Archive for June 20th, 2009

You nab some of our assets, we'll nab some of yours...

As a little in the way of light relief from the important events unfolding in Tehran, we spotted the above on the website of Press TV, the Mullahs’ media mouthpiece in Iran, earlier today.

Apparently, and as just about everything else with the current situation in Iran seems to be the fault of the Little Satan (if you believe Turban-In-Chief Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i, that is); the UK has moved to freeze some of the Mullahcracy’s assets and they’re shrieking about it on the front page.

Keen-eyed readers will note, however, that perhaps the seizure of assets has a bilateral apsect. To the left of the headline, you will note the ‘Breaking News’ globe graphic they use to illustrate the headline round-up, which actually belongs to the BBC News Channel. That’s the British Broadcasting Corporation to you, Ali. Oh the sweet irony!

Should women living in Europe have to endure this worldview?

France could bar Muslim women from wearing full veils in public, a government minister said yesterday as parliament took action over concerns about an increase in women who are wearing the niqab and burka in big cities.

The latest controversy over dress habits among France’s six million Muslims follows public differences this month between Presidents Obama and Sarkozy over the merits of legislating on religious clothing.

A group of 58 MPs from the Left and Right called on Wednesday for parliament to react to the phenomenon of women who are adopting what they called oppressive head-to-toe Islamic dress that “breaches individual freedoms”. Read the rest of this entry »