This is what the Iranian people are up against
Here’s the face of the mullahs in charge of Iran, in case they hadn’t revealed it clearly enough already:
Khatami, a member of the powerful Assembly of Experts, said the judiciary should charge the leading “rioters” as “mohareb” or one who wages war against God.
“They should be punished ruthlessly and savagely,” he said. Under Iran’s Islamic law, punishment for people convicted as “mohareb” is execution.
As Orwell wrote in his dystopia 1984:
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
That’s the mullahs’ vision for Iran—and, by extension, the expanding world of Islam someday—except perhaps for the “forever” part. Oh, it’s not that they wouldn’t be willing to perform that act more or less in perpetuity. It’s just that I believe they actually think that, once they’ve forcefully established their version of heaven on earth by eliminating all those upstart naysayers, the need to stamp on any more faces with their boots will be over.
But of course, it’s never over.
The Iranian young people are really up against it. Unlike the victims of the tragic Hungarian revolt of 1956 who could escape into Austria, they have nowhere to run. Perhaps they can head north into the Kurdish area and then west into the Kurdish area of Iraq.
Wafa Sultan, a Muslim apostate born in Syria, a woman, and a psychiatrist, said that growing up as a Muslim and seeing its effect on people had convinced her that Islam is a totalitarian political ideology. She, being a woman and a psychiatrist has put it more gently than I would have but her condemnation is refreshing all the same.
Actually the mullahs are nicer…..
hard to believe but true…
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Word from Iran is that the authorities have forced Neda’s father to appear on state television and say that the protestors, and not the regime, killed her.
The prisoners of Eastern Europe at least had a memory of law and liberty. The only hope for those poor kids in Iran is that the government be too stupid to buy their generation off with prosperity.
In mid-June 1940, when international attention was focused on the German invasion of France, Soviet NKVD troops raided border posts in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. State administrations were liquidated and replaced by Soviet cadres, in which 34,250 Latvians, 75,000 Lithuanians and almost 60,000 Estonians were deported or killed. Elections were held with single pro-Soviet candidates listed for many positions, with resulting peoples assemblies immediately requested admission into the USSR, which was granted by the Soviet Union.
they key here is not how enough get in office, or how fast, the key question is whether there is enough.
Is that sort of like the state withering away under Communism, do you suppose? I think we’ve already seen this movie, except we had commissars instead of mullahs. Pity they keep remaking it, since we already know it ends badly.
I almost began this by saying it would be hard to imagine. But I don’t really mean it.
A number of people will publicly pretend that Neda’s father’s statement proves the regime is innocent and we can get on with appeasing them.
I intend to keep a list.
I pray for the people of Iran. I felt the same sick knot in my stomach at Tiannenmen in 1989, when the curtain was pulled back for just a glimpse into the true nature of that evil regime.
In “Gulag Archipelago,” Solzhenitsyn asks why the Russian people did not rise up against the Bolsheviks early when they had a chance and greatly outnumbered them, instead of meekly submitting to the oncoming horrors…were they in part responsible for heir own enslavement? When NKVD agents came in the middle of the night to arrest them , no one fought back and neighbors pretended it never happened. The entire population was terrorized and accepted their fate.
I never thought it could happen here, the mass brainwashing/hypnosis, even though I’ve felt danger approaching for years. Now I am not so sure. Are there some fates worse than death?
I pray for Iran. I pray for us.
It’s rather late and I may be overly dramatic…