Piety in Islamic states is all too frequently not an honest expression of genuine religiosity, but a matter of coercion and fear, of bowing to the violent intimidation that so often marks the behavior of Islamic supremacists.
“Iran Arrests Three and Closes 147 Shops for ‘Not Following Sharia Law,'” by Pooya Stone, Iran Focus, May 11, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Iranian authorities have sealed shut 147 shops and arrested three people in several provinces across the country for “not following Sharia law” during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
These shops were shut down in the south-western province of Dezful, the northern province of Gilan, and the western province of Lorestan, according to state-run media.
The head of Location Supervision Police in Gilan, Mehdi Najafipour, told the state-run IRNA News Agency, that 2,909 shops were inspected by the police in the first 10 days of Ramadan. He said that 112 shops were sealed shut “and prevented from the further activity for not following Sharia law”.
While the head of police in Dezful reported that 10 stores were closed and 12 more were forced to commit themselves to observe Sharia law.
The head of the Public Security Police in Lorestan Province said that police were patrolling the western province to inspect shops that sold food during Ramadan and prevent people from eating in public, which led to the closure of 25 stores and three cases being referred to the judiciary.
The three citizens detained for “eating in Ramadan” were arrested in Lorestan.
Islam says that fasting during Ramadan is not obligatory for non-Muslims, children, the sick, and travelers, but still, the Iranian regime forces most restaurants to close during the day and stops Iranians from eating in public, even in parks and their own cars with no exemption for the groups mentioned.
This happens even though Iran’s Penal Code does not ban the consumption of food or water during Ramadan specifically. Instead, people are punished under Artice 638’s ban on committing “sinful” acts in public….
Walter Sieruk says
On the subjects of Iran Islam with its Sharia law law and tyranny all rolled into one . . The Islamic tyrannical regime has it all. Yet some imams in the USA have the lying gall to say to some uninformed gullible Americans that Sharia law is similar that of US constitutional law.
That “mullah tyranny” of Iran shows the total falsehood and blatant lie of that imam statement.
Del says
Where there is Islam there is violence
Wellington says
Forced virtue is sham virtue. There is no avenue around this.
The only way true virtue exists, and hopefully thrives, is by allowing as an “option” major transgressions of virtue. This requires the freedom to be wrong without some kind of penalty lurking around a totalitarian corner to snuff out such freedom.
And Islam knows NOTHING about freedom, as dismal on this “score” here as are Marxism and Nazism, and hence true virtue cannot possibly exist where Islam’s many threats hover over the heads of deluded followers of Islam and any dhimmis that might (unfortunately) live where Islam dominates.
Repression and Islam—“perfect together.” And demonstrating again that one can have freedom or one can have Islam, but one cannot possibly have both. If truth prevails, still uncertain, this should read, MUST read, as Islam’s epitaph—that it is a mortal enemy of freedom.
Freedom or Islam. True virtue versus sham virtue. Herein lies stark choices indeed. And I long ago made my choice and this is why I will despise Islam to the end of my existence on earth. Damn this belief system. It has error and putridity written all over it. It is disgusting.
mortimer says
Well said, Wellington. However, the concept of ‘virtue’ doesn’t exist in Islam in the way you present it here. There is only slavery to Allah or rebellion or laxity. A slave of Allah is compliant out of fear of hell-fire or out of fear of the Islamic governance. Loving Allah is not necessary, but fearing Allah is. A slave fears the master.
Bill Warner did a statistical analysis of the words ‘love’, ‘hate’ and ‘fear’. Hate and fear are prevalent in the Koran but ‘love’ is usually stated in a pejorative sense in the Koran, such as love of money. A husband is not required to love his wife in Islam, because Islamic marriage is a contract of virtual enslavement for life.
Don’t you see? Islam means ‘submission’, a euphemism for enslavement. No one is as submitted as a slave.
Wellington says
I understand your point, mortimer, and actually agree with it with this proviso: “forced virtue,” i.e., sham virtue, is all wrapped up with the whole submission rot that pervades Islam and is a debasement of true virtue just as what passes for democracy in Muslim nations is a debasement of true democracy.
After all, Islam debases everything it touches, most certainly romantic love, overall liberty, equality under the law, women’s rights, joy, a live and let live approach to life—everything. How much better off the world would be were Islam no longer around.
Michael Copeland says
Submission is one end of a relationship. There is no such thing as free-floating submission: it has to be submission TO something. In the case of Islam it is submission to coercion. The word Submission is really a code word for Control.
keith O says
This is simply further evidence to confirm what we already knew, that Islam is a dictatorship.
The sooner the people of Iran and every other Islamic nation rise up and reject these dictatorships, the better off the whole world will be.
Wishful thinking perhaps, but, still, gotta have some faith in human nature.
gravenimage says
Islamic Republic of Iran closes 147 shops, arrests three people for “not following Sharia” during Ramadan
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More brutal enforcement of disgusting Shari’ah law.
mortimer says
How much more can the long-suffering people of Iran take?
Wellington says
Good question, mortimer. The answer though is, I think, a sad one, i.e., a lot more.
When you go outside the bounds of Western Civilization, the importance placed upon freedom drops exponentially. Only the West historically, going back to the ancient Greeks onward, placed a decided emphasis upon freedom and it is the single greatest reason why Western Civilization accomplished more than any other civilization in history. Easily so.
And, as a follow up, no doubt in my mind whatsoever that what made America the most extraordinary polity in the history of mankind above all other factors is freedom. And Islam, as I know you know, hates freedom. So, one can choose the American approach or the Islamic approach. Can’t have both. It’s a classic “either/or.”
gravenimage says
Almost all Iranians are themselves Muslim.
Chistopher Watson says
Well said, Wellington. Unfortunately many western leaders believe that Islam can be invited into the west and that it will conform to western democracy. It will not. We have invited in so many moslems into the west it will be difficult to withstand the future incorporation of western culture into the Islamic sphere of influence. There are many geographic areas which are now Islamic; Britain has Islamic family courts and Sweden and France have many areas ruled by the Islamic legal system. This is the future; get used to it.
Dieks62 says
No, on the contrary: we’re not planning to get ‘used to it’ ever, over my dead body, I will never submit to these savages and no one else should! It would be the end of all western societies as we’ve known it and society would rapidly fall back into the stone ages! Submitting to it just like that would be foolish & utterly suicidal! We owe it to our kids aswell as to those 600+ millions who’ve sacrificed their precious lives during the crusades as those would have been all in vain! Just take a look at those half a dozen ‘former’ East-Bloc countries who’ve historically battled them before, have defeated & repelled the Ottoman invasion of Europe in the past & have all vowed to repeat history once again! Sofar they’ve successfully opposed & withstood the most recent ☪️ invasion of EU, as pushed & orchestrated by the UN under Merkel & Hollande back in 2015! If they can do it, so can we! However; we have to make up our minds quickly as time is no longer on our sides and is running out fast: we all have to stand together, have to remove the cancerous Deep State/NWO leftist liberal-socialist/Marxist ulcers from the highest levels of our societies firs! We’ve tried for so long to do it the democratic way, but the left in cahoots with ☪️ never has played a fair game and never will; hence they’ve only gained in power since! The time for smooth talk has long passed: if we care for our future, then there is only the one way, knowing we’ve done before and yes, we can do it once more! Unfortunately there is simply no other way left: it has to be done the hard way, before any real people’s democracy can be re-established & our rights & freedoms can once again be exercised in a democratic way!
gravenimage says
I don’t plan on “getting used to it”, either.
OLD GUY says
Just the Islamic political “religious” dictatorship in action. Islam’s goal is to control the world and everything in it. Nothing but a political power play for a handful of greedy bad people using religion as its base of control.