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Mullahs' rape of Persian culture renews pattern of violence since the 7th century

Mullahs' rape of Persian culture renews pattern of violence since the 7th century

By Sheda Vasseghi

The barbaric regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran recently amputated hands of several convicted thieves in the city of Hamedan or ancient Ecbatana, one of the capitals of the Achaemenid Persian Empire (550-330 BC) whose founder Cyrus the Great declared the world's first known Bill of Human Rights. Ms. Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani was forced to confess an alleged adultery after enduring 99 lashes. As countless Iranian women before her, she awaits an execution by stoning pending a global uproar against the regime's barbaric behavior.

The efforts of the clerics in Tehran to destroy Iranians as a people is not the beginning of the Iranian genocide, but the continuation of the policy of the Muslim invasion of 7th century which spread by making Iranians the subject of grand scale destruction. Sharia Laws provide any and all violent means to accomplish this goal. [...]

All round, a highly satisfying rant. I'm not enough of a scholar to cross reference all of her points, but she [*] hasn't said anything that conflicts with what I've seen and read. It certainly deflates this idiotic meme of islam being "persecuted". It's the most hypocritical sack of toxic nonsense out of all of the religions of dust.

[*] Yes she. Some of the clearest voices out of the Middle East and Africa are female. You don't find them getting bogged down with endless date rape whining or linguistic nitpicking searching for reasons to be offended.

Tags: alu akbar, god is great, iran, religion of peace

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Permalink Reply by ObscureAtheist on July 28, 2010 at 12:09am

Permalink Reply by Фелч Гроган on July 28, 2010 at 12:14am

Well OA, you're our man on the ground there. Do you agree or disagree with the article?

Permalink Reply by Kenneth Soares on July 28, 2010 at 12:13am

An interesting History lesson.

Permalink Reply by amer muhammad on July 29, 2010 at 11:23am

I don't know if it got to do something with the history or not but Islam with the tools of modren day media and mentality of brutal society of 1500 ago is destroying the cultures and lives of people where ever it can lay its hands on. Islmisation had much deep rooted effects on the societies than just the mullah problem. We were talking other day that many of the local ethnic musical instruments are almost extinct from our Pakistani culture as a result of recent islamisation in last 30 years.

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on July 29, 2010 at 2:05pm

Reminds me of what happened in Afghanistan, to any Buddhist relics. The Muslims just annihilated everything. I saw a couple of shows on the subject, on National Geographic or a similar channel. Of course the Jews and Christians have done similar slash-and-burn jobs. The library at Alexandria comes to mind.

Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on July 29, 2010 at 2:23pm

It is not clear who actually burned the ancient Library of Alexandria.

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on July 29, 2010 at 2:45pm

Oh, whoops. I must be pulling from another source that's even more flaky than Wikipedia. Either that or I'm scrambling it up with something else.

... but damn, almost a seven century window? That's some horrible history keeping. Oh, wait, yeah ... they burned the history books.

Permalink Reply by Фелч Гроган on July 29, 2010 at 11:31pm

Joseph Pellicore: that's even more flaky than Wikipedia

Yay, another Wikipedia basher. Thanks for promoting that noxious and baseless meme that's sponsored by Encyclopedia Britannica™. Please do us the courtesy of providing evidence of Wikipedia's worthlessness though, instead of just mindlessly repeating hearsay. While you're at it, you can also take a dig at that other propaganda rag Nature which also disagrees.

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on July 30, 2010 at 1:06am

Hardly. It's always the first source I go to, for random trivia. You've seen me do the same on these boards, if you've been paying attention. You just have to understand its weaknesses and where it's likely to be a little off. A good, basic rule-of-thumb is that when you see a forest of [citation needed]'s, you'd better double-check everything.

I used it as a comparison in that post, because it's closer to the edge of reliable than any other example I could come up with quickly, and it's almost universally known, which is of value when making a comparison. There's Fox News, but it's so far over the edge that it doesn't even provide a good point of comparison.

I'm not going on hearsay, either. I've run into a few special interest entries, where one of the members of a group I was in took a little trip into fantasy land with the subject matter, for some insane reason. It got fixed, after the more honest members of our group discovered it, but it was off for a while.

Never read Nature.com. I wouldn't know.

Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on July 29, 2010 at 2:26pm

I talked with a friend in Malaysia recently who said something similar about the Islamisation of Malaysia.

Permalink Reply by AletheaT on July 29, 2010 at 11:49pm

This happens when any religious driven people begin to dominate indigenous cultures. Get rid of what makes the opposition different and rule by fear. The Europeans did this to the native cultures of the Americas. It makes me sick to think humans can still do this to each other without a second thought.

Permalink Reply by Al-KADIM on July 29, 2010 at 3:39pm

It's very true what you say about the voices of women. Years ago, I got into Iranian film, which is absolutely beautiful and very subtly subversive. One of the best films I saw about the elections was Hana Makhmalbaf's Green Days (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EACJQzLH-BA). Makhmalbaf was 20 when her film was released, but is still quite powerful. It should be. Her father, mother, and sister are all prominent filmmakers.