Woman - Life - Freedom Movement in Iran 2.0

[Leonardo17]

   The obsessive-compulsive disorder of the IRI is not really ending. On one hand, many women are simply not willing to wear that thing anymore and on the other, the regime seems very assertive in teaching them “the true values of Islam”.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/iranian-women...55160.html
 

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    And I was having that discussion with a stranger a few days ago. According to that person the populist government of Turkey was aiming to bring sharia rule to our country like it was the case in the IRI.
 
- “No” I said: “The kids of the Iranian revolutionary guards are all hanging out in the wealthy districts of Istanbul (that is if they are not rich enough to be In London or some other college in the US) riding classic cars and wearing stuff that is worn by any other well-off group in any other place of the world.” The only “sharia law” that exists in that country is the cult of red dollars to the disadvantage of everyone who is not a part of their nomenclature-like state structures.
 
Meaning:
 
 - Yes there was an “Islamic Law” in the middle ages that kept existing until the end of the 19th century. + The legal structure of many Arab monarchies is also partly rooted in this medieval “Sharia Law”.
 
Still there is nothing in the Sharia Law that states that people who refuse to bend to some irrational dress code has to be lashed 72 times.
 

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I will finish with a Nasreddin Hodja joke that is related to this subject (some funny folklore character that is very well known in my country)
 
   Once the Hodja was serving as the vizier of Tamerlane (Mongols Ruler who invaded Turkey in 14th century. So criminals were brought to his court and Tamerlane would pronounce the suitable punishment for each of them.
 
So Tamerlane was like:
“I order 50 lashed with a stick to this robber” and/or “I order 100 lashes with a stick to that fornicator” etc. etc.
 
So at some point the Hodja decides to intervene and says:
 
“My Lord I thing we have a problem here: It may be that his Majesty does not know the meaning of figures like 50 and/or 100; or it may me that he has never tasted the stick in his life”