Secret life of young Iranian Muslims

Hey the Doors said it best: Break on through to the other side. To wear these cloths in public would bring severe punishment, perhaps even death

Rule of thumb: don’t get caught.

• Iran’s hedonistic youth (from 2008). Here.
• Underground Iranian sex dance (with hula hoop). Here.

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Related: The New York Arab-American comedy festival: From the advert: “The festival also premieres two special features this year: “The Harem Show” – a daring, one-of-a-kind ‘Dirty’ Arab comedy show (for an 18+ audience) and “Arabian Idol” – a free stand-up workshop and audition for the chance to win a spot in the festival’s ‘New Faces of Arab Comedy Show.’ “

Night of the Islamic Republic

“…Then night descended and horror. Ahmadinejad’s “victory” was celebrated with brutality worthy of a putsch. Thugs prowled, armed with the license of the Islamic Republic to beat women. Lofty clerics bound by those beautiful words — “In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate” — showed no mercy, no compassion, in unleashing the forces who reduced the pre-electoral vitality to a hallucination and thoughtful intellectuals to whimpering wrecks prepared to “confess” to plotting velvet revolution…” Here.

Beware the priests: As this article above implies, for Muslims who rebelled against the Order of Orthodoxy it must’ve been like the pain felt by Christian heritics under the Spanish Inquisition: “The man intones, ‘In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. …’ Mohsen braces himself. There is a terse whisper and the instrument comes crashing onto the soles of Mohsen’s feet. An unimaginable pain shoots through his body to his temples, a pain to drive one mad. Mohsen is dimly aware that he is screaming. His wrist and ankles are being cut up as he thrashes against his bonds. “The beating continues. Before each blow, the man calls, ‘Ya! Hossein!’ After a while he stops to catch his breath. He speaks to Mohsen. He calls him a Hypocrite and a traitor to God. Then he starts again.”

Note: basically the above article/quotes are a synopsis of Death to the Dictator.

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Related: let’s not forget these great tributes to the Iranian Dictator himself: Mockmood 1, Mockmood 2

Ahhh, spring in Iran

Ah, spring beckons the morality police, who, with the arrival of the awakening greenery, are beginning their “annual spring crackdown on women wearing too much makeup, daring to show their hair or dressing in a way that shows their body contours too clearly…” Here.

Voice of America: infected

“…But when she gets to Voice of America, Ellie sees that VOA is not what she or the other Persian broadcasters at PNN had thought. The agency, managed by people who have little regard for VOA’s mission to promote the values of the United States and freedom in Iran, treat their professional broadcasters like circus animals. Either they jump, like performing circus dogs, through the hoops they want – which is to kiss the derriere of the Iranian radical Islamic mullahs in Tehran – or they will be destroyed. In fact, the father of the senior managing editor of PNN, Ali Sajjadi, is a mullah, and he is forced to admit as much when on a recent television show. His anti-American, pro-radical Islamic bent infects the programming of the entire network and subverts the mission of VOA…” Here.

Meanwhile….

“…Meanwhile, the death spiral of the Islamic Republic continues.  There is an epidemic of failed landing gear on airplanes either belonging to, or transporting officers of, the Revolutionary Guards.  The latest was a flight on Monday from Tehran to Mashad that had to return to Tehran and circle the air field for nearly two hours, burning off fuel and waiting for foam to be spread…” Here.

Glory unto the world–there is a God after all…

Federal authorities seizing four mosques and a N.Y. building owned by muslim groups under the control of Iran. I swear to God, I read that this morning and became so excited I got an erection.

Another example of how religion poisons everything…

Christopher Hitchens is right, religion poisons everything. This unfortunate woman was shot because she opposed Islamic oppression. (No doubt the men will be arrested because they’re “touching” a woman they are not related to.)

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More poison:

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Update: The real heroes of Iran.

” The women of Iran have jolted me awake from my cable news coma. So many of the protesters are young and female like me but display a courage I have never known — clasping rocks in their fists, kicking at baton-wielding policemen and, in the case of Neda Agha-Soltani, dying on the streets of Tehran. Judging from the flood of “I am Neda” T-shirts and tweets, I’m hardly the only one feeling not just powerful admiration but identification with Iranian women…” Read more in this article about the beautiful and remarkable progressive women of Iran.

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Update: Trouble in TehranThe post Michael Jackson/Farah Fawcett/Billy Mays death media frenzy fiasco.

Twittering Iran

Twit from Iran…

“jesus christ dude,

I’m [in my 30s] and never thought of it, let alone witnessing it as it unfolds.

I’m going nuts.

HOLY SHIT !!!”

Contextual article here.