Question for anyone who has been to Tehran...

[sarahaziz 0]

it's exactly like women in my country I felt odd wearing a hijab fully because I'm not muslim so i let it on really really loose to keep it "cultural" rather than religious. Usually I didn't wear anything on my head tho.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

It appeared to be an African video? I doubt that's tehran maybe I got a different video?

hehe i think you viewed the video in my signature, I will get rid of it then it should be more apparent...

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Edited May 13, 2008 by VJ Troll

[Nasturtium 500]

wow as i said i think it is great that it is not as strict as we have been told.......

Well, there is culture and then there is religion and then there is law. These things may not always come together in agreement, but something wins out-- usually culture. There is no law against wearing shorts in Jordan, but you will be hard-pressed to find many people actually doing it. You may also face a lot of harassment if you DO do it, and if you were Jordanian and in the smaller cities, towns, or villages, I just don't even see that working out for you. Ammar was laughing about how much he would LOVE to wear shorts that still covered his 'awrah, but that it wasn't even a possibility for him socially. Legally, it would not be a problem. Religiously, it would not be a problem as well. But socially, it would be a huge problem. Same thing with sleeveless or spaghetti strap tops in Jordan. Legal, but unacceptable. It's like when Ammar moved here and we saw this girl in the Walmart parking lot in her string bikini on top of her SUV, sun-tanning. He asked me if that was legal. I said yeah, it's legal-- but there is a reason you don't see that very often-- it's not really socially acceptable. We tend to have set places where we consider a string bikini to be acceptable. It's legal to walk inside a church wearing one, but chances are you won't be tolerated in doing so.

[rclouse 0]

Doesn't sound like Arabic to me. I vote legit (Tehran).

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Doesn't sound like Arabic to me. I vote legit (Tehran).

It's not Arabic.... it's Farsi. It looks to me like it was filmed in Tehran, and Nutty (our member who has been there) thinks so, too. I'm waiting to hear from a friend there to hear what he says about it.