Come now. We must be understanding so as not to upset the delicate cultural sensitivities of the Iranian hard-liners... aw, fuckit, even I can't keep a straight face on that one.

abangyarudo

Amityville, NY

June 2006

AUG 30, 2007 02:50 AM

brett54 said:

crisladark said:
i dont understand how a culture could develop like that

Yes, yes.
A bit like how did a culture develop with,

- segregation of whites and blacks
- prohibihition of alcohol
- anti-communist hearings

oh, shit, there is one (one nation under god)

Lets also remember that your country had 1 out of the three. Probably 2 but I'm not sure what Australia was doing when we had the Red Scare....

TheFuckOffKid

NEWSWIRE

Australia

AUG 30, 2007 03:22 AM

abangyarudo said:

brett54 said:

crisladark said:
i dont understand how a culture could develop like that

Yes, yes.
A bit like how did a culture develop with,

- segregation of whites and blacks
- prohibihition of alcohol
- anti-communist hearings

oh, shit, there is one (one nation under god)

Lets also remember that your country had 1 out of the three. Probably 2 but I'm not sure what Australia was doing when we had the Red Scare....

In 1951 Menzies introduced legislation to ban the Communist Party, hoping that the Senate would reject it and give him an excuse for a double dissolution election, but Labor let the bill pass. It was subsequently ruled unconstitutional by the High Court.

Sir Robert Menzies.

A bit more of a token effort in our part of the world, compared to McCarthy.

OrlandoClassWar

Orlando, FL

December 2006

AUG 30, 2007 05:59 AM

Articles like this constantly solidify my atheism.

SissySuicide

Australia

August 2007

AUG 30, 2007 04:26 PM

This is really sad. I cant stand to see the freedom and inspiration that comes from being liberated, like the stuff we see on Suicide Girls, being completely banned and frowned upon by these small minded people who refuse to let go. That is truly depressing. More power to him i say. I am not a womens lib psycho, but i would love to see everyone being what they want to be..... without judgement and condemnation.

ASSH0LE

Las Vegas, NV

June 2003

AUG 31, 2007 08:12 PM

d20 said:
that a segment of culture developed like that isn't all that strange -- but that they progressed up to the dark ages then just stopped dead? now that's fucked up.

it's like they picked the most fucked up time period possible and went "ok, stoning people to death is pretty cool. let's just stick with this."

Iran I'd say regressed back to the dark ages. It didn't used to be that way.

The way it is now is largely a (n over-)reaction to the influence the West had in putting a hated monarch in power who secularized the country by force. Iran is (aside from their lunatic fringe clergy) a fairly westernised country that probably wouldn't mind being out from under the thumb of the Ayatollahs.

Even in their secular-minded younger folks, it's still tricky to "fight against God."

DrStinkypants

Saint Paul, MN

October 2002

AUG 31, 2007 10:36 PM

Glassmachine said:
Actually, the belief that men or women that are not married to each other should not make physical contact is not a fundamentalist belief. Just a muslim one.

Wow. So muslims are worse than other fundamentalists. I was getting worried for a minute there.

Glassmachine

United Kingdom

November 2004

SEP 01, 2007 02:53 AM

That's a clever comment that really rings true in every day life.. No, no wait. The opposite of that.

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