Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[ergo sum]

Jda
Then you should read this. It is from the NYT Magazine a few weeks ago.

Down in the basement, a man with a resemblance to the ''Sgt. Pepper''-era John Lennon is rehearsing. With him in the hot, stuffy studio is a bassist dressed in black, a drummer and a 10-year-old Afghan boy playing small tambour drums. Behind the glass, a sound engineer is switching switches and twiddling knobs. A girl in jeans, T-shirt and sneakers is slouched on a sofa with a young man with whom she clearly has rather more than a passing acquaintance. Two other girls are watching the session.
As I enter this studio, my first impression is that I have stepped through the looking glass right into another country. A country far from the streets above us, with its women in black chadors, vast murals of revolutionary martyrs and throngs of demonstrators chanting ''Death to America'' and ''Death to Israel.''
But of course, I am not in another country. Iran is a country with two faces. There are the public face of conformity with Islamic rules and the private face, which as often as not shuns, ignores or even despises those strictures
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/magazine/01IRAN.html

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