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Iranian media warned after paper calls Carla Bruni-Sarkozy a 'prostitute' | World news | The Guardian

The Iranian government today urged the country's media to refrain from insults after a hardline newspaper twice described Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, France's first lady, as a "prostitute".

The Keyhan daily paper made the comments after Bruni-Sarkozy condemned the stoning sentence against an Iranian woman convicted of adultery.

Ramin Mehmanparast, a foreign ministry spokesman, said insulting foreign dignitaries was incorrect and was not officially sanctioned.



Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Aug 31st, 2010 at 01:20:38 PM EST
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Even tho', in strictly fundamentalist terms, any self-directed woman who gets paid to expose her face in the media, which Carla Bruni does as a professional model and actress, is obviously a prostitute.

The problem is not simply that the terminology is wrong, because in their culture it isn't. The problem is their idiot conflation of any woman with self-direction and paid exposure of her face with being a prostitute.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Aug 31st, 2010 at 04:12:51 PM EST
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Let's not overstate the contribution to society or development as individuals of people who get paid for their face.  
by paving on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 01:50:39 AM EST
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Women expose their faces all the time in Iran. It is the scarf that is required. Iran could learn a lot from the Turks, and the Indonesians as well, about women rights and the need for Islam to accomodate itself to secularism.

by shergald on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 03:36:29 PM EST
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