Ahmadinejad Bans Neckties in Iran

Tuesday, 23 June 2009 15:04

Written by onionuttapam news

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today announced a ban on wearing of neckties in Iran calling them symbols of man's subservience to 'The Man'.

In a speech televised on Iran's national television, Ahmadinejad said "The tie is not a symbol of fashion and elegance, it is a sign of subservience of man to 'The Man'.

Ahmadinejad, under fire for 'allegedly' rigging elections and facing violent protests from some sections of Iran's westernized youth, condemned France Preident Sarkozy's comments on the burqa, told the nation that Sarkozy like all other western leaders serves Satan, not God and asked rhetorically, "Would Jesus wear a necktie?"

"A necktie is shaped like an inverted cross and symbolizes the beast. Ties are like shackles of a prisoner, like nooses worn around your neck symbolizing servility to your boss or your position in a corporation hierarchy. They are a mark of man's subservience to the role he assumes in his workplace to bring home a paycheck and a symbol of all the currying and toadying that he has to stoop to make his way in the world"

"Under Islam, except Allah, it is forbidden for any person to be subservient to any other person or to his job. In our Islamic republic, we cannot accept that men be prisoners to a noose-like tie hanging around their necks for major part of their day, have a social life limited only to workplace and forced to accept a limited job-based identity imposed on them by the corporates they work under." said the Iranian president justifying the ban on neckties.

Quoting lyrics from "Death of a Salesman' by American heavy metal group If Hope Dies, he continued, "Neckties are like the subtle noose. Hanging from the gallows. Swaying in the winds of progress. A lifetime of subservience."

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