Iran is now arresting children for listening to “satanic” music. Way to join the 21st century, Mullacracy!
Iran arrested more than 200 music fans at an underground rock concert that one official called a “satanic” gathering and authorities accused the youths of breaking Islamic law.
A witness said Sunday that police raided the concert as it was ending late Wednesday near the town of Karaj, some 30 miles west of the capital.
“Police detained the young people who had gathered to enjoy music in a private orchard,” said the witness, who requested anonymity for fear of government retaliation.
The arrests come during a recent crack down on “immoral behavior” in Iran, where holding mixed parties or concerts without permission has been forbidden since the 1979 Revolution that brought hardline Shiite Muslim clerics to power.
You simply have to drop your jaw at the mindset that comes up with this crap:
“Most of them were wealthy young people who were not aware of the satanic nature of the concert,” Farhadi told state television. “A female singer, who was performing, and some rock and rap music bands were among the detained.”
He said concert organizers had told young people to attend if they were eager to learn how “devil worshippers” perform music.
Go ahead, people. Tell me again how you’ll find extremists like this among Christians and Jews, and I will point out to you several things: Firstly, they are in the extreme minority, and secondly, they’re not the government, and they have no power to do more than speak harshly about behavior they dislike.
And yet, Israel is the Middle East nation that gets the worlds opprobrium. Yeah, we do live in Bizarro World, don’t we?
I’m starting to think I need a new category for the nutty things that Muslim nations arrest their people for. Oh. My. God. The kids were dancing together.
I would not live in a predominantly Muslim nation Meryl.
A recent report had a child arrested for putting up a lost sign for his puppy.
Who cares about that? It wasn’t Muslims or Iranians who killed Lonelygirl15 by drinking all her blood. Fundamentalist homeschoolers pose a far greater threat to our precious fictional characters than Islam does!
Tatterdemalian, are you sure you don’t mean they pose a threat to our precious bodily fluids?
“Oh. My. God. The kids were dancing together.”
That’s one of the things that set Sayyid Qutb off when he studied in the USA back in 1948-50, men and women dancing together. He considered mixed dancing horribly immoral. His description is reminiscent of a drunken orgy, yet it seems to have been a sedate church social in a dry county (alcohol illegal, so there weren’t any drunks to shock him further).
These clowns hate music too. It reminds me of the way the Nazis came down on jazz. They really hated it, it was decadent and racially offensive dontcherknow. Listening to jazz became a sort of act of passive protest in Nazi Germany.
The Pharaohs of Tehran are going to convince most Iranians to abjure Islam at the first opportunity if they keep carrying on like this. The mosques of Iran after Iraninans overthrow the Pharaohs will look as empty as Lutheran churches in Sweden or Anglican ones in Britain do today. The foaming-at-the-mouth imams will have to get honest jobs, probably heaving coal since that will be all they are competent to do except expound Muslim law that everybody else will by then hold in contempt. If the Mullahs and Imams, in Iran or elsewhere, want to save Islam from mass apostasy over the long term they had better ease up on their stupid opression now, before it’s too late.
I was only half joking on that last post, sadly. I actually know people who claim (proudly, I might add) that they were more traumatized when a character in the comic strip Doonesbury lost a leg, than by anything that happened on 9/11.
See, when a character in a TV show dies, it’s a loss for everybody, right there in the living room when the whole family is gathered around the set. But a few thousand snooty New Yorkers buried in flaming wreckage in the most pointless and unwarranted attack imaginable? Dude, that happened, like, over there. Farther away than the Qwik-E-Mart we bum smokes from. Get over it already.