This is a picture of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and his First Lady, attending a conference in Tehran. I’d tell you her name if I knew it, but I don’t. Nobody does. Mahmoud declines to share her name and age. He does say she’s educated as an engineer, just like Mahmoud himself. (Maybe they met in college, where he noticed her black chador, which stood out among all the other black chadors.)
Of course, we have to take his word for it. What’s the point of bringing the wife along to an event if you make her dress like Darth Sidious? I mean, that could be Chelsea Clinton or Austin Powers under that chador, and nobody would know.
Is there a religion in the history of civilization that comes even close to treating men in the same way as fundamentalist Islam treats its women? Hell, even the FLDS women are allowed to show their faces, get drivers’ licenses, and talk to someone outside of their immediate family without getting caned by the religious police.
Funny how many religions have incorporated the idea of divinely-ordained misogyny, huh?
“Yeah, it’s God’s will that you fetch me the slippers and a beer, and then cook me some dinner. And if you so much glance at the neighbor, God’s going to be totally pissed off at you, and He’ll want me to beat you senseless. So, hop to it. Remember, it’s God’s will! Says it right here in His own sloppily forged handwriting!”
19 Comments
June 27, 2008 at 8:07 am
Looks like an SNL skit. I didn’t realize the Koran demanded that men dress up their women like a Goth version of Cousin It.
June 27, 2008 at 8:38 am
Only to some, much like the Bible is interpreted by some to require women dressing like cast extras from Little House on the Prairie.
There are tons of moderate Muslims out there who don’t run around in chadors. Turkey is chock full of non-fundamentalist Muslims, for example, and their women wear western clothes and make-up. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to tell them apart from young women in Paris, London, or Seattle.
Hell, I dated a Turkish girl in high school for a while, and not only did she dress just like the non-Muslim German girls, but her father and brothers also didn’t kill her or me. In fact, they had me over to dinner a few times.
June 27, 2008 at 9:26 am
Where is the all the feminist outrage from the left?
June 27, 2008 at 10:24 am
I suppose it’s all in the interpretation, then. Perhaps a it’s simply a more convenient interpretation for those who make the rules …
June 27, 2008 at 11:29 am
I got $10 that says that’s Osama Bin Laden under that shroud.
June 27, 2008 at 11:34 am
That would be entertaining, but it’s unlikely.
Mahmoud here, like most Iranians, is a follower of Shi’a Islam. Osama Bin Laden is a follower of a radical offspin of Sunni Islam. Shi’ites and Sunni don’t usually have much love for each other.
Still, that’d be one hell of a great disguise.
June 27, 2008 at 12:21 pm
FLDS women are also “free” to marry the prophet at 13.
June 27, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I note she also appears to have her eyes downcast…
June 27, 2008 at 4:49 pm
It’s better than that…the original caption says she’s wearing tinted sunglasses, indoors.
June 27, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Breda: too busy complaining about how much patriarchy y’all still suffer under here in the States.
(If Breda is not, in fact, a girl’s name, I abjectly apologize.)
June 27, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Peace,
I always wonder how they distinguish a man from a woman in that dress.
And, what’s up with the color?
p.s. Could you at least increase the font? It’s so small…
June 27, 2008 at 7:17 pm
I cook for my friends, male or female, spoil them and look out for them, because I care for them, NOT because it’s dictated because of my gender. I enjoy being a woman, dressing like one and smelling like one, hair shiny and perfume, even with boots and the denim (except during whitetail season). I don’t mind being agreeable to let someone make the decision after we talk about and figure out what works or not, but that doesn’t make me a doormat. I have red hair. I’m not a doormat. I’ll not be one of those. I can climb a tree blind, field dress a deer, shoot, reload, fly an airplane in the bush, and earn my own living. My house, I bought myself, didn’t get it by divorce or lottery. I’m proud of that. Does that make me a feminist? NO! That just makes me a productive member of the human race who can CHOOSE how she lives. Which thank God I’m allowed to be, because I live in the U.S.
Now can I get you a beer while I’m up? That’s just being nice.
June 28, 2008 at 8:35 am
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June 28, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Apropos “beating someone senseless”:
Is noone looking at Acnefuckmejihad?
If my Mum caught me wearing such a badly fitting and ugly suit – without a tie to boot -, she’d lay me over her knee and spank me!
I bet his trousers are at least 4″ too long, too!
June 28, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I mean, if I were the dick…err…dic…err…president of a country, I’d make damn sure that I’m wearing the best suit my taxpayer’s money can buy.
BTW, he’s a civil engineer. You know what civil engineers build?
June 29, 2008 at 7:34 am
Liberty,
Nah, if he’s got any sense OBL shaved off the beard and is currently working as a Hooters waitress in Miami under the name Bambi.
RM
June 29, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Shit, where’s my broken car antenna? I think I see nose!
June 30, 2008 at 7:54 am
What’s up with the color, indeed. And there’s a good chance that black chador is made of polyester, like the burqas worn by women in Pakistan. The men, both in Pakistan and in Iran, usually wear white cotton. In places where temps regularly climb over 100 degrees F, what’s the religious justification for that?
July 1, 2008 at 3:38 pm
T. Stah,
TARGETS!!
What was it the Mechanical engineers build again?