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Iran Cracks Down on Internet Sites
Dan Brickley writes "It appears that Iranian ISPs have been ordered to block a large number of popular Web sites, including weblogging, community, chat and email services. Web (particularly weblog) use has been increasing rapidly in Iran, with 64000+ weblogs published by Iranians via various sites. As of today, if the news is correct, the majority of these may be inaccessible to their authors, as will the email (eg. Yahoo) services they use to communicate with friends, colleagues and family worldwide. See stop.censoring.us and hoder.com for more details. The newly expanded blocks include PersianBlog, Blogger and the Google-hosted Orkut 'social networking' site, where Iranians come third after Brazil and USA, representing 7% of all users. How can we get our Iranian friends back in the Web?"
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Why does the religion of peace need special instructions on how to act civilized?
Because all religions do.
Why is the religion of peace directly responsible for 28 out of the 30 violent conflicts raging in the world today?
'God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam'
-- George W. Bush
Why is the religion of peace responsible for the vast majority of terrorism in the 20th and 21st Centuries?
Because terrorist groups were funded by western powers such as the CIA, France and Israel.
Why are the practitioners of the religion of peace routinely slaughtering unarmed practitioners of every other religion wherever they can get away with it?
Oh, really?
Why does the religion of peace call for the murder of anyone who converts from the religion of peace to another religion?
Because the religion of peace is slightly less peaceful than other monotheist religions, but not much. And just like not all Muslims are like Mullah Omar, maybe not all Christians are like Pat Robertson, either.
Why do so many of the believers of the religion of peace look forward to the opportunity to rape 72 virgins in heaven if they die while killing innocent women and children of other religions?
Maybe the whole concept of going to heaven for being obedient to some guy in the clouds is fucking retarded in the first place.
Why do the leaders of the religion of peace routinely issue fatwas (death warrants) for anybody who questions their holy book of peace and their holy prophet of peace?
See #6.
Why is the religion of peace responsible for the sexual mutilation of millions of little girls and the savage oppression of women?
No it doesn't.
Why did millions of the practitioners of the religion of peace laugh, cheer and dance in the street because 3,000 innocent men, women and children were murdered by seventeen men who supposedly hijacked the religion of peace?
You must be referring to the other religion of peace.
And why dont the real practitioners of the religion of peace condemn the supposed hijackers of their religion?
Because their websites were shut down by the FBI days before 9/11.
Frankly, I'm an atheist and I don't care about religion, but I'm sick of people being hypocrites. Are we going to use the excuse of the oh so evil Political Correctness to dehumanise the Muslims, as it happened to the Jews in Europe before the Holocaust? History has shown that there is far more to fear from fascism that grows in mass hysteria induced by propaganda than scarecrows used by chickenhawks to justify imperialism.
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