglect and appeasement by the free world has permitted the more violent portions of the islam culture to come very close to total control of the middle east and other countries. IMO liberal minds and liberal laws created by these liberal minds are on the verge of destroying our culture of freedom and our way of life. IMO fanatic liberal minds and especially those that have managed to get themselves into positions of power within our governments are no less danger to our freedoms and way of life than are the enemy...radical islam. Radical islam is trying to destroy our way of life from the outside with violence and terror and liberal fanatics are working,,,perhaps unwittingly...from the inside. Just as the sane part of our societies are trying to use centuries old hatreds of islam societies to destabilize and there by weaken our enemies so to are our enemies using conflicts within our free societies to weaken and destroy our societies,,,IMO one of the greatest weaknesses within our free societies are fanatic liberal minds and their ability to control our main stream media sources. And up to this point in time I would say radical islam is winning in the war of words. Just yesterday the media reported on how muslim students at a university... I think in California... openly incited hatred of Jews on campus....lets see just how many of them will be charged under the hate laws in the USA? If none are charged then like I said they....radical islam.... are so far winning with the help of our liberal laws that can be used as weapons against our free societies.