"savages? come now... surely enforcing a dresscode isn't savage... or is that what the opinion of the middle east has come to? christ people... get a grip...

this is NOT YOUR COUNTRY... don't expect to understand their customs or enforcement policies.
you can run around naked in certain places in europe, and yet you cannot in America... i wonder if Sweden is saying "oh... they have to wear clothes... savages...""

That's a totally bogus argument. Really, totally, I can't believe the amount of bullshit, but it's made all the time.

Right and wrong is not a matter of which country you live in or what poisonous regime happens to be in power at the time, or what despicable religion you practice, or culture, custom, or consensus. Yes, enforcing a dress-code is savagery, all the more so when it's done by the state. It's absurd for one thing, and petty, but most significantly it infringes on the basic right to individual sovereignty, and is therefore a crime against humanity. The perpetrators and those who sympathise with them are disqualified from the human race and should be burned alive with the rest of the filth.

THE MESSAGE IN THIS VIDEO IS HOW OPPRESSIVE AND FASCISTIC AN ISLAMIC SHARIA GOVERNMENT IS---not only to women but everyone who values Democratic Freedoms. Iran happens to be currently explicitly threatening unleashing unbridled violence via "bomb threats" on the world of Democratic values and any country trying to insitute such values as is the current situation in Iraq---which Iran is trying to de-stabilize in order to take over Iraq. I do not support the Islamic extremists in Saudi Arabia either or any other Muslim asshole fanatics. Thank Be To Goodness that they are not be-heading people in Afghanistan anymore. Those of you who think "Islamic Law" is "Just" should go and live in an Islamic country under "Sharia Law" and see how much freedom of "speech" or otherwise you would have.

I think Coupland and pho3n1x would definitly wind up "in the bus" and then jail in this so-called "most stable and secular Islamic state". TELL ME WHAT'S "SECULAR" ABOUT THIS "ISLAMIC" DRESS CODE ? Kudos to Garsh for his comments.

pho3n1x does not know what being oppressed is. The "this is not your country" comment suggests no one has the right to freely speak about the obviously oppressive policies of another country---and that IS stupid. Women beware of pho3n1x.

I could not stand the angry squawk of that oppressive and stupid Burka clad woman harassing women going about their daily business. Maybe that's the kind of "dress code" you like pho---let's put a burka on you and shut your mouth with Sharia Law.

I have close Iranian friends who know how bad the current situation is in Iran and are glad to be out of Iran.

Secular islamic state? I want some of what coupland's been smoking.

That wasn't just a "conversation" between women. That was a female police officer enforcing the dress code. Are you telling me that you didn't get a shiver up your spine when the officer told the lady at the end to come onto the bus?

And this was more than "just a recording". Whoever recorded that video took an enormous risk. The Iranian police do not take kindly to being recorded.

Some 150,000 women have been detained in Iran for violating strict new Islamic dress code rules, the country's top police officer has announced. "During the first four days [since the code came into effect] we have picked up 150,000 women who were not properly veiled, but many of them were released after they signed an admission of guilt and a formal apology," General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam told journalists. An unspecified number of the women taken into custody were also forced to undergo psychological counseling, Moghaddam said.

“Only 13 of these women are still being held and they will have to stand trial," he explained.





Story with links here:

http://kamangir.net/2007/04/27/more-conservative-parts-of-blogestan-against-the-veil-program/

Wonderful!

It could be a recital for a University program they are lax about dress code there.

I don't see how having a dress code would've stopped the student from using the advanced "hiding things behind your back" technique.