miltiades wrote:My own views on Iran.
A nation that carries out public executions with crowds enjoying the macabre spectacle is a barbaric nation. Cranes are used for hanging those sentenced to death by sharia courts.
Long live the west and long may our culture continue to thrive.
Where did you get the information from to form your views?
I can assure you that from my own personal experience, and they are more enlightened now then than when I was there, the concept you have is a complete distortion. They do none of what you accuse them of now. But it DID happen in the weeks immediately after the revolution and I think quite often it was settling old scores.
Iran is a vast country and there are many villages and hamlets that are very remote and where the old ways still survive. In those villages the only Law is the Laws of Islam i.e. The Koran. This indoctrination has been going on in these remote areas for generations and until they enter the modern world they will continue. But barbarism is not the norm.
Travel to Tehran, Shiras, Isfahan .... any major city and the lifestyle there is far closer to that in the west than you find anywhere in Saudi. The only common denominator between Iran and our world is that they follow the teachings of Islam and we follow the teachings of Christianity (
loosely?), but it is a far less stringent interpretation in Iran than applied in other countries in the Middle East. Islamic countries have a far more moral society than we have in the western world but it doe not make them barbarians.
To take your last sentence ..... is
OUR culture not in the process of destroying
US ?????
)… or did you assume that 2 billion Muslims will abandon Islam and join your aimless atheist club?
