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2012/09/20 13:56:31
Subject: Iran Cleric Pummeled by ‘Badly Covered’ Woman After Warning
Iran Cleric Pummeled by ‘Badly Covered’ Woman After Warning
By Ladane Nasseri - Sep 19, 2012 9:23 AMCT .Facebook Share LinkedIn Google +1 34 Comments
Print QUEUEQ..An Iranian cleric said he was beaten by a woman in the northern province of Semnan after giving her a warning for being “badly covered,” the state-run Mehr news agency reported.
Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti said he encountered the woman in the street while on his way to the mosque in the town of Shahmirzad, and asked her to cover herself up, to which she replied “you, cover your eyes,” according to Mehr. The cleric repeated his warning, which he said prompted her to insult and push him.
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Iran Cleric Pummeled by ‘Badly Covered’ Woman After Warning Her Vahid Salemi/AP Photo
Veiled Iranian Shiite Muslim women in downtown Tehran, Iran.
Veiled Iranian Shiite Muslim women in downtown Tehran, Iran. Photographer: Vahid Salemi/AP Photo
.“I fell on my back on the floor,” Beheshti said in the report. “I don’t know what happened after that, all I could feel was the kicks of this woman who was insulting me and attacking me.”
Since the 1979 revolution that brought Shiite Muslim religious leaders to power, women in Iran have been required to cover their hair and body curves in public with head-scarves and loose-fitting coats, to protect religious values and “preserve society’s morals and security.”
The government condemns short, tight and colorful coats and loosely tied head-scarves, and routinely organizes police patrols to enforce the Islamic dress code. Public surveillance increases in summer when some women opt for flimsier clothing.
Beheshti said he was hospitalized for three days. The Iranian cleric said it was his religious duty to apply the principle of “commanding right and forbidding wrong,” and that he would continue to do so even after living through what he called “the worst day of my life.”
It isn’t the first time that clerics in Iran have been beaten up after delivering warnings, Mehr said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Ladane Nasseri in Dubai at lnasseri@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew J. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net.
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2012/09/20 14:02:02
Subject: Iran Cleric Pummeled by ‘Badly Covered’ Woman After Warning
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
2012/09/20 14:21:14
Subject: Iran Cleric Pummeled by ‘Badly Covered’ Woman After Warning
AustonT wrote: She put him in the hospital for three days, how is Iran stil a theocracy with weak sauce fools like this representing the regime.
It explains the need to compensate by building a nuke?
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2012/09/20 14:39:22
Subject: Iran Cleric Pummeled by ‘Badly Covered’ Woman After Warning
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Good thing he doesn't know who she is.
If they did they'd probably have a lynching.
Props to her
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Yeah, they can't restrain their eyes so its the womens job to control them
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If they catch her its not probaly but diffenent she be killed.
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2012/09/20 17:04:46
Subject: Re:Iran Cleric Pummeled by ‘Badly Covered’ Woman After Warning
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
2012/09/20 17:08:02
Subject: Iran Cleric Pummeled by ‘Badly Covered’ Woman After Warning
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Kudos to her.
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2012/09/23 16:30:13
Subject: Re:Iran Cleric Pummeled by ‘Badly Covered’ Woman After Warning
My sense of pleasure at this ass getting his just desserts is spoiled by the suspicion they'll probably find the woman responsible and stone her to death in revenge.
2012/09/23 20:52:38
Subject: Re:Iran Cleric Pummeled by ‘Badly Covered’ Woman After Warning
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Maybe not, he might have just seen her ankle
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"Yeah, she was about 5ft 3, clad in all black but you could see 2" of her ankle!"
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And a theocracy full of misogynist bullies doesn't have a lot of respect for an old man who gets beat up by a woman.
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And let's not forget that one isolated incident doesn't make a trend. You just don't hear about the (probably) more likely store of "woman beaten after complaining about rules, will be stoned to death".
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2012/09/24 00:36:10
Subject: Re:Iran Cleric Pummeled by ‘Badly Covered’ Woman After Warning
I'm not normally a fan of using violence to solve problems but... actually, I was thinking of something else. I'm totally in favor of using violence to solve problems, so mad props to her.
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2012/09/24 12:59:09
Subject: Re:Iran Cleric Pummeled by ‘Badly Covered’ Woman After Warning
Peregrine wrote: And let's not forget that one isolated incident doesn't make a trend. You just don't hear about the (probably) more likely store of "woman beaten after complaining about rules, will be stoned to death".
There are lots of those stories. They seldom get told, unfortunately.
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