Kamangir (Archer)

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1. Vince P | April 23rd, 2007 at 6:03 am

   Hello.. Another blog I read, Gates of Vienna, had a post on this very topic. Near the end of the post they said:

   gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/04/clever-mullahs-and-their-crows.html

   quote
   There are another nineteen pictures in the whole grouping that accompanies this second set. Some of them are haunting.

   Unless you read Farsi, you’ll have to guess what’s being said. Looking at some of the photos, though, it is obvious that not all of the men agree with this edict. You will notice that any pictures with a full frontal shot of the Morality Police lets you see their badges. These are a bunch of mean girls dressed in black…don’t you agree they look like crows? Sister Mary Agnes was positively benign in comparison.
   unquote

   I’m not connected with that blog at all (other than reading it) but thought of you when they said they dont know how to read Farsi.. was wondering if there’s any help in getting it in English?

2. Kamangir | April 23rd, 2007 at 6:21 am

   Vince P,
   If I’ve understood correctly, you are looking for the meaning of “طرح برخورد ماموران نيروي انتظامي با بدحجابي”. The sentence says “The Police force facing immodesty”.

3. munaeem | April 23rd, 2007 at 9:23 am

   Please add me in your blogroll.

4. The summer time fight in Iran - Political Debate Forum : US & World Politics | April 23rd, 2007 at 9:39 am

   [...] and tries to control them strictly over what they wear. here is in Kamangir’s wrting about it: Kamangir (Archer) - کمانگیر » Blog Archive » The Fight over “immodesty” until now about 117 women have been busted, about half of them are released and others [...]

5. Shaghaiegh | April 23rd, 2007 at 4:55 pm

   I think her gesture in the second image shows clearly who the final champion of the fight is.

6. serendip | April 23rd, 2007 at 11:59 pm

   Kamangir: Aren’t these black ninjas called “Blac Cows” in Persian? I heard most of them are mentally unstable and are second or third wives of sheiks and little mullahs…

7. serendip | April 24th, 2007 at 12:00 am

   typo:
   Blac=black

8. serendip | April 24th, 2007 at 12:05 am

   Yet for all such fatuities, the “bad hijab” campaign cannot cover up some bald realities. One is that, according to some residents at least, Tehran is experiencing rising levels of serious crime in which skimpy scarves do not remotely figure. Another is the government’s failure to effectively tackle more damaging social problems such as unemployment, inflation and corruption.

   The hijab huffing and puffing also illustrates, at a very basic level, the authorities’ obsession with control - and the sense that, for all their secret policemen and all their rules and regulations, control is nevertheless lacking. This insecurity was plainly on view in Revolution Square where demonstrators claimed those who bent the dress codes “sold out” to the west.

   The hijab campaign reflects a deep-rooted official paranoia. And thus is state-sanctioned harassment merely part of the bigger battle for Iran’s future.

   http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/simon_tisdall/2007/04/dress_code.html

9. Kamangir | April 24th, 2007 at 12:11 am

   serendip,
   Come on! I am sure you are just trying to make a joke. :) Any way, we used to call them Fatima the Commando.

10. serendip | April 24th, 2007 at 12:15 am

    the “bad hijab” campaign cannot cover up some bald realities. One is that, according to some residents at least, Tehran is experiencing rising levels of serious crime in which skimpy scarves do not remotely figure. Another is the government’s failure to effectively tackle more damaging social problems such as unemployment, inflation and corruption.

    The hijab huffing and puffing also illustrates, at a very basic level, the authorities’ obsession with control - and the sense that, for all their secret policemen and all their rules and regulations, control is nevertheless lacking. The hijab campaign reflects a deep-rooted official paranoia. And thus is state-sanctioned harassment merely part of the bigger battle for Iran’s future.

11. serendip | April 24th, 2007 at 2:09 am

    Kaman: I like your description better…LOL

12. Kamangir | April 24th, 2007 at 2:22 am

    Serendip,
    Now, I agree with you.

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