A Short Message From Iran

Iran upstages the US in Iraq

 

Hard to make this up -- just one day after this regime sentenced women's rights lawyer above^, Nasrin Sotudeh, to 38 years prison and 148 lashes, the UN appoints the "Islamic Republic of Iran" to the UN Women's Rights Committee which judges complaints of women's rights violations.
No doubt Russian support of Iran went a long way
These bodies are a bad joke

 

While it’s absurd to name Iran or the Saudis to head a human rights commission, how do you suppose the rest of the world looks at America in the context of napalm dropped on Vietnamese villages, the destruction of water purification plants in Libya, destruction of electricity grids in Iraq, or abetting the Saudis genocide in Yemen. (I know, Iatrogenic applauds this) Hmm?

 

I applaud this.

If the U.S. whipped lawyers for defending women that didn't cover their heads with a cloth, I would only relish in the fact that a lawyer was being whipped, but would find the reason for the whipping a reason to overthrow the government.

 

I wonder if the Iranian exhibit will include wall hangings on their views on gay rights?

 

The Islamic republic of Iran is a right wing extremist theocracy. Basically everything any actual liberal (and any other sensible person) should be against. They also really, really hate Jews. They are basically today’s nazis.

It’s amusing how some of these so called liberals and leftists act as suck up sycophants to these Iranian ********. There is nothing liberal, and little leftist, about Iran.

 

They are religious. Not sure how right wing they are. Nazis were left wing. They are just the religious, racist version of collectivist, leftists.

They hate Christians and they aren't white, that puts them on the "good" side of the ledger for leftists.

 

They hate Christians, Jews, Hindus, and even the 'wrong' type(s) of Muslims. They also hate atheists and agnostics (which many leftist types are). They fu#$ing hate everyone who doesn't believe and live just like they do. But they are most definitely white--just take a look at them. I've known a number of Persians in the U.S., all of them white folks for sure.

Be assured, if these clowns ever took over, they would execute any and all leftists that didn't 100% fall in line with their goofball theocracy. How about a protest in Iran for transsexual rights--wonder how that would go over?

Here's some white Iranian dudes with funny hats for a visual below:



There's sort of an Obi-Wan Kenobi look to these men when they get older.

 

I agree Chop. They are white in a sense, but they aren't Anglo-Saxon Christians so in leftist parlance they aren't white, in the "all white people are racists" way. The are fellow adversaries of Anglo-American Christian colonizers, so any negatives get ignored.

 

I understand what you are saying, but I reject the leftist parlance as more than slightly ridiculous. Iran is a whiter country than the Netherlands. Tehran is a whiter city than London or Paris.

Also, something tells me that these guys (Iranian leaders) would be more than a little bit racist towards black muslims from Africa, but I could be wrong. It's not as if the Caucasian muslims from the Middle East ever enslaved their black muslim brothers from Africa or anything like that... That wasn't in Howard Zinn's history book so it must have never happened.

 

It still happens actually. But whatever.

 

If it weren't for the terrorists, the left would despise Islam.

 

This should probably be pointed out to every child in America. Certainly every child matriculating thru UT-Austin.

The whole thing about referring to Nazis as Fascists comes from Stalin. It really bothered him that a fellow socialist would attack another socialist mecca. So he had all Soviet books drop the reference to Hitler as a socialist and dictated he henceforth be referred to as a fascist. So it is kind of funny, but Stalin is still manipulating them from the grave.

 

Joe, Fascism is left wing too. Mussolini coined the fascist term as a way to describe his non-internationalist corporatist socializing of the Italian economy. FDR took cues from Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin when developing the New Deal. They all kind of admired one another. All of it was anti-capitalist and anti-individualist, which I consider 2 of the most important parts of the right wing.

 

Iran is a tyranical theocracy. Although they overthrew a hereditary monarch (the Shah), as far as where they are on the map of political theory: maybe they're roughly akin to Louis IX's France when he decided to eliminate the Huguenots, Queen Bloody Mary Tudor's England, Cromwell's Puritan England (or even worse, Cromwell's Puritan-ruled Ireland), or Ferdinand and Isabella's Castille and Leon (Spain right after the Reconquista)--the rise of the Inquisition.

Obviously the Sun King Louis IX partook in a lot more pleasurable indulgences than the mullahs and ayatollahs allow themselves (I think). But, despite his luxuries and forbidden pleasures, that particular Louis rigorously enforced religious conformity and stamped out the Huguenots with a murderous campaign.

Classical liberalism is the philosophy of (most of) our Founding Fathers.

Classical conservatism is monarchism, especially when combined with mandatory and uniform religion, and militarism (think Hapsburg Austria, Louis IX's France, Prussia--not especially religious but very militaristic, Imperial Japan, Czarist Russia). This is the sort of thing (most of) our Founding Fathers abhorred.

 

Yes. Classical liberalism being found on the right end of the American political spectrum.

Islamic republics probably don't belong on the American political spectrum as they are their own thing.