Comments on: Iran admits that it is governing out of the 7th Century http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/iran-admits-that-it-is-governing-out-of-the-7th-century/ She escaped from the belly of the liberal beast Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:52:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Our friends the Saudis « Bookworm Room http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/iran-admits-that-it-is-governing-out-of-the-7th-century/#comment-90878 Our friends the Saudis « Bookworm Room Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:09:52 +0000 http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/iran-admits-that-it-is-governing-out-of-the-7th-century/#comment-90878 [...] Posted on November 15, 2007 by Bookworm For those of you still wondering about what life will be like in the resurgent Islamic 7th century, here’s a bit more information, this time out of Saudi Arabia: A court in the [...] [...] Posted on November 15, 2007 by Bookworm For those of you still wondering about what life will be like in the resurgent Islamic 7th century, here’s a bit more information, this time out of Saudi Arabia: A court in the [...]

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]]> By: ymarsakar http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/iran-admits-that-it-is-governing-out-of-the-7th-century/#comment-89490 ymarsakar Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:13:46 +0000 http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/iran-admits-that-it-is-governing-out-of-the-7th-century/#comment-89490 <B>That’s because to do so would entail real risk; disappearing in some Iranian prison hellhole, torture, or death. No. far easier to hate the Israeli soldier than to care about these kinds of human rights.</b> Human beings are like electrons. They follow the path of least resistance. It is a principle of meta-intelligence, that field which concerns itself with controlling, manipulating, and harnessing human intelligence. That’s because to do so would entail real risk; disappearing in some Iranian prison hellhole, torture, or death. No. far easier to hate the Israeli soldier than to care about these kinds of human rights.

Human beings are like electrons. They follow the path of least resistance. It is a principle of meta-intelligence, that field which concerns itself with controlling, manipulating, and harnessing human intelligence.

]]> By: Danny Lemieux http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/iran-admits-that-it-is-governing-out-of-the-7th-century/#comment-89482 Danny Lemieux Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:59:01 +0000 http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/iran-admits-that-it-is-governing-out-of-the-7th-century/#comment-89482 I spent my years as a youth living abroad during the Cold War. One of the things that I never understood about my fellow Americans is that they automatically assumed that a) people anywhere could and should protest their government and b) that any government was legitimately supported by its people just because they said so (otherwise they would be protesting, right?). I recall vividly one of my fellow students in the middle of Communist Prague suddenly asking people in the street in a loud voice why, if they aren't happy, they don't protest against the government? She had no clue how many Czechs she endangered that day simply by opening her mouth. Americans generally have no clue about what it is like to live in a dictatorship where the price of dissent is not so much the violence they do to you, but the violence they do to your family. There are numerous reports that suggest that the U.S. population is very pro-U.S. It's just that they can't do anything about it - they don't run the government. I spent my years as a youth living abroad during the Cold War. One of the things that I never understood about my fellow Americans is that they automatically assumed that a) people anywhere could and should protest their government and b) that any government was legitimately supported by its people just because they said so (otherwise they would be protesting, right?).

I recall vividly one of my fellow students in the middle of Communist Prague suddenly asking people in the street in a loud voice why, if they aren’t happy, they don’t protest against the government? She had no clue how many Czechs she endangered that day simply by opening her mouth.

Americans generally have no clue about what it is like to live in a dictatorship where the price of dissent is not so much the violence they do to you, but the violence they do to your family.

There are numerous reports that suggest that the U.S. population is very pro-U.S. It’s just that they can’t do anything about it – they don’t run the government.

]]> By: Joseph T Major http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/iran-admits-that-it-is-governing-out-of-the-7th-century/#comment-89440 Joseph T Major Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:52:05 +0000 http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/iran-admits-that-it-is-governing-out-of-the-7th-century/#comment-89440 They will mention it (in a footnote somewhere on page 741 of their annual report and then go back to the Eeevil Apartheid Zionazi Neocon Entity cutting out the livers of Palestinian childern to make matzohballs. They've intellectually surrendered to sharia, because it is the Significant Other. They will mention it (in a footnote somewhere on page 741 of their annual report and then go back to the Eeevil Apartheid Zionazi Neocon Entity cutting out the livers of Palestinian childern to make matzohballs. They’ve intellectually surrendered to sharia, because it is the Significant Other.

]]> By: Mike Devx http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/iran-admits-that-it-is-governing-out-of-the-7th-century/#comment-89437 Mike Devx Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:46:24 +0000 http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/iran-admits-that-it-is-governing-out-of-the-7th-century/#comment-89437 Lulu, Few activists went to South Africa to protest apartheid. They demonstrated at home, and pressured their own country's businesses and politicians. Yet the protests were extremely effective. It's no so much that they're not protesting in Iran, it's that they're not protesting AT ALL. Multiculturalism has trumped civil rights in the international liberal arena. They will protest in the West against the West, but they will not protest against other cultures. I wouldn't focus very much on the sorry state of homosexual rights in those countries. (Execution AND torture, but in the opposite order?) Gay rights, if they're granted, always follow rights for women. And that's what is troubling here. A man and a woman commit adultery, and he is forgiven after expressing remorse, where she is stoned to death. And remember, stoning usually involves being buried up to the waist to affix her in position, and then being struck repeatedly by thrown stones until death. That sounds a lot like torture followed by execution as well. Where are the liberal protests against this savage treatment of women? Nary a voice to be heard. Lulu,

Few activists went to South Africa to protest apartheid. They demonstrated at home, and pressured their own country’s businesses and politicians. Yet the protests were extremely effective. It’s no so much that they’re not protesting in Iran, it’s that they’re not protesting AT ALL.

Multiculturalism has trumped civil rights in the international liberal arena. They will protest in the West against the West, but they will not protest against other cultures.

I wouldn’t focus very much on the sorry state of homosexual rights in those countries. (Execution AND torture, but in the opposite order?) Gay rights, if they’re granted, always follow rights for women.

And that’s what is troubling here. A man and a woman commit adultery, and he is forgiven after expressing remorse, where she is stoned to death. And remember, stoning usually involves being buried up to the waist to affix her in position, and then being struck repeatedly by thrown stones until death. That sounds a lot like torture followed by execution as well.

Where are the liberal protests against this savage treatment of women? Nary a voice to be heard.

]]> By: expat http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/iran-admits-that-it-is-governing-out-of-the-7th-century/#comment-89391 expat Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:20:01 +0000 http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/iran-admits-that-it-is-governing-out-of-the-7th-century/#comment-89391 Pajamas Media links to a great article (actually a book review) by Stanly Kurtz at Claremont Review, which deals with the cultural differnces you describe, but in Pakistan. Pajamas Media links to a great article (actually a book review) by Stanly Kurtz at Claremont Review, which deals with the cultural differnces you describe, but in Pakistan.

]]> By: Lulu http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/iran-admits-that-it-is-governing-out-of-the-7th-century/#comment-89319 Lulu Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:00:16 +0000 http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/iran-admits-that-it-is-governing-out-of-the-7th-century/#comment-89319 Yet you will see nary a protest on a college campus about these human rights abuses. Neither women's groups nor gay activists advocate on behalf of these unfortunate people. No self righteous college students jet off to Iran to gather and provoke, and garner international news media attention, like the ISM does. That's because to do so would entail real risk; disappearing in some Iranian prison hellhole, torture, or death. No. far easier to hate the Israeli soldier than to care about these kinds of human rights. Yet you will see nary a protest on a college campus about these human rights abuses. Neither women’s groups nor gay activists advocate on behalf of these unfortunate people. No self righteous college students jet off to Iran to gather and provoke, and garner international news media attention, like the ISM does. That’s because to do so would entail real risk; disappearing in some Iranian prison hellhole, torture, or death. No. far easier to hate the Israeli soldier than to care about these kinds of human rights.

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