The mullahs have declared Carla Bruni, aka Mrs. Nicholas Sarkozy, aka France’s First Lady, a prostitute, in response to her letter to an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery. If ever there were a case of the pot calling the kettle black, this is it. The Islamic Republic is a thoroughly corrupt regime that pauperizes its people while the top dogs live in luxury that would be the envy of a Hollywood star.
I use “top dogs” carefully, because in recent days a leading ayatollah has banned all advertisements for dogs, their food, stores that cater to them, or indeed anything having to do with them, in Khamenei’s domain. This is the latest in a series of ukases or fatwas devoted to the elimination of the pursuit of happiness. Music and fun haircuts have been recently banned, and of course the color green has been banished long since.
On the other hand, prostitution is blessed. It’s not called prostitution, mind you, but it’s hard to call the “temporary marriage” center operating out of a shrine in Mashad as anything other than that. The man pays some money and gets some sex. What do you call that?
Don’t forget that the Islamic Republic rests on misogyny. Khomeini, the founding tyrant, hated women and undid a century of Persian progress in a few years. Someone on Twitter the other night said that Supreme Leader Khamenei had counseled some of the regime’s torturers and rapists to make sure the women they violated were properly dressed. It may have been an attempt at humor, I don’t know, but it does reflect a state of mind.
It’s hard for Westerners to imagine what’s going on in Iran these days, namely a state that has lost all legitimacy in the eyes of its subjects, in which the rulers are fighting each other for shards of power and scraps of graft. Perhaps the most revealing recent anecdote comes from a newspaper report about the Revolutionary Guards spying on political leaders:
Rah-e-Sabz claims that the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps had installed monitoring systems in a seven-story building frequented by high-ranking politicians.
Last week some of the politicians detected the surveillance and, unaware of who carried it out, asked the Ministry of Intelligence to check the building. The Ministry denied responsibility and sent technical specialists, who inevitably discovered many IRGC cameras and microphones. As the specialists were leaving, they were accosted by a group of Revolutionary Guard. A fight followed, with guns even being drawn.
“Maybe the best way to do it is to join in solidarity with Carla Bruni, and declare ourselves Prostitutes for Freedom.”
O.k., but it’s going to cost you ladies $500 bucks a pop.
I ain’t cheap.
“Meanwhile, no Western leader has openly supported the opposition. Maybe the best way to do it is to join in solidarity with Carla Bruni, and declare ourselves Prostitutes for Freedom.”
I think that says just about all. No support for the opposition(s). Given that, the regime can stay in power a good deal longer. The haircut lady from Mashad with whom I spoke about this basically verbalized more or less what you have written – and predicted the regime will survive yet for quite a while.
The WMD problem will simply have to be addressed.
If the USA does not act, no one will. It is ever thus. If we act, we get criticized. If we don’t, we get criticized. But no one else ever acts unless we do first.
Understandably proud but inaccurate response. Israel will act. And it is the US – Obama Admin – that is placing the entire Israeli population under amazing stress. Other than that, your point in general is true.
Yes and one very important way the Israel government is reacting is building several new giant [as in very huge] inter connected underground shelters, in addition to the several they already have. Complete with air systems for protection from NBC. The word is that they will be over 250 ft. underground.
Giant graveyards? I guess we will just have to wait and see.
I don’t know the completion schedule but I’m guessing sometime late next year for most of them.
Something to consider when doing your vacation planning and something for Iran to include in their planning.
Papa Ray
Bravo!
Don’t be surprised with that, even the IR high school text books teach the children in Iran that western women and the women who don’t follow the Islamic codes are whores, will burn in hel and so on.
Ahmandinejad called to remove Israel off the map? That’s not his own word, he just repeated a sentense from Khomeini’s (the founder of IR & Mousavi’s idol) 1980′s statemen without a word less or more.
Music is banned? Still the traditional and music authorized to be sold in stores are permitted, during the early Khomeini era (nearly a decade) all types of music were banned, I remember as a child that my father’s cassetts were seized & the regime thugs even violently disabled his car’s radio, that was over 2.5 decade ago, there are more freedom now than Khomeini’s golden era!
We are not fighting over our votes, I personally would never vote for any of those thugs and many of the brave people of iran who risked their lives fighting the regime didn’t vote either, we are not fighting over Mousavi Vs. Ahmadinejad, 2 sides of the same coin, we’ve had enough of reform during the Khatami era & Mousavi’s “golden era of Khomeini” when the pig was still alive.
As a matter of fact, none of the protesters voted for the Islamic Republic in the first place, their idiot brainwashed or fanatic parents did and now they want to have their own revolution.
The movement has leadership,has representative and its the people themselves, not the snake reformers who shut the student movements in the 1990s by promising them change and from the other side having the IRG & Basij kidnap and torture them until they thought the movement was dead.
The post-election movement was the fire under the ashes of the 1990′s student movement that set the fuel of election fraud anger on fire and it’ll never calm down until the evil regime is completely uprooted.
Mousavi & Karoubi join the Qods day protests to follow their imam Khomeini’s tradition of death to Israel and America and celeberating the burning of US & Israeli flags and reclaim their islamic revolution, but when the brave young iranians take part, they take part to fight this barbaric regime, to denounce the very ideology of hate that the IR is based upon, to rephrase the slogans from death to US & Israel to death to Hamas, Hezbollah, Russia & China (the IR allies & supporters of its oppressions)
Ideologically, there is light years distance between the reformists and the democratic Iranians.
The movement is a democratic movement & will not succeed if the media tries its best to push a theocratic leadership down its throut. All the theocrat reformers care about is their own financial and political intersests by saving the regime, they’re scared of a regime change as much as the rest of the regime while to any freedom loving Iranian there is only one way out of this mess and that’s regime change.
I didn’t now Joe Miller was a mullah.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/27/joe-miller-tweet-compares_n_697518.html
Who knew monkeys could type?
I think Miller’s tweet proves they can. Now, who here has the intellectual honesty to denounce the bearded Alaskan?
Let me see… She’s standing for election on Republican party principles, but if she loses the primary, she’ll stand for election in opposition to the party? And you have no problem with that?
“Gentlemen, those are our principles, and if you don’t like them… well, we have others”.
Groucho, I hardly knew thee.
She didn’t leave the Republican party. The Republican party left her.
Anyway,
Thank you Michael for that article, the Islamic Republic is one of the top enemies of women and it was a disgrace to all women all around the world when the UN voted for IR membership in women rights council, this proves us that how corrupt and useless the UN is despite billions of US tax payer dollars that are transfered to the UN’s bank accounds to build jails and set up execution hanging poles under the banner of war on drugs, take the UN aid and arm terrorists with weapons and so on.
I also thought some backing of reformers would help split the regime easier, but now I doubt it would be as effective as I thought it would be, because they all have so much ideologically in common and so much against democracy and regime change, that will never fully unite with the people.
Am I wrong?
Dr. Ledeen, as much as I admire you, I feel I must correct you this one time and one time only for only purveying half truths. You ask, rhetorically, what should we call sex for money in these so called temporary Morganatic marriages blessed by the theocracy clearly implying that it is a form of prostitution. True, it is. But that is only half of the truth. Given that the age of these “Sighehs” can be, and in may cases is, 9 or above then it is not only prostitution but also pedophilia. (Take note NAMBLA, good place to open a chapter; Qom). So from now on, all the truth, pretty please?
Nah, don’t think so…
Whenever has anybody ever (EVER) cared what the hell the mullahs have to say. Ever.
In Italy, Islam is NOT considered a religion. It receives no collected tax money.
Who the hell cares about what mullahs have to say.
Two good cartoons related to this topic (how Islam treats women)
On the stoning of the woman charged with adultery at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/nasa-outreach-to-muslims/
The second one deals with Iman Rauf, the Ground Zero mosque and Sarah Palin. It’s titled “When Girls Go to School” at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/when-girls-go-to-school/
Ah, the Iranian theocrats… the misogynistic fascist male chauvinist pigs that feminists and other left/liberal types feel perfectly good about supporting.
The cowardice of the west is overwhelming. One would think it was a no brainer to denounce the stoning to death of a woman.
Patrick
Who is closer to God? A prostitute or a Mullah?
Let’s Compare:
Number of the wars started by mullahs: 2,456
Number of the wars started by prostitutes: 0
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Number of the people stoned to death by mullahs: zillions! (really)
Number of the people stoned to death by prostitutes: 0 (definitely)
Number of the people hanged by the mullahs: every day
Number of the people hanged by the prostitutes: never
Understanding that God created boobs;
Mullahs obsession: preventing people to see God’s creation.
Prostitutes’ obsession: flashing people with God’s creations.
Worst lie a mullah ever made: God told them to ….
Worst lie a prostitutes ever made: her boobs are real.
A prostituted: you can pay them off with $50 (I guess)
A Mullahs: You cannot pay them off with all your wealth and life. They still come after you.
Last but not least:
A mullahs tries to stone to death a defenseless woman of their own.
A prostitute(?) tries to save her even when she does know her.
Now; who is closer to God?
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Number of relaxed citizens serviced by prostitutes: jillions
Number of relaxed citizens serviced by the Mullahs: zippo
I just don’t hear Jesus saying, “I’m a prostitute for freedom”. Sorry, I liked the article and quite agree up to that last part, but why must I lacerate the eyes of my opponent? Who am I to say I know better, but only to say this is what I do and this is how I fare. Let’s not lose sight of humility.
Also, to take my last statement and apply it to something of a different applicable subject, I truly hope that it makes the rounds into the public conservative mind that we must not laugh with a scorn against our enemies come November 2 or after. Because there is a proverb that warns against doing so – as God may pity your opponent on behalf of the foolishness of taking credit (by such scornful laughing) for (what becomes) misappropriated success.
ol right, I appreciate censure when the subject is my first lady
Carla shows herself to be beautifull on the inside, to be truly admirable.
How many western leaders are standing up for those terrorized women?
Ms. Bruni has become a prostitute of the American corporate plutocracy her husband bravely defied when he refused to sanction Bushitler’s massacre of the Iraqi people. The Ayotollah Khomeini let the Iranian people to overthrow a CIA-supported tyrant who turned the Iranians into the slaves of the corporate plutocrats on Wall Street. While the mullahs are not the ideal fighters for social justice like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, they have made Iran proud and free, even if imperfect. The corporate plutocrats are now furious that their orders are going unobeyed, and oil exists which is not theirs. They have done everything they can to break the spirit of the Iranian people so they will once again except slavery under the Shah. It will never happen.
Ahmadinejad and his mullahs are a danger to humanity and are a gene short of a human.
What a wonderful world where you can fool yourself into believing in anything. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” doesn’t come close to the absurd practices coming out of Iran. Like all good patients they are taking their medication – a strong dose of Islamic hogwash with a distorted vision right and wrong.
Human rights – what human rights?
Why is the world picking on you Ahmadinejad? And this is the sad part, he thinks we are mad ha ha ha!
Maybe Carla Bruni is not a prostitute but her husband is surely a political pimp.
How else would he declare that Gilad Shalit is not a POW but an hostage and thus not deserving of visits by the Red Cross and other the other privileges that POWs should “enjoy”?
Sarkozy is hobbled, like many part-Jews and ex-Jews, by his background. In order to make sure he belongs, he must distance himself from Jewish rights. In many, it is an unwilling act, but the laws of self-interest and career usually win out. While I am concerned about the decent Iranians caught in the maw of this regime, I’m not capable of putting them ahead of my own. Then again, the Sarkozy’s and their counterparts throughout Christendom are fleeing some long shadows.
I would like to see Michelle Obama join Mme. Bruni in the public outcry against this Islamic barbarism.
Don’t worry. Sean Penn thinks Iran is a great democracy.
We are nothing of the kind. They are malignant and evil, and refusal to identify them as such does us no good.
I declare all Mullahs stupid goat humpers. They can make declarations and so can I, and I think mine are more accurate. Why does any “News” organization give these morons ink? They might as well follow some other savage through the process of animal sacrifice as a fertility aid and call that news.
To be precise, in Italy the government don’t recognize Islam officially because not one of the groups is available to sign a document recognizing the Constitution of Italy.
They sign, they can take the money. But none did.
Even many moderate center-left politicians say the explicit recognition of the Constitution is needed before the government can recognize a religious group.
Buddhists, Hindus and others did it and are recognized.
I am 100% behind Ms. Sarkozy.
I am a prostitute for freedom today, and everyday. Solidarity with Carla Bruni!
Rage at the Mullahs is misdirected. Feminists in the West who are nothing but leftist shills and care nothing about the treatment of women as barnyard animals and worse are the ones to blame.
Opposing Iranian tyranny and hypocrasy is one thing, but Carla Bruni is on her own. She is not a woman I look up to or respect, for one thing, so she’s pretty irrelevant. And let’s not glorify prostitution, please. Women have enough problems than to have that held up as some sort of symbol of freedom and empowerment or even some sort of foil to Muslim female ideals.
Like a Virgin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zxHhrPb75M
If that is the extent of the Iranian retort, it only serves to further prove that Iranians are nothing more than neanderthals
I’m not a prostitute and neither is Carla Bruni. She’s definitely a beauty however.
I choose to show solidarity with Ms. Bruni and with all the women of Islam by stating that we are all mullahs and our fatwa is that this is not justice. It is murder. Islam recognizes Jesus of Nazareth as a great Imam, but it seems to have missed the point of his teaching to let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
A prostitute, unless she is also a serial murderess, is morally superior to the ayatollah/gangsters in every way.
First and foremost, they generally deliver what they promise
Prostitutes force no one to participate, pronounce no death sentences against anybody. They are largely free of hypocrisy. And there is no such thing as a cabal of hookers working might and main to get their hands on a nuke.
The mullahs’ labelling Ms. Bruni a prostitute is really rich coming from people who believe in child brides.
I am not advocating for barbarism here, but your first sentence is, at the least, misleading. As I read the news reports, the woman in question was sentenced to death for participating in the murder of her husband. Sorry, folks, not a tragic victim for love.
Just NUKE the Rag Heads!!!
I do not think that we should embrace the Iranian accusation of prostitution.
Instead, I think that we should look to the example of Andrew Jackson. He fought several duels and killed a man for insulting his wife. The Iranian mullahs understand honor killings. President Sarkozy can demand the head of whoever insulted the honor of his wife. When that head is not provided, he can do the job that the United States and Israel do not want to do – he can destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities. Afterwords, he can go on TV and ask, “Anybody else want to call my wife a whore?”
Respect for France will soar all over the world and sales of French defense products, particularly their Rafale aircraft, will go through the roof doing wonders for the French economy.
For all those who still think dialogue is the prudent approach which will eventually lead to “why don’t we all just be friends” and kumbaya, take a gander:
http://www.tangle.com/view_video?viewkey=0861ff3eabea1ceb73e4
This guy in the video is a first rate nutjob, just like the rest of their leaders.
I reiterate. An interesting communication was sent from Robert Laird Borden, who was Prime Minister of Canada when Germany surrendered on November 11, 1918, to David Lloyd-George, who was Prime Minister of Great Britain at the same time. Borden recommended that the Anglosphere be the guarantor of world peace, just in case the League of Nations did not work out.
This is part of “Paris 1919″ by Margaret MacMillan, whose great grandfather was David Lloyd-George.
So, given that politicians are more adept at counting noses, they haven’t found a way to communicate a firm stand.
Which sentences us to the never ending saga that a people deserve the government they receive.
So insulting carla Bruni wasn’t enough, some said that she deserves death penalty too
Nouvelle charge d’un quotidien iranien contre Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. Cette fois, elle “mérite la mort”… http://tinyurl.com/329ek6w
welll tonight on TV I heard that Iran Foreign affairs apologized to France
My family was military.
As a child during a visit to Washington’s state to see my grand
parents in the 50′s
I fell from a tree and out of my shoulder came a device
that looked much like today’s rfid glass chip.
When I was six years old there was a big ruckus in the town
just above Whitter Ca. with the Welcome Waggon people and
Acorn, where a military officer came out and had me sign papers,
offer an oath with my right hand up on the bible and showed me
my dog tags with my name on them, and other things that he mentioned.
Through my life I have been put through every sort of manipulation.
The military and prisons have always been used to make men according
to themselves because that is what they are taught to believe. Well
they made Saddam Hussein and killed him.
The making of villains and hero’s are as fabricated by this process as
much as Hollywood would have us all believe that when looking for
information on Noriega IE:Manuel Antonio we would find a rapper.
IE:wrapper used to cover up the involvement of this complex deception.
The use of leaders in
any nation is based on their ability to control by what ever means not
how much they love the unseen but how effective they are in
controlling the seen, people by what ever means be it the gun or the
nun.
Over the years much has happened and people bought that contract
at LA High School but now that things have not worked out as they
planned they have junked me.
I have met with military since in SD and have been pick up for envoy
too China and other positions in both computer chip tool making and
food machine service in many lands and country’s
I have a story about current politics that needs addressed that could help
if you are serious about ending laws concerning sex.
Even the lady that was doing business there said at the time which
I did not understand then but do now “they want to chase skirts instead of
ambulances. If you haven’t noticed, we now have indefinite detention
and people are getting life sentences for changing dippers. So please tell me just who I am supposed to trust?
Please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAffYcLPMAQ
so if the “mullah” said that about a first lady of west, what will they do and say about the women
of middle east, whom are under theire control. like the kurdsh women ,they sentenced to death by
hanging 3 kurdish girls with out any mercy, what religion is that driving them to these crimes
if the “mullah” said that about a first lady from the west, so what will they do and say about the women
of middle east, whom are under theire control. like the kurdsh women ,they sentenced to death by
hanging 3 kurdish girls with out any mercy, what religion drive them to commit these crimes