Regular officers and members of the ‘morality police’ raided 87 cafes and restaurants in a single district of the capital Tehran on Saturday and arrested women for flouting the Islamic dress code, according to the Iranian Students’ News Agency.
al-Arabiya “These places were shut for not following Islamic values, providing hookah to women, and lacking proper licenses,” said Tehran police official Alireza Mehrabi, according to ISNA. Women are not allowed to smoke hookah, water pipes, in public.
Mehrabi said the raid came as part of a plan to provide “neighborhood-oriented” security, and would continue in other parts of Tehran.
Coffee shop culture has flourished in Iran in recent years, offering wireless Internet, snacks, hot drinks, and a place to hang out for Iranian youth in a country where there are no bars or Western chain restaurants or cafes. But that trend has been criticized by conservative Iranians who consider it a cultural imposition from the West and incompatible with Islamic values.
Washington Post Iranian law prescribes what people are allowed to do, wear and say in public Women’s hair must be covered, and showing affection is illegal.
Tehran’s coffee shops numbered just a handful 10 years ago. But now hundreds dot the city, with a new one popping up every few days it seems, even in places such as car washes and movie theaters. They are among the very few semi-public places where young people meet and artists and intellectuals debate.
Last year, dozens of officers raided the Deja Vu cafe in Tehran, loading customers in vans and taking them to interrogation centers. Many received fines, said the shop’s former owner, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
“The police told me that women were smoking, but it’s all about boys and girls meeting,” he said. “There are just too many coffee shops for them to close.” (That’s what YOU think)
One shop owner said it would be impossible to turn back the clock. “The authorities have to tolerate us,” he said. “Young people need to be able to unwind from the everyday pressures at some place. Here, they can.” (Not for long)
Lets face it, any form of entertainment or enjoyment is not allowed under Sharia law. Well there are exceptions like hanging gays or chopping off heads at the arena. Then its ok for the mob to attend.
And the shop provides hookers. Nu?
BtW, is “Starbox” the local name, or a deliberate infringement on a registered name and style?
How about it ‘Starbucks’?
Yeah God forbid, these young people comingle for idea’s, social interaction and a host of other functions of a society. Well, allah doesn’t like it so there. Bullshit, the real reason for this type of interference is to CONTROL, without control over the minds of these youths, why they just might get the idea this world, and especially allah, satan himself, would not want them to think for themselves and they must devot this time to praising the devil himself. These are some sick bastards, the mullahs, punked out perverts, freaks of control with no sense whatsoever. Demons in the flesh, free to go on their way to molest, all things of two, three of four legs without moral consequences, on the earthly plain, and who is to stop them, oooooh yeah these very thinking youth who see the error of these evil overlords, can’t have that now can we.
There is another issue I think that is overlooked in this matter, and for you progressives reading this, and wondering to yourselves, how dare you, evil rich conservative person even think like an individual, not part of any herd mentality, Love, not the arrangement of thier parents or caretakers, Love is what makes this world a better place, not the hatred this cult of demonic flesh marquerading as humans with a life of pure evil pleasures. Yes, I believe one day, LOVE is going to conquer all things. I know many now who must be thinking back on all of the post I have made over the years of this site, are probably shaking their heads in disbelief, because I don’t come off as this type of person, but, understand I too understand what the outcomes is supposed to be, doesn’t necessarily mean I don’t approve of it, but when surrounded by evil men, societal norms, it’s hard to be temperate of though when reading of this cult and the evil it intends to shove down our throats, on a daily basis, and write of the love one may have for it, because of all things I despise the most is hyprocrites, i.e. “religion of peace”, my ass. One day, in my lifetime, I pray these young in this Nation grow the courage to throw off the chains of oppresion, overthrow these demons of the flesh and provide their young the same chances of survival, free thinking, learning, shared experiences of faith, connections to each other without the fear or molestation of their lives they are receiving from a bunch of old perverts of humanity. Good luck. May the Good Lord of hosts be with them and their place in the history of their own making.
Semper FI
Marine, how far away from this are we, when a Mayor can restrict the size soda you can drink in a restaurant?
isn’t that dhimmi mayor bloomberg/
dragon, yep.
Do Bloomberg’s restrictions even apply to diet soda?
Not yet.
About as far as a TREE and a ROPE.
i wonder how long it will be before the people of Iran, throw off their oppressors.
hopefully, not long.
Considering Iranistan is an islamofascist state, run by totalitarian, islamic despots who readily murder anyone for the slightest cause (who can forget the Iranian Jews executed for allegedly being Israeli spies?) what are the odds the people are going to overthrow the government?
That’s interesting, Israel seems to have no problem finding Iranians willing to help Mossad take out nuclear facilities and scientists. Many young Iranians despise hamas as well, since they helped the mullahs crush the protests.
The nuclear facilities are still running and the clock is still ticking.
Bilbo,
I wish they would rise up and throw the theocrats out of power. They almost did in 2009 but Obama failed to support them and their resistance was crushed.
I truly feel for Iranian people. I knew several Iranian-Americans who immigrated here after 1979. They still have family and talk of the hope that one day they can get rid of the Ayatollahs. Many Iranian people are very passionate people with a rich Persian cultural heritage. If not for Islam and the nutjobs, many Iranians would be clamoring to be friends with Americans.
While I’ve met some nice Jewish Iranians (Sephardi?), I’ve met some right bastard muslime ones. One of them kept correcting my friend about how he was pronouncing his friend’s name (Baruch) insisting it was Barack. When the muzzie ape finally figured out that the name really was Baruch and what it implied he was dead silent and no longer half as friendly.
No, not sephardic. They consider themselves Persian Jews.
Jews that do tend to identify as Persian are usually Mizrahim (such as Musa Qasab/Moshe Katsav).
From what I understand there aren’t many Iranian Jews left — relative to what the population was under the Shah.
“They consider themselves Persian Jews.”
Are they, in turn, considered parseemonious?
Ouch.
And Oy Veh.
Shutting down these coffee chops is a pity for the young folks. Where else can they get the information if not INTERNET.
It is pointless to resist. One day the Iranian people shall return to their roots and crush Islam.
“Damn this world, damn this time, damn this fate, That uncivilized Arabs have come to make me Muslim.”
There is no Iranian who does not know this quote (from Ferdowsi’s Shamaneh).
I would’ve had a lot more confidence in your prediction if the Shah had stayed in power, but as it is, I’d bet that the Iranian military would have to be the force that overthrows the Iranian mullahcracy.
AAIIIEeeeeee ! Here in Birmingham, Alabama the nazi-like City Council has protected all of its citizens against the evils of freedon of choice in going into a smoking atmospheres if you wanted to by forbidding smoking everywhere, even if food is not served.
But they made an exception for cigar and hookah bars. They even allow women to frequent these places of sin and smoke inhalation and to do so without covering their hair and faces. A full burkah would be helpful to improve the image of a woman puffing on a large cigar.
By doing so, and providing the American constitutional freedom of choice to these estblishments that also serve women they have proven beyond a doubt that Nazis are not necessarily muslims.
Without a doubt, the great god* Alley will do as Maude used to say and “get them for that”.
*small letters intentional
“A full burkah would be helpful to improve the image of a woman puffing on a large cigar.”
A double Oy Veh. I can’t imagine what THAT would look like. Does BNI have a resident cartoonist who could draw that?
I feel sorry for them. They are living the mistakes of their parents. Now, it’s up to them to free themselves, even if death is the cost. Better to be dead than to live without any freedom.
Dont we just love The Islamofashist Morality police! Id love to do a behind the scenes look at what the morality police do for fun when there not working! Gees that would be interesting! It would be dule as can be as these wankers havnt gotta clue what fun means! Hello!!!! There anti-fun! Fun to them is reciting the korwank!!
The mullahocracy is like King Canute trying to stop the tide of history.
It’s unlikely the mullahs can survive the death of Khameini.
Iranians still wistfully talk about the relaxed social culture of Tehran during the Shah’s time. It will return.
Who wouldn’t hope for that? But the Iranian military will have to be on board with such an event.
Interesting that you should mention the king Canute. The actual story behind that is this:
“King Canute asked his nobles and advisors if he could do ANYTHING he wanted. They assured him that he could, and praised him to the skies as being so powerful. What he then did was took them to the seashore. Then he commanded the waves to back up and the tide to stay out. He did this several times, and each time the tide came further in.
“He then turned to his earls and advisors and pointed out that he could NOT stop the tides. He was making the point that he was NOT all-powerful, and that there are things no man can do.”
At least, that’s how I heard the story of Canute.
and now, back to our regularly scheduled program!
morality police? Jeesh.
Is this the same Iran that has thousands of hardened terrorists and torturers waiting in Latin America to invade the U.S. and wreak havoc?
‘Iran has expanded its terror network and now has tens of thousands of agents in Latin America, according to a former Iranian official who has witnessed the regime’s crimes against humanity inside Iran and has knowledge of its terror network targeting the West.
In interviews with the opposition outside Iran, the official revealed that more than 40,000 of the regime’s security, intelligence and propaganda forces successfully have been placed over time in Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Venezuela.
These forces consist mostly of former interrogators, torturers and security forces along with the members of the Quds Forces.
Many of them, according to the source, are other nationalities, such as Afghans, Lebanese, Iraqis and Somalis.’.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/army-of-iran-sadists-poised-for-u-s-invasion/
OFF TOPIC maybe:
TO ALL MISSOURIANS;
A man named M.D. ALAM is running for Sec. of state in your State believes that SEPT 11 2001 was a Jewish holiday and that’s why no JOOOOOS were killed that day. he is founder of the Democrat Asian-american party
do you want someone this ignorant as Sec of State?
i’ve seen the video “Loose Change” several times and he thinks Al-Qaeda wasn’t behind the attacks.
One of the first targets after the Taliban was chased out of Kabulo were the morality police. A lot of them were hung from the nearest electrolier.
If the kids think that it can’t happen to them just tell them to talk to their parents about the overthrow of the Shaw. Ask Jimmy Carter how it can happen. He loves mohommedists.