In the West, the establishment media pushes the myth that women who wear hijab are routinely brutalized by MAGA hat-wearing yahoos. Leftist feminists don hijab in supposed solidarity for these allegedly oppressed women. But those feminists have nothing to say about these women in Iran, who are genuinely oppressed and forced to wear the hijab that Islamic spokesmen in the West insist is a woman’s choice.
“70 Female Cyclists Arrested in Iran,” by Mohammad Sadat Khansari, NCRI, August 1, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Seventy female cyclists were arrested in Tehran’s Vali-Asr Square for breaking the Regime’s mandatory hijab laws, according to Judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Ismaeli on Tuesday.
He didn’t say anything about the timing of the arrests, only saying that the women had broken the rules of “chastity and hijab”.
Previously, Massoumeh Ebtekar, a deputy in family and women’s affairs ministry, had earlier said that there were “no rules in Iran which could prevent women from riding bicycles”. Presumably, she meant that women would have to wear the mandatory dress code – a head-to-toe black veil called “chador” –while riding, which would be impossible.
It should be noted that 70% of Iranian women do not believe in the forced veil, which is according to research done last July by the Office of Cultural Studies of the Research Center in the mullahs’ parliament. Given the repressive nature of the regime, it is likely that this figure is less than the real percentage.
Iran’s regime has recently increased its pressure on women in many ways under the pretext of improper veiling. Here are just some examples:
• The Public Places Police have told female clerks in Tehran shopping centres to wear the Maghna’eh instead of a shawl or face the closure of their shops.
• Abol-ghassem Shirazi, head of Tehran’s Union of Clothing Manufacturers and Wholesalers, announced a plan to prevent production and sale of see-through or open-front women’s manteaux.
• The Tehran subway operator has promised stricter hijab control on its trains.
• Mohammad Reza Is’haghi, commander of the State Security Force in Gilan Province, said they’d sent 66,000 text messages to drivers about carrying female passengers who broke the hijab rules inside the car.
• Tehran Police Chief Hossein Ashtari said that he’d sent 300,000 text messages to women on this matter and that for many weeks, cars were being detained.
• The Airport Police commander said his forces would deal with passengers who adopted a Western style of dress or removed their veils, perhaps even preventing them from boarding their flight….
Terry Gain says
Women in western countries who wear the hijab are either oppressed or, like Illan Omar, wish to demonstrate their support for the Islamic oppression of females.
Paul says
Imagine a naked bike ride there…
Paul
Christianblood says
Paul posted
(..Imagine a naked bike ride there..)
Those that criticizing Iran should go and do a naked bike ride in Saudi Arabia.
I bet long before the saudi sharee’a police arrives on the scene, the naked bike riders
would be lynched and stoned to death by ordinary Saudi citizens walking in the area!
Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where there is a weekly public beheadings,
usually done after the Friday prayers in barking lots, while the children watch. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where the headless corpses of the beheaded victims are publicly crucified for ‘crimes’ like blasphemy, sorcery, anti government demonstrations, wearing a Christian cross in public, possession of canabis etc, etc.
And yet the immoral and depraved America and the West are totally in bed with the
Saudi tyrannical regime which is basically NO different from ISIS!
Okay, forget about the governments for a moment here and let us compare the Iranian people with the Saudi people or for that matter with all Arabs and Pakis and see what happens. This is in fact like comparing light to darkness! The Iranian people are the smartest, the most cultured, the most beautiful, the most tolerant, the most enlightened and the most sophisticated people any where in the Islamic world! Ask any experienced non-muslims in middle east why they hugely prefer to eat in restaurants owned by Iranian people to those owned by Arabs, Pakis, Turks or Afghanis! Not, it is not about the cousine, it is about security, in that hey know the fact that unlike Iranians restaurateurs…, Arab, Paki, Turkish or Afghani restaurateurs won’t hesitate to jihad-poison you, to jihad-poison their non-muslim customers in order to hurt the infidels!
For more about the weekly public beheadings and crucifixions in Saudi Arabia watch the human rights report below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIrmeD9g_FU
Giacomo Latta says
You know, you keep sounding more and more racist with each post. Is Iran the home of you and your fellow Aryans, the master race?
Christianblood says
Giacomo Latta
Tell me about it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f35TUFmCtYY
Angemon says
Tell you all about it? Sure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX5C70mgHc0
Angemon says
“Those that criticizing Iran should go and do a naked bike ride in Saudi Arabia.
I bet long before the saudi sharee’a police arrives on the scene, the naked bike riders
would be lynched and stoned to death by ordinary Saudi citizens walking in the area! ”
You know what? I’ll take your bet. Go take the naked ride and document what happens…
“Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where there is a weekly public beheadings,2
Your Iranian buddies prefer hanging from construction cranes…
“usually done after the Friday prayers ”
Friday prayers? Isn’t that when Iranians go out shouting “Death to America”?
“Saudi tyrannical regime which is basically NO different from ISIS! ”
Christian-murdering, genocide-seeking Iran is what ISIS aspires to be…
“Okay, forget about the governments for a moment here ”
And point out that your little rant against SA is merely a diversionary tactic to draw heat away from your Iranian buddies? It fails, of course, because no one here says of Saudi Arabia 1/1000th of what you say about Iran. This is how you’re looking like right now:
“The Iranian people are the smartest, the most cultured, the most beautiful, the most tolerant, the most enlightened and the most sophisticated people any where in the Islamic world! ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_zrTFhZhJc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHPB_pkvSNo
gravenimage says
christianblood wrote:
Paul posted
(..Imagine a naked bike ride there..)
Those that criticizing Iran should go and do a naked bike ride in Saudi Arabia…
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Why should they? It is not as though Jihad Watch ignores the horrors of Saudi Arabia–or any other Sunni hell hole.
christianblood constantly pretends that if you condemn the savagery of Shia Muslims, that that this must somehow mean that you support Sunni savagery.
But Anti-Jihadists condem *all* the barbarism of Islam–something the appalling apologist for Islam christianblood appears to be incapable of grasping.
More:
Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where there is a weekly public beheadings,
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Actually, this was quite common in the Islamic State, as well. This is not some bizarre afectation of Saudi Arabia’s–this is quite mainstream Islam.
More:
Okay, forget about the governments for a moment here and let us compare the Iranian people with the Saudi people or for that matter with all Arabs and Pakis and see what happens. This is in fact like comparing light to darkness! The Iranian people are the smartest, the most cultured, the most beautiful, the most tolerant, the most enlightened and the most sophisticated people any where in the Islamic world!
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What could be more “tolerant” than forced Hijab, marrying children, hanging gay people, vowing to wipe Israel off the map, imprisoning Christians, and stoning women to death? sarc/off
More:
For more about the weekly public beheadings and crucifixions in Saudi Arabia watch the human rights report below
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This is *very* strange, since christianblood has repeatedly sneered at the whole concept of human rights, and has openly said that the prefers authoritarianism and dictatorships.
mortimer says
The immoral silence of Western feminists when Iranian women are given life sentences for not wearing a piece of cloth is simply stunning.
gravenimage says
I believe in equal rights for women, and I condemn this.
mortimer says
The old bearded mullahs cannot live much longer. I notice they have not enforced the Islamic beard rule. This is clearly misogyny.
Tehran was once called the Paris of the East. Women used to go out in the evenings to have a drink with their friends in the many open-air cafés in the city. They remember that and it will return when the old mullahs are dead.
Iran’s is the sort of dictatorship that the Leftards are abetting. By their silence, they are complicit. Silence always helps the perpetrators, not the victims.
gravenimage says
The Mullahs have been around for forty yeas now, Mortimer.
Beverly says
So many things going wrong in Iran. They blew all the money from Obamao on themselves and their terrorist Army. The economy has gone to the dogs. They can’t sell their oil. The people are oppressed, but they worry about and jail women who would prefer not to wear the hijab. Nice.
Christianblood says
Beverly
Violent and bloody America lectures the world about human rights yet 40 million Americans live in poverty and are on food stamps which is (larger than the whole population of Venezuela)! 15 million American children reside in xtreme poverty, 28 million Americans live without health insurance, with widespread urban decay, yards filled with sewage, rampant levels of crime, violence, suicides, has the largest prison population on earth and hundreds of thousands dying each year from suicides, homicides, opioid epidemic, mass-murder, abuse and police brutality!
Hundreds of mass-murders in the US every year, three in the last week alone where close to 70 innocent civilians were gunned down, 31 of them dead! violent, bloody America is more violent that Iraq and Afghanistan and Somalia combined! Even Amnesty International is warning the world against any kind of travel to the violent and bloody US territories. More below:
https://www.rt.com/usa/466022-amnesty-international-crisis-gun-violence/
Angemon says
Let’s pretend all the BS you’re vomiting – for the nth time, since you have the habit of copy/pasting spam – is true. What does that mean to Beverly’s claims regarding Iran? Nothing – everything she wrote is true. And you know it, hence why you’re desperately resorting to diversionary tactics.
Iran is a Christian-murdering, genocide-seeking, terrorism sponsoring state on the brink of failure – and shame on you for defending such vile, degenerate criminals. Shame. Shame! SHAME! SHAME!!!!!
gravenimage says
christianblood wrote:
Beverly
Violent and bloody America lectures the world about human rights yet 40 million Americans live in poverty and are on food stamps which is (larger than the whole population of Venezuela)! 15 million American children reside in xtreme poverty, 28 million Americans live without health insurance, with widespread urban decay, yards filled with sewage, rampant levels of crime, violence, suicides, has the largest prison population on earth and hundreds of thousands dying each year from suicides, homicides, opioid epidemic, mass-murder, abuse and police brutality!
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Firstly–as Angemon noted–christianblood always spams this–word for word–when he is desperate to distract from the brutality of Islam.
Then let’s wade through this again, shall we? Even those below the poverty line in the US often have cell phones, TV, microwave ovens, and automobiles. Living below the poverty line in the US still usually means a standard of living far better than much of the rest of the world.
Then his pretending that not having health insurance means not receiving health care is quite false. There were times when I was first starting out that I did not have health insurance–this never stopped me from getting health care–it is just less convenient. And he has never listed his source form American yards being full of sewage–in fact, the US has some of the best public health standards in the world.
Then, levels of suicide and police brutaiity are *much* higher in Russia than in the US.
This is bizarre, in any case–chrstianblood constantly says that Americans and other Westerners are not spiritual enough because they are too wealthy, and have too much hope and opportunity. He has claimed that not just Russia but the savage, hopeless Muslim world is so much more “spiritual” due to their–laudable, as he sees it–poverty and stagnancy.
Finally, will christianblood condemn this forced veiling in Iran? Of course not–he has even refused to condemn Chechnya Muslims assaulting Christian women for not wearing the Hijab.
Christianblood says
Graven & Angermon
America is a violent bloody hellhole with hundreds of mass-murders every year, four in the last week alone where close to 80 innocent civilians were gunned down and knived, 36 of them dead! Violent, bloody America is more violent that Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia combined! Even Amnesty International is warning the world against any kind of travel to the violent and bloody US territories. Yes, America has rampant levels of crime, extreme violence, very high suicides, has the largest prison population on earth and hundreds of thousands are dying each year from suicides, homicides, opioid epidemic, mass-murder, abuse and police brutality!
As I said, America is so dangerous and so violent that Amnesty International has issued warning yesterday to anyone who wants to travel there. More of Amnesty International’s warning below:
https://www.rt.com/usa/466022-amnesty-international-crisis-gun-violence/
Angemon says
“America is a violent bloody hellhole with hundreds of mass-murders every year,”
Unfortunately, you can find mass-murders all over the world. The thing is, America is far from the worst offender. They’re not even among the worse. Far from it:
https://crimeresearch.org/2019/04/in-the-journal-econ-journal-watch-on-is-the-united-states-an-outlier-in-public-mass-shootings-a-comment-on-adam-lankford/
If anything, the US is under-represented.
“Violent, bloody America is more violent that Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia combined! ”
Citation needed. Also:
http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/most-violent-countries/
I see Afghanistan. Somalia and Iraq there, but not he US. Hmmm… You wouldn’t happen to be talking out of your ass again, would you?
“Yes, America has rampant levels of crime”
Citation needed.
extreme violence”
Citation needed.
“very high suicides”
Citation needed. TW, according to the WHO, your precious little Russia, which has less than half the population of the US, has twice the number of suicides per 100,000 people. Seeing how you are consumed by anger and hatred of Christians, Americans and Westerners i general, that seems about right…
“has the largest prison population on earth”
Your point being? Do all countries on earth have the same laws? If not, and if something is a crime in one country but not in another (such as domestic violence, a crime in the US but not in Russia), then such data point is meaningless.
“and hundreds of thousands are dying each year from suicides, homicides, opioid epidemic, mass-murder, abuse and police brutality! ”
You already mentioned like 3 of those before. And you’re one to talk about abuse (substance abuse, I assume) when you hail from a chronically alcoholic nation.
“As I said, America is so dangerous and so violent that Amnesty International has issued warning yesterday to anyone who wants to travel there. ”
Amnesty International also claims Myanmar is engaging in ethnic cleansing/genocide? Do you agree with them? Of course not – you’ll decry them as lying Western MSM. But somehow, the lying media is right – when ti suits you, of course…..
gravenimage says
As I expected, christianblood did not respond to anything I addressed in his ridiculous post.
And–even more salient–he still refuses to criticize forced veiling, and the lifelong sentences that women have received in Iran for resisting this. But then, why would he condemn it when he supports this Islamic oppression?
Christianblood says
gravenimage
Russia has drinking problem and that could lead violent behavior and sometimes homicides (actually the situation improved considerably in the last 12 but was very bad during the Yeltsin years in the nineties after the collapse of the USSR). There is always propaganda against Russia and some of the website out there disseminate that propaganda but compared to the US, Russia is indeed very safe country and has less crime, far less gangster, drug and gun violence and the last years’s World Cup passed that with virtually no major crime incidents even though Moscow and other Russian cities were filled up with millions of tourists from all over the world. The Russian World Cup was called the best ever and you can look that up!
The other thing is that in Russia there are no the crazy mass-murders that you have in the US and virtually no police brutality! Russian police are taught to value the human life very dearly and are not trigger happy like the US police are. Unlike the US police following their robotic training that calls troubled human beings a “threat to be shot until it is moving no more”, Russian police are taught to deescalate the situation using common sense and to use all avenue avoiding taking human life,
unless they are dealing with armed terrorists like ISIS or Al-Qaeda types!
Even when they have to shoot, Russian police are taught to shoot lower body, like the legs, never at the torso!
Never Amnesty international warned people about going to Russia but it does now about going to America because mass-shootings and daily gun violence there in the US. See it below:
https://www.rt.com/usa/466022-amnesty-international-crisis-gun-violence/
Besides, you will never see such a graphic police brutality in Russia like the graphic US story below where a young father is ordered by a trigger happy US police to crawl and he obeys while begging for his life only to be shot while crawling and begging for his life! Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1pJe_Tcdeg
Angemon says
“Russia has drinking problem and that could lead violent behavior and sometimes homicides (actually the situation improved considerably in the last 12 but was very bad during the Yeltsin years in the nineties after the collapse of the USSR). ”
Don’t try to under sell it. Vodka was used as a means to control the people for centuries. It’s not “sometimes homicides”, like you claim, it’s much more serious than that. It’s alcoholism, violence, including domestic violence, murders and. above all, hopelessness.
“There is always propaganda against Russia and some of the website out there disseminate that propaganda but compared to the US, Russia is indeed very safe country ”
Lol! Talk about propaganda… One only needs to see which country has a history of suffering from “brain drain”…
“ and has less crime”
Citation needed. Of course, in Russia domestic violence is not a crime. If American Joe Smith beats his wife, he goes to jail (or at least there’s the genuine expectation that’ll happen). If Russian Vladimir Kolivanov beats his wife twice as hard as Joe Smith, nothing comes to pass:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/world/europe/russia-domestic-violence-european-court-of-human-rights.html
And if Russian Muhammad Abdul, living in Chechnya, beats his wife…
“far less gangster”
Citation needed.
“drug and gun violence”
Citations needed. BTW, you keep using undefined terms. What is “drug violence”? Is it violence committed by people under the influence of drugs? is it violence committed by people desperate for their next fix? And “gun violence”? What does that term encompasses? Violent murders? Suicides? Is it the number of guns who become sentient and star murdering people? I’d expect a self-proclaimed “expert” to have higher strandards than that…
“and the last years’s World Cup passed that with virtually no major crime incidents even though Moscow and other Russian cities were filled up with millions of tourists from all over the world.”
So did the World Cup in the US.
“The Russian World Cup was called the best ever and you can look that up! ”
Bwahaha!!! Sorry to break your delusion (well, not really), but that’s what is said after each World Cup/European Championship. After each edition there are articles and articles saying “X reasons this was the best one ever”. Also, curious that’s the only thing in your petty diatribe you tell us to “look up”. Why is that? Let me check suicide rates per country:
http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.MHSUICIDEv?lang=en
Look, Russia’s suicide rate per 100,000 is 31 while the US’s is 15,3. But wait, doesn’t Russia have less than half the population of the US? IN any case, this has nothing to do with the matter at hand: Beverly’s claims regarding Iran are correct – everything she wrote is true. And you know it, hence why you’re desperately resorting to diversionary tactics.
Angemon says
“Firstly–as Angemon noted–christianblood always spams this–word for word–when he is desperate to distract from the brutality of Islam.”
Indeed. And since he often presents Russia as a superior nation, he should be comparing numbers to make his point. Why is he not doing it? Planck, speck, eye, etc.
gravenimage says
christianblood wrote:
gravenimage
Russia has drinking problem and that could lead violent behavior and sometimes homicides (actually the situation improved considerably in the last 12 but was very bad during the Yeltsin years in the nineties after the collapse of the USSR). There is always propaganda against Russia and some of the website out there disseminate that propaganda but compared to the US, Russia is indeed very safe country and has less crime, far less gangster, drug and gun violence and the last years’s World Cup passed that with virtually no major crime incidents even though Moscow and other Russian cities were filled up with millions of tourists from all over the world. The Russian World Cup was called the best ever and you can look that up!
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Actually, this site has Russia rated 9th in the world for violent crime and murder, and the US at 14th.
https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Violent-crime/Murder-rate
More:
The other thing is that in Russia there are no the crazy mass-murders that you have in the US and virtually no police brutality! Russian police are taught to value the human life very dearly and are not trigger happy like the US police are. Unlike the US police following their robotic training that calls troubled human beings a “threat to be shot until it is moving no more”, Russian police are taught to deescalate the situation using common sense and to use all avenue avoiding taking human life,
unless they are dealing with armed terrorists like ISIS or Al-Qaeda types!
Even when they have to shoot, Russian police are taught to shoot lower body, like the legs, never at the torso!
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Well, this is just nuts. Rates of police and prison brutality are through the roof in Russia. The reason there is photographic evidence of police brutality in the US is because police use cameras,and a.so allow citizens to do so. There is *no* such accountability in Russia.
Never Amnesty international warned people about going to Russia but it does now about going to America because mass-shootings and daily gun violence there in the US. See it below
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Actually, Amnesty International regularly tracks the violent crushing of freedom in Russia.
Angemon says
“Amnesty International regularly tracks the violent crushing of freedom in Russia.”
Indeed. Take, for example, this protest last year:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/russia-mockery-of-sexual-harassment-claims-against-mp-prompts-protest-on-international-womens-day/
An AI-led protest against the widespread gender-based violence against women. I assume no one here is in favour of such a thing – except for the marital-rape denying CB who, undoubtedly, would decry AI as “CIA propaganda” or “US terrorist group”, “Western devils trying to corrupt holy mother Russia” or whatever his ramblings of the day are. But, since the AI is critical of the US – and there are certainly many, many more far, far worse places to travel to – then it suddenly becomes a shinning example of unadulterated truth.
Same with CNN. CB has tried to tarnish be by saying I quote CNN points, or something like that, alongside his claims that all MSM in the West are anti-Christian and pro-islamic. Does that stop him from posting videos from CNN to defend his points? Of course not – we just have to believe that the anti-Christian, pro-islamic CNN is the truth when CB uses them and unreliable if someone else does. That’s the thing when you have an agenda to push, no matter what, consistency be damned – it never crossed his mind that, if CNN is, as he claims, pro-islamic, then their reports of Jews living unharmed in Iran are dubious, at best: “CNN is terrible because they’re pro-islamic! They lie to protect and advance islam!!! They can not be trusted, they lie! LIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!! Now have a report of CNN telling good things about the islamic Republic of Iran, and this just goes to show my point of how nice and friendly Iran is!”
Mario Alexis Portella says
Thank you Mr. Spencer for presenting this one. I have Persian friends here in Florence where I live and they all can’t stand their regime, and it’s something like getting arrested for not wearing hijab that represents how life is in Iran. Their saddened because they love their homeland, and are also hopeful that Trump’s sanctions can force a change in government.
CRUSADER says
How goes the scene in Florence ?
What’s the news on Islamists a king themselves known publicly there?
I prefer this story of the Persian fellow formerly held in Iranian jail for a decade….
https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/08/02/victoria-man-apparently-freed-after-11-years-in-iranian-prison/
Mario Alexis Portella says
Well, my cardinal archbishop is trying to get the selling of our church property to build a mosque finalised. Please pray it doesn’t happen! https://gloria.tv/article/SANDTbzRpY9r27eWbwxhD4gB4
Rufolino says
Good God !
gravenimage says
Suicidal insanity., Mario.
Angemon says
When the going gets tough, islamic states’ get more devout…
Walter Sieruk says
To arrest and imprison those 70 cyclists for not wearing their hijab is yet more proof of the misogyny of the tyrannical and oppressive “mullahs regime ” of Iran
For that ruthless cruel brutal heinous l regime of Iran that is so unfittingly has the word “Republic” in its title ,for its called “ The Islamic Republic of Iran” [ I R I]. On the topic of this Islamic tyranny a former Muslim revealed that “The IRI system recognizes women as dependent upon men and incomplete human beings who need to be supervised and controlled by men and the State. This author further exposed that “Women are created for the purposes of giving pleasure to men and child bearing – functions that confine them to the home” This is a male Chauvinistic as can possibly be. In addition this writer further makes it known that “The IRI legal system still retains traditional patriarchal bias that can be described as nothing but systemic subordination of women , which is undoubtedly a human rights violation .” This author further reveals that “Iran is of what Islamic fundamentalists desire, an Islamic State, and the consequence of achieving it “State Terror. Instead of utopia, Iran is an Islamic totalitarian nightmare…” and “the Islamic Republic of Iran exists and operates as what every Islamic fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by Sharia …What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premises; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1] This heinous Islamic has been also exposed by another author who was born and lived in a Middle Eastern nation for many years. She wrote “Female freedom and independence is one of the greatest sins in Islam…” and “Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [2] All this is wicked, unjust and misogynistic to the extreme. Islam had not regard for human life, regardless of what the apologists for this religion will claim.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq. pages 345-347.
[2] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel pages 62, 172
Rarely says
Contrary to Iranian Law the is a difference between “peddling your ass” and “pedalling your ass”.
Steve's nephew says
The purpose of Islam is not to have a system of morality Rather the purpose of Islam is to have a system of authority.
Does it make any sense at all to punish someone who is already moral in order to make that person moral?
doni609 says
Sad but at the same time pretty hilarious. How can these neanderthals possibly continue to support this so-called government? Anyone in Iran with a half-a-brain should rise up and squash this terrorist ‘holy man’ right in his tracks. He’s done enough harm to the Iranian people and has made them the most hated people on the face of the earth. Squash him citizens of Iran!
James says
Long ago when the shah was still in power, I visited Tehran, and I did not see women in veils like they have to now. Women seemed to be freer than the Muslim women I see today in Minneapolis in hijabs, niqabs and burkas. There was a sort of scarf loosely wrapped around the head that could easily be removed and was not restrictive like the ones women are put in now. I do not remember that all women had to wear even this sort of scarf. It seems to me that this is what often happens when there is a revolution. Instead of making things better, radicals take over the government and make things worse than before the revolution. It is easier to say revolt and replace the fanatics. Look what happened in Germany, Russia and China when a fanatic dictator took over.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
These Iranian women should have used another mode of transportation. Perhaps they should have followed the ancient Arab
saying as a most perfect example, “I’d walk a mile for a camel.”