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[–]noshore4me 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

If you're not Iranian, why would you give a shit either way? It doesn't affect you.

[–]tiny-brown-mug 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That's actually a pretty good point.

Edit : I'm just not fully buying the "Iran Protests Good!" vibe and suspect this is part of a larger war against organized, conservative faith and traditionalism mixed in with valid points about the Iranian morality police being brutal and violent.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

(((somebody))) has been trying to destroy Iran for decades. Meanwhile Israel literally assassinates journalists regularly.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That somebody isn't very competent then.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Islam is bad. Every majority Muslim country is shitty and its people are miserable, conservative or liberal.

[–]tiny-brown-mug 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, I know. I'm just considering that, as Khamenei suspects, these protests are, in fact, being fueled in part by the West in an attempt to collapse the Islamic Regime. Now, I'm not saying the Iranian morality police are good guys. But we all know what happens when a brutal regime in the Middle East gets toppled; terrorists and even worse agents fill in the power vacuum.

And I'm not convinced that the kind of "freedom" many are calling for right now is actually going to be good for Iran. "Freedom" in 1978 under the Shah looked very different from "freedom" today.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I know you guys like to think that the West controls what all the brown people do and they can't think for themselves but that's not what's happening there. Rather, unlike the West, the majority of the population in Iran are under 30 and they are just fed up with the old guys in power telling them what to do. The whole thing moves like teen social media fad and both the Iranian and Western governments are playing catch-up because that's not their style.

But we all know what happens when a brutal regime in the Middle East gets toppled; terrorists and even worse agents fill in the power vacuum.

That's literally already happened in Iran. That's their current government.

I think the protests aren't so much about specific rights but against those morality police and the regime. The majority of protesters killed by the state so far have been young men, not women and girls. They are fighting to get basic control over their own lives, not for wokeness.

[–]MightyMorphinFaggot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's always possible it's bullshit propo by commies so until you see hard evidence or you actually are there you have other shit to think about.

[–]WoodyWoodPeckerHah he he he hah! 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sharia Law is to blame for Islam being terrible. It is the 16th-century belief in the 21st-century world.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Plenty of ancient belief systems are still very good and useful.

Islam is bad because it was set up by a rapey camel hustler to justify his raping and camel hustling.