Six Iranians arrested for dancing to promote islam

LOL, talk about Irony.


Six Iranians Arrested for Dancing in Pharrell-Approved ‘Happy’ Video

A few weeks ago, we brought you the story of the backlash against a group of British Muslims dancing along to Pharrell Williams’s hit song “Happy,” which attracted controversy over what many in the Islamic community considered a “vulgar” way to promote Islam. In Iran, however, dancing along to the innocuous song has more dire consequences: six young Iranians were arrested and forced to publicly apologize on state television after dancing in a music video to “Happy.”

According to the Telegraph, the six twentysomethings — three men and three women — were arrested for their “vulgar” video, which Tehran’s police chief personally decried as “hurt[ing] public chastity.” The video itself, part of a Pharrell campaign with the United Nations for the International Day of Happiness, racked up nearly a quarter of a million views before the state government took it down and charged the six with violating morality codes. The charges mainly centered on the fact that the women’s hair appears to be uncovered, a huge no-no according to strict Islamic dress codes for women, which state that “women must cover themselves from head to toe.” (One of the women who appeared in the video says they used wigs in order to conform to said codes.)

http://www.mediaite.com/online/six-iranians-arrested-for-dancing-in-pharrell-approved-happy-video/

 

this gets you arrested why govt becomes too powerful.

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The Iranians did not produce the video to promote Islam. If anything, the video was an act of rebellion against Iran's Islamic rulers. We don't even know if the Iranians in question are Moslem.

The videos made by British or other Moslems mentioned in the article have nothing to do with the arrested Iranians.

 

what does this mean?

do people have a Creator endowed right to express their joy by dancing? or does govt have right to deny liberty and freedom by arresting people who dance?

 

What does it mean? It means people don't have an endowed right, they have an inalienable right, despite any so called "Creator" nonsense.

 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

 

Inalienable rights are incapable of being endowed, transferred or repudiated. That's the whole point of inalienability. What the word means.
The original draft was just fine...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, .…"

 

Are you such a loser that you monitor P&R 24/7 for any mention of anything having to do with religion?

 

Nope. You?

 

I'd like to see the Iranians dancing in the street to Sir Mix-A-Lot's "I Like Big Butts".