Jeans 'are named for jinns and can make you infertile', Iranians told

You can't make this stuff up...

Jeans 'are named for jinns and can make you infertile', Iranians told

"Iranian men have been warned: jeans can make you infertile because they cause you to overheat. At least this is the opinion expressed by a young man in an interview aired on Iran's state television this month.

Ali Akbar Rafiepour was introduced as a "public speaker and strategist". His views, relayed by YouTube and Facebook, met with ridicule from Iranians at home and abroad.

What Iranians wear is a politically charged issue every sweltering summer, when the number of Islamic "morality police" on the streets is beefed up to ensure those wearing lighter clothing comply with the country's strict dress codes.

This year their ranks have swelled ominously, with 70,000 police officers deployed on fashion duty in Tehran, the state news agency, IRNA said... The populist president, now fighting for his political survival, has often voiced his opposition to any overzealous crackdown on the dress code, concerned it could damage his government's popularity.

His supposed laxity came under ferocious attack this week from Mr Khamenei's representative to the Revolutionary Guards. Mojtaba Zolnour declared the president's men were "squeezing the throat" of morality police to blunt their drive against "moral corruption".

Meanwhile, Mr Raefipour, the denim-averse analyst, claimed on state television - which Mr Khamenei controls through appointed representatives - that the word "jeans" comes from "jinn".

Jinn, according to Islamic texts, are spirits that can assume animal or human form and which can be good or evil. Mr Raefipour also opined that soaring high heels make a woman's feet look like the hoofs of jinn, and that some logos and numbers on T-shirts signify devil worship.

Jinn are headline news in Iran. Mr Ahmadinejad's hardline rivals claim that a power-hungry, "deviant" faction in his camp has summoned evil jinn to spellbind the president, leaving him under its sway..." http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/jeans-are-named-for-jinns-and-can-make-you-infertile-iranians-told



On a serious note, looks like the 'liberal' Ahmadinejad may be on the way out.

And I want to have sex with women with no chance of making them pregnant ... I wear jeans.

No?

I have one child. Maybe it's true....? :shrug:

:rofl:

Glenn Beck.

The word "jeans" comes from the French phrase bleu de Gênes, literally the blue of Genoa. Jeans fabric, or denim, originated independently in two places:

The French town of Nîmes, from which 'denim' (de Nîmes) gets its name.
From Dongari Killa in India, from which the word 'dungarees' came.<1> See Etymology of "dungaree"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeans