Iranian police have arrested more than 260 people, including three European citizens, on suspicion of spreading satanism, the state-run IRNA news agency reported Friday.
The report said the suspects were arrested on Thursday night in Shahryar County, west of the capital of Tehran, for “spreading the culture of satanism and nudity.” It did not elaborate.
It was not clear how such a large number of arrests were made in one night — if the suspects were in one location, at some gathering or party, or not.
Gatherings where unrelated men and women are seen together are illegal in Iran and considered a sin under Islamic law.
I imagine this is what the GOP wants to see happen in the US.
Imagine leaving one tyrant for their restrictions on your religion only to come back to reimplementing a few centuries later.
Regressionists man.
A lot of the pilgrims were the fundamentalist crazies that Europe didn’t want, and the towns they founded had laws like this and more.
Right but, before the declaration of independence and after are different stories
Regardless, we shredded through a genocide to take the land away forcibly.
We’ve been hypocrites since day one
Yeah but it wasn’t just fundamentalist religious zealots. It was also a lot of corporations and capitalists determined to make a profit no matter what, even at the cost of great human suffering and they dragged over a bunch of indentured servants and slaves and oh wait I think this explains a lot about the US.
satanism and nudity
Oh my god, that’s awful. Where?
Yeah, so I can totally avoid it!
Yeah, I would hate seeing those nude sexy satanists. They better stay away from my house, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500.
I was just thinking that sounds potentially wholesome.
It’s almost surreal reading how silly religious mythology is, and how silly it seems to even allow it in conversation about reality. But here we are. We’re still taking seriously the imaginary friends some dudes made up before we knew why it rained. And the humans in power still use those fictions to subjugate and control the masses.
It’s always funny to watch people like you judge othere
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Wtf does protesting have to do with you judging people?
I replied to the wrong comment thread, my apologies. As for this one, I am not bound by a mythology that says “you shouldn’t judge”. As history keeps reminding us, religions and the subjugate nature of them, are the absolute worst thing to happen to humanity. I am going to judge those that keep spreading it’s lies.
Ok have fun up there. Lmao
There’s zero fun in calling out the awful things that the xtian mythology alone has done, and conveniently forgiven itself for. ZERO fun is had by anyone but those wielding the hate, and bigotry. There’s centuries of bones buried that tell those stories.
Sounds like they busted a Eurovision watch party :/
Those sound like my sort of people! Hail Satan and off with my pants!
NO RULES™
Conservatives cannot resist harming, torturing or killing innocent, vulnerable people. This behavior is just unchecked conservatism doing what it naturally does.
There is no such thing as a “good conservative”. There never has been.
completely agree with your words.
The sex obsessed wet blankets in the clergy morality police probably shut down a concert or dance hall they weren’t invited to where people were actually having fun.
And then (at least) molested the people they arrested.
Was anyone else aware that nudity isn’t simply a case of undress, but a virus, which can be spread like chickenpox? I sure as hell wasn’t, prior to reading this story?
“Oh no! I’ve been struck by the nudity virus! Nobody look! NOBODY LOOK!”
Emily Ratajkowski has BEEN so afflicted for over a decade now. Hasn’t prevented anyone from eyeing her up and down
I’ve been meaning to look into the history of how the secular left was crushed in much of the Middle East. Thanks for the reminder.
TL;DR: Force
Those hexbears would be very upset with this comment if they could read.
Just to spread the good news: Irans President died in a helicopter crash today
Woah is he confirmed dead? I heard there was a search ongoing but no confirmation.
Maybe he’ll survive long enough to be eaten alive by wolves.
US and Eastern Europe religious fundamentalists taking notes.
Damn, I never get invited to the cool parties. /s
In America they are called Republicans
That’s just the multipolar world kicking in.
A nice reminder that we’d all be better off without Iran’s theocracy which supports terrorists for proxy fights. A democratic Republic by and for the Iranian people would be a major step towards lasting peace in the middle east
Yeah if only they had their own secular, democratically elected leaders. And maybe those leaders could even decide to nationalize their oil.
What could possibly go wrong for them?
Nassar’s Egypt, Mosaddegh’s Iran, Sankara’s Burkino Faso, Obote’s Uganda, Lumumba’s Congo, Trujillo’s Dominican Republic, Sukarno’s Indonesia (Read the Jakarta Method folks), Goulart’s Brazil, Arbenz’s Guatamala, Guardia’s Costa Rica, Allende’s Chile…
I don’t know what it is, but democratically elected leaders in countries that pursued an unaligned status just have a habit of getting couped by reactionary members of their militaries for some crazy reason.
Stop using the word democratic to mean western aligned. The west has no trouble financing terrorist groups, and the reason democratic countries cannot stay so if they don’t bend to Washington is not happenstance. The first step to a democratic Iran might well be a USA civil war.
No I legitimately mean a democracy by and for the people. If they decide they want to be in opposition to the West, I’m totally fine with that. That’s the whole point of self sovereignty. I just want the people to decide their own fates, because by all accounts, the theocracy and misogyny and brutal crackdown on protests are not popular.
If they decide they want to be in opposition to the West, I’m totally fine with that.
I’m sure you would, but the Allen Dulles Fan Club in Langley might feel otherwise.
I just want the people to decide their own fates
We don’t get to decide our own fates. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.
One consequence of the chronic paranoia and endless infighting created by persistent foreign infiltration, sabotage, and “regime change” efforts is a very closely knit administrative body. Theocracies form out of the heat and pressure of these outside forces, as locals lean into superstition and xenophobia to insulate them from outside agitators.
If you want the hedgehog to uncurl, maybe stop poking it with a fucking stick.
I have my doubts that the locals are supportive of the regime.
I mean, I’m a Houstonian in a liberal neighborhood and I have to search to find folks who are big fans of the Greg Abbott regime. But if I move a county over, I find them in spades.