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Iran's top prosecutor has called for restrictions in the import of Western toys, saying they have a destructive effect on the country's youth.

The Prosecutor General, Ghorban Ali Dori Najafabadi, said that toys such as Barbie, Batman, and Harry Potter would have negative social consequences.

Mr Najafabadi wants measures taken to protect what he called Iran's Islamic culture and revolutionary values.

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"The irregular importation of such toys, which unfortunately arrive through unofficial sources and smuggling, is destructive culturally and a social danger," he said.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
So make a Burka-Barbie and ship THAT, ha!

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
You know, all worth a chuckle, if a dark one...

But on deeper thought, yanno, we SHOULD make these and ship them over there for sale, if naught else it would force a lot of folk to face up to the actions of those within their beliefs, which they should be ashamed of as human beings.

I don't mean the fanatics or the radicals, I mean the common joe average who threw in with them because they are in charge, and the only proven bulwark against foreign meddling.*

Never underestimate the power of ridicule, used properly, it's a hell of a weapon.

-F

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:


Oh how much more dangerous for them, more tenuous and less effective, their stranglehold on middle-eastern society would be if we laughed at them instead.

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Originally posted by PirateCat:
Levis brought down the wall. KGB said the communists lost a whole generation to the Beatles.

"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Whatta ya know - another Austinite Browncoat!

'Course, bein' Muslim, they're not going to take kindly to pork ribs. Better make 'em beef ribs.

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