Okay, I hate "Hotel California" as much as the next guy - but music "un-Islamic"? Never heard that one before. But I guess Mahmoud probably doesn't have much sympathy for Sufis...
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 19 December 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)
They're also banning "American easy-listening artist Kenny G", the fucking fascists.
― kenneth (kenneth), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)
Really? Lots of hardcore militant Islamists believe that (although I kind of thought it was more come among Sunnis that Shias).
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/05/21/young-iranians-arrested-for-being-happy-in-a-video/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 14:50 (twelve years ago)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/08/05/these-people-i-interviewed-in-iran-clearly-loved-the-country-so-why-did-it-put-them-in-jail/?tid=trending_strip_2
Anthony Bourdain article on Washington Post reporter and his wife who have been jailed in Iran. He met them while filming his show there
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 20:10 (eleven years ago)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/world/middleeast/video-shows-protester-pleading-with-rouhani-to-free-iranian-woman-jailed-for-visit-to-sports-arena.html?rref=world/middleeast&module=Ribbon&version=context®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Middle%20East&pgtype=article
President Hassan Rouhani was confronted by two protesters in New York on Wednesday, who held up images of political prisoners jailed in Tehran, a reminder that some of his reformist supporters are losing patience with his gradualist approach.
...Another video clip, recorded from the audience as Mr. Rouhani left the stage, showed one of the protesters, Ali Abdi, trying to shame the president into intervening on behalf of the woman, Ghoncheh Ghavami, a dual citizen of Iran and Britain
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 September 2014 16:58 (eleven years ago)
“You said last year in the dinner,” Mr. Abdi told the president, “that every Iranian is welcome in the country. Miss Ghoncheh Ghavami went back to Iran. She is in solitary confinement for 50 days only for watching volleyball.”
Saeed Iman Ghavami, the detained woman’s brother, told BBC News that his sister, who was arrested on June 25 outside Azadi Stadium in Tehran, where she had hoped to support Iran’s national volleyball team in a match against Italy, had been under the impression that the rule barring female spectators had been overturned.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 September 2014 16:59 (eleven years ago)
The singer Joss Stone has said she has been deported from Iran, “breaking a little piece of my heart”.The 32-year-old, who is on a world tour, said authorities did not believe she would not try to play a public show in the country.
The 32-year-old, who is on a world tour, said authorities did not believe she would not try to play a public show in the country.
I dunno Iranian authorities, I believe her.
― Rory end to the lowenbrow (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 July 2019 13:07 (six years ago)