Iran: the case for invasion
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Is Iran About To Genocide The Metrosexuals? 655 Views
Hold on to your pomade, the Islamofascists are coming! The ever- = strengthening case for war against Iran became nigh-airtight this = morning with the Wall Street Journal’s front- page story detailing = the Islamic Republic’s latest assault on freedom. Religious police, = reports Andrew Higgins, are cracking down with unprecedented = brutality, denying Iranian citizens even such basic human rights as = coiffure choice and manscape self-determination: too, are becoming victims of Islamically correct fashion. Hair gel is = OK=97in modest dollops=97but hair-dyes of odd colors are out, as are = shaped and trimmed eyebrows, Mohawk cuts and conspicuous spikes. Men = are not supposed to wear cosmetics, and they are not to wear ties.
Adding insult to injury, the sanctioned look preferred by bureaucrats = =97″short, stubbly beards and pudding-bowl haircuts”=97is so last season. Such is the portrait of a failed state crying out for regime change. = News of the expanded sartorial repression is especially disheartening = coming after yesterday’s semi-optimistic L.A. Times report on the = freedom fighters in Tehran who have recently added underground = fashion shows to such resistance measures as “outlandish liquor- and = drug-soaked parties, art exhibitions, showings of banned movies, = [and] hip-hop concerts.” Indeed, the Journal’s findings dissolve any hope for a non-military = solution; it now appears that Ahmadinejad and his cronies will go to = any length to quell the voices of democratic cosmetology: out of trouble. “It’s not easy being a barber,” sighs its chief, Mr. = Eftekharifard, a jolly 47-year-old who began his hairdressing before = the 1979 Islamic revolution. Most Iranian men wear their hair short and avoid any unconventional = flourishes, but a few youths, particularly in affluent areas, indulge = in elaborate exercises of hair topiary…. Some fashion conscious = young men have started shaping their eyebrows and even wearing = makeup. Mr. Eftekharifard blames the trend on satellite television = and the proliferation of unregistered, underground hair salons.
So there, defeatniks! Far from a lost cause, the Persians have a = burgeoning salon society just waiting for a foreign invasion or two. = But the unibrowed and comb-overed forces of evil can’t be held off = forever:
At a shopping arcade near the British embassy in central Tehran, = police last week raided shops selling ties. The owner of one store = says they forced him to strip clothing dummies of neckties and = ordered him to take down an ad featuring an Italian in a suit and = tie. He now hides his contraband neckwear in a plastic bag behind the = counter. It doesn’t take Henry Kissinger to figure out that an attack on fine = Italian made-to-measure is an attack on everything we as a = civilization hold dear. The time to act is now. Unless you want want the smoking gun to be a pleated trouser. =97Jon
Now, under a new national campagin to enforce “Islamic norms,” men, =
Tehran’s Union of Men’s Hairdressers is working to keep its members =