Aug 21
No shame at all! Dancing on Ice!
Don’t be surprised. These images have been taken at the opening of the first ice-skating court…right before the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revolution…Yesterday, girls started cycling, today, they are dancing on ice, what will happen tomorrow?
These are the words of a conservative newspapers. What the author finds so disturbing is the pictures of head-to-toe-covered women doing ice-skating. See more pictures in the photoblog.
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Aug 21
This image is not blurred because the photographer has been lousy. This image is blurred to protect Sharia. Asking “Is this not advocating immodesty”, Shia News writes [Persian], “Is it really appropriate to have sportswomen’s photographs published in the media?” Last week, the original images had been carried here, in a post titled Too Sexy for Fars News, after they were deleted from Fars News outlet. The other images of that group can be found in the photoblog.
More amazing than the blurred images are some of the comments, the visitors of the conservative site Shia News have left there.
…Whoever thinks these pictures are not arousing does not have any spirituality in his character…
…We must harshly punish the man who has gone to a women-only stadium to take these pictures…
…This is American Islam…
…The end of time [Armageddon] is coming…
…These are the signs of Imam Mahdi’s return…
…Who is gonna look at these ugly women anyways?…
Aug 21
It is no mystery that the Islamic Republic is in love with Hugo Chavez. It is no mystery either that many Iranian fans of football love Maradona. Now, when Maradona attends a show whose host is no one but “Brother” Chavez, Fars News will delightfully quote Maradona saying “I totaly hate American goods. I reject any American thing“, because he would then emphasize how much he supports Chavez and Castro [Fars News, Guardian Unlimited]. Hence, they kindly forget the fact that Maradona also does stuff for which people are arrested in Iran, including doing drugs and most probably drinking. When it comes to the common enemy, everyone can be a friend.
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Welcome to Kamangir. This is the personal blog of Arash Abadpour (Abad Pour), an Iranian blogger based in Toronto, Canada (more)
