Iran and dissent: where it counts is at the Ayatollah level

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2086-NY...

Now, it's serious. Not that it had not been serious before, as Iranians were appalled by the results of the recent presidential election and took to the streets and protested, set vehicles and trash cans on fire, were arrested and beaten by police, - and who could forget beautiful Neda, so brutally shot by thugs, and rising above the violence to represent the voice of the people? But it didn't seem to matter. Five hundred people were imprisoned; Moussavi himself was under threat of arrest for 'disobeying direct orders' from Ayatollah Khameini that Iran had to accept the 'legitimate' results of the election. That was the turning point of 'serious'.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoZnlh3phbs

While homegrown terrorists are abusing women’s rights and murdering their doctors in da good old USA ...

Now... Who's your Ayatollah baby ?

The words of God do not justify cruelty to women

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

Discrimination and abuse wrongly backed by doctrine are damaging society...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/12/jimmy-carter-womens-rights-e...

Meanwhile...
WOMEN’S RIGHTS ACTIVIST ABDUCTED IN BROAD DAY LIGHT
http://www.meydaan.org/english/showarticle.aspx?arid=848

All the while...
The Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women! was launched in November 2007 and is hosted by Women Living Under Muslim Laws. The Campaign seeks to end the relentless mis-use of culture, tradition and religion to justify violence against women. http://www.stop-stoning.org/

'The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales' - Aesop, Fables

http://www.youtube.com/user/weareneda
http://neda.webnode.com/

What God wants, God gets, God help us all...
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