I will not be welcome in Iran for my fashion sense
After reading an article about dress code in Iran, it spooks me.Not because I have anything against hijab.I suppose if it were in fashion I would be similarly dressed.What irks me is I will have no choice but to wear what big bradda dictates what I should wear.
Imagine my whole wardrobe has to be thrown away.Believe me,I have an extensive range of clothing!Some of them I spent hours shopping for to get the best bargains.Women look good.Why should they hide their beauty?If ‘men’ cannot stand the sight of women’s hair,then the men have a problem.What is wrong with color?
This is nothing to do with modesty but with taste.Are Iranian folk so sexually immature as the authorities make them out to be?If they are right,this will mean our Malaysian population will have become sex-crazed maniacs by now with the sight of cheongsam/sari/kebaya clad women loose on the streets and men with gelled hair,colored hair,long hair and with many wearing short-sleeved shirts in our hot climate.
Harassing the women,peeking into cars,taxis,poking into people’s lives will not win them any fans but of course they do not care.The ‘hijab’ police are in my opinion worse than the women and men they harass.Can you imagine thousands cautioned,hundreds arrested in the capital Iran over their Islamic dress.
The people instrumental in the harassment are the police. However Iranian TV has reported that an opinion poll conducted in Tehran found 86% of people were in favor of the crackdown - a statistic that stuns me if the report from BBC is true.I don’t know any Iranians or have ever been in Iran BUT I know women.We are all sisters.
A shopkeeper selling evening dresses told the BBC the moral police had ordered him to saw off the breasts of his mannequins because they were too revealing :).Men too face the same music.Young men are being cautioned for wearing short sleeved shirts or for their hairstyles.
It also raises the question of the timing.Why are they suddenly enforcing the dress code so rigidly.Is it because it wants to distract attention from the rising cost of living in Iran and increasing tension with the international community over the nuclear issue?
Posted in on April 28th, 2007 by suzie | |
on May 7th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
WE all have to take better care of our selfs….this will reflect on us a little but on our kids it will have a deeper impact