They don't need to have everyone agree with them. They get compliance at the end of a gun.
This includes Hamas-controlled Gaza and Iran. In Afghanistan, the Taliban banned paper bags. The reason? There was a very small chance that since some paper bags are made from recycled paper, that that could result in some old, worn out Korans getting destroyed, turned into recycled paper and used in paper bags.
So.
In honor of this the Taliban there banned all paper bags and only the more polluting plastic bags were allowed.
These people are really nuts.
In Gaza, anyone who disagrees with Hamas is killed.
In Gaza, if music is played at a wedding, Hamas gunmen show up and shoot everybody. The bride too.
And then there's Iran. Ahmadinejad, in the days of the Iran-Iraq war, he was an activist sending children to their deaths into enemy mine fields to blow them up. Eventually the kids began getting a little shy of paradise, despite the incessant brainwashing, so Ahmadinejad had the kids go into the mine fields carrying blankets. The blankets were so that when the kids got blown up their dismembered body parts would become entangled in the blankets and hopefully not be seen by the next batch of children being led to the slaughter.
The film "Obsession" tells more about all these lunatics. You don't have to agree with everything in the video to learn a lot about these wack jobs. The whole video is now on YouTube at these links:
Obsession Links:
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMLJJEDDDGc&feature=PlayList&p=FE5A96CBDC2582F7&index=0Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bev054pNzI&feature=PlayList&p=FE5A96CBDC2582F7&index=1Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bJE6bIiXps&feature=PlayList=FE5A96CBDC2582F7&index=2Part 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J61r-NRHPtQ&feature=PlayList&p=FE5A96CBDC2582F7&index=3Part 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jwL_GefwUE&feature=PlayList&p=FE5A96CBDC2582F7&index=4Part 6:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l17LmCEp1QI&feature=PlayList&p=FE5A96CBDC2582F7&index=5Part 7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYR5F3mbQ-4&feature=PlayList&p=FE5A96CBDC2582F7&index=6Part 8:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLXZpOG4VCI&feature=PlayList&p=FE5A96CBDC2582F7&index=7Part 9:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDPzPgkr4vk&feature=PlayList&p=FE5A96CBDC2582F7&index=8Part 10:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lioOCOalPao&feature=PlayList&p=FE5A96CBDC2582F7&index=9I think there is sometimes a double standard for Muslim fundies. There are plenty of circles in which it is considered unacceptable to criticize them. A cartoonist is sentenced to death by them. But even in some progressive circles it is considered a non-issue that these nuts are on the loose. The fact that Bush was also against the Muslim radicals doesn't make the Muslim radicals into good guys. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Cenk is saying don't worry. Sure Cenk. Anything you say.
Ayatollah Khoumeni used to attack America on the grounds that American buses don't have separated seating for men and women. He made statements including these:
"I love to hang people from cranes. Because they twist so prettily in the wind. And I love things of beauty, which are so rare in this sinful world."
"The skin of a woman is as smooth as the skin of a locust that has not yet grown wings. But I desire it not, and anyone who says otherwise shall be burned alive in a hijacked airliner."
But of course, when Iran continues elements of its nuclear program that have no peaceful use, like manufacturing polonium-210, which the IAEA found in Iran and which is only used for atom bomb triggers, we must all shut up because Iran has such nice highways and is only peaceful. No one should stop Iran. It's none of our business.
Another of Ahmadinejad's choice activities was building a huge boulevard in Tehran to welcome the coming Mahdi savior, who is supposed to crawl out of a well somewhere and force their lunatic radical sect down the throats of humanity.