{"id":509,"date":"2004-01-09T21:29:21","date_gmt":"2004-01-10T01:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/01\/09\/killer-dress-codes\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T21:20:18","slug":"killer-dress-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/01\/09\/killer-dress-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer Dress Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a939\"><\/a>  I hope Victoria&#8217;s Tirdad Shirvani doesn&#8217;t object to my blogging his Jan. 7 letter to a local newspaper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vicnews.com\/\">The Victoria News<\/a>, but as it&#8217;s a great letter, its dissemination to a few more individuals seems like a good idea.  While you could find it online if you followed all the links to &#8220;letters&#8221; etc., I&#8217;ll spare you the bother:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Persian Club would like to send its deepest condolences to the people of Iran and all of those who have lost loved ones in the tragic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacredsites.com\/december2001pages\/bam.htm\">Bam<\/a> earthquake.<br \/>\nOver 40,000 people have lost their lives while the tens of thousands injured in this earthquake remain without adequate food and shelter.<br \/>\nWe blame the Islamic Republic government of Iran for the extent of the death and destruction.<br \/>\nAn earthquake of similar magnitude a week earlier in California killed only two people. If the Mullahs had not grossly embezzled and mismanaged the economy to a point where people who have scarcely enough to eat could afford proper shelter, they would not die by the thousands at the slightest tremor.<br \/>\nIf the Theocracy of the Ayatollahs had spent the amount of time, energy, and money in the last 25 years on enforcing building codes that it has on enforcing the strict dress code for Islamic women, so many would not have died.<br \/>\nIf the government and its public servants were not so corrupt, if they had not accepted bribes to wave the very few building codes there are, this would not have happened.  This, however, is still nothing compared to the catastrophe that is waiting to happen when a similar quake hits Tehran.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rigid ideology exacts its toll in every situation; are &#8220;we&#8221; in &#8220;the west&#8221; immune?  If we get started, earthquakes might be the least of our worries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope Victoria&#8217;s Tirdad Shirvani doesn&#8217;t object to my blogging his Jan. 7 letter to a local newspaper, The Victoria News, but as it&#8217;s a great letter, its dissemination to a few more individuals seems like a good idea. While you could find it online if you followed all the links to &#8220;letters&#8221; etc., I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}