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Iran shuts down 20 western barber shops
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Published: 24.08.07, 15:47
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1. 'bad hijab'
david ,   israel Kirat shomna   (08.24.07)
'bad hijab' ??? bad hair job? i shave my head!!!
2. Iranian barber shops
Martin Aubut ,   Sherbrooke, Canada   (08.24.07)
Where are all UN and all organisations who works for liberties. They prefer to attack Western civilisation countries and Israel than make their works wgen it counts.WHEN THE GOINGS GET TOUGH the tough get going...Lol !
3. Bad Hair Day
Obama ,   Washington DC   (08.24.07)
They want to turn all Iranians into jugheads
4. i had my hair cut in down town gaza
rashid ,   palistinian   (08.24.07)
believe me and after that mr barber asked if i want something for the weekend nudge nudge wink wink if you know what i mean, say no more. of course i reported him to mr fakir and now this barber shop is closed and mr barber is doing time we dont want this filth in our gaza thankyou
5. IRAN BURYING THEMSELVES IN THEIR OWN GRAVE
HAL TRIPP ,   LUSAKA, ZAMBIA   (08.24.07)
THE LEADER OF IRAN WHO PROMISED HIS PEOPLE A BETTER LIFE WITH THE 52 BILLION DOLLARS OF OIL REVENUES WILL FACE A MUSLIM REVELUTION,THE IRANIAN PEOPLE ARE TIRED TO WAIT FOR GASOLINE AT PETROL STATIONS FOR 2 DAYS,THEY WANT REFORM NOW, THEY WANT A BETTER LIFE, THE WESTERN COUNTRIES SHOULD LET THIS MAD MAN OF TEHRAN BURY HIS OWN GRAVE.THE PEOPLE WILL REVOLT ,IT'S ONLY HUMAN NATURE.
6. Ah, yes. The barbarian neanderthal look must be enforced by
(08.24.07)
all means.
7. Surely, these are all Zionist barbers
(08.24.07)
who get inspired from millions of immoral world barbers organized into shock groups trying to shave the monkey president. A big ha,ha and ga,ga for the Iranian authorities who are dealing with monkey business.
8. To #4
M. Hartley ,   Atlanta, US   (08.24.07)
Dang, Rashid. You jumped the gun putting your barber in jail. Just think of how many of your supply of burqas Mr. Barber could have peddled to that "nudge nudge wink wink you know what I mean" crowd to have handy for those raids by the Gazaban police! Can't you do anything right?
9. #7 was right!
Cameron ,   USA   (08.24.07)
Surely nothing more than an insidious Zionist-Crusader plot.
10. you are so country man who says DANG
ayman ,   jersey   (08.24.07)
11. WELL DONE,THE BEST IS MUSLIM ORIENTAL STYLE
Hamed .M. ,   arabian peninsule   (08.24.07)
We are not westerners.
12. #11
(08.24.07)
you are so right. you are way way way far from westerners. you live in the 12th century. but that is your perogative. along with "we are not westerners" comes also poverty, unintellectualism, brain death economically and culturally, backwards education systems, backwards scientific, if any, discoveries, backwards mnentality towards freedom and respect for humans and their aspirations for a better life with better freedom to act think and judge for themselves. you are right. you are way too far from these oh, so barbaric, western values and progress. while most of you arabs are welfare states because you are so "modern", you sap the world of its patienced and demand no respect internationally. have you, by any chance, asked the iranian citizens what they wish for themselves in their country. i bet if you do, most will say down with ahmadinejad. iran, a very unhappy country with extremely supressed unhappy people.
13. To #10
M. Hartley ,   Atlanta, US   (08.24.07)
Aside from the fact that I'm not a man, I try not to talk like a Yankee or I'd tell you to F-- Off! Just kidding and making a point. Now aren't I just "a sweet thang?"
14. Equivalence
Jay ,   US   (08.24.07)
So they shut down barbers who do tattoos and make up for men. I seriously doubt a barber in a Haredi area could get away with it either.
15. #11...Hamed
DR ,   Florida, USA   (08.24.07)
No you are nor, nor will you ever be. When a nations citizens start losing their rights (even a trivilal one such as hairstyle) becuase of religion and a dictatorship...only bad things are coming. Nothing good will ever come of fundemental or radical Islam. Nothing good comes when you isolate yourself from the free world and tell your people how to dress and what to think. The fact that most of your people cannot see this is mind boggling!!! Good luck
16. Iran is an Islamic Country Just as Israel is Jewish
Fred Farkelsteinman ,   Frostbite Falls, MN   (08.24.07)
Just as Israel has laws to preserve its Jewish character, Iran has similar rules to maintain its Islamic nature, so Jews should understand better than anyone why such laws are in place in Iran. At least Iran has a constitution that guarantees equality under the laws of Iran, which means they don't have laws that grant special privileges to Muslims over Jews or Christians like they do in some countries.....
17. #16 Fred the clown...
DR ,   Florida, USA   (08.24.07)
Don't ever give up your daytime job as an entertainer at children's birthday parties. Besides being a clown, you are pretty much useless to this world. Sorry!!!
18. MIND BOGGLED DR.....................15
MAHMOOD ,   LONDON-UK   (08.24.07)
DR,you may continue to remain mind boggled but these trivial things are the ones which have led the society to gradually lose their culture.You are not required to understand as usual.Nor will you ever understand.However, amongst readers are those few in your area who have noticed the long term effects of such moves.
19. No Westerners, but willing to give it a try
Laurence ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (08.25.07)
Of course you aren't "westerners." I knew that when I saw you in your Mercedes, driving in Beverly Hills, wearing a Rolex, eating sushi, buying Louis Vitton luggage, vacationing in Nice etc... Mostly, you're full of shite.
20. #16: no Fred but they do have laws
Mark ,   Georgia, USA   (08.25.07)
against haircuts? So do you think that Jews or Christians can openly practice their religion? That is un-Islamic and not tolerated. While Israel allows Muslims and Christians control over their sites. Plus a free press which is also un-Islamic I guess since almost no Muslim governments allow it. Just look at what happened when a cartoon of Mohammed ran in a foreign paper. I guess they want to tell us through violence what we can read and write(draw) too. If this sounds good to you, I,m good with that. I'll buy you ticket to Iran first class and have a nice ( dhimmi ) life. Good Luck and stay a while Mark from Georgia
21. Mahmood
Jellybean   (08.25.07)
If your culture means so much to you, then why are you living in a western cultured country?
22. Fight For Your Right To Mullett
Chachi Puliglese ,   Marion, IL, USA   (08.25.07)
c'mon achmeeed, show some sack
23. #16
(08.25.07)
oh, my goodness, what hog wash you speak. are you well read? don't you realize what is going on? do you not pick a newspaper, listen to speeches emanating from arab muslim countries and iran? give me a brake. you are an idealist who is not very well grounded in the realities of the moment and have no clue whatsoever about islamic countries, which i happened to be a part of in the past, namely iran. i am an iranian jew, lived under this tyrany for years and escaped secretly years ago to israel through deserts and mountains. so, don't talk about iranian s since you know nothing about them or about israelis. your talkback has 2 paragraphs, not to mention that both are bull s*t. let me respond to the first one: yes, israel has laws, very democratic ones. whenever the rabanoot wants to pass their own restrictive laws, the secular israelis, through democratic votes vote against some of them. israel doesn't have a totalitarian undemocratic opressive regime. even if they don't have a constitution as of yet, they have a judiciary and laws that govern the country in a very democratic way. our laws are not SAHARIA LAWS. they are not opressive laws based on a book written by a pedophile murderer of infidels. it is well known that isael's rules and laws are democratically arrived at and that dissent, arguments, demonstration, fighting amongst law makers is never met with opression, assassinations, imprisonment and a coup....these things do take place as seen in iran on a daily basis: oppositioners are imprisoned, journalists that speak against the government are imprisoned as we speak, opposition is murdered and assassinated, ruling by terror police, torture and severe disregard to human rights is practiced on a daily basis. yes, a country that is muslim does have the right to enforce its own rules, but democratically, not through harassment and threats of death and prison. israelis are not governed by religious rules and laws. they are mostly secular and aim to remain so. i can't imagine any free minded individual accepting the opression that now exists in muslim iran and you see this is not working because people are rebeling, people are opposing, people are against these opressions. this opposition is true in light of the severe crack down by the iranian mullahs to opress those that do not agree with them. responding to paragraph #2: yes, they do have a constitution that "guarantees equality under the laws of iran". you must be joking! having a constitution in an arab land is a meaningless peace of paper. a true constitution is based on free elections. you show me a sigle arab muslim country that practices free elections. i mean really free. have you read recently that when people came to vote for a future president to be in iran, ahmadinejaad's guards made sure the vote was skewed in his favor. how would one feel having such a guard stand over him while he votes....same as in syria. have you ever asked yourself the question why such leaders rule for life? some constitution, ha? equality under the law? for whom? for the jews and bahai's that are constantly persecuted under the regime and not allowed to leave the country? for those who must escape because they are not granted freedom? tell that to the present jewish community, who includes my great uncle, by the way, who suffers in his filthy home in the jewish ghetto and is terrorised by the military police on a constant basis.
24. Iran needs to hire Donald Trump's barber
Obama ,   Washington DC   (08.25.07)
25. Take a lesson
Daniel ,   Israel   (08.25.07)
Take a lesson from Iran; they don't tolerate makeup for men; and plucking eyebrows for men! We tolerate same sex relations on open! You have to take some harsh decisions to conserve the culture; I mean our traditional culture.
26. FICKLE MIND,JELLYBEAN...........#21
MAHMOOD ,   LONDON-UK   (08.25.07)
You may then refer to history and find out how the rich cultured Jews maintained their identity and culture whilst in Europe.
27. WELL REMARKED,DANIEL............#25
MAHMOOD ,   LONDON-UK   (08.25.07)
Well remarked Daniel.You dont neccesserily endorse everything emanating from Iran, but your boldness in demonstrating preserving of one's culture irrespective of where it comes from is welcomed.People like DR should be made to understand.
28. Western Barbers?
James ,   London, UK   (08.25.07)
You have to laugh! Nonesense title and subject! Firstly, there are no Western barbers in Iran! Secondly, if you are intending to equalise radical=western, isn't that what Islam is supposed to be? Thirdly, There is no such thing as Western or Eastern hairstyle, only different hairstyles! Oh yes, and you actually counted them and know that they are closed? Talk about propoganda, what ever next?
29. Barber-air ism
petras ,   USA   (08.25.07)
Oh the poor things, nothing but super hairy uni brows and uncontroled beards for their 'faith'. Where is it writen, " Thou shalt not cut thy hair or manicure thy nails?" Funniest thing of latest news. Wow! "Big Hairy Brother" is here.
30. What Iran needs is a Hairvolution
Obama ,   Washington DC   (08.27.07)
to bring down the Ayatollahs What else do they want to control next? They have controlled women to the extent that all is being covered. Men have to follow soon.
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