Spiderman
Veteran Member
Iran is simply more tolerant of non-muslims than so many other Muslim nations. Is Iran a threat with nukes? Well, Pakistan has nukes and they are a greater threat to Israel than Iran is.
Iran has been kind to Jews in comparison. Check out how many synagogues there are in Iran:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sy...es_in_Iran
Iran has Jewish resturants, Jewish cemeteries, Jewish schools, and Jewish hospitals.
Pakistan has a destroyed Jewish community. All Jewish synagogues were bulldozed or destroyed. There is allegedly one single registered Jew in Pakistan who is beaten by mobs:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192184
Iran even lets Jews into parliament because Iran is Shiite. Shiites are less severe than Sunnis. ISIS, Taliban, the Saudi-regime, Saddam Hussein, and almost all terrorist groups are Sunni or not Shiite, with the exception of Hezbollah which is a small group in Lebanon that actually helped America defeat ISIS.
Pakistan is largely more hostile towards Jews than Iran because Iran is Shiite. (Some statistics show that Pakistan is only 5% Shiite.) Iran lets women take their veils off and protest the Government. Granted, some women have been arrested for this, but most are not. In Saudi Arabia, you can get 10 years in prison and a thousand lashes for just saying something negative about the government on a blog.
Iran is actually said to be the country on earth where Christianity is growing the fastest:
"This may come as a surprise to many of our readers: Christianity is growing faster in Iran than in any other country in the world."
http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2017/s...te-baptism
This should be a good sign even for atheists as well, because it shows that Iran could possibly be the most lenient Muslim country regarding free-speech, at least compared to Arab nations (I know Persians are not Arab).
Free speech is booming in Iran as well as protests of the government. Most Iranians want to get with the 21st century.
Many Sunni regimes kill alcoholics, imprison them for decades, or take away their driving abilities for life. Iran actually has AA meetings for alcoholics.
Israel thinks Iran is such a threat and Americans think Iran is the bad guy, and there is talk of bombing them or invading them.
No one hardly mentions the real threat which is Pakistan.
Also, the Government in Pakistan lets people get away with gang rape, (even though it is technically illegal it is sanctioned). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Pakistan
Women in Iran get to defiantly wear their scarf so that their hair is fully exposed.
This is technically legal in Iran. Some women take off their scarfs entirely, which isn't technically legal, but it is rare that they get arrested for it.
Statistics show that over 70% of Iranians want freedom of speech, women's rights, and freedom of Religion in their country.
If the free world and Israel kills Iranians, they should kill them with kindness. Iran has the potential to be our Ally more than any other predominately Muslim country.
Iran supports the persecuted Shiites throughout the Muslim world who have been a minority that is has been getting raped, tortured, sold as sex-slaves, murdered, and their mosques blown up by Sunni bullies for over 1400 years.
Iran is the greatest defense of Shiites who are the more moderate and humane of the two groups by far!
Hence, I love Iran and pray for that country a lot. It is a beacon of hope that the Islamic world can rapidly be leaving the dark-ages and getting with the 21st century through leaps and bounds!
If America would Ally themselves with Iran, we could help set up a Shiite government in Yemen that is as tolerant to the people who are not Muslim, as the government is in Iran.
Not that the government in Iran is without many flaws, but they are not cracking down on the people who are trying to get with the 21st century, at least not nearly to the degree that the Sunnis are on average.
Saddam Hussein was executed for his role in Shiite massacre
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/mi...ddam_12-29
That isn't counting the hundreds of thousands (more close to a million) of Shiites he killed in his invasion of Iran.
Now that the Iraqi government is Shiite, and Sunni ISIS was kicked out of Iraq, it is safer for Christians.... Jews who left Iraq want to return home now.
No doubt there are stupid laws in Iran and there is anti-Semitism, persecution of Religious minorities, and terrorism.
But freedom is growing in leaps and bounds!
Iran is not good. USA is not good either. I wonder what our kill count has been to Iran since our war on terror began?
If the growth towards free-speech and women's rights keeps going at this rate, Iran shall become more secular, more free, more like democracy.
"For most Iranians, the most reliable sources of information remain not Iranian but Western, and often American: Radio Farda, the Farsi-language service of Radio Liberty, funded by the U.S. congress and supervised by the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors; the BBC, with its new Farsi service; the Voice of America; and CNN, whenever the transmission can pierce the government filtering technology...
World Public Opinion poll found that 51 percent of Iranians hold a favorable opinion of Americans, a number consistent with other polls, meaning that Americans are more widely liked in Iran than anywhere else in the Middle East."
(That really speaks volumes, since America supports Iran's enemies)
"The U.S. favorability rating isn't even that high in U.S. allies India or Turkey, and is two and half times as high as in Egypt.
Many Iranians regard the American ideal, at least as they perceive it, as a symbol of all they want their own society to be -- free, prosperous, "great" -- but isn't. Iranians I've encountered from all strata of society express an eagerness to exalt the country they have been conditioned to view as the "Great Satan." And yet, thousands of miles away, the vast majority of Americans are totally unaware of their Iranian admirers.
https://www.theatlantic.com/internationa...ns/258166/
Iranians who have been interviewed say such things as "I just love Americans".
