“Cross-dressing” Revolution in Iran
Well, we all knew Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was psycho-sexually disturbed when he uttered his risible comments about there being no homosexuals in Iran when speaking at Columbia University a couple of years back. And he is not alone in the mullocracy, which, like much of Islam, alas, is a homophobic and, even more, a misogynistic conspiracy. So, not surprisingly, male members of the brave Green Revolution of Iran (not to be confused with their more dubious green confreres at the Copenhagen climate conference) have adopted the hijab as a sign of their courageous rebellion.
From Pyvand Iran News: State media published images of [student leader] Majid Tavakoli claiming that he was trying to escape the campus “dressed as a woman.” Amir Kabir student association claims these reports merely reveal the “dictatorship’s fury” against Majid Tavakoli for his criticism of “oppression.”
To say the least. And according the NYT’s The Lede blog, the Iranian students have responded in kind on the Internet (especially Facebook). We are all Majid Tavakoli, so to speak.
Cross dressing in the name of freedom, I love it. Now how many of our regular commentators on this blog will come out (so to speak) in support? Who among us will put on the hijab too? OK cowards you don’t have to dress like a Muslim woman, do the next best thing and call the Iranian interest section in Washington (202)965 4990 and give these brave people some verbal support. Roger are you with me on this?
The guy is not being ridiculed for cross dressing; he is ridiculed for claiming to be a brave man that would scarifies his life for his people and his ideology; but a few minutes later chickened out and in order to save himself from the angry people who were waiting for him outside he disguised himself as a women and run away! Why didn’t he have the courage of walking out like a man, like a warrior (he claims to be!) and chickened out like a coward?
We were not going to kill him; we would only break a bone or two!
There are most definitely gays in Iran!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAzMuHyg8Eg
Not sure to make with the cross-dressing dude.
Edit: Not sure what to make of the cross-dressing dude.
“much of Islam, alas, is a homophobic and, even more, a misogynistic conspiracy.”
Yes, it sees humans as fundamentally debased and sinful, and everything they do in this world as a defilement. They can only be saved by taking every molecule of joy from their lives, and if they must live at all, they must minimize everything they say, do or think, lest terrible retribution by a higher power wipe them out. Oh no, wait, that’s environmentalism.
“much of Islam, alas, is a homophobic and, even more, a misogynistic conspiracy.”
Yes, it sees humans as fundamentally debased and sinful, and everything they do in this world as a defilement. They can only be saved by taking every molecule of joy from their lives, and if they must live at all, they must minimize everything they say, do or think, lest terrible retribution by a higher power wipe them out. Oh no, wait, that’s environmentalism.
Oh, no wait, that’s christianity…
Kiumars,
Kosse nanat,
Kiumars,
You are the cowards hiding behind religion to torment, jail and kill your own people (if you are a true Iranian) I wish I’m around to see the day when you and all the people like you are brought down to be judged for your crimes. It is more brave to stand up for truth and justice than to follow an idiot like Ahmadinejad, I know donkeys in Iran that are smarter and more deserving to be leaders of the country than him. It is my greatest wish and hope to see the Mullahs kicked out of Iran once and for all.
Actually, rdowli, that does describe some strains of Chirstianity, just as it describes some strains of Islam. The Calvinist strain of Christianity, first brought to this continent by the Puritans, was a pretty purely anti-humanist, anti-this-world, anti-joy religion. It believed in governance by a central authority of “experts,” who in that time were clergy, and to whom everyone else deferred without question. The Puritans were one of the most influential early groups politically, and their descendents, both ideological and demographic, provided pone of the nases for modern “progressivism.”
That is one reason progressivism and Puritanism have so much in common. And one reason why environmentalism, in the form it has largely become, does too. The details of the program have changed, but the essential worldview hasn’t so much.