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Iran: MPs scream ‘death to America’ to show ‘respect’ for US George Floyd protests

Jun 9, 2020 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

This is fitting, since “death to America” is the goal of the rioters in the US as well.

“Iran MPs chant ‘death to America’ to show ‘respect’ for US George Floyd protests,” by Yaghoub Fazeli, Al Arabiya, June 8, 2020:

Iranian lawmakers chanted “death to America” during a parliamentary session on Sunday, claiming they were “in support” of the protests against racism in the US.

The death of George Floyd, a black man, on May 25 in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the hands of a white police officer who kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes triggered nationwide protests in the US over racial injustice.

“To show respect for the movement of the oppressed in the US, I ask you to stand for a few seconds and chant ‘death to America’ to show our respect,” an Iranian lawmaker said, after which lawmakers stood up and began chanting “death to America” in parliament.

Hypocrisy

Iran has been accused of hypocrisy in its reception of the protests in the US.

The Islamic Republic often expresses support for protesters in non-friendly countries despite its long track record of violence against protesters at home over the years….

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  1. RichardL says

    Jun 9, 2020 at 11:03 am

    Is that Sister Omar and Brother Ellison as honoured guests next to the podium. He is the moist dangerous MB member in American history.

  2. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Jun 9, 2020 at 11:29 am

    Pakistani-Bristish London mayor looking to tear down British monuments. He should start with all the mosques which symbolizes and promotes hatred and violence based on their lunatic leader’s ideology.

    • Mike 2 says

      Jun 10, 2020 at 6:47 am

      I don’t see many Muslims in the mobs demonstrating against statues of men who profited from slavery in London, Bristol and Oxford. Slavery is evil; don’t you agree, Mo?

    • Kevin K B says

      Jun 10, 2020 at 6:53 am

      A majority of mosques then…
      heavily financed notably by Iran, Saudi Arabia, and our public funding system!!

    • Manfred says

      Jun 10, 2020 at 7:48 am

      Not to forget that slavery is still legal in Islam.

  3. CogitoErgoSum says

    Jun 9, 2020 at 11:30 am

    I doubt the Muslim MP’s have any respect for George Floyd since he was not a Muslim himself but an Infidel instead. Note that they are showing support for the protests and not offering any prayers for for the repose of Floyd’s soul. For what Allah says in the Koran concerning the death of Infidels see Sura 9:113:

    “It is not for the Prophet, and those who believe, to pray for the forgiveness of idolaters even though they may be near of kin (to them) after it hath become clear that they are people of hell-fire.”

    Islam teaches these Iranian Muslims that George Floyd is burning in Hell right now and praying for him is useless. Their prayers are that all of us Infidels in America (and the whole world) will burn in Hell for eternity.

    • E T says

      Jun 10, 2020 at 10:23 pm

      Rev. Remus Wright, at the funeral for George Floyd In Huston, Texas, thanked the Nation of Islam , “which did a such a wonderful job in security”.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 10, 2020 at 11:01 pm

        Repulsive. E T. I missed that bit of insanity.

  4. mortimer says

    Jun 9, 2020 at 1:33 pm

    HYPOCRITES ! 2018 – 2020 Human Rights abuses in IRAN …

    – On May 1, plainclothes police arrested at least 35 activists who had gathered in front of the Iranian parliament in a peaceful demonstration organized by independent labor organizations. Most were released on bail, but in August branch 28 of Tehran’s revolutionary court sentenced Atefeh Rangriz, an activist, and Marizeh Amiri, a journalist, both of whom have been detained since May, to 11 years and 6 months in prison with 74 lashes and 10 years and 6 months in prison with 148 lashes, respectively. If the sentences are upheld, Rangriz and Amiri must serve at least seven-and-a-half and six years of their sentences in prison, respectively. In October, authorities released Rangiz and Amir temporarily until the court of appeal issues a verdict in their case.

    Death Penalty and Inhumane Punishments

    According to rights groups, Iran had executed at least 227 people as of November 1, compared to 253 in 2017.

    The decrease in the total number of executions over the past two years is largely due to a 2017 amendment to Iran’s drug law that increased the requirements for imposing the death penalty for drug-related charges.

    The judiciary also executed one person below the age 18 and at least 2 individuals who were sentenced to death for crimes they allegedly committed as children. Under Iran’s current penal code, judges can use their discretion not to sentence to death individuals who committed their alleged crime as children. However, several individuals who were retried under the penal code for crimes they allegedly committed as children have been sentenced to death again.

    Iranian law considers acts such as “insulting the prophet,” “apostasy,” same-sex relations, adultery, and certain non-violent drug-related offenses as crimes punishable by death. The law also prescribes the inhumane punishment of flogging for more than 100 offenses, including the “disrupting public order” charge that has been used to sentence individuals for their participation in peaceful assemblies.

    PUNISHED FOR SPEAKING OUT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

    On March 11, authorities sentenced Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent human rights lawyer, to 33 years in prison and 148 lashes for her peaceful activism, including defending women who protested compulsory hijab laws. On April 23, the court of appeal upheld the sentence. Sotoudeh, who has been detained since June 2018, will have to serve at least 12 years in prison.

    Since January 2018, authorities have detained environmentalists Houman Jokar, Sam Rajabi, Taher Ghadirian, Morad Tahbaz, Amirhossein Khaleghi, Sepideh Kashani, Niloufar Bayani and Abdolreza Kouhpayeh, all members of a local biodiversity conservation group, on accusations of espionage. Another environmentalist arrested at the time, Kavous Seyed Emami, a Canadian-Iranian professor and environmentalist, died in detention in February 2018.

    PROTESTING HIJAB

    Over the past two years, Iranian courts have handed down harsh sentences to dozens of women who protested compulsory hijab laws in Iran, as well as well-known human rights defenders, including Farhad Meysami and Reza Khandan, Sotoudeh’s husband, who supported their efforts.

    On July 31, branch 31 of Tehran’s revolutionary court sentenced Yasman Ariani, her mother Monireh Arabshahi, and Mojgan Keshavarz, who were all arrested for protesting compulsory hijab laws, to 5 years for “assembly and collusion to act against national security,” one year for “propaganda against the state,” and 10 years for “encouraging and providing for [moral] corruption and prostitution.” The court sentenced Keshavarz to an additional seven-and-a-half years for “insulting the sacred.” If these sentences are upheld on appeal, each woman will serve at least 10 years of their sentence.

    On August 27, the court sentenced Saba Kordafshari, a 22-year-old woman who was also arrested for protesting compulsory hijab, to 15 years in prison for “encouraging and providing for [moral] corruption and prostitution,” seven-and-a-half years for “assembly and collusion to act against national security,” and one-and-a-half years for “propaganda against the state.” If the sentences are upheld, she will have to serve at least 15 years.

    On September 2, Sahar Khodayari, a 29-year-old woman who was arrested in March when she tried to enter a stadium to watch a football game, set herself on fire in front of the court after she was threatened with a six-month imprisonment. Khodayari was reportedly charged with “wearing improper hijab” and “confrontation with the police.” Her death sparked domestic and international outcry with activists as well as football players calling on the International Football Federation (FIFA) to pressure Iran to overturn the ban against women attending stadiums. On October 10, Iranian authorities allowed a limited number of seats for women—around 3,000 out of 85,000 in the stadium—for an international football match. Despite this important advance, the general ban on women attending Iran’s national league games remains.

    Child Marriage

    Iranian law allows girls to marry at 13 and boys at age 15, as well as at younger ages if authorized by a judge. Efforts by a number of parliamentarians to increase the minimum age of marriage have been blocked by the judicial parliamentary commission.

    Religious Persecution

    Christians, Jews and Sunnite Muslims are under surveillance and arbitrarily persecuted. Bahai’is are being persecuted out of existence. It is genocidal.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 9, 2020 at 2:07 pm

    Strong sanctions need to be kept on that Islamic hate “mullah tyranny” of Iran that engages in brutal, cruel and murderous violence against its own Iranian citizens, so how much do those in power in Iran care ,if possible, about the human rights of people of other nations.

    Back on the date of 4/22/19 the US Secretary of State ,Michael Pompeo spoke of that brutal and oppressive tyranny which oppresses the people of Iran and said “We will not appease their oppressors as that last administration did .” Pompeo then stated “We will support the Iranian people.”

    As far back as on Tuesday, 2/5/ 19 in his second State on the Union a speech President Trump spoke of that Islamic tyranny of Iran as well as those in total power and complete of that tyrannical rogue state. For the President declared “It is a radical regime, they do bad, bad things.”

    Moreover, an author of an article on a Freedom Site, Dariush Afshar, had explained the reality of the situation well when he wrote that the “People of Iran who fight for freedom in Iran and abroad put a huge gap and draw a prominent line between Iran and the Islamic regime in Tehran.”

    This is sadly and tragically the terrible reality of this Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran. This Islamic tyranny has been well nicknamed “the mullahs regime” in which them mullahs and ayatollahs as well as other fiendish and fanatical Muslims in power have a strong and awful control of the Islamic regime of Iran and through their band of Islamic state “police” , who are called the “Revolutionary Guards “come down hard human rights of the Iranian people .

    Therefore, the Iranian people who are trapped and forced to exist in this Islamic tyranny live in terrible fear of the mullahs and others in power in Iran. This is a tragic and sad reminder of the wisdom that was printed in the periodical of Benjamin Franklin which is entitled POOR RICHARDS’ ALMANAC that reads “Those who are feared are also hated.”

    It also should be added, to this that the actual word “Republic” has on origin the Latin meaning “Of the people” With the mullahs ayatollahs in so much power and even influencing the parliament of this Islamic regime is tyranny is hardly a real republic .Furthermore the ruthless gang of thugs who are the stooges of those Muslim clerics, called the “Revolutionary Guards,” those Islamic State “police” come down hard on the human rights and freedoms of the Iranian people. Therefore the people do have the right to overthrow a tyranny. This reality had even been expressed and described by men of great intelligence .For example the philosopher .John Locke. This is wisdom that mullahs and other villains in power in that Islamic tyranny don’t want the Iranian people to know about or understand.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 9, 2020 at 2:23 pm

    Those with some power and those with much power in Iran do even worse then disrupt a large meeting.

    For example, the arrest and imprisonment of people who peacefully protest tyranny only further exposes the weak ,fearful and intolerant nature of those in power in the oppressive and brutal “mullah regime “ of Iran.

    As a former Muslim revealed an important reality when he wrote “The Islamic republic of Iran exists and operates as what every fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by sharia …” He further exposes that “What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premise; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1]

    Furthermore, in the book entitled HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD, by William Wagner on page 208 the reader is informed that “The creation of the Islamic republic in Iran has had the effect that many from that country have become disillusioned with Islam and are looking to leave Iran. ” This is a point worth pondering.

    [1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 347

  7. don vito says

    Jun 9, 2020 at 8:33 pm

    I’m sure the cubans,ccp and maduro were very impressed

  8. James Lincoln says

    Jun 9, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    Just waiting for the leftists / muslims / muslim apologists in the United States to start shouting and waving signs “Death to America!”

    Maybe they already have, and I somehow did not notice…

  9. gravenimage says

    Jun 10, 2020 at 12:41 am

    Iran: MPs scream ‘death to America’ to show ‘respect’ for US George Floyd protests
    …………….

    The racist Mullahs care nothing for George Floyd–they just consider this a chance at “Death to America!”.

  10. OLD GUY says

    Jun 10, 2020 at 11:17 pm

    Its kind of funny how these countries with terrible human rights records always point fingers at others while ignoring their own violent and brutal civil rights record. I sure as hell would rather live in America with its problems than Iran or any other muslim country.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 10, 2020 at 11:21 pm

      Yep.

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