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To: Elroy who wrote (236690)	7/17/2007 5:20:19 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 281500

Iran to intensify dress crackdown Agencies Published: July 17, 2007, 09:25 gulfnews.com Tehran: Iranian police said they will intensify a crackdown against un-Islamic dressing in the next few days. Police chief Ahmad Reza Radan said twice as many policemen will be deployed from July 23 to catch men and especially women who wear tighter or more revealing clothes. In Iran it is considered un-Islamic for women to wear a veil that does not fully cover the hair or if one's overcoat is too short or too tight. Also banned are western-style hair cuts and spiked up hair, and plucked eyebrows. Violators can receive lashes, fines or imprisonment. undreds of women have already been arrested and some beaten by police since the drive began in April, human rights groups say. "Our colleagues will give necessary notification to those who won't act within the social norms of society," said Mehdi Ahmadi, head of the police information centre. He said women who ignored police advice would be taken to police stations "to improve their behaviour".

To: Elroy who wrote (236690)	7/17/2007 5:20:25 AM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

my views are based on history. The Saudis will never get involved in day-to-day operations, but will need to be involved when a major decision is made.

To: Elroy who wrote (236690)	7/17/2007 7:26:14 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

It's amazing how some people believe that the Palestinian people are always somehow controlled by others - it makes it really easy to absolve them of responsibility for their actions. Follow the money, Elroy. The Pals are enormous per capita consumers of foreign aid - and the figures usually given, which add up to over 1 billion per year, do NOT count the sums flowing to Hamas, PIJ, PLO etc from Saudi Arabia and Iran. The Pal leadership, since the days of the Mufti, has never been about Pal independence. Why should it be? There was no original notion of a Palestine separate from other Arab countries, that was brought into being as part of the resistance against Zionism. The Pal leadership has always been about milking other Arabs and Westerners for The Cause. The Arab leaders in turn, find The Cause extremely useful. Historians will scratch their heads wondering what made the Westerners buy into this sucker's game. Like any leadership, the Pal leadership is responsive to those who give them money, who are NOT the Palestinians. If Hamas tried to really assert its own independence in Gaza, they would have to break not only with other Arabs, they would have to break with their own leadership in Damascus. Then they would be expected to make their own living like other people and they would swiftly find that they could no longer afford their jihad. But jihad is their entire raison d'etre. Which is why it's never going to happen.