Iran Cracks Down On 'Homosexual' Fashion

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Aren't a lot of prominent fashion designers gay? Guess that leaves burkas as the only safe fashion option.

Iran’s annual summertime crackdown on Western-style fashions is already ramping up, and this year authorities have their sights set on what they describe as “homosexual,” “devil worshipping” fashion. While the Islamic Republic’s strict public dress code has in the past disproportionately targeted women, who are required to be covered from head to toe, men in Iran will also have to be careful about what they wear on their heads, as officials get tough on hairstyles they say violate the country’s Islamic regulations.

“Haircuts that show symbols or signs of devil worshippers or those adopted by homosexuals are banned,” Mostafa Govahi, the head of Iran’s barbers’ union, told the semiofficial ISNA news agency, in comments reported by the Guardian on Tuesday. “Any shop that cuts hair in the devil worshipping style will be harshly dealt with and their licence revoked.” Gohavhi was also quoted as saying that barbers across the country had been given a list of approved hairstyles for men, without providing details about specific styles that would come under the ban.

Spikier hairstyles are popular with some young Iranian males.

This is not the first time that authorities in the country have attempted to impose uniform regulations on male hairstyles in the face of growing, foreign-inspired trends. In 2010, the government banned mullets, ponytails and long hair, along with overly gelled or spiked hairstyles in what the Ministry of Culture described as an effort to free the country of “decadent” Western cuts. The following year, authorities also instituted a ban on necklaces worn by men as part of its “moral security plan.”

Iranian authorities have also issued edicts against men wearing necklaces.


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[SamKnause]

1. Hard to believe is it 2015.

[Emelina]

2. Not banning "skinny jeans" for men?

[bluesbassman]

3. That should be global over the age of 15.

As for the Iranian restrictions, I'm sure there are some Fundpublicans thinking the same thing for the US.

[Maedhros]

4. Change all references to Islam and Mohammed

to Christianity and Jesus, and you could be talking about Indiana.

[oberliner]

7. Not even close

Can you seriously believe that?

[Trillo]

8. I can.

[oberliner]

9. You can see Indiana banning certain types of non-Christian haircuts?

Wow - that is pretty wild.

[Trillo]

15. When I lived in Indiana many years ago

haircuts of a certain style were mandated, as was uniform dress, and church service attendance as well. Maybe not by the state, but I was unaware of state laws at the time, so simply do not know.

I don't see myself ever desiring to go back to Indiana. My experience there can be summed up in one word: Liars.

[oberliner]

16. That is interesting

I appreciate you sharing your perspective.

[WillowTree]

31. Most certainly not mandated by the state. Utter nonsense.

[Trillo]

32. What is "utter nonsense"?

[WillowTree]

34. The notion that.......

......."haircuts of a certain style" or "uniform dress" or "church service attendance" were ever "mandated" by any state. I repeat, utter nonsense.

[Trillo]

35. And the idea that I said that was the idea that you injected.

Anyone can scroll up and see precisely what I wrote and how I phrased it in the context as I used it.

It appears you have a bit of Indiana in you.

[melman]

10. Except that you really couldn't

because that doesn't happen there.

[Maedhros]

19. Not for lack of trying, though. [n/t]

[sufrommich]

11. What hair and clothing restrictions has the Indiana Governor

enacted?

[Maedhros]

17. That was somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

However, we are living in a country in which a religious nut has filed a law suit against all homosexual people.

[cali]

23. anyone can file any nutty lawsuit

They get thrown out

[Maedhros]

25. Of course.

But DU is awash these days in posts about crazy GOP politicians calling for increasingly-crazy religious-based legislation.

I assume that's a problem, or else why would DU spend so much effort talking about it?

[cali]

30. yeah that often bugs me

Like freaking out over a constitutional amendment declaring life begins at conception when the real problem is onerous regulation

[Adrahil]

21. Well, not QUITE.

Pence is an idiot and the Legislature is filled with morans, but there are those of here fighting the good fight and we will not go down quietly.

[yeoman6987]

33. Forgot your sarc tag

[951-Riverside]

5. Thank goodness our Saudi friends are tolerant and accepting of gays. n/t

[stevenleser]

6. So everything is OK so long as you can point to someone else doing it? That's a low standard. nt

[snooper2]

13. for some you can't be critical of any government unless you show how "the west" is evil

at the same time

[951-Riverside]

36. Saudi Arabia is a western country? n/t

[msongs]

12. so will this be plastered all over NYC busses and subways too? nt

[KMOD]

14. Well, that's weird.

Ahmadinejad said there were no homosexuals in Iran. All homosexuals live in the United States.

[hifiguy]

20. MAybe they came back after Ahmadinejad's term was over

And Rarity had better watch out. Even she might get caught up in the frenzy.



Seriously, the day will come when the Iranian people have had it up to the teeth with the mullahs. It's getting closer every day. And then it will suck to be the mullahs. Had it not been for the Dulles Brothers' overthrow of Mossadegh in 1953 Iran would be coming up on 70 years of democracy.

[KMOD]

22. I agree. I think it's getting closer.

Here's to the day that our Iranian friends can be free to be happy.

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[hifiguy]

24. Check out Stephen Kinzer's "Reset"

In which he makes a compelling and logical argument that the best friends of the US in the Middle East should be Turkey and Iran, the only two Muslim countries with genuine histories of democracy. It is one hell of a primer on the last 100 years of Turkish and Iranian history and general Middle East history vis-a-vis the US. Great read, too, not dry and scholarly, but well documented. The Iranian people always had an affinity for the US until we propped up that goddamn brutal and megalomaniacal Shah. It wouldn't take much to rekindle it if we are honest and above board.

In fact I recommend all of Kinzer's books.

[KMOD]

26. Thank you.

I will.

[pinto]

29. I recommend 'All the Shah's Men' by Kinzer, as well.

Good, well written read. It lays out the political history of Mossadegh in Iran and his overthrow.

[Initech]

18. What's the opposite of progress? Radical fundamentalist religion.

[AuntPatsy]

27. governments that so repress their own people are interested in nothing more than total

control, people are frightened to speak out against the government but that does not mean they agree with such ignorance...

[Liberal_in_LA]

28. .