A vision of our future under the American Taliban.

Always an immediate slippery-slope comparison to America. This isn't about us.

as long as THEY are the Morality Police...

and it's important to make sure our religious extremists don't bring that here. Jailing women under anti-abortion laws is bad enough.

Wonder when it will happen.

either a brutal dictator who doesn't care about religion, or brutal religious extremists who can't be reasoned with.

Secular dictator is better.

Nothing worse than a fanatical religious dictator.

as he gazes down on his followers.
It is plain to see that men in the Middle East a couple thousand plus years ago wrote those rules and haven't progressed much since.

obviously.

although some were more poisonous than others, most of the worst around the Mediterranean and into the Middle East.

I have to believe this is the kind of shit that will eventually get those geriatric fuckers in the funny hats out of power.

Iran is largely secular. Iran had a democracy until the CIA fucked everything up in the 1950s. I have a feeling that once the Mu8llahs are afraid to come out of the mosques and women are walking free that they'll have one agai. If we don't fuck it up again.

this sort of thing doesn't actually happen in Iran...

Iran's enforcement tends to be sporadic and unpredictable on purpose. It keeps the public "on edge".
You can get away with it and then boom.

They do have internet and that is their connection to the western world. There isn't too much internet censorship because unlike Afghanistan, Iran is an education oriented country.

The shah's son lives in the US. He says, "Iran could have turned out like South Korea, instead it's turned into North Korea"

Maybe we should consider sending weapons to the women?

Only against Jews? Why?

The Iranians must be learning tricks from American Republicans who use terms like "freedom", "liberty" and "patriot" to describe oppression and traitors.

...that this shit actually goes on in the world today...

...you would think they would have better things to do with government resources...like fix pot holes

...makes you wonder...

And we are just supposed to stand aside as these monsters terrorize half the planet? DU rules tell us to respect others and not dis religion etal. There are some beliefs that demand to be disrespected, this is one. The mullahs, the Taliban, the Saudis and other fundies treat women as slaves subject to harsh treatment up to and including death. Now there are forces in the US emulating them. Just look at the SCrOTUS hearing re The 'Mullahs' in Idaho. If it wasn't for the oil we would have condemned these practices at the highest levels. I have an Iranian neighbor who escaped this insanity with his wife and daughter. He loved his country but hated its rulers.