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A internationally renowned Iranian professor of fine arts has been canned after reportedly making fun of a woman wearing a veil in his classroom.

The reports said that Nureddin Zarrinkelk, a professor of fine art known as the father of Iranian animation, “insulted” the female student at Teheran University by questioning why she wore the full Islamic chador covering.

The incident then sparked more protests at another Teheran university, Amir Kabir, that has already been the scene of demonstrations related to the publication of caricatures deemed offensive to Islam.

“The father of Iranian animation was expelled from university and cannot teach in any university because of his insult towards the hijab of a university student,” the reformist Etemad daily reported.

It quoted Science Minister Mohammad-Mehdi Zahedi as saying that Zarrinkelk was expelled from Teheran University for “insulting the Islamic hijab” and has been banned from teaching in any university.

Prof Zarrinkelk's remarks were especially ill-timed in the context of the current campaign to harass and arrest Tehran women not adhering to a strict Islamic dress code.

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UPDATE (8 May): The lives of the professor and family members have been threatened by Iranian paramilitaries.

The United Nations has some 2000 peacekeepers stationed in East Timor.  Many have been observed frequenting brothels staffed by teenage prostitutes.  Despite complaints, the UN, in violation of its own policies, has done nothing.

TEENAGE Timorese prostitutes gather just before dusk opposite a hotel on Dili's waterfront where drivers in United Nations vehicles can be seen picking them up and driving away.

"It's disgusting … these people who have supposedly come here to help the Timorese are abusing these poor girls," says an Australian mechanic drinking in the hotel's second-floor bar, who observes the scene every night.
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Expatriates say a dozen brothels have recently opened in Dili, and that vehicles with UN markings can be seen parked outside them most nights.
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The UN headquarters in New York had just received an internal report exposing a culture that covered up perverted and outrageous behaviour by UN staff in East Timor over years.

The report said peacekeepers had left behind at least 20 babies they had fathered to poverty-stricken Timorese women who were now "stigmatised" and in some cases "ostracised" by their communities. It also listed cases of sexual abuse of children.

Way to keep the peace, guys!

UN peacekeepers are also accused of drunk driving.  UN vehicles have been involved more than 100 accidents since March, 80 of them single-vehicle accidents.

Number of UN employees charged with a serious offence since they first arrived in East Timor in 1999: zero.

h/t: Dissecting Leftism

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All school pupils in Kano, the most heavily populated state of northern Nigeria, must adhere to a Muslim dress code. Muslim dress was mandated for state school students in 2003; the new edict extends that to non-Muslims and students attending private schools.

"All private schools in the state are hereby directed to ensure their … pupils observe the dress code in accordance with the tradition and beliefs of our people," Kano governor Ibrahim Shekarau said late Thursday in the state capital.

"This is in line with our resolve to bring about a positive change in the attitude of our students and to strengthen their morality," Shekarau told a large crowed of veiled schoolgirls.
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Under the dress code school girls wear a kaftan and trousers or long skirts with a veil and boys wear a kaftan and trousers with a cap.

Penalties for non-compliance were not specified.

The population of Kano state is estimated at 10 million, of which 90-95% are Muslim.

h/t: International Christian Concern

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