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Lot's Wife
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Date: August 04, 2022 08:26PM
Hey ziller, if you want to challenge something I say please feel free to reply directly to me rather than hiding passive-aggressively at the bottom of the thread.
But if you do so, it may be wise to put on your thinking cap first. For example, if I say that "the atheistic nations of northern Europe report among the lowest levels of crime and the highest levels of personal happiness in the world," you'd make more of an impact if you challenged the actual assertion--you know, with facts and stuff--rather than just tossing dust in the air as you do here.
And remember that time a few weeks ago when I linked to an Iranian woman whom I consider a hero? You reacted, again passive aggressively, by hiding two critiques of the Iranian government elsewhere in the thread (which otherwise had nothing to do with Iran) as if I were somehow praising the Mullahs.
If you'd gone the next step--seeing what sort of Iranian I was praising, you'd have noted that she is a presenter for Voice of America, broadcasting attacks on the Iranian government into that country. You might also have learned that when working as a political reporter at the age of 19, she was arrested for exposing corruption in the government and then banned from political reporting altogether.
You may have discovered that she has organized a mass movement against the repression of women in Iran; that she has been imprisoned, her brother has been imprisoned, her sister has been interrogated and forced to renounce her on TV, and that her elderly mother has been subjected to repeated interrogations by the Iranian police. That's why Masih moved to London and then NYC.
Did you know, furthermore, that a few years ago Teheran tried to lure her to Istanbul, where Jamal Khashoggi met his demise; that the FBI foiled an Iranian attempt to kidnap her in Brooklyn a year ago; and that last week the authorities captured a man casing her home with an AK-47 and other weaponry? Because it's kind of silly to suggest that she is a Muslim extremist and that I, by praising her, am likewise on the side of the Iranian government.
Unless, of course, you recognize that the enemies of extremist religions aren't really on your side. Because they are unlikely to reject militant Islam just to adopt the militant, anti-vaxxer, anti-abortion, my-way-or-the-hell-way religion you're constantly preaching. If that's your analysis, I congratulate you on your insight.
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Meanwhile, for those who care, here's more on Masih Alinejad, one of the Iranian regime's foremost enemies and targets. After her imprisonment, harassment, and flight to the West, she started a protest movement by urged women to remove their headscarfs, their hijabs, and demand equality. Tens of thousands did that. Dozens were arrested and punished. And then you know what happened? When the morality police accosted people for going without hijabs, people off the street started gathering to protect the women and in some instances shoved and even beat the police away.
The next stage was asking women on one day a year to wear the same color hijabs. That occurred last in mid-July--the 12th, I think. What we saw on that occasion was thousands of women, including elderly conservatives who insist on wearing the hijab, wearing the suggested color. Why? Because even many religiously conservative Iranians think it should be every woman's choice. That's been followed most recently by a movement of "men in hijab" going out in public in headscarves to show solidarity with the women.
I daresay, ziller, that Masih Alinejad, the woman with the irrepressible hair, has done more, and paid a greater price, for the freedom of others than you or I will ever achieve in our relatively trivial lives.
https://www.mystealthyfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/fg-1024x555.jpghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49BFGvBNImIEdited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/04/2022 08:26PM by Lot's Wife.