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Tehran schoolgirls may shed the veil
Girls in Tehran are to be allowed to lift their veils and exchange their black robes for less restrictive, more colourful clothing while at school for the first time in over 20 years. The education ministry issued the directive, which asks 20 schools in the Iranian capital not to force girls to adopt the strict Islamic dress code. But the country's hard-line religious constituency is harshly critical of the trial and it is not yet certain whether the code will be implemented in conservative provincial towns if it is extended beyond Tehran. The scheme will "weaken Islamic values and spread a culture of nudity," the Jomhuri-Eslami paper complained on Thursday.
Hey! Look! Nekkid Persian babes...!
Hassan Emadi, a rug merchant in Tehran's bazaar, said: "I was hoping that my daughters were growing up in a moral atmosphere. Now they will only think about their appearance and how best to look like this or that rock or movie star."
Instead of looking like ninjas...
To appease opposition, school authorities have agreed to install one-way tinted school windows and keep male visitors in separate, distant rooms.
Iranian scientists are presently working on a method by which Iranians will be able to mate by mail, thereby avoiding having to actually meet each other. They've got it worked out, except for the part where the males will bear the male children and the females the female children...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-08-02
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=6098