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
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.
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.
satanism and nudity
Oh my god, that’s awful. Where?
Yeah, so I can totally avoid it!
Yeah, I would hate seeing those nude sexy satanists. They better stay away from my house, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500.
Goddamnit Joe get off lemmy or we’ll do to ya what Tumblr did to Alex Jones.
What was that?
I was just thinking that sounds potentially wholesome.
Definitely holesome
Well Iran, unfortunately.
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
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.
Sounds like they busted a Eurovision watch party :/
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
“Even the babies are being born now… completely nude! It’s unimaginable”
“Soon, millions across the land will be showering, sleeping, and fucking, all without any clothes on. It’ll be the worst human catastrophe since The Black Plague swept across the medieval world!!!”
Won’t anyone think of the cutoff jeans industry!?
First they came for low rise jeans, and I did not speak out—because I’m more of a breast man than an ass man
Then they came for the mini-skirts, and I did not speak out—because I don’t wear skirts myself
Then they came for the bikini, and I did not speak out—because the corner of the globe I live in has 3 distinct seasons, and I don’t currently live near the shore
Then they kicked in the door while I was showering, and hauled me off to prison—and there was no one left to speak for me, or practicioners of nudity more generally
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
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?
Yeaahhhh…
That’s… That’s my point. My comment is lamenting the fact that Iran had that, and then the West fucked it up.
Did I just whoosh myself? Well played. Now I’ll have to take some time to reflect on this.
Unfortunately I’m afraid you did. And unfortunately I’m obligated to say “Congratulations, you played yourself.”
EDIT: I do appreciate you saying that though!
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.
Only if there were no Israel/Turkey/Azerbaijan. Iran is actually a stabilizing factor in the sense that it opposes that evil.
I’m guessing you also think the Houthi rebels had the moral high ground in attacking commercial civilian ships of African and Asian workers?
I’m guessing blockade is an act of war which Houthis didn’t start.
Oh that totally justifies attacking civilians and workers on cargo ships, good point! Poor brown people who aren’t related to the blockade should have to suffer to stick it to Saudi Arabia and the West.
/s
If blockade hurts Saudis and the West enough to raise Houthis’ chances of survival, it’s justified. Sarcastic tone is not an argument and I’m not your enemy.
Mm. Fair enough. I just don’t trust their intentions.
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.
So… it’s fine if it’s my cousin?
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.
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.
Damn, I never get invited to the cool parties. /s
