Nothing funny about religion!

I normally don’t make fun of religion. Well, maybe, in general, but not specifically about aspects of individual religions. (Unless it's really, really funny.)

However, there are exceptions.

And, I’m making one in regard to neo-nutso Muslim fanatical flutterbrains who think, somehow, that Allah hates women.

The newest nut-news out of Iran, the world center for clear thought and compassionate thought, is that women with suntans are violating Islamic law and will be arrested.

This is the word put out by Brigidier Hossien Sajedinia, the Tehran police chief. The testosterone-laden law officer said, “The public expects us to act firmly and swiftly if we see any social misbehavior by women, and men, who defy our Islamic values.”

He decried suntanned “women and young girls” who look like “walking mannequins” and declared suntanned women would be arrested and jailed.

His pronouncement follows on the heels of a protestation by a hard-line Iranian cleric (read “preacher”) who said that women dressed in revealing clothing were disturbing young men and “causing earthquakes.”

It’s not that Muslims have cornered the market on crazy notions or pronouncements. It’s just that they are coming across as the Oral Roberts of the Muslim world. Remember Oral’s television promise that if Christians didn’t give enough money to Oral Roberts Ministry, he would be jerked to Jesus?

But the suntan ban in the name of religion is really spooky, spookier even than Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker selling bricks for $10 a shot to build Heritage Village, or Dallas’ Bob Tilton hawking “prayer rugs” with his picture on it, or Ernest Ainsley declaring a war on “devil nicotine” and stomping on a pack of Camels on his television program.

In fact, the suntan ban is resonating with something going on in the United States right now.

It makes one wonder if the governor of Arizona and the gidflobberated legislators of that stupidly uber-conservative state aren’t reading a little Koran (or Qur’an, if you are into political correctness) between approving stupid bills aimed at nothing but persecuting selected segments of the population.

Wait! There is a connection: Both areas of the world are hotter’n’hell.

Sun-broiled brains.

That’s the only logical explanation.