Police of Vice and Virtue

After a creature dies, there are a few electrical pulses that shoot through the body as the last exodus of the spirit.  Much the same is happening throughout the Arab World right now in the wake of the Arab Awakening.  The powers at large are doing their very best to hold on to their stranglehold and the people are saying NO!  The latest act on the stage of the world is  head of Iranian security forces, Brigadier General Ahamdi Moghaddam is deploying 70,000 basij or police of vice and virtue if you will, to eliminate the Western Cultural Invasion which no doubt effects attitude and susceptibility to autocratic rule.  Not that it took the Western way of life to bring people’s minds to the fact that they are being stifled by their governments and hard nosed extreme traditional clerics, but the dress and cultural emulation does signify a visible change in their despotism by outwardly proclaiming they will not be quiet nor quieted towards the ruling parties or sects.  In Iran the wearing of necklaces and “glamorous” hairstyles for men will be no longer tolerated along with shorts and for women, loose hijabs and tight overcoats, showing any skin will all be grounds for arrest and surprisingly, Ahmadinejad has been attacked for negating the hijab violations.  Showing signs of understanding to keep face with the people perhaps, what we are seeing is the polarization between the old and the new that will most certainly bring about the new age.  In the throes of protests and civil wars the idea of wearing shorts and having a “glamorous” haircut, wearing lipstick and having some shoulder exposed seems like a luxurious form of dissent rather than bullets and Molotov Cocktails, but these are all the faces of the changing Middle East.