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| Iranian Women in Brightly Colored Clothing Protest Polygamy |
| 2004-04-30 |
| Around 250 people, mostly women, protested Wednesday against state-run Iranian TV for airing a series that promoted polygamy, saying it was evidence that the hard-line Islamic state was trampling women’s rights. Wearing brightly colored clothing as opposed to the traditional head-to-toe black chador, the women gathered at a building in central Tehran to denounce policies by hard-liners that seek to restrict women to roles such as obedient housewives. "Our gathering today is a voice of protest against the trampling of our rights and promotion by television of polygamy," woman rights activist Parvin Ardalan told The Associated Press. Women activists launched a protest campaign last month after state television, controlled by hard-liners, aired a series titled "Another Lady," on which a woman introduces her friend to her husband for marriage.... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #7 Tenet - how are those weapons caches and timing coordination efforts with the opposition coming along? Hmmmmm? You are doing more than sitting on your hands here, right? tick... tock... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-04-30 8:55:15 AM |
| #6 I've always had the bad luck of turning up the week after these ceremonies take place. Ah, tipper, I've seen that movie. The males usually get sacrificed to one of the old gods at the end. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-04-30 8:50:20 AM |
| #5 Now, Steve and BigEd, I'm trying to be nice. Set a dignified tone for Rantburg, and all that. Though I can't help but wonder why she hates her friend that much.... :-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-04-30 2:33:48 AM |
| #4 Maybe they are into menage a trois. I keep reading about it happening in cults these days. I've got a holiday farm in a hippie area, and it seems to be quiet common around there. It is rumoured that the wiccans even trawl local pubs for males to take part in ceremonies of the Moon Godess, at certain times of the year. I hasten to add, I've always had the bad luck of turning up the week after these ceremonies take place. So I can only tell what I've been told. |
| Posted by: tipper 2004-04-30 1:16:03 AM |
| #3 Me too Barbara- I await your snappiest of remarks. Go get 'em, tiger! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-04-30 12:45:01 AM |
| #2 C'mon Barb, I dare you. I double-dare you! |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-04-30 12:31:41 AM |
#1 a woman introduces her friend to her husband for marriage....God, which snappy remark to use? So many come to mind. Naaahhh. I ain't touching that one with a 50-foot tuning fork. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-04-30 12:29:58 AM |