Iranian women pool players banned for "un-Islamic" acts

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Iran has banned some of its women players from billiard sports competitions for a year for violating the Islamic codes of conduct at a tournament in China, sporting authorities announced.

And it doesn't stop just there with the ladies. Iran also is threatening disciplinary action for an Iranian male competitor competing against an opponent from Iran’s arch-foe Israel, which is forbidden by Tehran.

Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has required women to wear the Islamic headscarf in public. Women are only allowed to show their face, hands and feet in public and are supposed to wear only modest colors.

Over the years, however, women have pushed back the boundaries of the law, with many wearing loose, brightly colored headscarves far back on their heads. T-shirts and jeans are banned for women attending billiard sport competitions, according to the website of the Iranian federation.

In October, Akram Mohammadi became the first Iranian woman ever to win a medal in a major billiard competition, taking bronze at the Asian championships in the United Arab Emirates.

She told the state-run Iran Online website after her victory that the World Pool-Billiard Association had not tried to restrict the wearing of headscarves at international competitions, unlike some other sports.

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Akram Mohammadi wearing the head scarf while competing.
 

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Like Karen Corr, Akram is a snooker player too. She is also very pretty. :)
 

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If Keith gambled in Iran...he'd be deported...
...for being a Persian lamb-killer.
 
In Sharia-pool rules if you get 3-foul'd instead of ball-in-hand they lop-off a finger.
 
Let's hope for a swift and non-violent end to the Iranian regime. I think you will be hard pressed to find another nathion in the Levant that is in general more pro-western than Iranians.
 
A tradgedy.

What the women go through in these hard core Muslim countries is a 10 on the horrible sub human scale. If the U.S. treated their female population like this every country on earth would condemn us.

The only way for Iran and like countries to be free of this murderous tyranny is for the citizens of the country to be willing to shed their own blood and die for their freedom.

The founder's and patriots of this great country proved it can be done and many bleed and died to get it done. They will never get it done at the ballot box, so that only leaves one way to do it.

Congrats to those brave pool playing trail blazing Iranian women who risk so much to play a game so many of us love. They do it in restrictive clothing and I wonder how much better they would play if Jeanette Lee was allowed to dress them!
 
Kim Bye said:
Let's hope for a swift and non-violent end to the Iranian regime. I think you will be hard pressed to find another nathion in the Levant that is in general more pro-western than Iranians.
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Technically speaking Iran is not part of the Levant. And yes, Joe Iranian on the street is probably a lot more Western-tolerant than a lot would think. The regime, however, still lives in the dark ages if not a lot earlier.
 
I hope we never see the day where Sharia Law is accepted in any municipality in the United States. I am aware there are Muslim communities here (in Michigan for example) who have stated this as an objective. I worry for our future and the future of our grand kids and their families if anything like this ever gains a foothold here.
 
jay helfert said:
I hope we never see the day where Sharia Law is accepted in any municipality in the United States. I am aware there are Muslim communities here (in Michigan for example) who have stated this as an objective. I worry for our future and the future of our grand kids and their families if anything like this ever gains a foothold here.
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It is slowly creeping its way into the West.

Look at UK. Look at France.

As long as they are allowed to emigrate to Western nations and they keep up, or exceed, their current birthrate, they will eventually be in the majority.

Do you not expect them to be the majority in government then?

If they are, and democracy still exists, they will vote Sharia in.
 
HawaiianEye said:
It is slowly creeping its way into the West.

Look at UK. Look at France.

As long as they are allowed to emigrate to Western nations and they keep up, or exceed, their current birthrate, they will eventually be in the majority.

Do you not expect them to be the majority in government then?

If they are, and democracy still exists, they will vote Sharia in.
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We see things the same way. They win from the inside by over populating wherever they go. It's happening now in Michigan. Twenty years for now who knows where we'll be. I don't even want to think about fifty years down the road. We may be speaking Arabic in all our elementary schools as a mandatory second language.
 
jay helfert said:
I hope we never see the day where Sharia Law is accepted in any municipality in the United States. I am aware there are Muslim communities here (in Michigan for example) who have stated this as an objective. I worry for our future and the future of our grand kids and their families if anything like this ever gains a foothold here.
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Jay,

I realize this is not NPR but...... I am much more fearful of the so called Christian Right who want to control every facet of our daily lives with THEIR middle ages world view. Too many people misunderstand what separation of church and state is really about.

Lyn
 
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