Iranian police have arrested more than 260 people, including three European citizens, on suspicion of spreading satanism, the state-run IRNA news agency reported Friday.
The report said the suspects were arrested on Thursday night in Shahryar County, west of the capital of Tehran, for “spreading the culture of satanism and nudity.” It did not elaborate.
It was not clear how such a large number of arrests were made in one night — if the suspects were in one location, at some gathering or party, or not.
Gatherings where unrelated men and women are seen together are illegal in Iran and considered a sin under Islamic law.
Sounds like they busted a Eurovision watch party :/
I imagine this is what the GOP wants to see happen in the US.
Imagine leaving one tyrant for their restrictions on your religion only to come back to reimplementing a few centuries later.
Regressionists man.
A lot of the pilgrims were the fundamentalist crazies that Europe didn’t want, and the towns they founded had laws like this and more.
Right but, before the declaration of independence and after are different stories
Regardless, we shredded through a genocide to take the land away forcibly.
We’ve been hypocrites since day one
Yeah but it wasn’t just fundamentalist religious zealots. It was also a lot of corporations and capitalists determined to make a profit no matter what, even at the cost of great human suffering and they dragged over a bunch of indentured servants and slaves and oh wait I think this explains a lot about the US.
In the defense of those zealots, they eventually evolved into John Brown types and then even later on into modern progressive christians. The modern evangelical movement mostly evolved out of the southern churches which mostly organized to justify slaver and maintain the southern social order, which is a far cry from the egalitarian religious nutjobs of say the Massachusetts bay colony.
It’s almost surreal reading how silly religious mythology is, and how silly it seems to even allow it in conversation about reality. But here we are. We’re still taking seriously the imaginary friends some dudes made up before we knew why it rained. And the humans in power still use those fictions to subjugate and control the masses.
It’s always funny to watch people like you judge othere
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Wtf does protesting have to do with you judging people?
I replied to the wrong comment thread, my apologies. As for this one, I am not bound by a mythology that says “you shouldn’t judge”. As history keeps reminding us, religions and the subjugate nature of them, are the absolute worst thing to happen to humanity. I am going to judge those that keep spreading it’s lies.
Ok have fun up there. Lmao
There’s zero fun in calling out the awful things that the xtian mythology alone has done, and conveniently forgiven itself for. ZERO fun is had by anyone but those wielding the hate, and bigotry. There’s centuries of bones buried that tell those stories.
Christian mythology is as silly as taking Santa seriously
I’ve been meaning to look into the history of how the secular left was crushed in much of the Middle East. Thanks for the reminder.
TL;DR: Force
Those hexbears would be very upset with this comment if they could read.
satanism and nudity
Oh my god, that’s awful. Where?
I was just thinking that sounds potentially wholesome.
Definitely holesome
Well Iran, unfortunately.
Yeah, so I can totally avoid it!
Yeah, I would hate seeing those nude sexy satanists. They better stay away from my house, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500.
Goddamnit Joe get off lemmy or we’ll do to ya what Tumblr did to Alex Jones.
What was that?
If a private citizen from a western country decided to go to Iran against all of the highest level warnings, then i have to sympathy for them.
I understand the sentiment, although I still do have sympathy for them. The thing is, everyone knows by now that any westerner will likely be arrested by the Iranians on bogus pretext, and then used as a bargaining chip to alleviate some of the international sanctions. In the meantime, you’re pretty much guaranteed to spend a couple years in prison, and probably be raped too if you’re a woman.
Those sound like my sort of people! Hail Satan and off with my pants!
NO RULES™
In America they are called Republicans
US and Eastern Europe religious fundamentalists taking notes.
Just to spread the good news: Irans President died in a helicopter crash today
May be premature. Crash site has not been found yet.
Naturally Iranian state media is calling it “a hard landing”.
A very hard landing, NYT reported that he beefed it. Which is unsurprising considering they went down in extrmely heavy fog and rain while flying over a remote mountain range. You’re just asking for trouble at that point.
According to BBC (10min ago now), it now has been found, and The head of Iran’s Red Crescent society has told state TV that the situation is not “good”. I guess that’s all they’re willing to say for now.
“…it now has been found, and The head…”
sounds like a horror film.
Woah is he confirmed dead? I heard there was a search ongoing but no confirmation.
Maybe he’ll survive long enough to be eaten alive by wolves.
Thoughts and prayers
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The sex obsessed wet blankets in the clergy morality police probably shut down a concert or dance hall they weren’t invited to where people were actually having fun.
And then (at least) molested the people they arrested.
Conservatives cannot resist harming, torturing or killing innocent, vulnerable people. This behavior is just unchecked conservatism doing what it naturally does.
There is no such thing as a “good conservative”. There never has been.
completely agree with your words.
Was anyone else aware that nudity isn’t simply a case of undress, but a virus, which can be spread like chickenpox? I sure as hell wasn’t, prior to reading this story
“Oh no! I’ve been struck by the nudity virus! Nobody look! NOBODY LOOK!”
Emily Ratajkowski has BEEN so afflicted for over a decade now. Hasn’t prevented anyone from eyeing her up and down
I read that babies are being born nude now!
Damn straight!!! Roe V Wade getting the chop here in The US has just exacerbated this plague even further
“Even the babies are being born now… completely nude! It’s unimaginable”
“Soon, millions across the land will be showering, sleeping, and fucking, all without any clothes on. It’ll be the worst human catastrophe since The Black Plague swept across the medieval world!!!”
Won’t anyone think of the cutoff jeans industry!?
First they came for low rise jeans, and I did not speak out—because I’m more of a breast man than an ass man
Then they came for the mini-skirts, and I did not speak out—because I don’t wear skirts myself
Then they came for the bikini, and I did not speak out—because the corner of the globe I live in has 3 distinct seasons, and I don’t currently live near the shore
Then they kicked in the door while I was showering, and hauled me off to prison—and there was no one left to speak for me, or practicioners of nudity more generally
Damn, I never get invited to the cool parties. /s
Imagine doing “satanic stuff” right outside Tehran
Amateur move. Everyone knows bedroom communities are less tolerant than the core. /s
