Quote# 74387
HARDLINE Iranian style police have ordered a ban on the mullet haircut.
The chop has come in a government crackdown on "decadent Western cuts".
The mullet - short at the front and long at the back - has been outlawed along with ponytails and even some variations of the common spike.
But a new catalogue of approved styles has given the go-ahead to the Elvis-style quiff.
Jaleh Khodaya, who organised a government-approved hairdressing show in Tehran, said: "The proposed styles are inspired by Iranians' complexion, culture and religion, and Islamic law."
Cops regularly arrest men with elaborate hair cuts or the wrong kind of trousers on.
They can be hauled off to a police station where their locks will be quickly shorn into an acceptable shape.
Serial hair offenders risk stiff fines, while barber shops catering to Western fashions are shut.
Dictating public behaviour and enforcing a strict dress code - especially for women - have long been a part of Iranian policy.
Earlier this year, a cleric said women who wear revealing clothes cause natural disasters.
Keeping dogs for pets has also been slammed. One ayatollah said: "There are people in the West who love their dogs more than their wives and children."
Iranian government,
Daily Record 109 Comments [7/12/2010 4:11:21 AM]
Fundie Index: 79
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#1179339
Finally someone has taken a stand against the most EVIL of haircuts, the mullet. I bet Satan has a mullet.
7/12/2010 4:13:27 AM
#1179340
Moderate Cynic
Same old, same old. Wouldn't you want to live in a country ruled by religious extremists?
7/12/2010 4:13:54 AM
#1179345
Kristine
No shirt, no shoes, no service.
7/12/2010 4:19:37 AM
#1179349
solomongrundy
I'm not sure how forcibly cutting someone's hair can be regarded as particularly fundie in a country that sentences adulterers to death by stoning...
7/12/2010 4:26:32 AM
#1179350
Yeah, well, mullets are just wrong. And that ayatollah does have a point about pets.
7/12/2010 4:27:09 AM
#1179352
I love my dog
7/12/2010 4:31:11 AM
#1179354
Jesus Klingon
I guess that also means no skinny jeans and no tramp stamps. I'm having a very hard time condemning these hardliners right now.
7/12/2010 4:40:11 AM
#1179355
Dan Onymous
"Serial hair offenders" lol.
7/12/2010 4:41:22 AM
#1179356
Milza
Wow, Iran takes its fashion police seriously.
7/12/2010 4:54:51 AM
#1179357
Lucilius
Yeah, I'm on board with this one. There's still no proof of God, but the mullet is a pretty good indication that Satan exists.
7/12/2010 5:12:25 AM
#1179358
MarylandBear
For once, the Iranian clerics have the right idea.
7/12/2010 5:17:35 AM
#1179359
Dv
Heh, they're as paranoid about the west as christian fundamentalists are about the middle east.
7/12/2010 5:21:13 AM
#1179360
El Zorro
This is what happens when you have a totalitarian government; no part of the private life is too small for government intervention.
7/12/2010 5:23:09 AM
#1179363
Quantum Mechanic
Iran really needs to be erased.
What a shithole.
7/12/2010 5:34:10 AM
#1179365
If you thought Christian fundies were bad...
7/12/2010 5:43:08 AM
#1179366
Mister Spak
"There are people in the West who love their dogs more than their wives and children."
There are people in Iran who love their fairy tals more than actual people.
7/12/2010 5:45:48 AM
#1179367
Boadicea
If you outlaw things like mullets, skinny jeans, and tramp stamps, how are you supposed to identify the rednecks, skanks, and trailer trash?
Support truth in advertising!!
And I betcha the Republicans are positively DROOLING at the thought of being able to do exactly this - dictate people's fashion choices, pet choices, and blame women for everything from acne to the Gulf Oil Spill.
Jerks ...
7/12/2010 5:45:59 AM
#1179373
TGRwulf
Wait, the mullet is a DECADENT haircut? Do these people oot realize that mullets are usually associated with trailer trash??
7/12/2010 5:56:27 AM
#1179379
Starscream
And I thought some Western countries were oppressive... sheesh. Got nothing on these guys.
7/12/2010 6:02:54 AM
#1179382
agentCDE
And I thought the phrase "fashion police" was a joke.
7/12/2010 6:05:12 AM
#1179383
GigaGuess
And the fundies wonder why we panic at the thought of them getting unfettered power...
7/12/2010 6:08:24 AM
#1179385
John_in_Oz
I expect that religious totalitarianism in Muslim countries will lead to widespread secularism, just as it did in Sweden, England, and other countries with established state religions.
7/12/2010 6:11:16 AM
#1179386
dionysus
So they're banning mullets and tight jeans? What's next? Nascar, trucker caps, and professional wrestling?
7/12/2010 6:11:47 AM
#1179387
Hakar
""There are people in the West who love their dogs more than their wives and children.""
>>Implying that Iranians love their wives and children at all.
7/12/2010 6:16:19 AM
#1179389
happysmile
Meh, mullets aren't so cool anymore. Re-mullets are the tonsorial choice of the truly fashionable.
7/12/2010 6:22:54 AM
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