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2005-02-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Flirting youths outrage Iranian hard-liners

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Posted by Steve 2005-02-28 2:08:47 PM|| || Front Page|| [17 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 tick tock

Posted by Frank G 2005-02-28 2:35:27 PM|| 2005-02-28 2:35:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Muslim Tightasses" for a thousand, Alex...

Posted by tu3031 2005-02-28 2:37:31 PM|| 2005-02-28 2:37:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 A successful religious rightwing in action. We want the same strict crackdown on immorality in the USA. Those who think immoral thoughts should fall on their own dagger. Those who flirt should be stoned or those who are stoned should flirt.

Posted by juriseqs 2005-02-28 2:48:10 PM|| 2005-02-28 2:48:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Just do it, Bushies, topple Khatami (a potential ally and soft-authoritarian) and let the hardliners install real "friendly" regime. It's the liberal way.

Posted by button4u 2005-02-28 2:51:58 PM|| 2005-02-28 2:51:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Heh-heh-heh, heh-heh. He said "swelled".

Sounds like the black turbans have a serious case of jealousy going on. I bet no girls ever flirt with them.

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-02-28 3:00:28 PM|| 2005-02-28 3:00:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 nor do the little boyz they rape

Posted by Frank G 2005-02-28 3:02:52 PM|| 2005-02-28 3:02:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Nothing like having lived for years under a strict Islamic regieme, to put large numbers of people off the whole concept entirely.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2005-02-28 5:28:25 PM|| [http://www.sgtstryker.com] 2005-02-28 5:28:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 And the demographics are a bear -- if you're a Mullah. When they took over in '79, one of the first directives was to ban birth control and abortions. Here we are, about 25 years later, and there's this large bubble of youthful Persians - a direct result of that ban order.

And these people feel no love for the MM's because they have pre-MM relatives who remember when. Most Iranians were not supporters of the Rev Guard that "toppled" the Shah. The RG guys had the smuggled guns, and the normal Persians didn't. Of course most were not exactly unhappy to see the Shah fall, but that does not mean they supported the insane Ayatollah Khomeini...

In any case, the rose-colored memories of a freer, saner, and much more progressive time have been instilled in this population boom / bubble... And the MM's are dependent upon a few with guns to keep it in line. The hold is slipping, too. I saw a documentary on PBS that had to be 5-6 yrs old last year after I got back to the World about the level of this activity way back then. There were all sorts of clandestine means by which young people flirted and "dated". Now I'll bet it's as pervasive as sunlight. For CNN to be reporting it, it has to be blatant.

Posted by .com 2005-02-28 7:26:50 PM|| 2005-02-28 7:26:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Perhaps they need their own smuggled guns then.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-02-28 9:14:15 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-02-28 9:14:15 PM|| Front Page Top

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