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Human Rights Groups Push To Save Condemned Programmer In Iran
First time accepted submitter debiangruven writes "Human rights Groups are making one final plea to save the life of Canadian programmer, Saeed Malekpour, who was sentenced to death for writing a program to upload photos to the Internet. From the article: 'Malekpour's supporters have created Facebook pages and websites in his support dating to at least 2009. Amnesty International has requested on its website that concerned individuals write Iranian authorities inside and outside the country to demand that Malekpour not be executed."
Brilliant. Excites young people in the Green Revolution, and provides massive disincentive to programmers and engineers. Atlas won't just shrug, Atlas will give Iran the middle finger on the way out. This is much more powerful than any international protest or letter writing campaign. But if the campaign spares the individual programmer's life in the meantime, it's still time well spent.
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i notice you have a reagan signature. maybe you would enjoy his numerous speeches about the virtuous god-fearing mujahideen freedom fighters, and their battle against the godless communist aggressors in the 1980s? because there are a large number of such speeches. they are at the reagan archives, you can google them.
Take a look at the history of Islam. Mohammad specifically prohibited converting people by force. Two years later, armies under his command attacked a city (that he had a peace treaty with, by the way) and gave everyone a choice: convert to Islam or die.
Christianity started to be used as a justification for atrocities shortly after the Roman emperors converted. Islam was like that from the start.
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Not all Americans are ignorant "Christians" my friend. Hell most christians I've met here don't even really understand what it is they believe and regularly get facts about their own faith wrong. They know they love Jesus and hate Muslims though.
Our government feels that basic human rights only apply to Americans while in America when it's convenient and non-embarrassing for them. When it's not convenient, they do whatever they feel like and claim it's a national security secret and therefore above the law and the fact that you even want to know makes you look suspicious.
Hell, Obama even tried to claim sending drones to kill folks in another country is not even a "Hostile Act" or "Act of War". Sorry, I consider telepresence to be the same as actually being there pulling a trigger.
"Amen" to that. It bothers the shit out of me that most people who post on /. act educated, and yet believe in fairy tales. Any human being smart enough to put their efforts towards technology should be smart enough to be atheist/agnostic. Religion truly is the opiate of the masses, it makes us all kill each other over nonsense.