Iranians Ban American Flag Burning
In an amazing turn of events, the Iranian theocracy has banned the burning of the American flag. A spokesman for the Iranian government said, “We wanted to show the infidels, I mean American people, that our democracy is more effective than theirs. One of the agenda items for the American Congress was to pass a Constitutional amendment banning the burning of their flag. Their system failed where as our glorious democracy passed it with 100% in favor.” While reviewing the law, the penalty for burning the flag is to be interred in a training camp for suicide bombers and be forced to do a public performance in any open market in Baghdad. In other news, several members of the Iranian Parliament were stoned to death today after being found guilty of an attempted coup.
Sorry, but the news of the Iranian government being upset by the movie 300 just drove me crazy. The idea of 300 Spartan soldiers holding off the Persian army makes for a great movie idea. The Iranian government is upset by the portrayal of the Persians as barbarians. I would suggest that it pretty well describes how anyone living in the 21st century views most people who lived in the BC era. The amount of fighting and the way any army treated another would certainly not be up to the Geneva Convention.
Another issue is who are the Persians? I would venture to say that if you haven’t seen the movie, you may think that the 300 Spartans were fighting an army of giant cats. After all, the only modern reference to Persians is the Persian cat. If you asked people where Persia was, not many Americans would say Iran. It would probably be more likely that they would say Catalina or Litterboxia. That the Iranian government is upset about the portrayal of Persian warriors more than 2000 years ago is as realistic as their banning the burning of the Stars and Stripes. Of course they have no compunction to refrain from accusing Americans for every little thing that happens in the world but let us show the true character of the warriors of an ancient battle and we have insulted them. Yo, theocratic dictators. Get a life.
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Sorry, but the news of the Iranian government being upset by the movie 300 just drove me crazy. The idea of 300 Spartan soldiers holding off the Persian army makes for a great movie idea. The Iranian government is upset by the portrayal of the Persians as barbarians. I would suggest that it pretty well describes how anyone living in the 21st century views most people who lived in the BC era. The amount of fighting and the way any army treated another would certainly not be up to the Geneva Convention.
Another issue is who are the Persians? I would venture to say that if you haven’t seen the movie, you may think that the 300 Spartans were fighting an army of giant cats. After all, the only modern reference to Persians is the Persian cat. If you asked people where Persia was, not many Americans would say Iran. It would probably be more likely that they would say Catalina or Litterboxia. That the Iranian government is upset about the portrayal of Persian warriors more than 2000 years ago is as realistic as their banning the burning of the Stars and Stripes. Of course they have no compunction to refrain from accusing Americans for every little thing that happens in the world but let us show the true character of the warriors of an ancient battle and we have insulted them. Yo, theocratic dictators. Get a life.
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I thought the idea of a movie from the godless Americans irking Iranian mullahs was pretty funny, actually. These people just love to find reasons to be annoyed.
The stupid thing is for sensible people to keep trying to reason with unreasonable people. Fundamentalists (of every nation and creed) rarely want to be reasoned with; they want to be obeyed, to be agreed with.
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