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Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards"

Posted by samzenpus on from the slow-it-down dept.

An anonymous reader writes A Grand Ayatollah in Iran has determined that access to high-speed and 3G Internet is "against Sharia" and "against moral standards." However, Iran's President, Hassan Rouhani, plans to renew licenses and expand the country’s 3G cellular phone network. A radical MP associated with the conservative Resistance Front, warned: “If the minister continues to go ahead with increasing bandwidth and Internet speed, then we will push for his impeachment and removal from the cabinet.” “We will vigorously prevent all attempts by the [communication] minister to expand 3G technology, and if our warnings are not heeded, then the necessary course of action will be taken,” he added.

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  1. If the Grand Ayatollah's against it.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...then there's got to be something to it.

    1. Re:If the Grand Ayatollah's against it.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Stupid opinions based on violent fairy tale books, at that.

    2. Re:If the Grand Ayatollah's against it.... by Chas · · Score: 5, Insightful

      HERETIC!

      *Chops of "The New Guy's" head*

      Respect my peaceful religion! OR ELSE!

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    3. Re:If the Grand Ayatollah's against it.... by jtownatpunk.net · · Score: 5, Insightful

      When has "fact" had anything to do with religious outrage?

    4. Re:If the Grand Ayatollah's against it.... by kamapuaa · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Except no...a little Googling shows that first mention of the number is in a widely distributed book from 2nd century Christian author Irenaeus, who affirms that the number is 666, and mentions some texts with the wrong number. The only evidence for 616 is an old papyrus from the 3rd century. It may be the oldest known copy of the book of Revelations, but it wasn't the original copy, the text was written 150 years earlier. Furthermore, papyrus was valuable and was often re-used, so it may not even be the oldest known version of Revelations.

      In order to prove that the original number was 616, one would have to find either the original version of the text, or a large number of texts (from various locales) which wrote 616, or perhaps have a well-regarded and well-preserved early Christian author like Irenaeus or Augustine say that the actual number was 616.

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  2. Anything that wrests away control by Khyber · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You already know they don't like this because it takes away their control over a population.

    Of course they count it against their religion of control and abuse.

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  3. You have to define your premise... by Karmashock · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First... moral standards are "his" moral standards.

    Second, internet in general connects his people to the world... exposing them to other view points that might distort their indoctrination to his world view.

    So what he is saying is "the people of my country might not believe in my values if exposed to alternative view points."

    Which is rational. They probably won't. His world view is pretty weak on logic, argument, or supporting evidence. Its just do what I say or the sharp knives come out.

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  4. Re:I can't believe we're afraid of these assholes by bloodhawk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They aren't the only country wanting to remain in the 8th century, their are still supposedly modern countries that ban teaching or evolution and insist on teaching their kids at school creationism.