Iranian Graffiti
Iranian youth on the edge:
The following are excerpts from an Iranian program showing how young Iranian men pick up girls on the streets of Tehran. The program aired on Channel 1, Iranian TV, on July 18, 2007.
To view this clip, visit:http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1529.htm
Young man 1: “We know most of the girls, and so we drive around with them.”
Reporter: “After you pick them up - what then?”
Young man 1: “Nothing. We go for a drive, and then they get out.”
Reporter: “You go for a drive?”
Young man 1: “Yes.”
Reporter: “What do you do during this drive?”
Young man 1: “We don’t have anywhere else to hang out. Where could we go with them? If we went anywhere with them, we would be arrested.”
Reporter: “Fine, but what do you talk about when you are sitting in the car, driving around?”
Young man 1: “Nothing. ‘What’s your name?’ ‘How are you doing?’ That’s all.”
Reporter: “That’s it?”
Young man 1: “Yes, that’s the sort of thing we talk about.”
[...]
Reporter: “How do you spend your spare time in the afternoons in the summer?”
Young woman 1: “How do we spend it?”
Young woman 2: “After class, we hang out in our neighborhood. We meet our friends, and…”
Reporter: “What friends?”
Young woman 2: “Our friends from the neighborhood. We meet them in the park, outside, in class, or at the gym.”
Reporter: “Let’s say a really cute guy comes along with a new shiny car, and he honks and flashes the car lights at you.”
Girl: “If It’s a Nice Shiny Car, I Would”
Young woman 1: “If it’s a nice shiny car, I would.”
Young woman 2: “But if it’s not, I would not.”
Reporter: “Let’s say it’s a well-dressed, good-looking, polite guy with a good car. If he flashed his lights at you, and said: ‘Hop in’ - would you?”
Young woman 1 and 2: “Yes.”
Young woman 2: “It’s a way to pass the time. Anyone who says she wouldn’t is lying. Besides, that way you may find a boyfriend.”
Reporter: “How many of the guys who honk, flash their lights, and stop the car for you - and I saw someone opening his car door very gallantly for you…”
Young woman 2: “Yes.”
Reporter: “How many of them could really be what you are looking for?”
Young woman 1: “None of them, not a single one. It’s just to pass the time. It’s in order to get something out of them and to pass the time.”
Reporter: “So it’s in order to get him to drive you where you want to go, or you might say: ‘Tomorrow is my birthday, buy me a present.’ “
Sounds familiar. So does what follows. Those mullahs have their work cut out for them.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:42 am on Monday, August 20, 2007
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August 20th, 2007 at 10:27 am
I imagine those Iranian guys driving around are less of a problem to the authorities than the students arrested, imprisoned and (probably) tortured for the crime of…
“…anti-Islamic” material and caricatures in reformist student newspapers at Tehran’s prestigious Amir Kabir University.”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070820115031.whyyfna9&show_article=1
August 20th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Honestly, it sounds like Saturday night in the Dairy Queen parking lot. Except that nobody in the Dairy Queen parking lot is likely to be arrested, tortured, and executed.
August 20th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
It seems like laws against human nature do not work out well.
Lawmakers everywhere (not just Iran) seem to leave that fact out of the equation.
August 20th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Sex is an expression of the individual, and must be proscribed, just as thought is proscribed, if one is to march in lock-step submission to the interpreters of Allah’s will. It makes a great determinant for arrest; those who presume to show the least sign of individualism by displaying an interest in the opposite sex includes pretty much everybody. A little time in jail will knock most individuals into submission.
August 21st, 2007 at 10:05 am
“It seems like laws against human nature do not work out well. Lawmakers everywhere (not just Iran) seem to leave that fact out of the equation.”
Yes, they will constantly have their hands full trying to keep up and enforce the picayune “control human nature” rules and proscribe and contain individuals in small and tedious ways.
Iran has a dress police stopping women on the street if their covering is too short. The Saudis have been up to that kind of stuff forever. Islam (IMO) emphasizes rules about women and family law precisely because this is an area in which bullies CAN actually succeed in instilling fear and intimidation. It’s actually a sign of the religion’s impotence to be so hung up on that kind of stuff.
The Chinese keep trying for its…1+ billion population. A couple of weeks ago, the latest was for all internet users to have to register, sign up…something like that.
God (or Allah or someone, wait a minute …Atheists) Forbid that any untoward “information” should reach the Chinese in the Information Age.