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In reply to the discussion: Iranian Students Lashed 99 Times Over Coed Party [View all]guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)6. Again, you are simplifying to make a point:
When you responded:
The religious authorities are the final authority in Iran.
They wanted this crackdown as a reassertion of their power after the recent elections.
This action of the police is enforcement of "Islamic behavior" as the Islamic clergy sees it fit.
99 lashes for partying are "Islamic values" as defined by the Islamic clergy.
They wanted this crackdown as a reassertion of their power after the recent elections.
This action of the police is enforcement of "Islamic behavior" as the Islamic clergy sees it fit.
99 lashes for partying are "Islamic values" as defined by the Islamic clergy.
You could have written:
The religious authorities are the final authority in Iran.
They wanted this crackdown as a reassertion of their power after the recent elections.
This action of the police is enforcement of "Islamic behavior" as the Islamic clergy defines it.
99 lashes for partying are "Islamic values" as defined by the government appointed Islamic clergy in Iran.
If you had written it this way it would merely be a condemnation of the intolerance exhibited by some Iranian Muslims. Is your larger point that Muslims as a group are intolerant?
Or that Islam itself promotes intolerance?
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The equivalence fails: the US Constitution never claimed to be perfect and eternal
Albertoo
Jun 2016
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