Kamangir (Archer)

Islamic Virus Scan

Kamangir | October 19, 2006 | Category Iran

Ahmadinejad chose Islam Shahr as the scene for his last with-the-people show. Islam Shahr (Persian: اسلام شهر), literally meaning city of Islam, is an underdeveloped suburb of Tehran. While Ahmadinejad loves poor areas, he has also another very understandable reason for not going very far from Tehran. When a Muslim goes away from his hometown, many Islamic rituals change. For example, for a traveller, number of Rakaats (parts) of praying are half. Also, a traveller can not fast. This, it is generally discouraged for a Muslim to travel in Ramadan. As I remember, Islam Shahr is an hour south of the central part of Tehran. Still, according to a Fatwa by Khomeini, regarding “big cities” (Arabic: بلاد کبیره), it is a part of Tehran.

When Ahmadinejad goes to cities and towns, I look for signs of creativity. This time, it is the picture shown here. The “Islamic Virus Scan”, has detected bush as a “so dangerous” virus which can be defeated by “unity”. The dialog’s icon looks very familiar to me, but I can’t recall where I have seen it. The good thing is, after all, the “Islamic Virus Scan” works on Windows xp. To see a few other very typical images of his trip see the rest of this post.