A few days ago we learned that playing with water on a hot day in Iran will get you in a lot of trouble. All that splashing, laughing and general camaraderie was deemed haram, or forbidden in Islam. I can understand why; Muhammad did not have a squirt-gun to play with.
"Committing an "act forbidden" (haram) by Islam as well as "insulting police officers" 17 were arrested, five let go and the remainder will face fines and possible jail time. And all this because of water. A regime which is afraid of water has serious problems, the least of which is hydrophobia.
From AFP/Yahoo August 7
Iran arrests 17 youths over water fight
Iranian police arrested 17 boys and girls over a water fight at a seaside park in the Islamic republic's south, a senior judicial official said on Sunday.
"Seventeen young boys and girls who were squirting water at each other were arrested on Friday in one of the beach parks" in the city of Bandar Abbas, Homozgan province's justice chief Ali Alia said, quoted by ISNA news agency.
Who won the wet burqa contest?
"Five were immediately let go," he said, adding the rest were released on bail on Sunday but could face sentences for publicly committing an "act forbidden" (haram) by Islam as well as "insulting police officers".
On July 29, several hundred youths took part in a large-scale water battle using guns and empty bottles at Ab-o-Atash (Water and Fire) park in central Tehran, after organising the event on Facebook and through text messages.
Ten of them were arrested as photos of the event emerged on social networking websites and eventually made their way into the media, but were released Saturday on bail, Shargh newspaper reported Sunday.
Officials and conservative media denounced the event in which, according to circulated photos, soaked boys and girls -- some with their mandatory hijabs askew -- attacked each other with water pistols in heat-weary Tehran.
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