An Iranian girl, aged 16, has been left in a coma and is being treated in hospital under heavy security after an assault on the Tehran subway, a rights group said on Tuesday, blaming the Islamic republic's notorious morality police.
      • UraniumBlazer@lemm.eeEnglish
        111·
        1 year ago

        Any institution that requires its members to have “faith” in a given set of entities is always dangerous for a free, civilized world. Religions by definition fall into this set of institutions. The cure for this is making high quality education extremely accessible to everyone around the world. Educational universities are soft power, where qualities like freedom, liberty, democracy etc. can be entrenched in people. Not doing this = allowing dangerous faith based institutions to erode away at these values.

      • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        112·
        1 year ago

        All religions are shit. However, religion is a tool for those in power to control the masses. The root cause of the fucked up Iranian government is not Islam, it’s power hungry assholes who - thanks to the patriarchate being in place at the time they got to the top, happen to be misogynistic fucktards.

      • ClarkDoom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        All religions are not shit. All organized religion is. You don’t ever hear of a Taoist committing these kind of acts.

    • ruford1976@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      1 year ago

      this government represents islamic government more than it represents iranian government.

      call it for what it is , islamic government.