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RE: I Think The World Would Take Us Much More Seriously On Iran
January 5, 2018 at 6:13 pm
Yup bullying sports leagues to engage in a petty red meat toss to his rabid hick followers . While having a million things on his plate for more important to his ACTUAL JOB. And not really adding anything meaningful to the conversation on police brutality anyway . Accept to lash out at one player for having the balls to not respect an organization who keeps using excessive force on black people.And a nation that seems to keep making excuses to do nothing about it . While people blather on about how football should not be political then demanding national anthems and soldiers and uber nationalism be on full display while pretending that isn't political . Then those people lose their minds when the NFL reacts to a politician sticking his nose were it does not belong .Then they start burning stuff they paid hundreds of dollars for .And buying out a guy who agrees with protesters . Then they try to claim victory for dropping sales when this had nothing to do with money . And saying it won't hurt Trump politically when that was not even the goal. I think that sums that up.
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RE: I Think The World Would Take Us Much More Seriously On Iran
February 1, 2018 at 5:08 am
It's happening. People are protesting in Iran against religious rule. Mostly women are posting on Twitter removing their hijab and risking imprisoment on the hashtag #دختران_خیابان_انقلاب meaning “the girls of Enghelab street” but to us it's #IranianProtests
“the girls of Enghelab street” which was the street where Vida Movahed first took off her hijab and got arrested.
Elderly woman in Iran joins the protest against forced hijab.
An Iranian religious woman in chador (hijab worn by more religious women in Iran) is also protesting against forced hijab in Iran
A frustrated woman in Iran shouts at Islamic cleric
"you have no shame…filth...you have ruined our lives"
A young man in Iran was tortured and flogged in prison after his arrest during Iran Protests. His mother posted this picture.
Another woman arrested in Iran for protesting forced hijab by taking off her headscarf.
Name: Narges Hosseini
Women are removing their hijab, posting it with the hashtag
18-year-old boy in Iran was flogged 80 times few days ago, for drinking alcohol.
City: Mashhad
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"