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[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.world 103 points 1 year ago (37 children)

Fucking backward religion. So much would be better without any religion whatsoever

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[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Iran should just deport all their engineers, philosophers, critical thinkers, social unacceptable members to other countries that would be glad to receive a brain boost. That way, Iran could just happily fucking rot in its own juices.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, the religious fanatics should all just move to a mountain top monastery like they did in ancient times. They'd be much happier there.

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I’d accept that too! And stop being allowed to make social policy and laws!

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I am so sad that the mass protests had no effect. Poor Iranian people, especially women. What can anyone do to free them?

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Conservatism is a global plague. Pacifism has never worked to cure this disease. Until the normal people rise up and do the horrific dirty work needed to erase this disease, it will continue to infect and kill.

The cure is not clean, but history has proven that conservatism is a fatal disease when left untreated.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The protests weren't peaceful. They were riotous. It didn't work, unfortunately.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm aware. And I am heart-broken. The violence, unfortunately, must involve not stopping until the conservatives no longer exist in any position of power. Extreme violence with a lack of mercy may be required. I don't think the Iranian people really have that in them. I hope I am proven wrong some day. This government was foisted upon them by us. This conservative government was not entirely the people's fault in this case.

For the rest of us, wherever the conservative disease persists, the natural result will always be brutal oppression of the vulnerable. Always. A cure must be administered long before the disease becomes this advanced.

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[–] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I was heartened to hear about the people keeping up the public opposition of the clerics, beyond knocking off their turbans. I hope that the clerics understand that their time is passing and that they are shaking in their sandals with the very realistic fear that they will continue to get randomly gunned down by the people anytime an opportunity presents it. Fuck theocratic Islam and all other exclusivist religions.

Even the Gulanist movement from Turkey, who likes to put on a friendly face to the western world, is exclusivist -- if pressed, their real opinions come through their strategic friendly face da'wah, e.g., it is not hard to get them to call Sufis (one of the few mystical/not-exclusivist islamic groups) heretics or "not real muslims."

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[–] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Start by protesting religion in your own country. Religion is bad everywhere. If some crazy groups want to believe in fairies, that's ok, just do it in your home and don't bring it out of there.

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[–] elscallr@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What can anyone do to free them?

Arm them.

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[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (17 children)
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[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Wait, people actually still get lashes?? What fucking year is this

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 year ago

Lashes is for the lucky ones.

The less lucky ones get hanged. And if you think hanged as in a quick drop and neck snap, no. They hang you slowly with a crane so that you suffer more, that is required by ~~Darth vader~~ the ayatollah...

Fuck everything about those religious zealot nut cases

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's the age where in many muslim countries, if you say something even mildly critical about the ruling class or the priests or Islam, there's a very high risk of being executed for it.

[–] Angius@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

In Muslim countries it's always the middle ages

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[–] yrmyli@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

A religion where women are beaten and people are blown up for fun. Islam is like a cancer of all modern religions. I must check how many down votes I get in next 12h.

[–] Rootiest@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

cancer of all modern religions

Meh, they're all pretty bad imo

Modern Religion is an oxymoron

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Oh none from me, though I'd pool just about every other religion in with that. They're all shit in their own ways. The concept of a modern religion also makes no sense, by their nature religions are archaic power tools used to control the masses against their individual will via their collective will.

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

"We are struggling against sanctions and need to build our own capacities up and become more independent."

"Better attack the people we need to do it then. A piece of cloth is more important than our survival."

[–] Colorcodedresistor@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago (35 children)

so much fuss over a hat,please muslims, make it make sense. why is it a female's job to worry about your stupid ass erections?

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[–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

every religious-led country is a country of barbarians.

it is the human collective absolving themselves of responsibility in liue of some greater power

religion is a transmissible poison that must be removed, like cigarettes

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hooray, a Persian Gulf country sentenced someone to a punishment other than death for a harmless crime!

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I thought 74 Lashes were clearly lethal?

AFAIK there is nothing humane about such a sentence, on the contrary, it can mean slow and painful death.

I just tried to find this out, in most muslim countries, the too many lashes are spread out over several times, to avoid death. A limit is for example 50 lashes per time in Saudi Arabia.

[–] OhShitSon@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] solstice@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

Holy shit is 74 lashes even survivable?? I feel like it would flay the flesh off ~~his~~ her back and never recover, die from infection or something. Not a doctor and not a torturer so idk.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Her back. It was a female engineer protesting being forced to wear a hijab.

[–] solstice@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

My mistake, misread the post thanks. Horrible, poor woman.

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[–] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (24 children)

And muslisms in france don't understand the ban of hijabs in schools. This is why.

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[–] Fades@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Wait what???? But my college buddy who fell down the ruzzian propaganda pipeline tells me the west is evil and Iran is actions of the most moral countries out there!!

Jfc

[–] covert_czar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All religion is fucking useless Jai sree ram jai sree ram 😼🚶 Anyone knows about Dinkoism ? Its a parody religion from kerala

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