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| Iran steps up Bahai persecution with wave of arrests |
| 2022-08-02 |
Suddenly it’s their turn. [AlAhram] Iranian authorities have stepped up persecution of the Bahais with a wave of arrests of prominent members of the country's biggest non-Moslem minority, leaving the battered community in shock, The Bahais in Iran, who have been subjected to harassment ever since the inception of the Islamic republic in 1979, had already complained that dozens of community members had been arrested, summoned or subjected to house searches in June and July. But the intensification of the persecution reached a new peak on Sunday when 13 Bahais were suddenly arrested in raids on the homes and businesses of 52 Bahais across the country, Diane Alai, the representative of the Bahai International Community (BIC), told AFP. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #12 In all seriousness, I wonder if they're not supposed to collect two cents tax on that. Think I'll ask. Probably cause mass consternation. |
| Posted by: Hupomosing Trotsky9444 2022-08-02 16:37 |
| #11 Speaking of California culture... "A clan from the land of Yossarian Sprang up," sang an antique Aquarian, Like rats! What to do?" [safety catch,.22] "Too barbaric!" mooed shop steward Marian. Off to drop the big twenty-cent piece for a nice deacquisitioned Grossman D.Q. I couldn't quite pull the trigger on the other day. |
| Posted by: Hupomosing Trotsky9444 2022-08-02 16:29 |
| #10 One of my favorite things about words like onomatopoeia is that they clobber most text to speech engines. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-02 10:08 |
| #9 As in... This actress maladroit, daughter of Jon Voight, full of pharmacopeia, named her tenth son-thing from a lexicon of Californian onomatopoeia. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-08-02 10:05 |
| #8 Cornucopia could be had fun with. And anything from Detroit to ... Jon Voight? Ha ha ha. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-08-02 09:58 |
| #7 Though, John Prine did good with: "Onomatopoeia I don't wanna see ya Speakin' in a foreign tongue." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-02 09:57 |
| #6 At least until you need a rhyming word to go with "maladroit" or "onomatopoeia." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-02 09:55 |
| #5 Poetry happens differently than prose, Dron. The more one thinks in rhyme, rhythm, and image, the more easily they come. as Zenobia F. discovered. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-08-02 09:48 |
| #4 I'm sure it's the latter, tw, because I've always been the same level of genius. 🤖 |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-08-02 09:39 |
| #3 Just one more example of why Rantburg is *the* go-to place for the latest in the War on Terror and Poetry! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2022-08-02 09:37 |
| #2 Your poems are getting better, Dron... or I’m becoming more accustomed to them. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-08-02 09:24 |
| #1 Poor Al Hazred. No one invested in 'im. Bahaullahs and Mohameds... mehh, dim! T'was the mad Arab, alone who knowed secrets like, say what must plow and what unholy creature be plowed, to birth truly transient beings that may be called xe, xer and xim. [high fives all Lovecraft fans] |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-08-02 09:07 |