Kleine Provokationen…
…verschönern den Alltag. Es gibt viele Berichte, wie Iraner in der Mullahdiktatur ihren Unmut über die mangelnde Freiheit kundtun, ohne offen aufzubegehren - der britisch-griechische Filmemacher, Fotograf und Schriftsteller Iason Athanasiadis liefert ein paar (mir bislang) unbekannte Facetten:
The moral police are slightly more forbidding in cracking down on infringements of Islamic law, but Tehran’s private houses still vibrate with almost as many parties as before. Daily flights to Dubai remain just as full of partygoers heading over to catch an Iranian pop star in concert while, domestically, the tendency for Islamic female dress to get shorter and tighter is just as prevalent. (On another recent flight to Tehran from Dubai, there was such a run on the red wine over dinner by the mostly Iranian passengers that the stewardesses had to open extra stock. One lady covered her hair with a headscarf patterned on the Stars and Stripes, as provocative an act as is possible in today’s Iran.)
But popular perceptions of Islamic practice are changing among ordinary Iranians. Year after year, the ranks of devotees marching in the popular feast of Ashura, the commemoration of the death of Shi’a martyr Hossein, swell with hip, urban youth who come out to join what they call the “Hossein parties.” Fashionably dressed young men and women reinterpret the uniform of mourning by slipping on tight black clothes and chatting each other up, exchanging phone numbers, and even dancing in public to the disapproving stares of the more devout. “I’m not a believer but I find myself feeling sorry for Ali [the fourth caliph of Islam and inspirer of Shi’a] when his name is being chanted by girls wearing black lipstick, nail polish, and mascara,” said an Iranian woman in her forties, who remembers that only the devout would attend Ashura marches during the time of the shah.
Ich kann mir ein Lachen nicht verkneifen…
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