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2003-04-23 Iran

Iranian actress given 74 lashes for kissing man on stage

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-04-23 08:58 pm|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is the type of story that turns up in the interest section - lighthearted enough - of western newspapers.
My the natives, aren't they quaint.

But if you suggest that perhaps this is an aspect of their culture that should change in the 21st century, if you suggest that Iranian women are just as entitled to equal rights as American or Australian women, just watch the Left scurry.

Cultural relativists everywhere will denounce you as 'racist' 'cultural imperialists' etc yadda yadda yadda.

IMHO we need an international army of women to go into Soddie and Pakland and Iran and every other gawdforsaken Islamist hellhole and exact some dire revenge TM on the Mullahs: it's the only language they understand.

Posted by anon1 2003-04-23 21:22:10|| 2003-04-23 21:22:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Cultural relativists everywhere will denounce you as 'racist' 'cultural imperialists' etc yadda yadda yadda.

Don't forget 'ethnocentrically biased'.

Posted by Raj 2003-04-23 22:22:26|| [angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2003-04-23 22:22:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Any culture that dooms half of it's adult population to virtual slavery, well you can figure out the rest.

Posted by Someone who did NOT vote for William Proxmire 2003-04-23 22:30:00|| 2003-04-23 22:30:00|| Front Page Top

#4 File under "L" for "Length backwards religious shitheels will go to so they can smoke the hookah late on Sunday, not shave, have sex with underage women, and more or less avoid modernity entirely."

Posted by Nero 2003-04-23 22:32:27|| 2003-04-23 22:32:27|| Front Page Top

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