The official reason was "To be honest with you, the dress of the lady who presents the show does not meet our broadcasting guidelines at all," according to Adel Ferdosipour, the host of the programme in Iran.
But instead of football fans blaming their own TV company for its religious zeal (because complaint may mean a visit from the local torture squad - aka the religious police), they instead went on to her social media accounts to insult and vilify her for not meeting Iran’s standards of womanhood.
The interesting sub-text to this story was the arrogance of the social media commentators from Iran, who said that she should wear a "wear a Hijab" so that Iranians could watch a world TV event. If anything tells you what ‘world Islam’ really would be like it’s this i.e. That the whole world adheres to their 'standards of social mores'.
Is that the world that they want us all to live in?
I wonder, will they demand that all Brazilian women cover up for the World Cup so that Iranian football fans don't feel the overwhelming desire and lust, that seems to well up at the site of a bare chest or arm, and that is so strong that it drives them to sexually arousal? What do they expect to happen if Iran draws Brazil in a game?
Perhaps, all women should be banned from matches like they are in Iran? Would that satisfy the male Iranian tweeters?
We really should be taking fright at the backwardness that the western world is being asked to tolerate … we give an inch and they take a mile. So here, for the rest of the world, and to keep the religious police at bay from this blog, is a great shot from the very beautiful Fernanda Lima.
The interesting sub-text to this story was the arrogance of the social media commentators from Iran, who said that she should wear a "wear a Hijab" so that Iranians could watch a world TV event. If anything tells you what ‘world Islam’ really would be like it’s this i.e. That the whole world adheres to their 'standards of social mores'.
- So all women should cover from head to toe like black crows ......
- Women can be beaten by men or women in the street, merely for being women showing hair ....
- That men and women can be placed in holes in the ground and stoned to death ....
I won't post this picture its too horrible.
- That homosexuals can be hung from cranes in public spots ...
Is that the world that they want us all to live in?
I wonder, will they demand that all Brazilian women cover up for the World Cup so that Iranian football fans don't feel the overwhelming desire and lust, that seems to well up at the site of a bare chest or arm, and that is so strong that it drives them to sexually arousal? What do they expect to happen if Iran draws Brazil in a game?
Perhaps, all women should be banned from matches like they are in Iran? Would that satisfy the male Iranian tweeters?
We really should be taking fright at the backwardness that the western world is being asked to tolerate … we give an inch and they take a mile. So here, for the rest of the world, and to keep the religious police at bay from this blog, is a great shot from the very beautiful Fernanda Lima.
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Can't argue with you on that mate.
ReplyDeleteArrogance, as you said. It appears to be at the heart of religion - as does humility, but followers tend not to remember that one.
ReplyDeleteWithout doubt the current version of violent intolerant and aggressive Islam that is sweeping the globe, is the biggest threat we have faced in the West for centuries .... Communism was never going to last centuries, whereas religious backwardness has waxed and waned in the heart of zealots for over a thousand years.
ReplyDeleteI'll take the liberty of quoting Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt this subject ...
Churchill: “The religion of Islam above all others was founded upon the sword … Moreover it provides incentives to slaughter, and in three continents has produced fighting breeds of men – filled with a wild and merciless fanaticism”.
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising
fearless warriors at every step, and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it (Islam) has vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.” .
And President 'Theodore Roosevelt' on the same subject: “During the thousand years that included the careers of the Frankish soldier and the Polish king, the Christians of Asia and Africa proved unable to wage successful war with the Moslem conquerors; and in consequence Christianity practically vanished from the two continents; and today nobody can find in them any "social values" whatever, in the sense in which we use the words, so far as the sphere of Mohammedan influence. There are such "social values" today in Europe, America, and Australia only because during those thousand years the Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do - that is, to beat back the Moslem invader.”.
WOW two of the greatest politicians the world has seen both agreeing like that. When you think that their warnings were totally ignored by the post WWII generation of politicians, it explains why we are so threatened now.
ReplyDeleteJust read this - the comment excerpts from two statesmen are very powerful. They may even prove prescient as we allow Islam in to the West in ever greater numbers.
DeleteVery possibly. Thanks for the comment.
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