Iran arrests 260 people for spreading 'satanism and nudity'
Iran arrests 260 people for spreading 'satanism and nudity'
Iran's state media say police arrested more than 260 people, including three European citizens, on suspicion of spreading satanism
Iranian police have arrested more than 260 people, including three European citizens, on suspicion of spreading satanism, the state-run IRNA news agency reported Friday.
The report said the suspects were arrested on Thursday night in Shahryar County, west of the capital of Tehran, for “spreading the culture of satanism and nudity.” It did not elaborate.
It was not clear how such a large number of arrests were made in one night — if the suspects were in one location, at some gathering or party, or not.
Gatherings where unrelated men and women are seen together are illegal in Iran and considered a sin under Islamic law.
I imagine this is what the GOP wants to see happen in the US.
Imagine leaving one tyrant for their restrictions on your religion only to come back to reimplementing a few centuries later.
Regressionists man.
A lot of the pilgrims were the fundamentalist crazies that Europe didn't want, and the towns they founded had laws like this and more.
Right but, before the declaration of independence and after are different stories
Regardless, we shredded through a genocide to take the land away forcibly.
We’ve been hypocrites since day one
Yeah but it wasn't just fundamentalist religious zealots. It was also a lot of corporations and capitalists determined to make a profit no matter what, even at the cost of great human suffering and they dragged over a bunch of indentured servants and slaves and oh wait I think this explains a lot about the US.
In the defense of those zealots, they eventually evolved into John Brown types and then even later on into modern progressive christians. The modern evangelical movement mostly evolved out of the southern churches which mostly organized to justify slaver and maintain the southern social order, which is a far cry from the egalitarian religious nutjobs of say the Massachusetts bay colony.
satanism and nudity
Oh my god, that's awful. Where?
It's almost surreal reading how silly religious mythology is, and how silly it seems to even allow it in conversation about reality. But here we are. We're still taking seriously the imaginary friends some dudes made up before we knew why it rained. And the humans in power still use those fictions to subjugate and control the masses.
Sounds like Iranian leaders are in need of more helicopter rides.
One likely fueling the other. Between the near open war with Israel and a satanic panic, I'm sure Iran was rife with conspiracy theory and QAnon style hysteria before their President pancaked into a mountain.
I can't imagine the reactionary elements in the country growing any less paranoid and superstitious in the wake of the crash.
All leaders
Spreading satanism and nudity rules.
I do it every day!
Can we let them come to the west instead?
Conservatives cannot resist harming, torturing or killing innocent, vulnerable people. This behavior is just unchecked conservatism doing what it naturally does.
There is no such thing as a "good conservative". There never has been.
completely agree with your words.
Was anyone else aware that nudity isn't simply a case of undress, but a virus, which can be spread like chickenpox? I sure as hell wasn't, prior to reading this story
"Oh no! I've been struck by the nudity virus! Nobody look! NOBODY LOOK!"
Emily Ratajkowski has BEEN so afflicted for over a decade now. Hasn't prevented anyone from eyeing her up and down
I read that babies are being born nude now!
Damn straight!!! Roe V Wade getting the chop here in The US has just exacerbated this plague even further
Sounds like they busted a Eurovision watch party :/
Its like they are the US but 10 years in the future
Satanic Panic has a strong 1980s vibe. A country the size and industrial scale of Germany with the politics of the West Texas town of Bomont from the movie Footloose.
Those sound like my sort of people! Hail Satan and off with my pants!
NO RULES™
A nice reminder that we'd all be better off without Iran's theocracy which supports terrorists for proxy fights. A democratic Republic by and for the Iranian people would be a major step towards lasting peace in the middle east
Yeah if only they had their own secular, democratically elected leaders. And maybe those leaders could even decide to nationalize their oil.
What could possibly go wrong for them?
Nassar's Egypt, Mosaddegh's Iran, Sankara's Burkino Faso, Obote's Uganda, Lumumba's Congo, Trujillo's Dominican Republic, Sukarno's Indonesia (Read the Jakarta Method folks), Goulart's Brazil, Arbenz's Guatamala, Guardia's Costa Rica, Allende's Chile...
I don't know what it is, but democratically elected leaders in countries that pursued an unaligned status just have a habit of getting couped by reactionary members of their militaries for some crazy reason.
Stop using the word democratic to mean western aligned. The west has no trouble financing terrorist groups, and the reason democratic countries cannot stay so if they don't bend to Washington is not happenstance. The first step to a democratic Iran might well be a USA civil war.
No I legitimately mean a democracy by and for the people. If they decide they want to be in opposition to the West, I'm totally fine with that. That's the whole point of self sovereignty. I just want the people to decide their own fates, because by all accounts, the theocracy and misogyny and brutal crackdown on protests are not popular.
I am guessing "satanism and nudity" means LGBT people, and I am guessing it means a gathering of gay people, most of them dressed but some shirtless.
Men and women were equally represented, so that must've been a gathering of all if that's the case.
there could be lesbians there. i still think "satanism and nudity" probably means they are arresting LGBT people, but it's hard to know
I've been meaning to look into the history of how the secular left was crushed in much of the Middle East. Thanks for the reminder.
TL;DR: Force
Those hexbears would be very upset with this comment if they could read.
So… it’s fine if it’s my cousin?
To gather - yes
To serve Satan - no :D
Only serve Satan with immediate family members. They're closer to your knives and he likes the taste more.
so. Alabama is a bunch of very fine people then? and Kentucky.
Just to spread the good news: Irans President died in a helicopter crash today
May be premature. Crash site has not been found yet.
Naturally Iranian state media is calling it "a hard landing".
A very hard landing, NYT reported that he beefed it. Which is unsurprising considering they went down in extrmely heavy fog and rain while flying over a remote mountain range. You're just asking for trouble at that point.
The sex obsessed wet blankets in the clergy morality police probably shut down a concert or dance hall they weren't invited to where people were actually having fun.
And then (at least) molested the people they arrested.
US and Eastern Europe religious fundamentalists taking notes.
So it was satan who's fault that helicopter crash was.
It was the Jesus nut I'm telling you!
We'll probably never get to know what caused it. It doesn't seem like they'll be doing an investigation at all.
Damn, I never get invited to the cool parties. /s
Imagine doing "satanic stuff" right outside Tehran
Amateur move. Everyone knows bedroom communities are less tolerant than the core. /s
In America they are called Republicans
260 nude satanists sounds like a great time to me
Wow, just when their president dies... What a coincidence.
It is always awful to see what happens when a religion like Islam does when it takes over.
Mate have you seen the conservative playbook? Do you really think Christians or literally anyone else isn't capable of this? Remember the Satanic Temple statue thing? The only reasons you don't see the US Bible belt doing stuff like this is because they can't but doesn't mean their mouths aren't watering at the thought.
That's just the multipolar world kicking in.
... meanwhile at burning man Iran...
Multipolar world go brrrrr
If a private citizen from a western country decided to go to Iran against all of the highest level warnings, then i have to sympathy for them.
I understand the sentiment, although I still do have sympathy for them. The thing is, everyone knows by now that any westerner will likely be arrested by the Iranians on bogus pretext, and then used as a bargaining chip to alleviate some of the international sanctions. In the meantime, you're pretty much guaranteed to spend a couple years in prison, and probably be raped too if you're a woman.