Air France flight attendants, upset at order to wear headscarves, say they will refuse to fly to Ira

[MariaThinks]

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Source: National Post

Air France flight attendants, furious at being ordered to wear headscarves in Tehran, say they will refuse to fly to the Iranian capital when the airline resumes the service later this month.

Female members of flight crews have been ordered to cover their hair once they disembark in Tehran and unions are demanding that the flights be made voluntary for women.

The resumption of a thrice-weekly service between Paris and Tehran, planned for April 17 after an eight-year break, follows a thaw in relations since Iran agreed to dismantle large sections of its nuclear programme.

Iranian women have been forced by law to cover their hair or face stiff fines or even imprisonment since 1979.


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[snappyturtle]

1. Well I'll dip my toes in and check the waters.

I say that if Iran wants Air France business then it arrives as it does in other countries. Take it or leave it.

[elleng]

2. How Did We End Up Here?

'Charlie Hebdo - 30/03/2016

For a week now, experts of all kinds have been trying to understand the reasons for the attacks in Brussels. An incompetent police force? Unbridled multiculturalism? Youth unemployment? Uninhibited Islamism? The causes are numerous beyond counting and everyone will naturally choose the one that suits best their own convictions. Law and Order fans will denounce the haplessness of the police. Xenophobes will blame immigration. Sociologists will rehash the evils of colonialism. Urban-planners will point to the evils of ghettoisation. Take your pick.

In reality, the attacks are merely the visible part of a very large iceberg indeed. They are the last phase of a process of cowing and silencing long in motion and on the widest possible scale. Our noses are endlessly rubbed in the rubble of Brussels airport and in the flickering candles amongst the bouquets of flowers on the pavements. All the while, no one notices what's going on in Saint-German-en-Laye. Last week, Sciences-Po* welcomed Tariq Ramadan. He's a teacher, so it's not inappropriate. He came to speak of his specialist subject, Islam, which is also his religion. Rather like lecture by a Professor of Pies who is also a pie-maker. Thus judge and contestant both.'>>>

https://charliehebdo.fr/en/edito/how-did-we-end-up-here/

[pnwmom]

3. Good for them. nt

[7962]

4. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141400691

[840high]

5. Good.

[tammywammy]

6. Locking, dupe

See thread here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141400691