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2003-08-22 Iran

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Posted by tu3031 2003-08-22 11:24:58 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Does not the Prophet (blessed be his name) deserve a Mercedes? And he wants me to drive it."

Posted by seafarious 2003-8-22 11:41:06 AM|| 2003-8-22 11:41:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 tu3031 - You a Masshole? If you're in the Boston area, we should do a pub crawl sometime.

Posted by Raj 2003-8-22 2:24:23 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2003-8-22 2:24:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The Iranian "baby boom" was caused by the legalization of pedophilia in 1979. (The law allowing male marriage to girls of 9 was repealed in May 2002, because of the social chaos that it was causing. Ayatoilet Rafsanjani became one of the richest men in the world, during his time of power. In the Koran a "prophet's tax" (al-Khums) is sanctioned by its only beneficiary: Mohammed. The Rafsanjani family has been pocketing the entire 20% tax on car sales in Iran, claiming a cleric's (ulama) tax. Not all Iranian clerics hold to a vow of poverty.

Posted by anonon 2003-8-22 6:46:18 PM|| 2003-8-22 6:46:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 My take on this mess is to stand back and watch the fur and turbans fly.

The social unrest is reaching critical mass and soon there will be fullfledged civil war.

I hope that some of the self dillusional islamofascists who are out in the streets of Baghdad and Amman and Paris waving their prayer shawls stop and look at this and have an epiphany about why the clerics want to run the whole show. It has nothing to do with redemption or sanctity, it has everything to do with money, cars, luxury and nubile adolescents.

There is a morality tale here, straight out of George Orwell, that more some fringe group preaches equality, they really mean for everyone else and they really want an ologarchy. And what they really mean was succinctly paraphrased by Mr. Orwell:

"Everyone is Equal, some are just more Equal than others...."

Posted by SOG475 2003-8-22 8:34:20 PM|| 2003-8-22 8:34:20 PM|| Front Page Top

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