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Bonjour Sarkozy – Islamic Police Eject French Woman from Tehran Book Fair


bad%20hijab%20day%201.jpg Iranian women being arrested for improper hijabs by Ardeshir Arian, Pajamas Media Special Correspondent The Cultural Heritage News Agency of Iran reported today that a French woman who attended the Tehran Book Fair on behalf of the French government was taken against her will from the French booth by the Islamic police and ejected from the fair site for an improper hijab. (A new campaign against laxity in the wearing of the hijab is in progress in Iran.)

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Ardeshir Arian

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May 7, 2007 - 8:26 pm

A CHN correspondent at the location reports that while the French representative was explaining about the books for the Iranian students and other visitors, the outside police rushed into the French booth and forced her out onto the fair grounds.

As people watched in disbelief, an Islamic Guidance and Culture ministry representative who happened to be there and witnessed the incident told the CHN reporter that he did not understand why the uniformed police entered, since the fair has its own custodial security force. He added that this type of behavior concerning a woman from a different culture is an indication of incompetence in the handling of the foreign visitors and guests of this fair.

French vendors trying to protect their own interests explained that she was just there to reply to visitors questions and was not part of the French vendor’s participation.

The Tehran Book Fair (May 1-12) is held in Tehran’s “Mossalla” (Grand Prayer Grounds) where Khomeini’s body was kept on display in a freezer coffin for several days before his burial.

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4 Comments, 4 Threads

  1. 1. Chaya

    Iran is already trying to send a message to Sarkouzy.

  2. 2. kourosh

    Thanks God the French lady wasn’t raped or tortured. When Khomeinists arrest Iranian women, they usually torture and in many occasions rape them. These uncivilized agents of darkness then come to NY and UN and in a pre-scripted press conference where reporters can’t and not allow to ask anything about human right abuses in Iran, try to teach American people how to conduct their life and how to deal with women. The funny thing is BBC quotes them in such a way that they have the right oppressing Iranian women. BBC says it is Shi’it Shar-aa Law!! so it is justify. They call it tradition. Ask any Iranian anywhere, if brutality and rape of women is their tradition. What exactly a backward religion has anything to do with tradition is beyond me.

  3. 3. Ernst

    “It is forbidden to gaze at the small amount of hair that sometimes
    protrudes from under the headpieces of many women.”
    Source: Shulchan Aruch 2: 153:8; Mishnah Berurah 75:13.

    The Muslims are made to look hopelessly barbaric for upholding the same standards
    which the Orthodox rabbis enforce, and about which the Zionist Pajamas Media has nothing to say!

  4. 4. gcblues

    well gosh ernst,

    that is fascinating. how many of these ortho jews are there? and just out of curiosity….. these evil ortho jews, they routinely rape and torture women too? hang them for adultry, premarital sex or maybe making out with a man father has forbidden? i am no fan of israel, but your moral equivalncy is pathetic. iran is a beautiful country, with incredible, intelligent and hot looking women and it is a country run by evil, violent, barbarians. zionist media…lolololol.

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