The last Supreme Leader of Iran

AND THEN THERE'S THAT WOMEN IN THEOCRACIES EMBARRASSMENT...

Iranian authorities have systematically thwarted peaceful and legal civil society efforts to advocate for women’s rights in Iran, abusing the legal system and gravely violating internationally protected civil rights in the process. http://www.iranhumanrights.org/category/womens/

WOMAN IN ISLAM
http://www.submission.org/women/
Woman's status in Islam is one of the most controversial and serious issues of our time, not only among Muslim women and those who represent them in the area of women's rights in the Islamic world, but also among fundamentalist Muslims.
http://www.light-of-life.com/eng/reveal/

"MURDER IN THE NAME OF HONOR"
According to the United Nations, 5,000 women around the world are murdered each year in the name of preserving their family honor and reputation.

Also...

The Global Campaign to STOP KILLING & STONING WOMEN!
The Campaign seeks to end the relentless mis-use of culture, tradition and religion to justify violence against women.
Read more here: http://www.stop-stoning.org

WOMEN LIVING UNDER MUSLIM LAWS
Women Living Under Muslim Laws is an international solidarity network that provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam.
http://www.wluml.org/english/about.shtml

Calls for Action
http://www.wluml.org/english/actions.shtml

& PLEASE DON'T GET TOO COCKY ABOUT HOW SUPERIOR WE ARE & ALL...

Backyard terrorist are still killing doctors providing abortions and the senate is totally 'stupackfied' !

Discussing fundamentalism in the 3 monotheist religion or any religion that oppresses women is essential for... "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell

"The three monotheisms, animated by the same genealogical death instinct, share a series of identical contempt: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the name the one & only; hatred of life; hatred of sexuality, of women and pleasure; hatred of feminity; hatred of the body, of desires & impulses. Instead of all that, Judaism, Christianity and Islam defend: faith and belief, obedience and submission, a taste for death and a passion for the beyond, asexual angel and chastity, virginity and monogamic fidelity, the wife and the mother, the soul and spirit. In other words, life crucified and celebrated nothingness" – Michel Onfray

"Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." -Frank Zappa

ONE TOO MANY ALREADY...THEOCRACIES SUCKS ;)

IRAN'S BRAIN POLICE STRIKES AT FREE EXPRESSION
Iran has deployed a special police unit to sweep Web sites for political material and prosecute those deemed to be spreading lies, Iranian media reported Saturday, in a step clearly aimed at choking off the embattled opposition's last real means of keeping its campaign alive.

Many opposition Web sites are already banned, but the activation of the new 12-member unit, which will report to the prosecutor's office, signals an intention to strike a more severe blow to a movement that refuses to accept President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election in June.

"Authorities know that the Internet is one of the few available channels for the opposition to make its voice heard. They want to silence opposition voices," said reform-minded journalist Akbar Montajabi, who described the measure as the latest set of restrictions imposed on media in the country.
http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/11/14/opposition-iran-rulers-more-brutal-than-shah/

THE PLIGHT OF IRANIAN JOURNALISTS
Freedom of the press in Iran has been under constant assault over the past century. Hundreds of Iranian journalists have been jailed or driven into exile. Many have been murdered. In short, Iran has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a journalist.Iranian officials have always claimed that there is complete freedom of expression in Iran.

Many Iranians may agree with that assessment. The real problem is that there is almost never any freedom after expression. Almost any public expression of opinion in a large gathering has been immediately followed by harsh government retribution. This has been true for at least 120

IRAN COVERED UP RAPE OF DETAINEES
Human Rights Watch accused Iran's judiciary of covering up the abuses and called on it to immediately open investigations and prosecute those responsible.
Claims that detainees were raped by their jailers first emerged in August, deeply embarrassing Iran's clerical leadership. "It's shameful for Iran's government to close its eyes to official evidence of severe sexual abuse of detainees by prison authorities," said Sarah Leah Whitson, the rights group's Middle East and North Africa director.
http://www.inform.com/article/Rights%20group:%20Iran%20covered%20up%20rape%20of%...