Please to explain.
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captainsblogWe finished watching Circumstance yesterday. It's an independent film, the debut of its Iranian-American directorMaryam Keshavarz , which gained accolades at Sundance in 2011 but also resulted in being banned in Iran (as well as in a lifetime ban from the country for Keshavarz). As it shows the realities of sexual repression, government corruption and especially Islamic extremism in that country, it really got me wondering:
Why do our Fundies hate Muslim extremists so much?
You'd think they'd get along thick as thieves, from the looks of this depiction. Not only does their country allow public prayer, they mandate it five times a day. They have a government sanctioned Morality Police that is charged, among other things, with "enforcing the wearing of the hijab; arresting women for violating the dress code; prohibiting male-female fraternization; monitoring citizens' activities; confiscating satellite dishes and `obscene` material; intelligence gathering; and even harassing government critics and intellectuals."
We see these officials doing many of these things, stopping the female leads as they dance, smoke, drink and dub pornos into Persian- and they conduct trans-vaginal probes as part of their "investigations" that you'd think would make a southern Republican state legislator proud of them.
Beyond the physical trappings, the men are plainly in charge. Even one of the younger men in the story makes clear that he does not want his wife, or even his sister, singing in public. Nobody challenges him.
The mullahs encourage spying and snitching on any who disagree with these precepts- and they publicly villify and conduct show-trials of those from that Other Horrible Country who they allegedly catch in their acts of terror against the people.
They do all this in the name and spirit of their Revolution, which they cite as permanent and divine justification of the righteousness of their cause- no matter what infidel gets in their way.
Maybe when the next Bush gets back into office, he'll invade Iran just so he can surrender to them. Kinda like The Mouse that Roared, only far less funny.
Why do our Fundies hate Muslim extremists so much?
You'd think they'd get along thick as thieves, from the looks of this depiction. Not only does their country allow public prayer, they mandate it five times a day. They have a government sanctioned Morality Police that is charged, among other things, with "enforcing the wearing of the hijab; arresting women for violating the dress code; prohibiting male-female fraternization; monitoring citizens' activities; confiscating satellite dishes and `obscene` material; intelligence gathering; and even harassing government critics and intellectuals."
We see these officials doing many of these things, stopping the female leads as they dance, smoke, drink and dub pornos into Persian- and they conduct trans-vaginal probes as part of their "investigations" that you'd think would make a southern Republican state legislator proud of them.
Beyond the physical trappings, the men are plainly in charge. Even one of the younger men in the story makes clear that he does not want his wife, or even his sister, singing in public. Nobody challenges him.
The mullahs encourage spying and snitching on any who disagree with these precepts- and they publicly villify and conduct show-trials of those from that Other Horrible Country who they allegedly catch in their acts of terror against the people.
They do all this in the name and spirit of their Revolution, which they cite as permanent and divine justification of the righteousness of their cause- no matter what infidel gets in their way.
Maybe when the next Bush gets back into office, he'll invade Iran just so he can surrender to them. Kinda like The Mouse that Roared, only far less funny.
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Date: 2013-05-06 11:47 pm (UTC)The existence of Muslims is an affront to extremist Christians, just as the existence of Christians is an affront to extremist Muslims. Extremist Jews are still trying to work out exactly who they hate, but, in general, extremist RELIGIOUS Jews don't care about the existence or actions of Christians or Muslims at all, but the existence of non-extremist religious Jews is an affront to extremist religious Jews. (This, you'll note, doesn't even begin to touch on the Palestinian issue, which doesn't break down anywhere near as neatly as one would hope for purposes of this discussion.)