Radicalism- What Good?

What good is a protocol that smothers you in a barbed cage when a carnival goes around it.
This is no anticipatory bail that i am taking by referring to a beautiful religion as a protocol, but i would rather prefer to stick to this convention because even slight vulnerabilities can prove to be an achilles' heel.
Although our senses have gone numb to the instances of religious extremism that frequent the media today, i couldn't help contemplating on this one.
"Iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad facing the scorn of religious leaders and people of Iran for hugging and kissing his seventy year old elementary school teacher!!!"
I had been trying hard to attenuate the bitterness induced by the news of a fatwa issued against the pakistan tourism minister nilofar bhaktiar for hugging her fellow paratrooper after a successful jump that this one strikes.
Don't these protocols distinguish promiscuity from maternity?
The old lady was so overwhelmed on meeting her student that she had offered him a hug and to decline that, for the president would be an incongruous act and we expect the same from an infallible leader like Mr.Ahamadinejad for his devil may care attitude and determination.
If he has chosen to defy the protocols, then that is for a humane cause, to give an aging lady the love she asked for, unfortunately that had to be in a public place.
What good is a protocol which treats women as repulsive objects and crafts a proponent , a plastic keyed toy with an aluminium spring which when keyed and let go, barge straight onto that wall , goes bang bang bang .... and fall down dead.